[1] The character Trevelyan is born to Lienz Cossacks who collaborated with the Nazis, but attempted to defect to the United Kingdom at the end of World War II.

Nine years later, Bond's pursuit of a stolen helicopter and investigation of an explosion leads him to Saint Petersburg, where he learns from gangster Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) that the head of the crime syndicate responsible for the theft is a man operating under the name Janus.

Trevelyan's scheme begins with the theft of the experimental, electromagnetically insulated Tiger helicopter from the French frigate La Fayette, using his two primary operatives, Ourumov, now a General in the Russian army and head of their Space Division, and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen).

GoldenEye would also erase the bank's financial records, crippling the British economy and government, triggering a catastrophic currency crisis, and causing global economic chaos.

Bond stops this scheme with the help of surviving Severnaya technician Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) and CIA agent Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker).

Moments later, the antenna array, sabotaged by Bond, explodes and collapses in a fiery wreck on top of Trevelyan, finally killing him.

Previously, the only other '00' agent to have had any amount of screen time or to play a role in a Bond film was Octopussy's 009, portrayed by stuntman Andy Bradford.