She works as a geologist for the state of California at San Francisco City Hall, under an official named Howe.
Sutton first appears at Max Zorin's mansion near Paris, where he is holding a high prestige horse sale.
She tears up the check, determined to fight harder rather than accept Zorin's bribe to give up her shares and drop her lawsuit.
They realize Zorin plans to detonate both faults where they converge, flooding Silicon Valley in a double earthquake.
May Day is furious Zorin left her to die and helps Bond move the detonator clear of the mine with a handcar.
Zorin jumps onto the framework with an axe and swings at Bond, but he eventually loses his balance and falls off the bridge to his death.
The airship, still under power, lurches upward and the sudden motion causes Glaub and the explosives to fall backwards into the cabin.
[3][4] John L. Flynn and Bob Blackwood comment that Sutton "receives the blond bombshell trophy" and that from the moment they saw her "it was hard to keep our eyes off her".
"[5] Similarly, Mark O'Connell describes Sutton as "very much in the Mary Goodnight camp of the simpering, shrieking and not very resourceful Bond girl as set out in The Man with the Golden Gun.