9 years after infiltrating a chemical weapons facility in Russia, where friend and fellow M:I-6 agent Alec Trevelyan 006(Sean Bean) was killed by corrupt Russian military officer General Ourumov(Gottfried John). Seductive British secret agent James Bond 007(Pierce Brosnan) is assigned by his new boss, a female 'M(Judi Dench)' to recover "GoldenEye" the access key to a top secret space weapon orbiting the Earth which fires a electromagnetic pulse which shuts down all electronic equipment. The "GoldenEye" has been stolen from the Severnya space research station by General Ourumov and the lethal and deadly Xenia Onatopp(Famke Janssen) and slaughtered everyone at Servernya. Helped by Russian computer programmer Natalya Siminova(Izabella Scorupco), who was the sole survivor of the Servernya massacre and witnessed Ourumov and Xenia steal the "GoldenEye", Bond learns Ourumov and Xenia are working for Alec Trevelyan, now a renegade M:I-6, and 006 plans on using GoldenEye to wipe out London. 007 and Natalya set out to Cuba where Bond faces Trevelyan in a thrilling showdown as 007 sets out to save London from destruction.