Boris Grishenko
Programmer who survived the first GoldenEye strike and went to work for Janus.
Boris Grishenko is a fictional character from the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. In the film, he is a geeky computer programmer at the Severnaya lab, later revealed to be an affiliate of the Janus crime syndicate. He survives the GoldenEye attack on the Severnaya control centre and goes on to work for Janus in operating a second GoldenEye satellite.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Computer programmer
- Affiliation
- Janus crime syndicate
Lore & Background
Boris Grishenko is the Janus syndicate's resident computer wizard, a man who treats the GoldenEye satellite's launch codes like a personal screensaver. It isn't.
Reader's Guide
Boris Grishenko is a minor antagonist in GoldenEye, encountered primarily in the film's climax set in a hidden base in Cuba. He is not a combatant but a computer programmer who operates the GoldenEye satellite controls. Boris does not engage in direct combat; instead, his presence signals the stakes of the mission: preventing him from using the satellite to erase the Bank of England's financial records and trigger a global financial meltdown. Bond must sabotage the antenna's gears to prevent Boris from regaining control of the satellite. Boris's defeat comes when Bond activates a grenade concealed in a pen, causing a chemical explosion that allows Bond and Natalya to escape. Boris is later frozen solid by a cascade caused by ruptured liquid nitrogen canisters.
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