True story -
Years ago I was at a Wireless Power Consortium meeting in Montreal. Just me, there representing my company. I had the usual list of people to talk to, temperatures to take, suggestions to make, talks to go to. One of the things on my list was to talk to a UK company that had a metamaterial that supposedly solved the phase reversal problem (which was a barrier to large-area small device chargers.)
I caught up to their CEO at a social event at a nearby brewery. "Oh I finally found you! Yes, we have a new material. Let me show you the video!" He then showed me a video that showed that . . . the phase reversal problem was not solved.
"So I see some nulls there. That looks like the phase reversal problem showing up" I said.
"No no! We have solved it. Elena, she will explain. She solved the problem! I am not explaining right." Elena was a Russian scientist who was the brains behind the company. I had met her once before and she was a brilliant scientist who had done some important work on wireless power transfer. She was also absolutely beautiful.
"Is she here tonight?" I hadn't seen her.
"No, she's jet lagged so she went to sleep. But I will have her go to your hotel room if that's OK to explain! She has solved it."
And suddenly I realized - I had seen this exact same James Bond movie. The beautiful Russian scientist is supposed to come to my room, but she never does, and the next morning my hotel room is ransacked looking for the data. She has disappeared, and her CEO is panicked over her disappearance. Then he disappears as well. Then two Russian thugs start tailing me, so I set an ambush and kill them both, but then I see a van driving away with Elena in the back of the van, so I steal a motorcycle and go screaming through the rain-slicked streets of Montreal . . . .
"I'll talk to her tomorrow," I told him.