bond tracks harding and the chinese ex-agent to belgium, but they slip away while bond kills harding's bodyguard basil. mi6 tracks the chinese man to nepal. it turns out, however, that harding plans to double-cross the union by having the plane of the pacemaker's host hijacked. le gerrant, the blind leader of the union, immediately deduces harding's double-cross and has him executed; harding's body later washes up on the beach at gibraltar.