# A female character gets "honeytrapped"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868 "2013-07-30T01:28:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/41 "2013-07-31T17:42:26Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > This was a plot point in **Clear and Present Danger** , where the druglord’s #1 henchman, played by Joaquim De Almeida, seduces a secretary for the FBI Director, to get information about his whereabouts. She’s not being blackmailed, though. She’s blissfuly unaware of her lover’s duplicity right up to the moment he snaps her neck. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/42 "2013-07-31T17:43:56Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Actually, Vespa’s boyfriend was, in fact, a spy who was using her without her knowledge. This is explained at the end of Quantum Of Solace where Bond tracks down the boyfriend who is doing it again to a woman that works for the Canadian Embassy in Russia. He exposes him by showing her the same necklace that Vespa wore, which she was also wearing. Althugh it could be said Bond took some rides on top of her, her name was Vesper, not Vespa. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/43 "2013-07-31T18:15:41Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Spoilers inevitable, right? So, come to think of it, this is technically the ending to HORRIBLE BOSSES: they dangle a guy in front of lusty Jennifer Aniston, she takes the bait, it’s all caught on film, cue instant blackmail. I was going to say the same. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/44 "2013-07-31T18:48:43Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > She’s not being blackmailed, though. She’s blissfuly unaware of her lover’s duplicity right up to the moment he snaps her neck. Yeah, neither of mine were really blackmail examples… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/45 "2013-07-31T19:12:28Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Actually, Vespa’s boyfriend was, in fact, a spy who was using her without her knowledge. This is explained at the end of Quantum Of Solace where Bond tracks down the boyfriend who is doing it again to a woman that works for the Canadian Embassy in Russia. He exposes him by showing her the same necklace that Vespa wore, which she was also wearing. Fun fact: The woman was played by Stana Katic, aka ‘Kate Beckett’ on _Castle_. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/46 "2013-07-31T19:31:28Z")
In the HBO series _Rome_ a gang leader named Memio has one of his subordinates seduce the daughter of his rival Vorenus. Memio then surprises his man and the daughter (named Vorena) in bed together and threatens to tell her father. Vorena, knowing her father would kill her lover, agrees to become Memio’s mole in her father’s organization. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/47 "2013-08-01T04:12:03Z")
In Tom Clancy’s 2000 novel _The Bear and the Dragon_, a Japanese-American male CIA agent seduces the female secretary of a top Chinese Communist leader so that he can gain ongoing remote access to the leader’s computer system. It’s not for blackmail, though. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/48 "2013-08-01T05:46:39Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > As mentioned by **Astorian** : In Tom Clancy’s _Clear and Present Danger_, the drug cartel’s intelligence guy seduces the FBI Director’s secretary and sets up the Director’s assassination after figuring out his schedule (IIRC). That’s the first one that occurs to me also In one of Wilbur Smith’s books, the black terrorist seduces Shasa Courtney’s wife as part of his 'Guy Fawkes" plot. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/49 "2013-08-01T06:09:39Z")
The past half-season of the ABC TV series **Scandal** featured a plot where an agent sought to seduce the main character to provide leverage for his shady boss. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/50 "2013-08-01T06:53:45Z")
Obligatory tvtropes: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoneyTrap](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoneyTrap) ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868/51 "2013-08-01T07:58:36Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > As mentioned by **Astorian** : In Tom Clancy’s _Clear and Present Danger_, the drug cartel’s intelligence guy seduces the FBI Director’s secretary and sets up the Director’s assassination after figuring out his schedule (IIRC). Just to nitpick, Cortez doesn’t set up the assassination. In fact, he’s righteously pissed when he gets back to Columbia because the assassination compromised his source (because the FBI checks out who had Director Jacob’s schedule, which leads to the secretary which leads to Cortez). I hated how they changed this in the movie, turning Cortez from devious villain to plain asshole. Frederick Forsyth also uses the honeytrap in **The Cobra** , in which a drug lord’s daughter falls for a handsome young man and tries to run away with him only to find out that a kilo of Columbian puro has somehow slipped into her baggage. Her incarceration is used to get the cartel figure to give up a list of corrupt officials around the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-female-character-gets-honeytrapped/664868.md?page=2)