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James Bond has come close to death's door many times, but the new trailer for "Spectre" ups the ante.

Released Friday, Daniel Craig's 007 dangles preciously by his fingertips on a collapsed road after an explosion, brawls fist-to-fist with bad guys, nearly crashes from the heavens in a bullet-speckled helicopter and, of course, there's a chilly vis-a-vis with Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser.

"Why did you come?" un-flinched Oberhauser asks. "I came here to kill you," says Bond, to which Oberhauser counters,"I thought you came here to die."

Bond's response: "That's a matter of perspective."

In the 24th installment of the Bond series, the secret agent uncovers the criminal syndicate SPECTRE: Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism and Revenge. And he finds that Oberhauser has a curiously close connection to his past.

Bond fan boys speculate that Waltz is possibly the most nefarious villain of the franchise--having orchestrated much of his grief. “It was me, James, the author of all your pain,” he reveals in a previous trailer.

Also starring, Naomie Harris, Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux, “Spectre” arrives in theaters on Nov. 6.