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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them.

1:

Les Cloches du soir
Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926), Evening Bells (1891), watercolour, dimensions not known, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wikimedia Commons.
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Angels

Schwabe’s painting shows a chain of angels emerging from a belfry.

2:

doredemons
Gustave Doré (1832–1883), The Demons Threaten Virgil (c 1857), engraving, dimensions and location not known. Image by Karl Hahn, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Daemons

Doré’s engraving shows The Demons Threaten Virgil, from his illustrations to Dante’s Inferno.

3: James Bond, Jason Bourne, George Smiley, Modesty Blaise

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Agents

They are each (secret) agents: James Bond from Ian Fleming, Jason Bourne from Robert Ludlum, George Smiley from John le Carré, and Modesty Blaise from Peter O’Donnell.

The common factor

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They are each run by launchd from property lists in folders titled LaunchAngels (new in Tahoe), LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.