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The film continues immediately after
the events of Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Como to Siena,
Italy. With the captured Mr. White in the luggage compartment of his car,
Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and
M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard,
Mitchell, is revealed as a double agent and a traitor, attacking M and
allowing White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him.
Following a forensic investigation into Mitchell's apartment back in
London, Bond heads to Haiti to track down and kill Mitchell's contact,
Edmund Slate. In carrying out his objective, Bond learns that Slate was
sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, Dominic Greene,
the chairman of an ecological organization called Greene Planet. While
observing her meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping the
Bolivian general Medrano – who murdered Camille's family – overthrow his
government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat to "sweeten" their
deal, but Bond rescues her. Bond then follows Greene to a private jet,
which flies him to a performance of Tosca at Lake Constance in Bregenz,
Austria; en route, CIA agent Gregg Beam strikes a non-interference deal
with Greene, overruling the objections of Felix Leiter. Bond infiltrates
Quantum's meeting at the opera, and a gunfight ensues in a restaurant. A
bodyguard of Guy Haines, an advisor to the British Prime Minister, is
killed, and M, assuming Bond is the killer, has his passports and credit
cards revoked. Bond travels to Talamone, a small Italian town in Maremma,
to reunite with his old ally René Mathis. Though less than happy to see
Bond, Mathis is convinced to accompany him to La Paz. They are greeted by
Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the British Consulate, who
demands that Bond return to the UK on the next available flight. Bond
disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite.
Bond meets Camille again at a fund-raiser being held by Greene, and they
leave hastily together, but are pulled over by the Bolivian police. Not
knowing that their chief was working with Medrano, the policemen had
beaten Mathis and put him in the trunk of Bond's car. The police order
Bond to open the luggage compartment of his vehicle, revealing a bloodied
Mathis. As Bond lifts Mathis out of the vehicle, the policemen open fire
and fatally wound Mathis, who dies in Bond's arms. After Bond subdues the
police he deposits Mathis's body in a waste container, and takes money
from his wallet stating that Mathis wouldn't care. Bond and Camille drive
to Greene's intended land acquisition and survey the area in a Douglas
DC-3 plane. They are intercepted and shot down by an Aermacchi SF.260
fighter and a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. They escape from the crippled
plane by parachuting, landing in a sinkhole. While escaping the cave, Bond
and Camille discover Quantum is blockading Bolivia's supply of fresh
water, normally flowing in subterranean rivers, by damming it to double
the price of water. The duo return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and
learns Quantum murdered Fields by drowning her naked in crude oil.
Believing that Bond has become a threat to both friend and foe, M orders
him to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he defies her and
escapes.
Bond meets CIA agent Felix Leiter at a local bar, who discloses Greene and
Medrano will meet at an eco-hotel in the Bolivian desert. Tipped off by
Leiter, Bond evades American special forces attempting to kill him. Bond
then sets out to the hotel where Greene and Medrano make the change in the
Bolivian leadership. Bond executes the departing Colonel of Police for
betraying Mathis, and sets off a chain of explosions in the hotel when a
hydrogen fuel tank is hit by an out of control vehicle. Camille kills
Medrano, and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves
Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil
as a possible mean to commit suicide. Bond drives Camille to a train
station, where they kiss before she departs.
Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former lover,
Yusef Kabira. Yusef is a member of Quantum who seduces high-ranking women
with valuable connections, getting them to give up government assets as
ransom for himself in fake kidnappings where he is supposedly held
hostage. He is attempting to do the same with Canadian agent Corinne
Veneau, even giving her the same kind of necklace he gave Vesper.
Surprising them at Yusef's apartment, Bond tells Corinne about Vesper and
advises her to alert her superiors. As Bond is leaving Yusef's apartment
he is confronted by M, who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef, but
rather left him alive for questioning. M reveals that Leiter has been
promoted by the CIA, replacing Beam, and that Greene was found in the
desert, dead with two bullets in the back of his skull and with motor oil
in his stomach. Bond doesn't volunteer any information on Greene, but
tells M that she was right about Vesper. M then tells Bond that MI6 needs
him back and fully reinstates him as an agent. Bond walks off into the
night telling M that he never left. As he leaves, he drops Vesper's
necklace in the snow. |
