Dec 28, 2008
The film continues immediately after the events of Casino Royale with Bond (Daniel Craig) driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). After evading pursuers, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate White regarding his organization, Quantum. M’s bodyguard, Mitchell, a double agent, attacks M and allows White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him. Bond and M travel back to London where they investigate Mitchell’s flat and discover he had a contact in Haiti. Bond heads to Haiti to investigate Mitchell’s contact, Edmund Slate, and learns that Slate was sent to kill Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko) at the behest of her lover, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), 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 (Joaquin Cosio)—who murdered Camille’s family—overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
After rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Austria; en route, CIA agent Gregg Beam (David Harbour) strikes a non-interference deal with Greene to maintain access to Bolivian oil, overruling the objections of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Bond infiltrates Quantum’s meeting at the opera, and a gunfight ensues in a restaurant. A Special Branch bodyguard of Quantum member 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 reunites with his old ally René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) and convinces him to accompany Bond to La Paz. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton), an MI6 field operative from the British Consulate, who demands that Bond return to the UK on the next available flight; nonetheless, Bond soon seduces her before they attend a party Greene holds that night.
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