Plot
The story is set a few years after the events of
Quantum of Solace. It starts with Greco (Luis Soto), an international terrorist planning a suicide attack on the G-20 Summit at the Acropolis structure in Athens. M (
Judi Dench) sends Bond (
Daniel Craig)
to investigate and prevent an attack from occurring. After a brief
encounter with Greco on his yacht, Bond pursues him through Athens by
boat and then on foot. After a second confrontation with Greco which
ends with Greco left alive, Bond stops a bomb-laden car destined for the
Acropolis structure by knocking it off the road with an
Aston Martin DBS V12 he had commandeered, saving the
G-20 summit from potential disaster.
The next morning, Bond is assigned to rescue a missing professor,
Malcolm Tedworth. Tedworth was originally feared dead until an anonymous
tip and tracing of his cell phone led MI6 to an
Istanbul
construction site. Bond investigates the area that Tedworth's phone
signal was lost in. In the catacombs, Tedworth is interrogated by a man
called Bernin who demands the password to a USB drive. Tedworth submits to the torture and is promptly executed. Bond interrupts, pursuing Bernin by Aston Martin DB5,
and on foot, the chase ending at an old coliseum. Bernin however
manages to get the data extracted, only to reveal Stefan Pomerov's name
to Bond before being slowly pushed off a ledge by Bond after attempting
to kill him.
After learning that Pomerov is going to be in Monaco, Bond travels to Nice, meeting with his contact, a wealthy jewellery designer (and MI6 agent) named Nicole Hunter (
Joss Stone).
Hunter takes Bond to one of Pomerov's casinos in Monaco. Nicole
distracts Pomerov while Bond sneaks in and breaks into his safe. Bond
recovers documents and a camera that contains a video of Tedworth's
interrogation. On it, Tedworth reveals that he was the lead scientist
who was trying to create an antidote to both smallpox and anthrax to
cure soldiers in the event of a biological attack. Having been
discovered, Bond shoots his way out of the casino and escapes with
Nicole in her Koenigsegg CCXR.
M informs Bond that the files he found were invoices for sophisticated
chemical manufacturing equipment designated to a defunct Siberian
chemical refinery owned by Pomerov.
In Siberia,
Bond and Nicole enter the refinery with Bond posing as her bodyguard.
Nicole enters the building to get into Pomerov's office while Bond is
contacted by Tanner at Q Branch and says they found Tedworth's research
but were locked out before they could read them. Bond locates and
manages to gain access to the main computer. As he does so, Bond
discovers that Pomerov built a bio-factory and is manufacturing toxins.
Bond makes his way to a central control room where he triggers a
meltdown. Nicole and Bond pursue Pomerov's train (by Aston Martin DBS
V12), which is meant to smuggle the toxins out of the country. Bond
follows the train to a port where the toxins are loaded onto an ekranoplan
that takes off along the river with Pomerov inside. Using a boarded
hovercraft, Bond damages the plane and boards it, killing Pomerov in the
process by shooting the emergency exit, sucking him out of the plane.
The bio-weapons are recovered, and Bond and Nicole part ways. He tells M
that the tip about the bio-weapons was fabricated and it was set up by
someone who wanted Pomerov dead. Using Bernin's cell phone, Bond finds a
lead from Bangkok. Bond contacts Chinese intelligence officer Colonel Ping (David K.S. Tse) in Bangkok, Thailand.
Meeting at an aquarium, Ping tells Bond he had a team in Geneva
following a lead on a man called Rak (James Goode) who operates out of
Bangkok. Before Ping can reveal more, an assassin kills him. Bond
pursues the assassin on the rooftops of Bangkok and then chases him in a
tow truck while the assassin pilots a dump truck. Bond drives off an
unfinished bridge and ends up getting the dump truck to crash and the
assassin is killed by multiple injuries to the head. Bond tries to get
background information on Rak from M while evading the Thai Police.
Bond meets up with an old friend, known as Silk (Richard Dillane), who
tells him where Rak's secret hideout is; when Bond leaves, Silk informs
someone where Bond is going and also says to make sure Bond does not
make it. Bond is caught by Rak's henchmen and is captured.
Bond is taken to Burma
where he is tortured. Shortly after he escapes, Bond engages in
multiple fights with Rak. The conflict reaches its climax when Bond
fights Rak on a catwalk in a dam, eventually knocking him off. Rak
pleads for mercy, but Bond has already deduced who Rak's employer is.
Bond leaves Rak to fall to his death, only for Rak to land on top of his
Osprey. Bond shoots Rak, causing him to fire his rocket-propelled grenade into the Osprey, destroying it with Rak still on it.
Back in Monaco, Nicole is revealed to be the one who kidnapped
Tedworth and is planning another kidnapping. She drives off in her
Koenigsegg CCXR and Bond follows her, in his Aston Martin DBS V12,
ultimately cornering her on a bridge. After being confronted, Nicole
reveals that she did it to prove herself to a rich and powerful man.
Bond tries to get his name but she refuses to give it claiming he's
"bigger than everything" (including MI6), and that he was watching them.
Suddenly, an unmanned drone flies toward them and shoots Nicole dead. M
then contacts Bond and asks him if everything is all right. He claims
that she will need a new contact in Monaco and prompts her to stay in
contact. As Bond signs off, he is left alone on the bridge with Nicole
dead.
