007 follows that hunch, and Mathis is apprehended shortly after, which will come back to bite him a bit in Quantum of Solace.īut out of the blue, a fellow card player at Casino Royale turns out to be one of James Bond’s most iconic allies: CIA agent Felix Leiter ( Jeffrey Wright). Though, by the end of their mission, Le Chiffre plants a seed of doubt that turns out to be false, claiming that “your friend Mathis is really my friend Mathis”.

On the more local end of things, inspector René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) provides Bond intelligence on the ground, helping him navigate Montenegro. René Mathis And Felix Leiter, Brothers In ArmsĪlso assisting James Bond in Casino Royale’s mission to bankrupt Le Chiffre at the poker table are two fellow law enforcers. Committing suicide out of the grief she feels in her betrayal, Vesper Lynd’s death is the first crack in the psyche of James Bond and those fractures will soon begin to spread. Planning to quit Her Majesty’s secret service to float around the world with the woman he loves, Bond eventually finds out that Vesper is a double agent working for Le Chiffre. Arguably, she’d also become the most important, as she represents two crucial lessons James Bond would learn in his first 00 mission.įalling in love with Vesper Lynd leads to Casino Royale’s unique place in the 007 legacy, as it’s the first time in a while that we see Daniel Craig’s James Bond become romantically invested in a relationship. An ally from Her Majesty’s Treasury, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) would become the first Bond Woman in the modern era.

Much like the relationship between James Bond and M, Casino Royale picked up the torch from the Pierce Brosnan era when it came to developing the modern Bond woman. Vesper Lynd, Daniel Craig's First Bond Heartbreak

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