Does Bond recover the money in CR?
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After Vesper steals the poker winnings and delivers it to Mr. White, Mr. White walks away with the money. Is the money gone? There's no mention of Bond's mission being a failure. The money ends up safe in the novel, right?
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Perhaps as Bond won the money in the course of his work, it would be classed as MI6 property. My employer has a policy stating inventions/intellectual property a staff member comes up with during their work belong to the employer, and money might be similar. Although maybe I'm just looking at this too seriously...
I always assumed Mr White takes the money and Bond only catches up with him after the money has been safeguarded by Quantum.
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Some time had passed between when White took the money and when Bond captured him. Mr. White is very smart, so I would assume he deposited the money not long after he got it. He wouldn't be stupid enough to keep it around. If Bond did get the money when he captured White, White's men would have taken it back when White escaped.
I don't think Bond recovered the money. But when CR ends, the "mission" is ongoing. And by the end of QoS, Bond has presumably uncovered enough information to bring down Quantum. So I don't think it was all for not.
I think we will definitely find out what happened to Quantum during SPECTRE. Who knows--we might even find out about the money.
Maybe the Money went into funding more of there Operations?
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I imagine with that info MI6 could find Mr. White within a matter of minutes and then place a hold on his bank account, any account he's ever transferred money to or from, etc.
It's long enough for Bond to change his clothes twice, so he's clearly not rushing to get anywhere. There was more than enough time for Mr. White to deposit the money. I don't think Bond meets Mr. White the same day Vesper is killed. I can't remember what Mr. White was wearing when he takes the moeny, and if he was wearing the same clothes or not.
Bond also lost some of America's money, which they probably would have wanted back. Bond fails in CR more than he succeeds. The same goes for Skyfall. I hope Bond comes out on top in SPECTRE!
The Americans' money, as Fleming might have looked at it, was "found" money and if anything I think its loss was a small tarnish in American-Anglo relations. Not to knock the UK, but the amounts of money involved might have been more dear to them than to the Americans, which brings up a quote from Felix Leiter: "Does it look like we need the money?"
That's a certainty of course, but it seems that SPECTRE could be just the start of the peeling of layers of an onion just as CR was that in regard to Quantum. I haven't read up on the latests AJB threads about SPECTRE, but has there been indications of Blofeld actually showing up? And if so, will it be in SPECTRE? Just as SPECTRE enjoyed continuity in the earlier films by not utterly being shut down (until FYEO, lol), I think Bond will be relatively "on top" just as he ended every movie to date but he won't enjoy 100% victory in order to prolong and build-up the SPECTRE storyline.
I know you are being sarcastic Pussy, but I'd actually read somewhere that Bond kept the money minus the initial stake and that is exactly how he financed his extravagant lifestyle.
That doesn't make sense. Bond already had four fancy suits earlier in the film (all except the PTS navy linen suit were Brioni). We don't see his dinner suit (a fifth) because Vesper got him a better one. His Aston Martins and [at least some of his] fancy watches are provided by MI6.
Which is funny by the way.... So he had four Brioni suits but he needed Vesper to explain him the difference between dinner jackets and dinner jackets and to buy him a dinner jacket made by the same brand as his other suits
This issue (such as it is) could've easily been taken care of at the beginning of QOS by having M tell Mr. White "And we've frozen your account with the $120 million in it."
Just one of the deficiencies of QOS.
Nah, it's easy. It wasn't about the price, brand, or quality of the jacket, but the fact that Vesper could "size him up" the moment they met, as opposed to his tailors who need measuring tape and time for that, thus making the result infinitely inferior.
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Yes, Bond failed by letting the terrorists (Mr. White and Quantum) get the money.
Does the British government have the power to freeze any bank account in the world? And how would M be able to find the bank account? They don't even know anything about Mr. White. They would have if the interrogation succeeded.
The thing I always wondered about is where did the Aston Martin come from at the beginning of QOS? At the end of CR, we see Mr. White come through a very large gate (presumably he closed the gate behind him), drive down a very long drive, and in a long shot we see him pull up in front of his house.
No Aston Martin in sight!
Immediately prior to the beginning of QOS, the injured Mr. White must have been bundled into the trunk of the Aston Martin (Jesper Christensen doesn't seem like a very big guy but I'm surprised he can be fit into the trunk of a DBS).
Where did it come from? (and, no, TP they didn't borrow the invisibilty technology from DAD, this is the reboot!).
And where did all those Alfa Romeos full of bad guys come from?
easy: Bond parked out of sight and the Alfas are White's security guards that saw the incedent on cctc, got their cars out of the garage and followed Bond