Skyfall - PTS
SeanIsTheOnlyOne
Posts: 724MI6 Agent
I'm currently in a full Skyfall vibe so don't be surprised about my various posts dealing with some elements of the plot.
Does anyone here have an idea about the way Bond and Moneypenny get in Istanbul precisely when Patrice is stealing the drive at Silva's request? Is it because M has been informed something was going wrong in Istanbul a few days ago she decided to send operatives? But in that case, Patrice had all the time to steal it long before Bond's arrival, which is why I still don't understand how the theft can occur a few seconds before Bond gets into the room where Ronson has been shot. Is it pure coincidence or is it part of Silva's plot to have Patrice struggling with MI6 to give some clues like the shrapnels leading to him later?
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Too bad they don't make novelizations anymore, this probably would have been in it.
In my mind this was an OP that included Ronson, Bond, and a support agent Moneypenny. M was trying to uncover a underground faction and when she learned they were looking for undercover agent info she was going to "give" it to them in order to apprehend the buyer and "pump them for information".
Ronson and Bond went to Istanbul together, with a laptop that had the real info but encrypted and stored in a hard drive with a GPS tracker. Ronson would make contact, identify the buyer to Bond/MP, show the buyer that the info was real and let him buy the info. MP and Bond would wait outside and track/apprehend the buyer as they were leaving. Of course things went south, Ronson was shot so Bond ran in to assess the laptop's condition and found the hard drive ripped out so he and MP proceeded with the second half of the mission and pursued the hard drive and hopefully take the buyer into custody.
Everything that happened next is on screen for us and M was in serious ****, her gamble to get to closer to a underworld figure completely failed and they have a list that is not supposed to exist provided they can decrypt the hard drive. Powering up the hard drive also powers up the GPS, we know that Silva wanted M to send Bond after him so he took no steps to power up the drive in a faraday cage (that could block the GPS) and likely wanted her to worry so she'd take more drastic action.
Of course this is just my fill-in-the-blanks fanfiction.
Very interesting. It could work indeed. That's the issue with the concept of 'in medias res', there's no context and the whereabouts become a little bit opaque although it's not difficult to understand the global stakes.
Thanks for this answer!
That’s a lot of fun. A Mission Impossible mission basically! But why not 😁 - and it does fit the circumstances pretty perfectly: Bond and Eve being there, well armed; the MI6 team listening in; Bond’s focus on the laptop etc.