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Contrary to other answers, I believe the high-value chip from the exclusive casino would not be a "safe" way to compensate a hit man. If the police found the chip on the hit man, they would know to investigate the casino. Indeed, as soon as Bond found the chip, he went to the casino, to try to find out who ordered the hit. Of course, in Skyfall, it turns ...

First of all, the James Bond (or rather the pre-Craig movies) movies don't adhere to an actual realistic timeline that goes through all of the movies. Without some small exceptions (Bond's wife and her death) there aren't any major cross-movie story developments and any Bond movie can be seen as rather stand-alone, even if some small comments and allusions ...

Timelines and James Bond don't go hand in hand, he's an ageless character and will always continue to be up to date regardless of when the stories are set. Having said that if you're determined to answer the question, there are a few clues we can divine. He has acquired the Aston Martin, therefore it must be after Casino Royal The Aston has an ejector ...

There is no proper reason whatsoever for him to link the unsecure device retrieved from an enemy to the network of MI6. The usual approach would be to treat it with the highest level of suspicion and analyze the hardware and contained data in a secure isolated environment, and Q should have known that, considering that he is supposed to be a genius IT ...

Bond does use an alias in several of the Bond films as detailed in this article; Movie Alias From Russia with Love David Somerset You Only Live Twice Mr. Fisher On Her Majesty's Secret Service Sir Hilary Bray Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks Diamonds Are Forever Mr. ...

While one would expect a "secret agent" to always use a cover, James Bond is not a secret agent: Intelligence organizations have complete and detailed files on him. Most bad guys know who he is, what kind of firearm he carries, and how he likes his drinks. The bad guy usually tries to kill Bond as he arrives in town. When he investigates someone, he ...

The use of monikers such as M and Q is, IMO, more to do with tradition and traditional anonymity than secrecy. (See my answer to another Bond question for more on this.) You can see colleagues mingling socially (the opening scenes of Licence to Kill come to mind) and Bond pops up to M's flat on a couple of occasions. M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny are all invited ...

I'm going to throw out my own thoughts. Wikipedia states that In the first draft of Casino Royale he decided to use the name James Secretan as Bond's cover name while on missions. This approach was clearly discarded and for several books he keeps the name Bond. If memory serves however his identity as James Bond and 007 are kept separate so for the ...

There is little doubt that the intent of Fleming and the Bond producers in using 00 is to emphasize the exclusivity of the agent number and it is explicit that his category is "licensed to kill", certainly a rarity in government agents. There can't be more than ten of them (presumably), though often he interacts with special forces with dozens of members on ...

From Wikipedia: Although pronounced "Double-O", the O refers to zeros. In the British and Commonwealth armed forces, soldiers and officers are assigned identity numbers; the United States military does likewise. During Ian Fleming's work in Vichy France, an agent's anonymity was imperative, and, when the agent was military, it was convenient to ...

Bond's number—007—comes from the English spy and polymath John Dee, who signed his letters to Elizabeth I with 00 and an elongated 7, to signify they were for her eyes only. The number was also assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. ...

As noted in Wikipedia, (the Judi Dench) M's real name is very likely Olivia Mansfield. The source for this entry is this article on comingsoon.net which reveals: There was also something else that cropped up while we were looking through the archive, something that may be of even more interest to Bond fans. As we looked at the porcelain bulldog M ...

The only fact I would add to the answers above is that in the books (Moonraker and The Man with the Golden Gun) one of the M characters is named as Sir Miles Messervy. M was his initial. My guess is that the character M was carried over into the films, Judi Dench was cast and the initial continued. A name through evolution rather than because every person ...

I might add that it's also non-interactive. The client could leave the chip anywhere in an envelope where the assassin could get it. The assain then picks ups his payment after the job, and the client and assassin NEVER have to meet face to face.

First of all, let's clarify the amount. In the casino, when Bond cashes in the chip, he receives a case that is stuffed full of packets of large bills. I would estimate that the amount was at least a million USD, but probably much more. I believe that the point of using the casino chip is that it offers both sides several advantages. For the assassin, it ...