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Plot point - Mr Slate


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#1 George88

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 09:31 AM

I'm a bit thick but am I missing something here?

1. Casino Royale - Vesper collects the money from the Swiss Bank in a big metal case.

2. Casino Royale - Mr White walks off with the case.

3. QOS - MI6 trace Slate by means of a marked set of notes - from that case?

If that's how it works...

...who marked the notes and why? The Swiss bank? MI6 through the bank? And if they marked the notes because they didn't trust either Bond or Vesper to deliver, doesn't it seem all a bit of a waste of time for Vesper to be allowed to collect them? Why not arrest her on the spot?

Fully accepting that I am debating Bondfilmlogic here.

#2 MkB

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 11:48 AM

I haven't seen the films recently, so I may be missing something, but if memory serves, in QoS, they trace Slate not because of marked notes from the case, but because he is in possession of a stack of notes from the same series as a note found in Mitchell's wallet (Mitchell being M's bodyguard killed by Bond in Siena).
So not sure they really traced anything from the case White walked off with in Venezia.

#3 Vauxhall

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 02:40 PM

I haven't seen the films recently, so I may be missing something, but if memory serves, in QoS, they trace Slate not because of marked notes from the case, but because he is in possession of a stack of notes from the same series as a note found in Mitchell's wallet (Mitchell being M's bodyguard killed by Bond in Siena).
So not sure they really traced anything from the case White walked off with in Venezia.

I concur. It's not the same money.

#4 volante

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 04:17 PM

...and that concludes the thread

#5 George88

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:32 PM

Ah, gotcha.

What does happen to all the money?

#6 The Shark

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:34 PM

Quantum has it, somewhere.... That's all the audience knows.

#7 Bucky

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:56 PM

guessing it went back into the accounts of the freedom fighters that it belonged to since that is where le chiffre had taken it from.

#8 JimmyBond

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 09:15 PM

The way they explain it in the film was that MI6 introduced some marked notes into LeChiffre's money laundering operations. Those notes turned up in Mitchell's wallet and then again being used by Slate.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:11 AM

Quantum has it, somewhere.... That's all the audience knows.


It's in Mr. White's magic hat.