James Bond, MI6 agent 007 with a licence to kill, has been played by six actors across 25 Eon films since 1962, plus two unofficial films; the early films loosely share a running fight with Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE. Daniel Craig's five films reboot Bond as one continuous story, which ends in No Time to Die with Bond dying to save Madeleine Swann and their daughter. A new Bond film from Amazon MGM, directed by Denis Villeneuve, is in development.
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No. 01 · 1962 · Film
Dr. No recap
The British station chief in Jamaica, Strangways, is murdered, and M sends James Bond to find out why. Bond dodges assassins, works with the CIA's Felix Leiter and the local boatman Quarrel, and traces Strangways's interest to Crab Key, an island owned by the reclusive Dr. Julius No. Someone has been sending radio signals that knock American rockets off course from Cape Canaveral. Bond and Quarrel land on Crab Key and meet Honey Ryder, a shell collector. No's men attack with a flame-throwing "dragon" tank, kill Quarrel and capture Bond and Honey. Over dinner, No reveals he works for SPECTRE, a criminal organisation, and has steel hands from a radiation accident.
How Dr. No ends
Bond escapes through an air duct, disguises himself as a technician and overloads No's nuclear reactor just as a rocket is due to launch. He fights No on the platform, and No, unable to grip the metal with his mechanical hands, slides into the boiling cooling pool and dies. Bond rescues Honey and the two escape before the base explodes, drifting in a boat until Leiter picks them up. SPECTRE comes back in the next film.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 02 · 1963 · Film
From Russia with Love recap
SPECTRE's chief, seen only stroking a white cat, approves a plan to steal a Soviet Lektor decoding machine and humiliate Bond in revenge for Dr. No. Former Soviet officer Rosa Klebb recruits Tatiana Romanova, a clerk in Istanbul, to pretend she wants to defect with the Lektor if Bond will escort her. Bond suspects a trap but goes, working with the British station head Kerim Bey. Bond and Tatiana steal the Lektor and board the Orient Express, followed by the SPECTRE assassin Red Grant. Grant kills Kerim, then poses as a British agent, Captain Nash, and drugs Tatiana.
How From Russia with Love ends
In their train compartment, Grant tells Bond the whole plan, and Bond kills him after a brutal fight using his trick briefcase. Bond and Tatiana escape a helicopter and a boat chase to Venice. There Klebb, disguised as a hotel maid, attacks Bond with a poisoned blade in her shoe, and Tatiana shoots her. Bond and Tatiana ride a gondola, and Bond tosses away the film of them that SPECTRE had made.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 03 · 1964 · Film
Goldfinger recap
In Miami, Bond catches the gold dealer Auric Goldfinger cheating at cards with the help of Jill Masterson, and wins her over; Goldfinger has her killed by coating her in gold paint. M assigns Bond to find out how Goldfinger smuggles gold. Bond beats him at golf, meets his mute bodyguard Oddjob and his steel-rimmed hat, and follows him to Switzerland, where Jill's sister Tilly is killed trying to shoot Goldfinger. Bond is captured and strapped under an industrial laser, and talks his way out. He is flown to Kentucky by Goldfinger's pilot, Pussy Galore, and learns of Operation Grand Slam: a raid on Fort Knox.
How Goldfinger ends
Goldfinger plans to set off a dirty atomic bomb inside Fort Knox, making the American gold reserve radioactive and his own gold worth far more. Pussy Galore, won over by Bond, swaps the nerve gas for harmless gas and alerts the authorities. Bond, handcuffed to the bomb, electrocutes Oddjob, and the bomb is stopped at 007 on the timer. Goldfinger hijacks Bond's plane, and is sucked out of a shot-out window. Bond and Pussy parachute to safety.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 04 · 1965 · Film
Thunderball recap
SPECTRE's Number Two, Emilio Largo, carries out a plan to steal two atomic bombs from a NATO bomber, using an agent surgically altered to look like the French pilot Francois Derval, and demands a ransom from the West. Bond, recovering at a health clinic, has already spotted clues there. He tracks Largo to Nassau in the Bahamas and romances Domino, Derval's sister and Largo's mistress, while the assassin Fiona Volpe tries to kill him. Bond and Felix Leiter search for Largo's hidden bombs and the sunken bomber, dodging Largo's sharks. Bond tells Domino that Largo killed her brother, and she agrees to help.
How Thunderball ends
An underwater battle between Largo's frogmen and American aquanauts ends with one bomb recovered. Largo flees on his yacht, the Disco Volante, with the second bomb and Bond aboard. As Largo is about to kill Bond, Domino shoots him with a harpoon gun. The yacht runs aground and explodes, and Bond and Domino are lifted from the sea by a plane with a skyhook.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 05 · 1967 · Film · optional
Casino Royale recap
This comedy is not part of the Eon series. Sir James Bond, a retired spy who disapproves of the playboy agent who inherited his name, is lured back to work after M is killed. He takes over MI6 and orders every agent to be called James Bond to confuse the enemy, the organisation SMERSH. The plot sprawls across several directors' segments: Bond's daughter Mata Bond goes to Berlin; baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble is recruited by the spy Vesper Lynd to beat SMERSH's agent Le Chiffre at cards in the casino; Tremble wins, is kidnapped and tortured with hallucinations, and is shot by Vesper. Sir James himself is captured, and the trail leads to Dr. Noah, the head of SMERSH.
How Casino Royale ends
Dr. Noah turns out to be Sir James's nephew Jimmy Bond, who plans to release a germ that will make all women beautiful and kill every man taller than himself. Jimmy swallows an explosive pill, and a brawl at Casino Royale involving cowboys, the French Foreign Legion and seals ends when he explodes, killing everyone. The cast appear in heaven, while Jimmy goes the other way. It connects to nothing else.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 06 · 1967 · Film
You Only Live Twice recap
An American space capsule is swallowed in orbit by an unknown craft, and the United States blames the Soviet Union. Britain suspects Japan. Bond fakes his death in Hong Kong and is sent to Tokyo, where he works with agent Aki and Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service. Clues lead to Osato Chemicals and its assistant Helga Brandt, who tries to kill Bond in a plane. Bond scouts a volcanic island in the Little Nellie autogyro. Aki is poisoned by an assassin meant for Bond. Bond trains with Tanaka's ninjas and poses as a local fisherman, married in name to Kissy Suzuki, who helps him find SPECTRE's base inside the volcano.
How You Only Live Twice ends
Bond gets into the hollow volcano, where Blofeld, his scarred face seen for the first time, is about to capture a Soviet capsule and start a war. Tanaka's ninjas storm the base, Bond blows up Blofeld's rocket before it reaches its target, and Blofeld escapes as the base self-destructs. Bond and Kissy float in a raft until a British submarine surfaces beneath them.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 07 · 1969 · Film
On Her Majesty's Secret Service recap
George Lazenby takes over as Bond. Bond saves Tracy di Vicenzo, a reckless countess, from suicide, and her father Marc-Ange Draco, head of a crime syndicate, offers Bond help finding Blofeld if he will marry her. Bond falls for Tracy for real. Blofeld is claiming a title as the Count de Bleuchamp, and Bond goes undercover as a genealogist at his allergy clinic on Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps. There, Blofeld is brainwashing young women patients to spread a biological agent that will destroy the world's crops and livestock unless he is pardoned. Bond is exposed and escapes on skis, and Tracy rescues him. An avalanche buries them and Tracy is captured.
How On Her Majesty's Secret Service ends
Bond and Draco's men raid Piz Gloria by helicopter, rescue Tracy and destroy the base, and Bond chases Blofeld down a bobsled run, leaving him caught in a tree. Bond and Tracy marry. As they drive away, Blofeld and his henchwoman Irma Bunt pass by and shoot at the car, killing Tracy. Bond cradles her and says they have all the time in the world. Later films return to her death.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 08 · 1971 · Film
Diamonds Are Forever recap
Sean Connery returns. Bond hunts down Blofeld and seems to kill him in a pool of boiling mud. His next assignment is a diamond smuggling ring, and he poses as the smuggler Peter Franks, working with Tiffany Case in Amsterdam. Two assassins, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, are killing everyone along the pipeline. The diamonds lead to Las Vegas and the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte, whose empire Blofeld has taken over using doubles and Whyte's voice. Blofeld has been hoarding diamonds to build a laser satellite that can destroy targets anywhere on Earth. Bond frees Whyte, and Tiffany, now on Bond's side, is captured.
How Diamonds Are Forever ends
Bond reaches Blofeld's oil rig off Baja California, where Blofeld is holding the world to ransom. Bond swaps the control tape, and a helicopter attack destroys the rig; Bond swings Blofeld's mini-submarine into the control room, and Blofeld's fate is left unclear. On a cruise ship home, Wint and Kidd try once more, and Bond kills them.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 09 · 1973 · Film
Live and Let Die recap
Roger Moore takes over as Bond. Three British agents die in New York, New Orleans and the Caribbean island of San Monique. Bond investigates Dr. Kananga, San Monique's dictator, and the Harlem gangster Mr. Big. Kananga's tarot reader Solitaire foretells Bond's every move, until Bond seduces her and her powers vanish. Bond escapes the henchman Tee Hee and his steel claw, crosses a crocodile farm on the backs of crocodiles, and leads a long boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, crossing paths with Sheriff J.W. Pepper. Mr. Big turns out to be Kananga in disguise: he plans to flood America with free heroin grown on San Monique, wipe out the competition and then corner the market.
How Live and Let Die ends
Bond rescues Solitaire from a voodoo sacrifice and destroys Kananga's poppy fields. In Kananga's underground lair, the two fight over a shark tank, and Bond forces a compressed gas pellet into Kananga's mouth, inflating him until he explodes. On the train home, Tee Hee attacks and Bond throws him out of the window. The voodoo figure Baron Samedi rides the front of the train, laughing.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 10 · 1974 · Film
The Man with the Golden Gun recap
A golden bullet engraved with 007 arrives at MI6, apparently from Francisco Scaramanga, the world's best-paid assassin, who uses a golden gun and charges a million dollars a kill. Bond is taken off a case involving the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness solar power, and goes after Scaramanga anyway. In Hong Kong, Macau and Bangkok, he finds the bullet was sent by Scaramanga's mistress, Andrea Anders, who wants Scaramanga dead. Scaramanga kills the Solex inventor and steals the device. Bond jumps a car across a broken bridge in a corkscrew turn, and Andrea is murdered. Scaramanga flies off with agent Mary Goodnight.
How The Man with the Golden Gun ends
Bond follows Scaramanga to his island off China, where the assassin challenges him to a duel in his funhouse. Bond hides by posing as a wax figure of himself and shoots Scaramanga dead. Goodnight accidentally knocks a guard into the solar plant's coolant, and the island explodes after Bond recovers the Solex. Scaramanga's small servant Nick Nack attacks them on their boat and is tied up.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 11 · 1977 · Film
The Spy Who Loved Me recap
A British and a Soviet nuclear submarine both disappear. Bond is sent to Egypt to find stolen plans for a submarine tracking system and keeps running into Major Anya Amasova, the Soviet agent XXX. The two services agree to work together, and they are pursued by the steel-toothed giant Jaws. In Sardinia they investigate the shipping magnate Karl Stromberg, who lives in a sea base called Atlantis. Bond escapes in a Lotus that turns into a submarine. Anya learns that Bond killed her lover in the film's opening ski chase and vows to kill him when the mission is over. Stromberg's tanker, the Liparus, has been swallowing the submarines whole.
How The Spy Who Loved Me ends
Stromberg plans to fire the submarines' missiles at New York and Moscow, start a nuclear war and build a new civilisation under the sea. Bond, captured aboard the Liparus, frees the prisoners, reprogrammes the missiles to destroy the two stolen submarines, and the Liparus sinks. He goes to Atlantis, kills Stromberg and rescues Anya, who decides not to shoot him. They escape in a pod before the base is torpedoed, and Jaws swims away.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 12 · 1979 · Film
Moonraker recap
A Moonraker space shuttle on loan to Britain is hijacked in mid-air. Bond visits its maker, the industrialist Hugo Drax, in California, and meets Dr. Holly Goodhead, a scientist who is really a CIA agent. Drax tries repeatedly to kill Bond, including in a centrifuge. In Venice, Bond finds a laboratory producing a nerve gas; in Rio, he escapes Jaws on a cable car; in the Amazon, he finds Drax's launch site. Drax plans to wipe out humanity with a nerve gas derived from a rare orchid, released from orbit, and repopulate the Earth with genetically perfect couples he has gathered on a hidden space station.
How Moonraker ends
Bond and Holly stow away on a Moonraker shuttle to the station and disable its radar shield, letting American astronaut troops attack. Jaws, falling for a young woman named Dolly and realising he is not part of Drax's perfect race, switches sides. Bond shoots Drax with a dart and pushes him out of an airlock, then destroys the gas globes before they reach Earth. Bond and Holly are caught together in zero gravity.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 13 · 1981 · Film
For Your Eyes Only recap
Bond visits his wife Tracy's grave and escapes a bald man in a wheelchair who tries to kill him by remote-controlled helicopter. A British spy ship carrying ATAC, a system that directs submarines, sinks off Albania. The marine archaeologist Havelock is hired to find it and is murdered with his wife by the hitman Gonzales, and their daughter Melina takes revenge. Bond meets the Greek businessman Aris Kristatos, who points him at the smuggler Milos Columbo as the man behind it. In fact Kristatos is the traitor, working for the KGB, and Columbo becomes Bond's ally. Bond and Melina recover ATAC from the wreck, and Kristatos takes it from them and drags them behind his boat over coral.
How For Your Eyes Only ends
Bond, Melina and Columbo's men climb to the cliff-top monastery of St. Cyril's, where Kristatos is about to hand ATAC to the KGB. Columbo kills Kristatos with a thrown knife. When General Gogol arrives, Bond throws ATAC off the cliff, so neither side has it, and Gogol laughs. The Prime Minister calls to congratulate Bond and gets Melina's parrot instead.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 14 · 1983 · Film
Octopussy recap
Agent 009 dies in East Berlin dressed as a clown, holding a fake Faberge egg. Bond follows the real egg to an auction and to Kamal Khan, an exiled Afghan prince in India, who cheats at backgammon and is smuggling Soviet jewels. Kamal works with Octopussy, a wealthy woman who runs a travelling circus and a cult of women, and with the rogue Soviet General Orlov, who has been swapping state treasures for fakes. Orlov's real plan is to set off a nuclear bomb at an American air base in West Germany during a circus show, making it look like an accident so Europe will demand nuclear disarmament and leave the way open for a Soviet invasion.
How Octopussy ends
Bond races after the circus train, Orlov is shot at the border, and Bond, dressed as a clown, gets into the circus and defuses the bomb with seconds left. Octopussy, who did not know about the bomb, attacks Kamal's palace with her women. Kamal escapes in a plane with Octopussy, Bond rides on its wings, and the plane crashes into a cliff after Bond and Octopussy jump off.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 15 · 1983 · Film · optional
Never Say Never Again recap
Made outside the Eon series, this is a second version of Thunderball, with Sean Connery returning as an older Bond. After a failed training exercise, M sends Bond to a health clinic, where he sees the assassin Fatima Blush and her patient Jack Petachi, a US Air Force pilot whose eye has been altered to match the President's. Petachi uses his eye to swap dummy warheads for real ones in two cruise missiles, which SPECTRE steals. Blofeld demands a ransom, and his agent Maximilian Largo carries out the plan. Bond goes to the Bahamas and the south of France, beats Largo at a video game and seduces Largo's girlfriend Domino, Petachi's sister. Bond kills Fatima Blush with an exploding pen.
How Never Say Never Again ends
Largo sells Domino into slavery in North Africa and Bond rescues her. With Felix Leiter, he follows Largo to the Tears of Allah, an underground cave where the last warhead is hidden, and fights him underwater. Domino kills Largo with a harpoon gun. Bond retires to the Bahamas with Domino, saying he will never work again, and winks.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 16 · 1985 · Film
A View to a Kill recap
Bond recovers a microchip from the body of agent 003 in Siberia; it is a copy of a British chip that can survive a nuclear pulse, made by Zorin Industries. Bond investigates Max Zorin, a horse breeder and tech magnate who was the product of Nazi medical experiments and once worked for the KGB. Zorin's bodyguard and lover May Day kills a French detective from the Eiffel Tower, and Bond chases her. In San Francisco, Bond teams up with the geologist Stacey Sutton, whom Zorin is trying to buy out. Zorin plans to set off explosives along the San Andreas and Hayward faults, flood Silicon Valley and control the world's microchip market.
How A View to a Kill ends
Zorin floods the mine and abandons his own workers, including May Day. She turns on him and rides the bomb out of the mine on a rail cart, dying in the blast that saves the valley. Zorin kidnaps Stacey in his airship, and Bond fights him on top of the Golden Gate Bridge, where Zorin falls to his death. Bond and Stacey are found in a shower by Q's robot.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 17 · 1987 · Film
The Living Daylights recap
Timothy Dalton takes over as Bond. Bond helps a KGB general, Georgi Koskov, defect in Bratislava, and refuses to shoot a woman sniper, the cellist Kara Milovy. Koskov tells MI6 that the new KGB chief, General Pushkin, is killing British agents, and is then snatched back by the assassin Necros. Bond suspects a setup, meets Pushkin in Tangier and fakes his death. Koskov is working with the American arms dealer Brad Whitaker, using Soviet money for weapons and diamonds to buy opium. Koskov drugs Bond and Kara and takes them to a Soviet airbase in Afghanistan, where they escape with a mujahideen leader, Kamran Shah.
How The Living Daylights ends
Bond hijacks the cargo plane carrying the opium, plants a bomb in it and drops it on Soviet troops chasing the mujahideen, then kills Necros in a fight hanging off the plane. In Tangier he attacks Whitaker's house, and Whitaker is crushed by a bust of Wellington. Pushkin arrests Koskov. Kara performs in Vienna, and Bond is waiting in her dressing room.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 18 · 1989 · Film
Licence to Kill recap
On Felix Leiter's wedding day, he and Bond capture the drug lord Franz Sanchez. Sanchez bribes his way free, kills Felix's bride Della and feeds Felix to a shark, leaving him maimed. Bond goes after Sanchez against orders, and M revokes his licence to kill. Bond, now a rogue agent, works with the pilot and CIA informant Pam Bouvier, and with Q, who comes to help unofficially. In the Latin American country of Isthmus, Bond poses as a hired gun to get close to Sanchez and turns him against his own men, including his partner Milton Krest. Sanchez is shipping cocaine dissolved in petrol in tankers, using a televangelist, Professor Joe Butcher, to sell it to Asian buyers.
How Licence to Kill ends
Bond blows up the drug lab and chases the tankers down a mountain road, destroying them. Sanchez, soaked in petrol, is about to kill Bond with a machete when Bond sets him on fire with the lighter Felix gave him. Felix phones from hospital to say M wants Bond back, and Bond ends up with Pam.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 19 · 1995 · Film
GoldenEye recap
In 1986, Bond and agent 006, Alec Trevelyan, raid a Soviet chemical weapons plant, and Trevelyan appears to be shot by Colonel Ourumov. Nine years later, Judi Dench is the new M. Ourumov, now a general, and the assassin Xenia Onatopp steal the controls of GoldenEye, a satellite weapon that fires an electromagnetic pulse, and use it to destroy the Severnaya base in Siberia. The only survivor is programmer Natalya Simonova. In St. Petersburg, Bond meets the head of the Janus crime syndicate and finds it is Trevelyan, who faked his death and wants revenge on Britain for the betrayal of his Cossack parents. Bond chases Ourumov through the streets in a tank and kills him.
How GoldenEye ends
Trevelyan plans to use the second GoldenEye satellite to wipe out London's financial records while stealing from the Bank of England. Bond and Natalya find his base under a lake in Cuba. Bond kills Xenia, and Natalya reprograms the satellite to burn up. Bond fights Trevelyan on the radio dish and drops him from the antenna, and the falling cradle crushes him.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 20 · 1997 · Film
Tomorrow Never Dies recap
A British warship is sunk in Chinese waters and a Chinese jet is shot down, events reported by Elliot Carver's news network before anyone else knows about them. Carver, a media baron, is staging a war between Britain and China using a stealth ship, so he can install a friendly Chinese general in power and get exclusive broadcasting rights. Bond goes to Hamburg and uses his old lover Paris, now Carver's wife, to get into Carver's building; Carver has her killed. Bond meets Wai Lin, a Chinese agent working the same case. They escape across Saigon handcuffed together on a motorbike chased by a helicopter.
How Tomorrow Never Dies ends
Bond and Wai Lin find the stealth ship in Ha Long Bay. Carver captures Wai Lin and prepares to fire a cruise missile at Beijing. Bond kills Carver with his own sea drill, sets off explosives that expose the ship to radar, and the British navy fires on it. Bond kills Carver's henchman Stamper and destroys the missile, and he and Wai Lin hide in the wreckage as the navy searches.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 21 · 1999 · Film
The World Is Not Enough recap
Oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed by a bomb inside MI6's headquarters. M assigns Bond to protect King's daughter Elektra, who was once kidnapped by the terrorist Renard. Renard has a bullet lodged in his brain that is slowly killing him and stops him feeling pain. Bond meets the nuclear physicist Christmas Jones while Renard steals plutonium from a Kazakh test site. Bond grows suspicious of Elektra and learns that she seduced Renard during her kidnapping and arranged her father's murder. She plans to destroy rival oil routes through Istanbul so her own pipeline controls the market, and she captures M.
How The World Is Not Enough ends
Renard takes a submarine to Istanbul to cause a nuclear meltdown in the Bosphorus. Bond escapes, frees M and shoots Elektra dead. He boards the submarine and kills Renard by impaling him with a plutonium rod, then escapes with Christmas before it explodes. Q retires and introduces his replacement, R.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 22 · 2002 · Film
Die Another Day recap
On a mission in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured after Colonel Moon appears to die, and he is tortured for fourteen months before being swapped for Zao, a terrorist. MI6 suspects Bond leaked information and suspends him. Bond escapes and tracks Zao to a Cuban gene therapy clinic, where he meets the American agent Jinx. The clinic leads him to Gustav Graves, a British billionaire whose diamonds come from Zao. Graves is Colonel Moon, his face and DNA changed. Bond and Jinx follow him to an ice palace in Iceland, where Graves unveils Icarus, a satellite that focuses sunlight into a beam. Bond's fencing partner Miranda Frost turns out to be the traitor.
How Die Another Day ends
Graves plans to use Icarus to clear a path through the minefield between the two Koreas for a North Korean invasion. Bond and Jinx board his command plane, Jinx kills Frost, and Bond kills Graves by deploying his parachute so it drags him into an engine. Bond and Jinx escape in a helicopter carrying Graves's diamonds.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 23 · 2006 · Film
Casino Royale recap
Daniel Craig's Bond earns his double-0 status with two kills. He follows a bombmaker to Madagascar and the Bahamas, where he wins an Aston Martin at cards and uncovers Le Chiffre, a private banker for terrorists, who has shorted an aircraft maker's stock. Bond foils a bombing at Miami airport, and Le Chiffre loses his clients' money. To recover it, Le Chiffre runs a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro. MI6 stakes Bond, and the Treasury sends Vesper Lynd to watch the money. Bond survives poisoning, wins the game with help from Felix Leiter, and is captured and tortured by Le Chiffre. Mr. White of a shadowy organisation kills Le Chiffre and spares Bond.
How Casino Royale ends
Bond falls for Vesper, resigns and sails with her to Venice. She betrays him, taking the winnings to the organisation that is blackmailing her over a kidnapped boyfriend, and drowns herself in a sinking building. Bond learns she protected him in a deal to spare his life. He tracks down Mr. White, shoots him in the leg and says, "The name's Bond. James Bond." Quantum of Solace picks up an hour later.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 24 · 2008 · Film
Quantum of Solace recap
An hour after Casino Royale, Bond delivers Mr. White to an MI6 safe house in Siena, where White escapes with help from M's own bodyguard. M learns the organisation behind White, Quantum, has people everywhere. Bond follows the money to Haiti and meets Camille, who wants revenge on the Bolivian general Medrano, and is led to Dominic Greene, a businessman whose environmental company is a front for Quantum. Greene is helping Medrano take power in Bolivia in exchange for land. Bond disrupts a Quantum meeting at an opera in Austria. His old contact Mathis is killed, and agent Strawberry Fields is drowned in oil. M takes away Bond's privileges, but he keeps going.
How Quantum of Solace ends
Greene's real deal is control of Bolivia's water supply. Bond attacks the desert hotel where Greene and Medrano meet; Camille kills Medrano, and Bond leaves Greene in the desert with a can of motor oil, where he is later found dead. In Russia, Bond finds Vesper's boyfriend Yusef, a Quantum agent who seduces women in intelligence, and hands him to MI6 instead of killing him. M takes Bond back.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 25 · 2012 · Film
Skyfall recap
In Istanbul, Bond chases a thief carrying a list of undercover NATO agents, and M orders agent Eve to take a shot that hits Bond, who falls into a river and is presumed dead. Months later MI6 is bombed, M is under pressure from the official Gareth Mallory, and Bond returns. Out of shape, he passes his tests with M's help, meets the young new Q, and tracks the thief to Shanghai and a casino in Macau. The trail leads to Raoul Silva, a former MI6 agent whom M gave up to the Chinese years before, who now runs a cyber-terror operation from an abandoned island. Silva lets himself be captured and escapes from MI6, then attacks M at a public inquiry.
How Skyfall ends
Bond takes M to Skyfall, his childhood home in Scotland, to draw Silva out. With the gamekeeper Kincade, they fight off Silva's men, and Silva reaches M in the chapel, but Bond kills him. M dies of her wounds. Mallory becomes the new M, Eve reveals her surname is Moneypenny, and Bond accepts his next mission.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 26 · 2015 · Film
Spectre recap
Following a message from the late M, Bond kills an assassin in Mexico City and takes his ring. He goes to Rome and gets into a meeting of a criminal organisation, SPECTRE, led by Franz Oberhauser, a man Bond knew as a child. Meanwhile the new M fights C, a government official merging MI5 and MI6 and pushing a global surveillance network. Bond finds a dying Mr. White in Austria and promises to protect his daughter, Dr. Madeleine Swann. Madeleine and Bond follow clues to Tangier and a crater base in the desert. Oberhauser reveals he now calls himself Ernst Stavro Blofeld and was behind Le Chiffre, Greene and Silva. C is his agent.
How Spectre ends
Bond escapes the crater base, which explodes, scarring Blofeld. In London, Blofeld captures Madeleine in the ruins of the old MI6 building, and Bond rescues her; C falls to his death. Bond shoots down Blofeld's helicopter and lets the police arrest him rather than killing him. Bond drives off with Madeleine, leaving MI6.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 27 · 2021 · Film
No Time to Die recap
At the grave of Vesper in Italy, Bond is ambushed and believes Madeleine betrayed him, so he leaves her. Five years later, retired in Jamaica, he is asked by Felix Leiter to rescue a scientist who has stolen Heracles, a nanobot weapon coded to a person's DNA. The new 007, Nomi, is on the same case. In Cuba, a SPECTRE party meant to kill Bond turns into a massacre of SPECTRE itself, and Felix is killed by a traitor. Behind it is Lyutsifer Safin, whose family was murdered by Mr. White, and who once spared a young Madeleine. Blofeld, in prison, dies from Heracles. Bond finds Madeleine has a daughter, Mathilde.
How No Time to Die ends
Safin kidnaps Madeleine and Mathilde to his island factory, and Bond and Nomi rescue them. Bond stays to open the silo doors for a missile strike and is infected with nanobots coded to Madeleine and Mathilde, so he can never touch them again. He kills Safin, tells Madeleine he loves her, and dies in the missile strike. MI6 toasts him, and the credits promise that James Bond will return. The Craig story is complete; the next film will start again with a new Bond.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Common questions
What is the James Bond story so far?
James Bond, MI6 agent 007 with a licence to kill, has been played by six actors across 25 Eon films since 1962, plus two unofficial films; the early films loosely share a running fight with Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE. Daniel Craig's five films reboot Bond as one continuous story, which ends in No Time to Die with Bond dying to save Madeleine Swann and their daughter. A new Bond film from Amazon MGM, directed by Denis Villeneuve, is in development.
Where did James Bond leave off?
No Time to Die (2021) is the latest. Safin kidnaps Madeleine and Mathilde to his island factory, and Bond and Nomi rescue them. Bond stays to open the silo doors for a missile strike and is infected with nanobots coded to Madeleine and Mathilde, so he can never touch them again. He kills Safin, tells Madeleine he loves her, and dies in the missile strike. MI6 toasts him, and the credits promise that James Bond will return. The Craig story is complete; the next film will start again with a new Bond.
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