After answering a phone call, Solange reveals that her husband is flying to Miami, so Bond leaves to pursue him. Le Chiffre's investments involve short-selling stock in successful companies using his clients money, and then engineering terrorist attacks to sink their share prices, creating huge profits for himself.īond travels to the Bahamas-where Dimitrios has a home-and seduces his wife, Solange Dimitrios. Searching through Mollaka's mobile phone, Bond discovers a text message, which he traces to Alex Dimitrios, an associate of the banker and terrorist financier Le Chiffre.
After a parkour chase to an embassy, Bond kills Mollaka and escapes by setting off an explosion. He then travels to Madagascar in pursuit of Mollaka, a globe-trotting bombmaker-for-hire. After killing a traitorous MI6 section chief-who has been selling classified information-and the chief's contact, James Bond receives his double-0 status and is designated 007.