James Bond (Daniel Craig)’s Timeline and Summary
- Bond pursues a bad guy but is shot by friendly fire. That has to hurt.
- Bond falls about a thousand feet into the water below. That has to hurt even more.
- Somehow surviving, Bond sees his home country under attack on the news. Still hurting.
- Bond returns to MI6 to resume his job, and he finds out M has stolen his stuff. Will the pain ever end?
- Following the trail left by the bad guy, Bond eventually meets Silva, a rival agent who wants to kill M.
- Bond captures Silva. The pain is finally over.
- For about five minutes, which is the time it takes for Silva to escape.
- Silva tries to crash an entire subway train into Bond, but he misses. Whew. Even Bond couldn't handle that.
- Bond flees England with M. They retreat to his childhood home, Skyfall, for a final standoff with Silva.
- Bond ends up killing Silva, but M dies, which is the most painful thing in a movie of painful things.
- After mourning M's loss, Bond reports to his new M. A spy's work is never done.