Since Vesper is essentially a civilian, she has trouble coping with the situation, and makes wrong choices. Her actions in the film are meant to protray a smart, accomplished professional, suddenly tossed into international espionage, who is then blackmailed into betraying her goverment - all in the space of a few days. She is less a traitor in the film than in the book, where the Russian's have been holding her Polish lover for years, and Vesper has been handing over British secrets the entire time, secrets from Head of 'S', the section that deals directly with the Soviets. The conversation with Bond after the game 'Just because you've been doing something, doesn't mean you have to continue.' is about Vesper, trying to figure a way out of her dilemma. While Vesper's actions are more overt in the film (she becomes an active participant in the bad guys scheme) her motivations are the same as in the novel - trying to save her trapped lover, and later trying to escape her bad situation by using Bond. Vesper's death is inevitable because that is the way old Ian Fleming wrote the origial novel. Bond may also have an instinct that something is 'wrong'. Vesper's 'Mathis needs me.' statement reminds him that Mathis has not shown up since the end of the game and provokes his subconsious suspicion tha 'someone' disclosed Bond's discovery of LeChiffre's 'tell'.

I believe Bond becomes suspicious because Mathis fails to make a personal appearance at the resturaunt. The car is pretty distinctive too- feels like we should recognise it. It's quite annoying- seems like something has been cut somewhere.Ī bit like the bit where he calls the phone on the body in that guy's boot - presumably the car and owner are part of le Chiffre's gang, but he hasn't been set up well enough for us to know him.

Or Mathis and Vesper had no business working together, but that doesn't really hold water either) and frankly this bit has baffled me every time I watch it. I've read some explantions that made sense in another forum, but I can't remember them (something to do with Mathis should be off arresting Le Chiffre? Doesn't seem convincing enough. Also, shouldn't he have suspected Vesper as one of two potential leaks? Apologies if this has been discussed but I couldn't find anything while celebrating a bit after winning the big pot, what clued in Bond that Vesper was in danger when she left the dining room? Some say that Bond suspected Mathis to have tipped Bond off about Le Chiffre's 'tell' while bluffing, but Bond didn't seem to have nursed any suspicions about Mathis before then.

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