'Well you needn't worry, the second is-.' Rather than complete the thought, he fulfills it, as Bond casually shoots him through the chest before concurring: 'Yes, considerably.' The word that neither man utters, of course, is 'easier,' and its elision is telling. 'Made you feel it, didn't he?' the turncoat asks. Bond is played by Daniel Craig in his rookie outing, and he is played, appropriately enough, as a rookie agent, or at least as one who has not yet been granted his iconic label, '007.' To ascend to that rank, we are told, requires two sanctioned kills-one, evidently, for each 'oh.' His first was the man who led him to the turncoat, and it was not a pretty one: Bond beat him bloodily before drowning him in the sink of a public restroom. One such occasion is the opening scene of Casino Royale, in which James Bond confronts a turncoat within British intelligence. Sometimes a film speaks most clearly in what it doesn't bother to say.
