Source plot synopsis — includes the ending
An adolescent Madeleine Swann witnesses her mother's murder by Lyutsifer Safin, whose family was murdered by Madeleine's father, Mr. White, under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. After wounding Safin, Madeleine falls into a frozen lake, but Safin rescues her. In the present day, following the capture of Blofeld, Madeleine travels to Gravina in Puglia with James Bond and persuades him to visit his ex-lover Vesper Lynd's grave to help Bond move forward. When Bond visits the tomb, it explodes, and he is attacked by SPECTRE operatives led by Primo, a mercenary with a bionic eye. While fleeing with Bond, Madeleine receives a congratulatory phone call from Blofeld. Bond accuses Madeleine of betraying him and sends her away, saying they will never meet again.
Five years later, SPECTRE agents infiltrate an MI6 laboratory and kidnap the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who secretly works for Safin. They steal Project Heracles, a programmable DNA-targeting nanobot bioweapon developed under M. Now living in Jamaica, Bond is asked by his CIA ally Felix Leiter to extract Obruchev from a SPECTRE party in Cuba. Nomi, Bond's successor as Agent 007, warns him not to interfere with her own extraction of Obruchev. She puts him in contact with M, who refuses to explain Heracles, and soon after, Bond accepts Felix's offer. Bond infiltrates the party with Leiter's Cuban agent, Paloma. Blofeld, overseeing the party from Belmarsh prison through his own bionic eye, deploys a nanobot mist to kill Bond, but the mist kills the SPECTRE members because Obruchev had secretly reprogrammed the nanobots to target them. Bond takes Obruchev aboard a trawler, where Leiter and his associate Logan Ash are waiting. As Bond questions Obruchev about Heracles and Blofeld, Obruchev looks to Ash, exposing him as a co-conspirator. Ash shoots Leiter and traps him with Bond below deck, then triggers explosives to sink the ship as he flees with Obruchev. Bond escapes, but Leiter dies.
Bond seeks to interrogate Blofeld but learns he will only speak to Madeleine, his psychiatrist. Safin coerces Madeleine into infecting herself with a nanobot dose to assassinate Blofeld. MI6 allows Bond to visit Belmarsh with Madeleine, but she is too distressed to face Blofeld. Bond touches Madeleine before she leaves, unknowingly infecting himself with the nanobots. During the interrogation, Blofeld reveals to Bond that he planned the ambush at Vesper's grave to make Bond believe that Madeleine betrayed him. Enraged, Bond briefly strangles Blofeld, who dies shortly afterward from exposure to the nanobots in Bond's bloodstream. Bond reconciles with Madeleine at her childhood home in Norway and meets her young daughter, Mathilde, who Madeleine insists is not Bond's child, despite their resemblance. After Madeleine shares intelligence that her father gathered about Safin and his family's island, Bond realizes that Ash is approaching the house. Ash and his thugs pursue Bond, Mathilde, and Madeleine into a forest, and Bond orders Madeleine and Mathilde to hide. Bond kills Ash and his men, but Safin kidnaps Madeleine and Mathilde.
Q provides Bond and Nomi with a submersible glider to infiltrate Safin's nanobot factory headquarters, from which Safin and Obruchev plan to distribute the nanobots worldwide, potentially killing millions and establishing a new world order. Bond confronts Safin and kills his bodyguards, and Safin flees with Mathilde. Madeleine escapes from Primo and reunites with Bond. The pair finds Mathilde, whom Safin abandoned. Nomi kills Obruchev and escorts Madeleine and Mathilde off the island. Bond convinces M to authorise a missile strike on the island, then kills Primo and Safin's remaining men. Safin reappears, shoots Bond repeatedly, and infects him and himself by breaking a vial containing nanobots programmed to kill Madeleine and Mathilde. Bond shoots Safin dead and opens the facility's blast doors to allow the missiles to penetrate it. Seriously wounded and knowing he can never touch Madeleine or Mathilde, Bond radios Madeleine to say goodbye and express his love for her and Mathilde. Madeleine confirms that Mathilde is his daughter, and Bond assures her that he knew all along. Bond is then killed as the missiles destroy the facility. At MI6, M, Moneypenny, Nomi, Q, and Bill Tanner drink to Bond's memory. Driving Mathilde to Gravina, Madeleine begins to tell her about her father, James Bond.
Five years later, SPECTRE agents infiltrate an MI6 laboratory and kidnap the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who secretly works for Safin. They steal Project Heracles, a programmable DNA-targeting nanobot bioweapon developed under M. Now living in Jamaica, Bond is asked by his CIA ally Felix Leiter to extract Obruchev from a SPECTRE party in Cuba. Nomi, Bond's successor as Agent 007, warns him not to interfere with her own extraction of Obruchev. She puts him in contact with M, who refuses to explain Heracles, and soon after, Bond accepts Felix's offer. Bond infiltrates the party with Leiter's Cuban agent, Paloma. Blofeld, overseeing the party from Belmarsh prison through his own bionic eye, deploys a nanobot mist to kill Bond, but the mist kills the SPECTRE members because Obruchev had secretly reprogrammed the nanobots to target them. Bond takes Obruchev aboard a trawler, where Leiter and his associate Logan Ash are waiting. As Bond questions Obruchev about Heracles and Blofeld, Obruchev looks to Ash, exposing him as a co-conspirator. Ash shoots Leiter and traps him with Bond below deck, then triggers explosives to sink the ship as he flees with Obruchev. Bond escapes, but Leiter dies.
Bond seeks to interrogate Blofeld but learns he will only speak to Madeleine, his psychiatrist. Safin coerces Madeleine into infecting herself with a nanobot dose to assassinate Blofeld. MI6 allows Bond to visit Belmarsh with Madeleine, but she is too distressed to face Blofeld. Bond touches Madeleine before she leaves, unknowingly infecting himself with the nanobots. During the interrogation, Blofeld reveals to Bond that he planned the ambush at Vesper's grave to make Bond believe that Madeleine betrayed him. Enraged, Bond briefly strangles Blofeld, who dies shortly afterward from exposure to the nanobots in Bond's bloodstream. Bond reconciles with Madeleine at her childhood home in Norway and meets her young daughter, Mathilde, who Madeleine insists is not Bond's child, despite their resemblance. After Madeleine shares intelligence that her father gathered about Safin and his family's island, Bond realizes that Ash is approaching the house. Ash and his thugs pursue Bond, Mathilde, and Madeleine into a forest, and Bond orders Madeleine and Mathilde to hide. Bond kills Ash and his men, but Safin kidnaps Madeleine and Mathilde.
Q provides Bond and Nomi with a submersible glider to infiltrate Safin's nanobot factory headquarters, from which Safin and Obruchev plan to distribute the nanobots worldwide, potentially killing millions and establishing a new world order. Bond confronts Safin and kills his bodyguards, and Safin flees with Mathilde. Madeleine escapes from Primo and reunites with Bond. The pair finds Mathilde, whom Safin abandoned. Nomi kills Obruchev and escorts Madeleine and Mathilde off the island. Bond convinces M to authorise a missile strike on the island, then kills Primo and Safin's remaining men. Safin reappears, shoots Bond repeatedly, and infects him and himself by breaking a vial containing nanobots programmed to kill Madeleine and Mathilde. Bond shoots Safin dead and opens the facility's blast doors to allow the missiles to penetrate it. Seriously wounded and knowing he can never touch Madeleine or Mathilde, Bond radios Madeleine to say goodbye and express his love for her and Mathilde. Madeleine confirms that Mathilde is his daughter, and Bond assures her that he knew all along. Bond is then killed as the missiles destroy the facility. At MI6, M, Moneypenny, Nomi, Q, and Bill Tanner drink to Bond's memory. Driving Mathilde to Gravina, Madeleine begins to tell her about her father, James Bond.
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