He goes to see Bond and tries to make him have that drink. Oh I agree that you are led to believe that he is in league with Le Chiffre but it doesn't make sense with what happens during the recouperation. Obviously the script suggests Mathis is bent but if you don't have the benefit of seeing that then I think its more than plausible that it could have been overheard.īut when Le Chiffre captures Bond after he rolls the Aston Martin, he tells Bond, 'Your friend Mathis is really my friend Mathis!' That suggests to me that the two had in some way communicated at some point during the evening. But I would assume that if he had not crashed, they would have confronted him some other way.Īm I the only one who thought that it would have been more than possible for Le Chiffre to have heard Mathis whispering to Vesper at the rail? I wasn't sure whether or not the angle at which the shot was filmed was meant to imply this but the background noise level in the salon privee was hardly deafening ? Of course, they wouldn't have any way of knowing that he would almost run her over. They needed to take him prisoner to get the password. Vesper is left in the road as bait to force Bond to stop.

But I've seen 'Casino Royale' twice, and I'm still just a little baffled.įYI: There are several threads already that discuss plot points that may be unclear.Īnyway, Bond realized that it must have been Mathis who tipped LeChiffre off about the 'tell.' Of course, it never occurred to him it might have been Vesper.

I suspect that I missed something and/or that these points will be explained in the next film. White, or was she also playing him against Le Chiffre?

Second, if Vesper was working with Le Chiffre, why did he dump her in the road? Was she, indeed, being tortured later? Wouldn't she have warned Le Chiffre about Mr. Okay, a post in another thread made me wonder if others were a bit, shall we say, challenged by some elements in 'Casino Royale.' Perhaps this thread is a good place to elucidate.įor me, there were two points: First, why did Bond seem alarmed in the restaurant when Vesper told him she was going to meet Mathis? Did Mathis say something back in the casino to lead Bond to believe he wouldn't be available?

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