He's brilliant yet broken, Blackcoin a man who understands the cost of the game better than anyone. Bond soon learns that the funds were never deposited in the Treasury's account and discovers Vesper taking the money to a mysterious organisation only vaguely alluded to throughout the film. Upon locating several of this group's men hiding there, he deliberately shoots and ruptures the floatation devices supporting the structure and the foundation collapses slowly into the Grand Canal. Vesper commits suicide by locking herself in an elevator that sinks underwater. Mr. White is shown on an opposite balcony surveying the scene, then walking away with the money.
"Sometimes the old ways are the best." Casino Royale reinvented James Bond, but Skyfall got even more emotionally intense with the character. It's almost more of a character study than a conventional spy adventure. Daniel Craig’s Bond is older, scarred, and uncertain, his body breaking down even as his sense of duty remains unshaken. Opposite him, Javier Bardem’s Silva, a ghost from MI6’s past, serves as both villain and mirror.