Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. In this episode, the writers have gone on strike and left us to join the dots of this chase-heavy movie. Join us as we try to flounder our way through “Quantum of Solace”.

* The pre-titles sequence has Bond avoiding pineapple trucks as he chauffeurs Mr White to Siena. Another rocking title track takes us into a terrific terracotta rooftop race before Bond squeezes off a shot while swinging from some scaffolding.* Bond heads to Haiti to smash up a hotel room and kill yet another source of information. Camille picks him up on her way to meet Dominic. Bond steals a boat and kidnaps Camille before asking M to dig deep into Dominic. She asks the CIA for information, but the Americans are in cahoots with Quantum!* Mr White is co-ordinating Quantum during an Austrian opera, but Bond is taking the minutes of this meeting. James adjourns the meeting and kills yet another source of information. M has had enough, and cancels Bond’s cards to keep him in Austria. * James motorboats across the Mediterranean to visit the villa Mathis earned. Rene is dressed for action, and jumps at the chance to join James in Bolivia. On the Virgin plane, 007 downs six vespers. Agent Fields has been sent to Bolivia to help James find the hotel stationery before Dominic’s party. * Camille is asking to be thrown off a balcony, but Bond arrives just in time. Leaving Fields alone at the party, James drives off with Camille. Police pull them over and frame James for the murder of Mathis. Bond leaves his dear friend in a dumpster, but not before stealing his money.* James and Camille somehow swap a car for a plane so they can fly over Dominic’s desert. A couple of jets join them for a dogfight, forcing a skydive into a sinkhole - where Dominic’s dammed water pushes the plot forward. After walking all the way back to town, Bond finds oil-fields in his hotel room.* Bond invites Felix for a drink, but the beers turn into shots. Dominic has headed to his desert hotel, so James and Camille have a quick chat about vengeance-killing. They burn down the hotel and avenge Camille’s family.* Bond leaves Dominic stranded in the desert with just a bottle of oil, then leaves Camille stranded at some train station with just a kiss. James finally avenges Vesper, and then tells M how he really feels.

And of course, keep checking back for a link to our petition to have Mathis’s body repatriated to his villa!