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Daniel Craig has one last crack at it, that is one last outing as James Bond in the movie, No Time to Die. There is an expression: "If you are going to go out, go out with a bang," and Daniel Craig certainly did that in his final movie as James Bond. In the US Opening weekend in October 2021, No Time to Die debuted at $56 million in ticket sales. Source: Variety

Box Office Statistic: As of 17 November 2021, No Time to Die also broke a box office record for being a top grossing movie worldwide, with also the lowest grossing domestically. It  earned over $700 million ticket sales worldwide, with only $150 million in domestic ticket sales. Source: Forbes

This post will explain in detail how it ends Daniel Craig's version of James Bond. Lea Seydoux returns as Madeleine Swann from the previous Bond movie, Spectre, as James Bond's love interest.

The following blog post contains movie spoilers that will reveal the secret mysteries contained within the movie No Time to Die. Stop reading now if you do not want the movie to be spoiled.

James Bond: No Time to Die Synopsis

Norway: The film begins in Norway, where Madeleine is a child at her family home. Her mother is an alcoholic, and Madeleine is her servant at home to refill her mother's wine. Madeleine's father is away. A mysterious figure in a porcelain mask steps out from the woods and begins walking toward their home in the snow. Madeleine and her mother are unaware of this figure looming closer to their home, until he is peering into their family room. Madeleine screams and runs to a room that appears to be a safe room. She inputs a code over and over but it doesn't work. The shadowy figure in a white mask is now entering their home. Madeleine goes to hide, but her mother is unprotected on the couch and the man shoots her with his automatic weapon, after revealing that "He [her husband a.k.a. Mr. White from Spectre] killed his whole family (and we assume that this is his revenge). He then looks for Madeleine. He goes up to her loft, where her bedroom is. He doesn't see her. As he turns to climb down the ladder, her phone beeps on the bed, and Madeleine is hiding under the bed. When he turns to come toward the bed, Madeleine shoots him with a pistol. He falls down to the main floor of the home. Madeleine runs to him and drags his body outside into the snow. The masked man's mask is now broken and a piece from the bottom has shattered to where you can see his scarred face underneath. He gets up like a zombie rising from the dead, and Madeleine runs out to the ice. The man gets up and pursues her onto the ice. The ice begins to crack and weaken. Madeleine falls into the ice and is below a sheet of it. The man walks up to her and points his automatic gun in her direction and begins firing. Instead of killing her, he pulls her out of the freezing water, and the scene ends. This introduction shows the audience the connection and history between Lyutsifer Safin and Madeleine Swann.

Italy: The actress Lea Seydoux returns as adult Madeleine from the previous Bond movie, Spectre, as James Bond's current love interest in present day Italy. She is seen as the movie opens up to Bond and Madeleine on a romantic vacation driving the curvy roads in a classic Aston Martin DB5 in Italy. The next morning, Bond wakes up with one mission on his mind: To visit the grave of Vesper Lynd, the woman he first met and fell in love with in the movie, Casino Royale. But when he visits her tomb, it explodes, leaving Bond on the ground in shell-shock from the explosion. Bad men then begin to pursue him with automatic guns, one in a tinted car, and the other on a motorcycle. Bond evades them by jumping off the side of a stone bridge only holding a rope. Bond evades the bad guys, as always, and returns quickly to his room. He is angry at Madeleine, because he thinks she has given the bad guys his location, and they quickly get into their Aston Martin DB5 and take off. They find themselves surrounded by bad guys in cars. The all fire upon Bond and Madeleine in the Aston Martin. The car is bulletproof, withstanding all of their bullets. Madeleine yells for Bond to do something. He flicks the switches inside the weapons panel and fires mini Gatling guns from inside the cars headlights, and then sprays a smoke cloud and takes off down a side street. They speed off to a train station, where Bond is still upset, so he puts Madeleine on a train and she asks, "When will I see you again?" He replies: "You won't."

5 Years Later...

London: The film then moves 5 years into the future, and dark agents infiltrate a secret MI6 laboratory, and steal an MI6 scientist Valdo Obruchev that is very familiar with "Project Heracles" - which uses nanobots to target specific DNA in individuals. First they must be touched with someone that has nanobots inside them, and then the 2nd part is that a specific reactive agent, such as a perfume or gas triggers the nanobots to kill the person. The dark agents leave the MI6 facility with the scientist Valdo, and leaving no witnesses. M finds out about this breech of their top secret facility and quickly wants to label the incursion as a gas leak to cover it up.

Meanwhile, James Bond is living inconspicuously off the grid in Jamaica. His friend from the CIA, Felix Leiter shows up in town with another new agent Logan Ash to recruit Bond for a mission in Cuba. But first, Bond meets a new 00 agent in Jamaica, named Nomi, and she informs him that she is now 007. 

Cuba: The next day, Bond agrees to help the CIA, and Felix has Bond meet up in Santiago, Cuba with a relatively new field recruit, Paloma, played by actress Anna de Armas. Bond suits up in his classic tuxedo and they go to a Black tie event, looking for a missing Russian scientist. What they find out that this party is the members of the organization Spectre, along with saboteurs that have scientist Valdo preparing a gaseous chemical into the ventilation system. As the lead badguy holds up a bionic eye, the ringleader of Spectre organization, Blofield watches on from his cell in Belmarsh. As the eye pans around the room, Blofield identifies James Bond, and the members of Spectre organization circle around Bond. They release the gas into the room, directly above James Bond, and everyone thinks it will only kill James Bond. But scientist Valdo reverse engineered the gas to only identify and kill the Spectre organization, who are now all dead. A gunfight begins, and Nomi grabs Valdo from the party and leaves through a grappling gun in the rooftop window. Bond and Paloma have a quick drink after Paloma takes out many bad guys, and they get into a car. They spot Valdo, and grab him from Nomi, and get away, leaving Nomi alone in a standoff with police. She also gets away. 

Bond boards an pontoon airplane with scientist Valdo at the dock and flies to a special ship positioned out at sea. Felix and Logan are on board the ship waiting for the drop off. Bond brings Valdo and begins to question him in front of Felix and Logan. Logan begins to interfere with the interrogation, because he doesn't want Valdo to give away details about their boss, Lyutsifer Safin, and his plans. Logan Ash gets squirrelly and starts fighting with Bond, and it ends with Felix being mortally shot in the stomach. Logan Ash sets explosives on the ship, and flies off with scientist Valdo to their real employer, Safin, blowing the explosives with Bond and Felix inside. Felix does not survive this scene. Bond finds a life boat, and is rescued by MI6.

London: Bond is back in London, at the MI6 headquarters, to speak to M. M informs Bond that he has been missing for 5 years, so they assumed he was dead, so they gave his 00 title to Nomi as his replacement. Bond leaves MI6 Headquarters dejected by M, but Moneypenny wants him to take his flash drive taken from Valdo to Q after hours to see what is on it. The data turns out was stolen by Valdo the night the secret laboratory was broken into, and it contains the DNA codes for thousands or more individuals, and has ramifications that Safin's group is created a biological weapon of mass destruction with Project Heracles.

M tasks the new 007 with confronting Blofield in his cell in Belmarsh. It is said that Blofield will only speak to his psychiatrist, which is Madeleine Swann. So this is all setting up for James Bond to reunite with his love interest from 5 years prior. Before going to see Blofield, Safin makes a request to Madeleine that she must return the favor to him, by killing Blofield in Belmarsh by wearing a DNA targeting perfume. She reluctantly agrees.

Next we see Bond, Nomi meeting with Madeleine at Belmarsh. They are unaware that Madeleine is tasked with killing Blofield. She doesn't want to go in there. She is so nervous she is shaking, and Bond notices this. Inside, she wants to back out and leave. Bond grabs her arm in the process and gets the lethal perfume on his hand. Madeleine leaves, and Bond begins to talk to Blofield. Blofield informs Bond that he has been shortsighted, and Madeleine still loves him. Blofield doesn't want to give up more information. Bond begins to choke him with the hand with the lethal perfume, and Blofield dies shortly after. 

After talking to Q about what happened, Bond goes to Norway to Madeleine's home to look for her. He finds her, and is surprised to meet her little girl. Madeleine claims she is not Bond's daughter, but she is. Bond finds out that Logan Ash is nearby, so they get into the SUV and start to head toward a NATO base to rendezvous with MI6. On the way there, Safin's henchmen in Land Rover's chase Bond with his family in the SUV. They end up in a wooded area. Bond exacts his revenge on Logan Ash for the death of Felix Leiter. Safin finds Madeleine and her daughter, and he takes her away to his private island in his helicopter. Bond and Nomi prepare for their mission to infiltrate Safin's island to rescue Madeleine and her daughter, and destroy the dangerous chemical weapons on the island. Q gives bond his Omega EMP watch and injects them both with a technology to watch their vitals. Q gives Nomi a cylindrical device called the Q-dar to map out Safin's base.

Safin's Island: Bond and Nomi get into a drone-like plane and Nomi is piloting, but admits she has never flown one before. They shoot out of the British plane and the wings spread open. They glide for a bit, and then they take a dive into the ocean, and the plane turns into a submersible, like a torpedo. They enter Safin's base in an old submarine bay. They get out and enter the base, using Bomd's EMP watch to short the electronic keypad. The guards think it is a malfunctioning system. Nomi uses the Q-dar to map the base for Q so he can guide them with his communication.

Bond and Nomi observe the chemical pools in the lower chamber. Workers are wearing special suits to work in the chemical pools to make the poison. Bond and Nomi make their way to the scientist area, and find Valdo and he constantly reminds them that their efforts are in vain, until Nomi breaks his nose with the butt of her automatic gun. Nomi takes Valdo, while Bond goes to find Madeleine and daughter. Bond goes to the upper main chamber where Safin is waiting for him with armed guards and Madeleine's daughter. Bond sees that he is outnumbered, so he lays down his automatic rifle and pistol and sits across from Safin at his request. Safin begins negotiations. He tells Bond that Bond can take Madeleine's daughter and leave the island safely, but Bond must leave Madeleine. Bond pretends that he will agree to that as he lays low. He is secretly managing to access a gun he has hidden within a pocket on his chest. He shots all 4 guards but Safin uses a trap door in the floor to get away with Madeleine's daughter. Madeleine's finally makes her way into the room, and Bond tells her what happened. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter is not going with Safrin peacefully. So he puts her down to wander the lair on her own, while Safrin appears to be leaving.

Bond and Madeleine find their daughter, and she is fine. Nomi killed Valdo after he threatens to wipe out her race. She pushes him off a foot bridge into the toxic chemical pool. Nomi, Bond, Madeleine, and their daughter get aboard a small boat. Bond then says he has to finish the mission and open the blast doors. Madeleine tries to stop him. Bond assures that to get to safety and he will be right behind them. They leave in the boat and Bond makes his way up the stairs to the control room to release the blast doors. He encounters henchmen along the way and gets another grenade blast, causing disorientation. He faces off and kills Safin's top hench man with the electronic eye. He gets the blast doors to open then tells Q and those listening to go ahead and launch the missiles from the British fleet. They launch the missiles and Bond heads down quickly. As he is going down, he hears the blast doors closing again. As he is making his way up again, he meets Safin in the poison garden, and Safin shoots him at least 4 times. They fight in the fountain, and Safin breaks open his vial of Madeleine's DNA and touches Bond with it. He tells Bond that he can never touch Madeleine or her daughter again, or they will die. Bond kills Safin in the fountain, and makes his way up and opens the blast doors again. He then asks to speak to Madeleine on the radio. She Guesses that he is mortally wounded and will not make it out, and that he has been poisoned. They have their goodbyes as he admits his love for them, and missiles rain down on James Bond. He looks on as he is blown up in the destruction of Safin's island base.

For Bond fans out there, don't lose hope. In the post-credits, it says, "James Bond will return."

Deaths in No Time to Die

How does James Bond die in No Time to Die?

The biggest question most people want to know: How does James Bond die in No Time to Die?

How does James Bond Die?

James Bond is killed by the surface to land missiles launched by the British ship.

How does Lyutsifer Safin die in No Time to Die?

Lyutsifer Safin is shot to death by James Bond.

How does Felix Leiter die in No Time to Die?

Logan Ash shoots Felix in the stomach, mortally wounding him, and James Bond tries to save Felix in the drowning ship, but can't.

How does Logan Ash die in No Time to Die?

James Bond pushes a Land Rover onto Logan Ash, crushing him.

How does Valdo Obruchev die in No Time to Die?

After Valdo hints that her entire race could be killed off with a chemical weapon,  Nomi hits Valdo Obruchev backwards from a foot bridge into the toxic chemicals below.

Popular questions people want to know:

• Did James Bond die?  Yes, this version of James Bond dies in No Time to Die
• Is this the last James Bond movie? For Daniel Craig, this is his last movie as James Bond.
• Will there be more James Bond movies? Yes
• Is James Bond replaced by a woman? In this movie, the title "007" is given to Nomi in James Bond's absence. She gives the title back to him in the final mission of the movie.