Moments after the end of Casino Royale, James Bond is driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his Aston Martin DBS V12. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding Quantum, the mysterious organization he works for.

Mr. White boasts "the first thing you should know about us ... is that we have people everywhere." He's proven right almost instantly as M's personal bodyguard, Mitchell, is revealed to be a double agent and a traitor, attacking Bond and allowing White to escape.

He finds a gun and a photo of the woman Slate has been hired to kill--Camille Montes.

Universal Exports is a fictional import-export company which acts as a cover for the British Secret Service. Once Greene's bodyguard calls the number on the card, Bond is able to track his movements.

Greene offers to help the Bolivian general Luiz Medrano overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

Greene has Camille escorted aboard Medrano's boat to "sweeten" their deal, but Bond rescues her.

Bond's boat has 'Gardien des Etoiles' written on the side, meaning 'guardian of the stars' in French. Although it's painted to look like an old, battered home-made fishing boat, it's actually an aluminum jet boat with a much more powerful engine.

Greene Planet is supposedly devoted to buying up large sums of land for ecological preservation but is merely a front for Quantum activity.

A high-ranking intelligence operative working for the CIA, Gregg Beam negotiates a deal with Dominic Greene to ignore his coup in Bolivia in exchange for oil, which the section chief assumes Greene has discovered. When Green asks him to get rid of Bond, Beam says, "Yeah. That's not gonna be a problem."

Bond tracks Greene to a performance of the opera Tosca in Austria. After killing a Quantum member and stealing his earpiece, Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting and identifies members of Quantum's executive board.