Bond chases down the man who was interrogating him and learns that he was hired to interrogate the scientist by a man named Pomerov. James manages to head down to the catacombs and heard the scientist reveal codes to a man and is soon killed before Bond could save him.

Posing as professor of the British Museum, James investigates the foreman's office but was already found out and he manages to escape before the trailer was put in the pit. Bond is sent to investigate whether it was the scientist or not. The US Echelon system picks up a cell phone call that pertains to his disappearance that he is alive and the call was made in Istanbul.

In 2010, after stopping a terrorist from destroying a fundraiser, Bond is given a new assignment, a scientist who specializes in biological engineering goes missing, presumed dead as his boat was found capsized in the ocean.