He escapes, and Bond narrowly gets away with M before Silva can kill her. Bond catches Silva, but Silva reveals he wanted to be captured to get him close to M. He reveals that he is a former MI6 agent, betrayed by M, who now engages in cyberterrorism. He encounters Silva, who is living on a deserted island off the coast, the man who holds the hard drive with the names of the undercover agents. Yet when he finds a casino chip in the thief's pocket, he goes to Macau to track down who paid the man. He tracks the man to China, but kills him before he can find out his employer.
Bond is given instructions to hunt down the man who stole the hard drive from them, find out who he works for, and kill him. Bond is not ready to be cleared for active duty, physically or mentally, but M waives the paperwork and clears him to hunt down who attacked them on their home turf. However, when a cyberterrorist hacks into MI6's computers and blows up MI6's offices, Bond comes back to England to visit his boss and mother figure, M. Bond, presumed dead, retires to a remote island location. Bond is about to catch the thief, but Moneypenny accidentally shoots Bond, allowing the thief to escape. James Bond and Miss Moneypenny are in pursuit of a man who stole a computer drive with the names and locations of MI6's undercover secret agents around the globe.
