Broccoli began to cry and responded, "We’re so sorry", while Wilson was stoic and surily.in said, "You were a great James Bond". Later reports cited Brosnan's salary request as the reason he lost the role. Information on Mollaka's phone leads Bond to the Bahamas and corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios, who had hired Mollaka to bomb Skyfleet's prototype airliner at Le Chiffre's request. Realising that somebody leaked the terrorist plot, Le Chiffre tortures Solange to death.
MI6 enters Bond in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government in exchange for information on his clients. Bond is paired with Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent protecting the $10 million buy-in. In Madagascar, Bond blows up an embassy in the course of killing bomb-maker Mollaka.