"Money is not as important to our organization as knowing who to trust."

- Mr. White, Casino Royale

Quantum is a secret terrorist organization, featured in the films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace (though its name is not revealed until the latter). The leaders of this organization are comprised of a consortium of wealthy industrialists, businessmen, stock brokers, various elite socialites and top echelons of different world governments. According to Daniel Craig they intend to destabalise the worldwide economy so that they can take it over (whether he means the economy or the world is unclear). As such the organization doesn't care who they have to kill or what they have to do in order to succeed.

In order to stay one step ahead from the intelligence/law enforcement community, Quantum has hundreds of sleeper agents and moles within various intelligence/law enforcement agencies providing the organization with top secret intelligence and killing witnesses/captured members. To further remain in the shadows Quantum employs individual terrorists/terrorist groups, assassins, mercenaries, organized crime syndicates, as well as corrupt government officials to carry out the organizations' bidding without implicating them. Their existence is not public knowledge, in contrast to most terrorist groups whose existence and goals are widely publicized.

The organisation fills in for SMERSH from the Casino Royale novel. Their name derives from the "Quantum of Solace" short story published in For Your Eyes Only, which was also used as the film's title to represent Bond's emotional turmoil.

In Casino Royale, Quantum is featured in the background but not named; it is represented only through its middleman, Mr. White. The film's main villain, Le Chiffre, is a private banker for international terrorists with connections to the organisation. At the beginning of the movie, Mr. White introduces Le Chiffre to Steven Obanno, a feared leader in the Lord's Resistance Army, who entrusts him with his money. Le Chiffre then loses the money while playing the stock market; Mr. White hears of this and executes him towards the end of the movie, stating Quantum's philosophy that "money's not as valuable to our organisation as knowing who to trust."

However, the events in the movie alert the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 to Quantum's existence. One of the organisation's moles inside the British government, Vesper Lynd, falls in love with Bond and gives him information on Mr. White before killing herself. At the end of the movie, Bond tracks down and captures Mr. White.

Quantum of Solace features Bond tracking down the mysterious organisation based on information extracted from Mr. White; this time he is chasing Dominic Greene, one of the organisation's leaders. Greene plans to restore an exiled Bolivian dictator, General Medrano, to power, in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land which will allow Quantum access to the nation's water supply.

Known MembersEdit

• Le Chiffre (deceased)
• Dominic Greene (deceased)
• Mr. White
• Grigor Karkaroff
• Guy Haines
• Unnamed blonde woman
• Unnamed Middle Eastern woman
• Unnamed middle-aged man
• Yusef Kabira (arrested)
• Hundreds of heavily armed men, sleeper agents, and moles.