In the penultimate issue of the arc we see drastic actions by Bond, including his apparent resignation from MI6. Or do we? 007 #5 offers the twist you’ve been waiting for explaining both Bond’s endgame with Nassar and his role with helping Myrmidon (or not so much helping, but delivering them into the clutches of the authorities).
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Looking for answers, Bond begins working for Myrmidon with his first assignment stealing secure information from the British Government. Seducing a young woman at MI5 for access and then breaking into a secret government server room, Bond looks for answers about Gwendolyn Gann and for what his government is doing in bed with a terrorist and dictator.
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The struggle with a concept like Bond goes over to the other side is laying out a situation where such a turn could seem plausible under the right circumstances. The third issue of 007 offers flashbacks to a blown mission involving dictator Mahmoud Nassar which Bond and Gwendolyn Gann manage to salvage and then tying that directly into Bond meeting the head of Myrmidon – Sebastian Fromm.
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Beginning with a funeral followed by a wake of fellow 00 members of MI6, 007 #2 continues to flesh out who the recently deceased 003 Gwendolyn Gann was. The early sequences offer more flashes of the agent’s past before Bond has a conversation with M about what 003 was working on for M16 investigating a private organization recruiting top-level intelligence assets from around the world working for an agency without any allegiances drawn on a map.
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A new volume of James Bond begins with a mission gone wrong. Although Bond isn’t responsible for the bad intel that led to the death of a key asset and nearly got Bond killed as well, returning to MI6 bruised, battered, and shot, he discovers the blame is being laid at his feet making the world’s most famous spy think twice about his life.
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