GREENE: In euros, as requested.
CARLOS: The dollar isn't what it once was.

At the hotel, Greene attacks Bond with a fire ax, but he's not much of a fighter and nearly chops his own foot off.

Greene reveals everything he knows about Quantum. In exchange, Bond doesn't kill him. Instead, he leaves him in the middle of the desert with a can of motor oil--a not-so-subtle reference to Strawberry Fields' death at the hands of Greene's agents. "I bet you make it 20 miles before you consider drinking that," Bond says as he drives off.

Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira. Yusef is actually a member of Quantum who seduces high-ranking women with valuable connections, getting them to give up government assets as ransom for himself in fake kidnappings where he is supposedly held hostage. He is attempting to do the same with Canadian agent Corinne Veneau, even giving her the same kind of necklace he gave Vesper--an Algerian Love Knot.

M: You'll be glad to know I straightened things out with the Americans. Your friend Leiter's been promoted. He'll replace Beam.
BOND: Well, then the right people kept their jobs.