Camille Montes

Lore & Background

Camille first meets James Bond in Haiti, where she intends to assassinate General Luiz Medrano. To get close to him, she sleeps with Dominic Greene, a member of Quantum, but Greene soon grows suspicious and plots her death. Camille arranges a meeting with a geologist selling classified information detrimental to Greene's front company, Greene Planet. However, Greene has hired assassin Edmund Slate to pose as the geologist and kill Camille. Bond intercepts and eliminates Slate, taking his suitcase without knowing its contents. When Camille sees Bond with the suitcase and he unintentionally reveals Slate's gun and documents, she mistakenly believes he is the geologist sent to kill her. She tries to shoot him and escapes, only to later discover Greene's betrayal, prompting Bond to rescue her.

In Their Own Story

Together, Camille and Bond pursue Greene and Medrano. After a boat chase in Haiti where Camille is knocked unconscious, Bond leaves briefly to follow Greene to Austria, tracking him to a performance of Tosca. Camille soon appears at Greene's formal fundraising party to ruin it. When Greene attempts to push her from a balcony, Bond saves her life again. He intervenes and takes her away, using MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields as a distraction to prevent Greene's associate from following them; this costs Fields her life. Camille watches Bond kill Bolivian police officers in revenge for murdering his friend René Mathis. The pair then track the villains to a desert eco-hotel. While Bond fights Greene and his men, Camille faces Medrano, who attempts to rape and kill her. She gains the advantage and eliminates the dictator with a single shot to the head. Amidst the collapsing hotel, Bond protects her from fire and assists her escape.

Reader's Guide

Camille's journey concludes as Bond leaves Greene stranded in the desert and drives Camille to a train station for her journey home. Before parting ways, they share a brief kiss, and she wishes Bond success in overcoming his challenges. Barbara Broccoli stated an intention for Camille to return for Skyfall or a future film, but the character did not appear in Skyfall, Spectre, or No Time to Die. Reception of the character varies; Laureen Gibson argued that Montes is arguably a female version of Bond rather than a Bond girl, noting her mission was accomplished first and she does not have sex with Bond. Conversely, Roger Ebert compared her unfavorably to more colorful past characters like Pussy Galore, Xenia Onatopp, and Plenty O'Toole.

Did You Know?

• Camille is a Bolivian national, not Colombian as some summaries suggest.
• She sleeps with Dominic Greene to get close to General Medrano but does not sleep with James Bond.
• Her final act against the dictator is a single shot to the head after he attempts to rape and kill her.
• Barbara Broccoli intended for Camille to appear in Skyfall, but she did not make it into that film or any subsequent entries.
• Camille mistakenly tries to shoot Bond because he opens a suitcase containing an assassin's gun, leading her to believe he is the target sent to kill her.