M: My late husband was a great lover of poetry. And I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. And here today I remember this, I think from Tennyson: "We are not now that strength, which in old days moved earth and heaven. That which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.

After exchanging M's car for his own Aston Martin DB5, Bond drives her to his empty and remote childhood home in Scotland.

Skyfall Lodge was the ancestral home of the Bond family prior to the untimely deaths of 007's parents, after which it fell into disuse.

Kincade has been the gamekeeper at Skyfall Lodge since James was a boy.

M: Priest's hole?
KINCADE: Yeah, from Reformation times. The tunnel leads under the moor. If you get in danger, this is the place to come. The night I told him his parents had died, he hid in here for two days. When he did come out ... he wasn't a boy anymore.

Speakers on Silva's helicopter blare a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom", performed by The Animals.

In the Skyfall cemetery there is a tombstone marked: "In memory of Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond"

M succumbs to her wounds in the Skyfall chapel. Silva finds the location appropriate saying, "Of course. It had to be here. It had to be this way."

Finding Silva with M, Bond hurls his father's old combat knife into Silva's back, declaring himself the "last rat standing".

As she dies in Bond's arms, M says, "I did get one thing right," referring to her decision to reinstate him as an agent.