At MI6 headquarters in London, Bond returns the money to a wealthy man named Sir Robert King who read law with M at Oxford.

Bond is offered a Romeo Y Julieta Churchill cigar by the Swiss banker, but saves it for Moneypenny. "I thought you might enjoy one of these," he says upon his return to MI6. "How romantic. I know exactly where to put one of these," Moneypenny replies, in a not-so-subtle reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and then tosses it in the garbage.

She commandeers a hot-air balloon and floats upward, with Bond hanging on to one of the anchor ropes. Bond offers her protection, but she says no one can protect her from "him" and blows up the balloon, killing herself.

Garbage drummer and co-producer Butch Vig said of the original recording, "We're pretty pleased with how it turned out. To Garbage fans, it sounds like a Garbage song. And to Bond fans, it's a Bond song."

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sir Hilary Bray traces Bond's genealogy to Sir Thomas Bond, Baronet of Peckham, who's coat of arms contains the motto: "Orbis Non Sufficit" which translates as "The World is Not Enough".

When MI6 temporarily relocates to the Scottish Highlands, Q experiments with machine gun/flamethrower bagpipes. "I suppose we all have to pay the piper sometime," Bond quips. To which Q replies, "Oh, pipe down, 007."

As Q's trainee R explains, the car comes with "the very latest in intercepts and counter measures. Titanium armor, a multi-tasking heads-up display, and six beverage cup holders. All in all, rather stocked."

When Bond discovers that the money he recovered for Robert King is exactly equal to $5 million ransom, he realizes that King's death was more than a simple terror attack. It was a message.

Elektra is missing her right earlobe, which she claims was cut off by her abductors.

Following an earlier attempt on his life by MI6 agent 009, Renard was left with a bullet in his brain, which is gradually destroying his senses, making him immune to pain until he dies.