Maria (Risico)

Maria is based on fictional character of Raymond Benson's James Bond novel High Time To Kil. In the 2013 version she is played by Elodie Yung. Her character name was changed from the original, Helena Marksbury. The new name was taken from the short story 'The Property of a Lady', but the full name is not learnt till 'Bond 25'.

Film biography
Risico

Maria is introduced early on in the film, where she and Bond attend a party, where a governer is assassinated. Maria let's Bond go after the assassin whilst Maria helps out the party guests. We then learn that Bond and Maria are sexually involved before Bond is sent out on his mission. Unknown by Bond, Maria is secretly working for Quantum to try and stop Bond from getting closer to stopping them, so she tells Quantum where Bond will be and where to find him. Bond survives.

After Bond with Marquis and a exhibition team find the microfilm, her job is done as Marquis planned to kill Bond as soon as it was located and is to be paid by Quantum for her efforts.



Unbenowest to Quantum and Maria, Bond has stopped and killed Marquis and has retrieved the microfilm himself. Maria thinking Bond is dead calls Marquis to ask about the transition. But Bond finds the phone and sees Maria is calling the phone. Maria then attends a auction at Sotheby's where a item under her name is sold for a lot of money and is transfered into her account, where she doesn't know Bond is keeping an eye on her. Booking into a posh hotel, Maria then transfers the half a million euros to various accounts so she cannot be traced. She then gets a phone call from 'Marquis' but when she answers it, it is Bond. She reveals that she was the mole who told them of Bond's mission and that the jobs done and she's been paid. Bond then tells it won't last for long and the job isn't done with Quantum. He ends with "No loose ends." and hangs up.  Bond 25

Maria returns in the pre-title sequence, where Bond goes to the hotel room, sent by MI6 to track her down and question her. He goes to her bedroom to find she is dead. She has been killed by Quantum due to her failure of the mission, even though even if she were successful, she probably still would have been killed. Her death is used as a plan to hurt the British government and damage MI6's credibility by making her involvement in the plot as a hole in the security of MI6 and shouldn't be trusted to keep the country safe. Bond also learns her full name which is 'Maria Freudenstein'.