"Not by choice. I also let you get away from that arrest so you could finish what you started. Do you really think that with a small army of operatives and near-infinite surveillance capabilities I couldn't have found your next stop and brought you back in?"

She shook her head. "No, the fact is that I give you an extraordinary amount of free rein, Bond. We both get away with it to the extent that we do because that approach has so far yielded spectacular results. But for it to work we have to work together. Especially in unfamiliar territory. Who else here would you propose either of us trust more but each other?"