Valerie Mathis | |
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Real Name |
Valerie Mathis |
First Appearance |
Climax! - Casino Royale (1954) |
Original Publisher |
CBS |
Created by |
Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett |
Origin[]
Valerie first appears in the 1954 public domain Casino Royale. An old flame of Jimmy Bond, the pair had originally met in a casino; she being his 'good luck charm' and while professing to love him, by the time of Casino Royale had not written to him in a year. Now an associate of an Soviet intelligence operative Jimmy was after, she accompanies him to the Casino. After a failed attempt on Bond's life, she is sent to dissuade the spy from playing against him at the Baccarat table - knowing that if he loses his masters will most likely kill him. She apparently fails and Bond proceeds to play the following day, despite being threatened by one of the operative's men that they will kill her should he win. Concerned for her safety, Bond has his British associate, Clarence Leiter, watch her. The game goes in the soviet's favor and Bond is cleaned out, however, Mathis secretly provides a further 35,000,000 francs to the spy, enabling him to continue the game and defeat the operative - winning 87,000,000 francs.
The operative corners Bond in his hotel room, bringing Valerie with him; revealing that she is in fact an agent of the French Secret Service, the Deuxième Bureau. She is bound and is forced to watch as the Soviet operative tortures Bond in order to discover the location of the cheque. In a desperate bid to stop them, she discloses that she saw Bond with a screwdriver as she arrived - leading the men to leave them in the bathroom as they search the suite. She helps Bond acquire a razor from a nearby cigarette case and they cut their bonds. They overcome their captors and as Mathis tries to extract the cheque from the operative's pocket, he pulls out one of his razors and holds her hostage. She slips from his grasp as he opens the hotel door and Bond shoots him dead. The pair embrace as the scene ends.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Climax! Season 1 episode 3: Casino Royale (1954)
Notes[]
- The 1954 Casino Royale and by extension all characters that originated from it are public domain.