New James Bond Script leaked [2]

The scene: M's office, MI6 HQ, London, Britain.

Enter JAMES BOND
Bond: You wanted to see me, M?
M: Yes, come in and sit down, Bond. Something has come up. An old adversary of yours.
Bond (Sitting and pouring himself a large tumbler of booze): An old adversary, M?
M: Yes, Bond. (She holds up a grainy photograph)
Bond: Goldfinger! But he's -
M: Dead, yes, we thought so.
Bond: Last time I saw him he was falling out of an aeroplane at 10,000 feet...amazing. But...
M: Yes?
Bond: Goldfinger was just a gold smuggler. I never really understood why we picked up on him. Gold smuggling isn't really a case for the secret service is it, M?
M: It wasn't that simple. Back in the 1950s and 60s, the British and American governments operated the London Gold Pool; a cartel designed to artificially supress the price of gold and so inflate the value of the pound and dollar. Goldfinger was buying gold cheaply in London and selling it more expensively in India. That damaged the value of the pound, Bond. Goldfinger would have had to go even without the Fort Knox nonsense.
Bond: So he's smuggling gold again?
M: No, Bond. This time he's attacking currency values in a far more insidious fashion. He's been shorting the Euro.
Bond: Is that bad?
M: Of course it is, why do you ask?
Bond: (Holds up his iphone with a flickering price chart on the screen) Because I'm shorting the Euro as well, M. It's down ten points this morning.
M: For God's sake, Bond. Moneypenny! Did you hear that? Bond is shorting the Euro!
Moneypenny (Across the office, turning her monitor so you can see a price chart on it): Er...actually, boss, so am I? It's down ten points this morning. It's paid for my skiing holiday!
M: Oh, this just gets worse! I need to talk to someone sensible. Get me Felix Leiter at the CIA on line one.
Moneypenny: He called you a few minutes ago, ma'am. He's holding now. I'll put him through.
M: Felix?
Felix (On speakerphone): Ah! M! Great! I've been wanting to talk to you. Our bugging operation in Brussels has revealed the EU negotiations have broken down again. All the guys in the office have gone short on the Euro/USD index and I was going to suggest you do too. £1000 a point should buy you a new car.
M: For the love of...! All right, Bond, forget about Goldfinger.
Bond: Can I make a suggestion, Ma'am?
M: Go ahead.
Bond: As the pound is struggling internationally at the moment, why don't we do the same again? Prop up it's value with gold?
M: We can't, Bond. Gordon Brown sold it all.
Bond: Oh. Um. Maybe you'd like me to kill him instead?
M: Actually, Bond, that's the best idea I've heard all day.

Titles.