2006's "Casino Royale" opens with a black and white sequence that depicts on-screen, for the very first time, a pre–double-o James Bond. Daniel Craig's spy has yet to earn his license to kill, but in the film's opening sequence, he manages to rack up the requisite kill count to finally earn the distinction.

In Prague, Bond breaks into the office of traitorous MI6 agent Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair), who immediately taunts Craig's spy, revealing that he's aware Bond is yet to gain his license to kill. "Your file shows no kills," he says, "and it takes..." before Bond interrupts with, "Two." We're then shown a brief flashback in which Bond kills Dryden's contact after a bathroom brawl, revealing that he's already dispatched one of the two people he needs in order to become a double-o agent. Dryden then begins to say how easy the second kill is compared to the first,...