Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series, and the first to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bond’s career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his license to kill. After preventing a terrorist attack at Miami International Airport, Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, the treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs to bankrupt a terrorist financier, Le Chiffre, by beating him in a high-stakes poker game.