| “ | We can hardly be expected to stop a coup we know nothing about. | „ |
| ~ Beam signaling his allegiance to Dominic Greene. |
Gregory Unwood "Gregg" Beam is a major antagonist of the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He is a corrupt CIA official who is in league with Dominic Greene of the terrorist group Quantum.
He was portrayed by David Harbour, who also played Frank Scanlon in The Green Hornet, Paul Devildis in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ray in A Walk Among the Tombstones, Jay Carlin in Law & Order, and Terry Jessup in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
History[]
Beam is the CIA's Section Chief for South America, and the immediate superior of James Bond's friend and ally, Felix Leiter.
Beam is secretly in league with Dominic Greene, a member of the terrorist group Quantum. He meets with Greene in the latter's private jet, along with Leiter and Greene's henchman Elvis. Greene details his plot to help Luiz Medrano overthrow the Bolivian government in exchange of receiving a portion of the land for its natural resources. Greene offers to give Beam a percentage of oil in exchange for ignoring Quantum's affairs with Bolivia, a deal that Beam happily accepts.
Greene also mentions that he has a "pest" that he would like to have eliminated as part of the deal. He shows Beam and Leiter a picture of MI6 agent James Bond, and Beam orders Bond to be killed. However, Leiter manages to warn Bond, who escapes from being killed by Beam's soldiers.
Eventually, Beam is exposed for his crimes following the deaths of Greene and Medrano and the dismantling of Quantum. At the end of the film, M tells Bond that Beam has been arrested and taken into custody, while Leiter has taken over his job.
Eventually, Bond learns that Quantum was just a front for terrorist mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld's terrorist organization SPECTRE, meaning that Beam, along with Greene and Medrano, were working for Blofeld the entire time.
Trivia[]
- Beam is one of the three villains in the rebooted 007 series to be arrested, the others being Leo and Yusef Kabira.
