Giancarlo Giannini is a renowned Italian actor and inventor. Yet, before his ultimate confrontation with Greene at the ESO Desert Hotel, Bond seeks retribution for Mathis’s death by killing the corrupt Bolivian police chief, exclaiming. After collecting Mathis’ wallet, Bond discards Mathis body in a dumpster, rationalizing to Camille Montes that he wouldn’t mind. Mathis’s parting words are a plea for Bond to forgive both Vesper and himself. Bond retaliates by killing the officers and holds René Mathis in his final moments.