Skyfall focus on Bond investigating an attack on MI6, the attack is part of a plot by former MI6 operative Raoul Silva to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge against her for betraying him. The story sees the return of two recurring characters to the series after an absence of two films: Q, and Eve Moneypenny. In Istanbul the MI6 agents James Bond and Eve Moneypenny chase a mercenary, Patrice, who has stolen a computer hard drive containing details of undercover agents placed in terrorist organisations by NATO states. Patrice wounds Bond in the shoulder and, as the two men fight atop a train, M, the head of MI6, orders Eve to fire a distant shot with a rifle at Patrice, inadvertently shooting Bond, allowing Patrice to escape. Bond falls into a river and goes missing, presumed to be dead.