 Desperate to recover the money , Le Chiffre kidnaps Lynd and subjects Bond to brutal torture , threatening to kill them both if he does not get the money back . During the torture session , a SMERSH assassin enters and kills Le Chiffre as punishment for losing the money . The agent does not kill Bond , saying that he has no orders to do so , but cuts a Cyrillic ' Ш ' ( sh ) to signify the SHpion ( Russian for spy ) into Bond 's hand so that future SMERSH agents will be able to identify him as such . 
