QWill SPECTRE return to the series?
AYes. In 2014 it was announced that the legal issues surrounding the SPECTRE organization have been resolved, and the 2015 Bond film will feature SPECTRE heavily and is named "Spectre".
QWhen Bond is in the lake at the end, does he fire the flare purely to see which way was up?
ANo. He fires the flare to so that he can see the hole in the ice to escape. Being thick enough to hold a person's weight, it would be virtually impossible to break through by hand from beneath. The hole is there, though somewhat hard to spot. The trick divers and other people who might find themselves disoriented is for knowing which way it is to the surface is to watch bubbles from your exhalations. Whatever direction they travel in is where you find the surface. Bond would likely have gone through scuba training to be an agent & would definitely know that trick, so the flare was just to find the hole in the ice. If you look closely at the scene where the flare travels upward (or if you freeze-frame at that moment) you can see the hole in the ice -- it's slightly difficult to spot, but it's there.
QWhat was with the empty train that comes at Bond through the hole Silva blows in the tunnels under London?
AThe front of the train reads "Not in service". The train is inactive at the time. Silva was using the train to cover his escape from the chamber; he probably didn't intend for the train to kill Bond, it was probably meant to stay lodged in the chamber to thwart anyone who came after him. However, Bond was a bit faster in catching up to Silva, so he witnessed Silva setting off the explosion. If Bond had been crushed by the train, it would've been a bonus in his plan.
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