The movie begins immediately after Bourne apologizes to Neski's
daughter. Wounded from the Bourne Supremacy car chase, Jason Bourne is still
evading the Moscow police. Cornered by two officers while breaking into a medical
clinic to treat his wounds, Bourne overpowers the officers and leaves them alive
as he escapes, saying his argument is not with them.
The story continues six weeks later as Simon Ross, a security reporter for
The Guardian, meets with Neal Daniels, a CIA station chief stationed in Madrid,
to discuss Treadstone and looking for information on Jason Bourne. Bourne
goes to Paris to tell Marie's brother Martin of her death, then heads to London
by train and reads an article in The Guardian where Ross describes Jason Bourne
as a CIA officer. Bourne arranges to meet Ross in London at Waterloo Station.
Ross, however, is under surveillance because his use of the word "Operation
Blackbriar" in a phone call to his editor was tracked by ECHELON, alerting
the CIA. CIA section chief Noah Vosen alerts his staff to find out any information
on Ross, believing that Operation Blackbriar (a renamed Treadstone proposed
by Ward Abbott at the end of The Bourne Identity) has been compromised. After
receiving a phone call from Bourne, Ross takes a taxi to Waterloo Station
and is followed by the CIA, who believe him to be meeting his source there.
At the station, Bourne sees CIA officers following Ross and places a prepaid
mobile phone on him; through it, Bourne instructs the frightened journalist
on how to dodge the station's surveillance, while knocking out the CIA agents
attempting to kidnap Ross. However, Vosen orders their asset, an assassin
named Paz, to kill Ross and his source. Vosen's team identifies Bourne on
a security camera and recognize him as the original Treadstone assassin, assuming
he must be Ross's source. Bourne advises Ross to remain hidden, but Ross panics
and reveals himself, giving Paz a clear kill shot. In the ensuing chaos, Bourne
steals Ross's notes from his body; the notes reveal Ross' source to be Daniels.
Deputy Director Pamela Landy is asked to help capture Bourne. With Landy's
help, Vosen and his team realize that Daniels is Ross' source. They decide
to send a team to Daniels' office in Madrid, but Bourne arrives first, finding
only one photograph in the otherwise empty safe. Bourne attacks the CIA team
when they enter the office. Just as Bourne finishes mopping up the CIA agents,
Nicky Parsons enters the office. Nicky tells him that she was reassigned to
Madrid after Berlin, and that Daniels fled to Tangier. She helps him escape
the CIA reinforcements by telling Vosen that Bourne had already left the office.
Bourne calls the police to report the sound of gunfighting; they arrive just
as the second CIA team piles out of their vehicles, guns drawn, in front of
the office. When Bourne asks Nicky why she is helping him, Nicky only hints
vaguely at something before Bourne's amnesia ("It was difficult for me...
with you.(long pause) You really don't remember anything?"). While in
Tangier, they realize the CIA has sent assassin Desh Bouksani for Daniels.
Nicky uses her official clearance access to send Desh a message, telling him
to meet her for a new phone. This allows Bourne to follow Desh to his target.
When Vosen realizes Nicky's deceit he orders Desh to kill Nicky and Bourne
after terminating Daniels. Landy is outraged at Vosen's willingness to indiscriminately
kill CIA personnel and quits the operation.
Bourne shortly before confronting Desh in Tangier.Bourne follows Desh and
is unable to save Daniels, who dies from Desh's planted bomb. When Desh returns
for Nicky, Bourne outruns the Tangier police and fights Desh, eventually strangling
him with a towel. Bourne accompanies Nicky to a bus station where she begins
her own separate life on the run from the CIA. At the Tangier morgue, Bourne
examines Daniels' charred papers and finds the address of the CIA substation
in New York City. Bourne takes a flight to New York City, and on arrival deliberately
uses a passport that alerts Landy to his presence. Bourne calls Landy while
observing her and Vosen from across the street. The ending of The Bourne Supremacy
is repeated: Landy tells him his real name is David Webb and that he was born
on "4/15/71", a code for the address of the Treadstone facility
at 415 East 71st Street. Bourne sends a text message to Landy to arrange a
meeting. Vosen and his team intercept the message and follow Landy as she
leaves the building. Bourne's meeting is later found to be a diversion, allowing
Bourne to enter Vosen's office and steal classified Blackbriar documents.
Vosen realizes the diversion after a phone call from Bourne, who called Vosen
to get a recording of his voice - the key to unlocking the safe. Bourne states
he is in Vosen's office, and a desperate Vosen frantically orders CIA officers
back to his office to capture Bourne. Bourne escapes and enters into a car
chase with CIA officers and Paz; emerging victorious from his vehicular duel
with Paz, Bourne chooses not to kill him. Just outside the facility, Bourne
meets Landy and gives her the stolen documents from Vosen's office before
entering the building. Inside, he meets Dr. Albert Hirsch, who ran Treadstone's
psychological conditioning program. With his help, Bourne remembers that as
Captain David Webb he volunteered for the program. Horrified by the memory
of what he did to complete his conditioning and to assume the Jason Bourne
identity, he tells Hirsch, "I remember everything. I'm no longer Jason
Bourne."
On his way back to the substation, Vosen realizes Landy gave Bourne an address
in code when Landy told Bourne of his date of birth. Vosen races to the facility
and confronts Landy as she finishes faxing away his documents that Bourne
stole. She looks at Vosen coldly and says, "You better get yourself a
good lawyer." Meanwhile, Bourne is cornered on the facility's rooftop
by Paz. Paz holds Bourne at gunpoint and demands to know why Bourne spared
his life. Bourne asks if Paz knows why he was ordered to kill Bourne. "Look
at us. Look at what they make you give," says Bourne, repeating the dying
words of the Treadstone assassin called The Professor from The Bourne Identity.
Paz lowers his weapon, but Vosen appears and fires on Bourne just as he jumps
from the roof into the river below.
Some time later, Nicky sees a news report noting the exposure of Blackbriar,
the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, that CIA Director Ezra Kramer is the subject
of a United States Senate hearing regarding his conduct, and that David Webb
(Bourne's real name), fell into the East River. The report notes that after
a three-day search, Bourne's body is yet to be found: at which Nicky smiles.
As Moby's "Extreme Ways" plays, the movie (in an allusion to the
opening scene of The Bourne Identity) cuts back to Bourne, floating motionless
in the water; after a long moment he starts to move, and swims away into darkness.
- Cast : Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David
Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney,
Joan Allen, Daniel Brühl
- Studio/Banner : BIG MUSIC
- Format : DVD
- Language : English
