Conklin agrees to meet Bourne, alone, in Paris. Bourne sends Marie, Eamon, and Eamon's children away for their protection, and then contacts Conklin via the Professor's phone. The Professor reveals their shared connection to Treadstone before dying. Under pressure from Abbott to tie off the Wombosi matter entirely, Conklin tracks Bourne's location and sends the Professor there, but Bourne shoots him twice with Eamon's shotgun, mortally wounding him.
He and Marie take refuge at the French countryside home of her old friend Eamon and his children. Bourne, posing as Kane, learns about Wombosi's yacht, and that the assailant was shot twice in the back during the escape he realizes that he was the assailant. The Professor assassinates Wombosi on Conklin's orders. Conklin, having anticipated this, planted a body in the Paris morgue to appear as the assailant, but Wombosi is not fooled and threatens to report this and other CIA secrets to the media. Meanwhile, Wombosi continues to obsess over the attempt on his life. After a chase in which Bourne evades Paris police in Marie's car, the two fugitives spend the night together in a Paris hotel. Marie finds wanted posters of Bourne and herself, and after agonizing, agrees to continue to help Bourne.
Instead of allowing himself to be interrogated, Castel throws himself out of a window to his death. Castel ambushes Bourne and Marie in the apartment, but Bourne gets the upper hand. He inquires about the names on his passports there, learning that a "John Michael Kane" had been registered but died two weeks prior in a car crash. At the address, an apartment, he hits redial on the phone and reaches a hotel. He evades capture, and escapes the consulate, offering a German woman, Marie Kreutz, $20,000 to drive him to an address in Paris listed on his French driving license. passport to enter the American consulate, but he is caught by guards. Conklin promises Abbott that he will deal with the Treadstone agent who failed.īourne tries to evade the Swiss police by using his U.S. Meanwhile, CIA Deputy Director Ward Abbott contacts Conklin about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Treadstone's head, Alexander Conklin, issues alerts to local police to capture Bourne and activates three agents to kill him: Castel, Manheim, and the Professor. The man takes everything but the gun, and leaves, opting to use the name on the American passport, Jason Bourne.Īfter Bourne's departure, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. He finds it contains a large sum of money in various currencies, numerous passports and identity cards with his picture on all of them, and a handgun. Upon landing in Imperia, Italy, the American goes to the bank in Switzerland to investigate the deposit box.
The skipper finds a tiny laser projector under the man's hip that, when activated, gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich. He has no memory of his own identity, but he retains his speech and finds himself capable of advanced combat skills and fluency in several languages. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes, they find he suffers from dissociative amnesia. In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back.