The movie opens in medias res, with a wounded Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) evading Moscow police after the vehicle chase through the Moscow tunnel near the end of The Bourne Supremacy. He breaks into a medical clinic to treat his wounds and is later confronted by a pair of Moscow policeman. He overpowers one and decides to let the other go after the officer pleads for his life. Bourne next travels to Paris to meet Marie's brother to tell him that she is dead; he also tells him he has killed the man who killed her. While in Paris, he reads the Guardian Newspaper in which a reporter, Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) has written about him as well as Treadstone. Bourne decides to travel to London to meet Simon Ross. While on the Eurostar train he calls someone else in the Guardian Newspaper office and asks to speak to Ross instead of calling him directly. Bourne has taken this precaution because he suspects, correctly, that Ross is being tracked by the CIA (in real time, from a secret surveillance substation in New York City, see ECHELON) after he had mentioned "Blackbriar" (while on a cellphone call to his Guardian editor) at Heathrow Airport, after he had arrived from Turin, Italy from a meeting with his source about Treadstone and Jason Bourne. Bourne tells Ross to meet him at the south entrance of Waterloo station.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>As Ross arrives at Waterloo station, Bourne sees that the CIA agents have followed him there; he secretly plants a prepaid cellphone in Ross's jacket, calls him and guides him through the bustling crowds of the station to evade surveillance. The news about "Blackbriar" (which is briefly mentioned at the end of the first film) being leaked to the press disturbs CIA official Noah Vosen (David Strathairn), who happens to be in charge of Blackbriar, which is actually the re-activated Treadstone project. He is also the head of the CIA's New York substation, and sends in an assassin, Paz (Edgar Ramirez), to take out Ross and his source which they think he is meeting in Waterloo station.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>After a few minutes, Bourne is seen on the live surveillance video, which shocks Vosen, but now he knows why Ross is doing such a good job evading his men. Bourne keeps giving instructions to Ross and knows the CIA is still after them; he cautions Ross that this is not just some story in a newspaper, that they are in danger and to follow his instructions. Unfortunately, Ross, in a desperate paranoia, neglects Bourne's orders, giving Paz a clear shot with his sniper rifle. Ross is shot in broad daylight, in the middle of the large crowd at Waterloo station. In the ensuing chaos, Bourne rushes to Ross's dead body to steal his reporter's notes. Bourne gives chase to the assassin, but he escapes on a subway train. Bourne shuffles through Ross's notes and realizes his contact is Neal Daniels (Colin Stinton), the CIA station chief in Madrid. Bourne heads for Madrid.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/><br/>amela Landy (Joan Allen) with Noah Vosen (David Strathairn)(on her left) in the surveillance room trying to locate Jason BourneUpon learning of Bourne's resurfacing, Vosen is forced to take on Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), who was a key figure in the second film. Landy is placed on the project presumably to help capture or kill Bourne; it is later revealed that Landy was really brought on so that any potential fallout from Blackbriar being leaked to the press would fall on Landy and not on Vosen or the CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) who is also involved in Blackbriar.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/></span><br/>Landy and Vosen almost immediately disagree over how best to handle Bourne - and over the very nature of the Blackbriar operation itself, which seeks to arrest and even assassinate any perceived enemies at will without any approval or oversight. Vosen sees this as necessary in this day and age to save American lives; Landy has deep reservations about the whole operation.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>When Daniels learns of Ross being killed in London, he goes in hiding in Tangier. With Landy's help the CIA discover that Ross's secret informer was Daniels. Bourne arrives in Madrid first and quickly neutralizes a team of CIA agents sent by Vosen to apprehend Daniels. Bourne also runs into Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who has been posted from Berlin to Madrid, and she decides to help him by aiding his search and revealing the location of Daniels. The two stop in a local coffee shop where Bourne asks Nicky why she decided to help him; her vague yet tense response indicates that she may be in love with Bourne. The two manage to escape and travel to Tangier, Morocco, where Daniels is hiding.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>Bourne and Parsons arrive in Tangier and realize that the CIA has sent another assassin, Bouksani Desh (Joey Ansah), to kill Daniels after learning his location. Parsons sends an official-looking cellphone message to Desh to arrive at a nearby coffee shop so he can pick up a cellphone – a ruse so Bourne can follow Desh which will lead him to Daniels. When Nicky makes contact, Vosen finds out, and thinks that Nicky is now working with Bourne and orders Desh to kill both of them. Landy, enraged at this order, finally dissents from Vosen, and decides to help Bourne instead.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/></span><br/><br/>Jason Bourne about to confront Desh in TangierBourne follows Desh but is unable to prevent Desh from killing Daniels in a car bombing, in which Bourne is also injured. Desh returns to the coffee shop to kill Parsons with Bourne in hot pursuit. Desh chases Parsons in the streets and back alleys of Tangier and corners her in an apartment building. Bourne arrives just in time and after a brutal fight between the two, Bourne strangles Desh to death with a bath towel. Using Desh's cellphone he sends the message that both Bourne and Parsons are dead. Bourne goes to the morgue and sifts through some of the charred and burnt papers that Daniels had. Bourne finds out the location of the CIA substation in New York City. With Parsons now in danger and her identity exposed, she has no choice but to go into hiding.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/></span><br/>Bourne then travels to the United States, to the CIA substation in New York. From a vacant building right across the street, he calls Pamela Landy (while secretly watching her every move – as well as Vosen's – with a scope); Landy reveals to Bourne his real name is David Webb and his birthday is on 4/15/71 which is in fact a coded message to reveal the location of the training facility where he lost his memory. Bourne tells Landy to get some rest, saying she looks tired, revealing he is watching Landy. Landy sends a cellphone text message to arrange a meeting with Bourne. Vosen's team has been listening in to their conversation from the surveillance room; Vosen tells the team that Bourne is now in New York and orders them to "go mobile" after him; he and several agents on the substation team follow Landy to the meeting site. However, this actually acts as a diversion for Bourne; when the CIA agents leave the headquarters, Bourne is able to sneak into the substation and obtain the secret Blackbriar documents from Vosen's office safe. An enraged Vosen, upon learning of this, immediately orders a "code ten abort" and his team hastily begins to return to headquarters. In the chase sequence that follows, Bourne is confronted by Paz, who is injured and incapacitated when both their vehicles crash (Bourne is relatively unharmed, possibly because he braces himself and is in a sturdier vehicle – an NYPD cruiser he stole). Bourne aims his gun briefly at Paz, but decides not to take the shot and leaves.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>Bourne arrives at the former Treadstone training facility on 415 East 71st Street, where Pamela Landy confronts him just before he enters the building. Landy, now firmly against the Blackbriar project and Vosen, agrees to help Bourne, and in response Bourne hands her Vosen's secret documents. He then heads into the building, where he meets Dr. Albert Hirsch (Albert Finney), the doctor who was in charge of the psychological aspect of the Treadstone project. With aid from Hirsch, Bourne remembers that in his past identity, as (presumably Army) soldier David Webb, he willingly agreed to the project, and the loss of his identity. However, this is a trap set by CIA Director Ezra Kramer to ambush and trap Bourne in the building.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>One of Vosen's men discovers that Bourne's birthday is on 9/13/70 and not 4/15/71, which means that 4/15/71 is a coded message. When Vosen is made aware of this, he quickly understands that 4/15/71 means the location of the Treadstone training facility. Vosen arrives and then confronts Landy at the facility, only to discover she has faxed his secret documents to an unknown party. Landy cooly tells Vosen: "Better get a good lawyer."<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>As the agents converge on the room with Bourne and Hirsch, Bourne jumps through a window to escape to the roof, where he is again confronted by Paz. Pointing a gun at Bourne, Paz demands to know why Bourne did not take the previous shot when he had the perfect opportunity to finish him. Bourne replies to Paz, "look what they make you give", a line by the Professor (Clive Owen), from the Bourne Identity. Confused, Paz holds his fire as Bourne turns his back and jumps from the roof, only to be shot at in midair by Vosen.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/><br/></span><br/>Bourne falls ten stories and lands in the East River, motionless. The scene then shifts to a few days later, where Nicky Parsons, now disguised and in hiding, watches the news story on television: the Blackbriar project has been completely uncovered, and both Hirsch and Vosen have been arrested and taken into custody; Kramer, shown appearing before what looks like a Senate subcommittee, is denying any involvement. The news report then mentions Jason Bourne, who was last seen falling into the river, but they have not been able to find his corpse and confirm his death, which brings a happy smile to Nicky, because she now suspects that Bourne is most likely still alive (and the two may meet again). The final scene goes back to Bourne in the East River, where he wakes up in the water and swims away into blackness.<br/><span style="DISPLAY: none;"><br/></span><br/>The film leaves a possibility for another Bourne movie, though it is unknown if one is in the works.<br/>
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