Plot
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) have been living incognito in Goa, India for the past two years where Bourne struggles to recall the specifics of his first mission as a black ops agent. In Berlin, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) runs a "buy operation", spending USD3 million to purchase evidence exposing the mole within the agency that stole $20 million in allocation money seven years prior. Before Landy's operative can complete the transaction, Russian F.S.B. agent, Kirill (Karl Urban), infiltrates the building, plants a fingerprint to frame Bourne, kills Landy's operative and the seller of the information and makes off with the evidence and the $3 million. Kirill then reports back to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov (Karel Roden), who sends him to Goa to finish the frame-job by assassinating Bourne. Bourne spots Kirill coming and flees with Marie in a jeep. Kirill gives chase and shoots at the vehicle to kill Bourne but kills Marie instead, causing the jeep to run off a bridge and crash into the river below. Kirill leaves, believing Bourne to be dead, but Bourne survives the accident and departs for Naples, Italy to seek vengeance.
Landy follows the planted fingerprint lead and gains security clearance to sift through the CIA archives to investigate Operation Treadstone, an elite squad of assassins of which Bourne was a part. She stumbles upon evidence implicating Alexander Conklin, the late former director of the operation, leading her to question Conklin's boss, Deputy CIA Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), who admits only to vague details. Landy gives a report to her supervisor, Operations Director Martin Marshall (Tomas Arana), advising that some years back, Russian politician Vladimir Neski acquired proof of the identity of the thief who stole the $20 million. When Neski threatened to make the information public he was killed by his wife in an apparent murder-suicide in a Berlin hotel room. Landy suspects Bourne and Conklin were responsible and the meeting is interrupted when a report comes in advising that Bourne has just been detained in Naples. Marshall orders both Abbott and Landy to apprehend him.
Meanwhile, in Naples, Bourne incapacitates the consulate field officer interrogating him, copies the SIM card from his cell phone, and learns of Landy and her suspicions when he monitors a subsequent phone call. Bourne then heads to Munich to interrogate the only other living former Treadstone operative, Jarda (Marton Csokas), who informs him the program was shut down after Conklin's death. Jarda attacks to stall Bourne and Bourne strangles him in self defense then blows up his house to avoid capture from the incoming CIA team. In Amsterdam, Landy and Abbott question former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and bring her along with them to Berlin. Believing that Landy ordered the hit in Goa, Bourne surveils her team's on-site headquarters from a sniper position atop a building nearby. He calls Landy and arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz, where he abducts her. Nicky tells Bourne that Abbott was the true mastermind of Treadstone, not Conklin.
Next, Bourne visits the location of his first mission, the Brecker Hotel in Berlin, and gains full recollection that he killed Neski and his wife on Conklin's orders and made it appear as a murder-suicide. Abbott kills his assistant Danny Zorn (Gabriel Mann), when he begins to uncover the truth of the conspiracy. Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records an incriminating conversation between Abbott and Gretkov in which they discuss their roles in the theft of the $20 million. Holding Abbott at gunpoint, Bourne records him confessing to ordering the hit in Goa, Neski's murder, and the murders of the agents in Landy's buy operation to cover up the theft. Bourne refuses to kill Abbott out of respect for Marie's values. Bourne then leaves with the tape and shortly thereafter, when confronted by Landy, Abbott commits suicide. Bourne sends the tape of the confession to Landy.
Bourne travels to Moscow to find Irena Neski (Oksana Akinshina), Vladimir's orphaned daughter. Kirill tracks Bourne down and shoots him in the shoulder and the two engage in a high-speed car chase which ends with Kirill seriously injured after Bourne smashes his vehicle into a cement divider. Bourne then meets with Irena and confesses to her the truth of her parents deaths and apologizes. Landy uses the tape of Abbott's confession to have Gretkov arrested and later, in New York, receives a phone call from Bourne. She expresses her gratitude for the tape and tells Bourne his real name is David Webb and he was born 4/15/71. Bourne tells her she looks tired, indicating he's currently watching her, then hangs up and disappears into the crowded New York City streets.
Cast
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
Karl Urban as Kirill
Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz
Brian Cox as Ward Abbott
Joan Allen as Pamela Landy
Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons
Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn
Marton Csokas as Jarda
Karel Roden as Yuri Gretkov
Oksana Akinshina as Neski's daughter
