Primarily, though, this installment concerns Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), Conklin's superior and the grand puppetmaster of Treadstone. Terrible, old white male authority figures: In flashbacks, we see more of Conklin and his sketchiness.In terms of both a sidekick and lover, she isn't replaced here - though seeds of a potential alliance with Parsons are sown during a tense interrogation scene. Heartbreak arrives in the form of a Russian assassin who mistakenly snipes Marie during an early chase sequence. J.B.'s accomplice: Briefly, glimpses of Bourne and Marie's new life in India are shown.Organizations of importance: Task Chief Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) and her CIA team Treadstone.Bourne wants to know who his targets were and why he had to kill them. The hazy memories show a hotel, a double homicide staged as a murder-suicide, and a family photo. Mystery at hand: Meeting Conklin face to face has prompted new flashbacks of another traumatic mission.
Main cities involved: Goa, India Berlin and Munich, Germany Naples, Italy Moscow, Russia New York.Background: Bourne and Marie have escaped and shacked up together, enjoying a quiet life of trying to remember Treadstone missions and doing tasteful PDA.The program is officially shut down and decommissioned when a third asset, Manheim (Russell Levy), kills Conklin. After confronting Conklin and Treadstone support tech Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) about this, Bourne resigns. But Bourne bailed last minute because family members and children were on his target's yacht cold feet gave Wombosi the opportunity to shoot him, leading to the situation at the beginning of the movie. What we learn by the end: Bourne's last official mission had involved a hit on Nykwana Wombosi (Adawale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a deposed Nigerian dictator.Which chase scene was this?: The one that made battered vintage Austin Minis look badass.People who try to assassinate J.B.: Noted gypsy Nicky Naude, as Castel, who gets his shit rocked in an absurd pen-knife fight and Clive Owen, as "The Professor," a steely marksman who is thrown off by a flock of birds.By assisting his escape, Marie quickly becomes as wanted by the CIA as Bourne. She gives him a ride to Paris for a casual $20,000 so he can evade police capture. J.B.'s accomplice: When Bourne begins his thrilling reappearing-disappearing act, he bumps into a young German student named Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) at Switzerland's U.S.Conklin considers Bourne rogue for nixing his last assignment, going off the grid, and killing his spies.
Conklin was a ruthless boss who gave Bourne controversial assignments, a couple of which were so ethically ambiguous they made him stray.