After the two evade police in Marie's car, they spend the night in a Paris hotel, where they kiss and have sex. While searching through Castel's belongings, Marie finds wanted posters of Bourne and herself, and agrees to help him. Instead of allowing himself to be interrogated, Castel throws himself from 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" was registered but died two weeks prior in a car crash. Upon reaching the address, they enter an apartment where Bourne contacts a hotel through the phone. He escapes before offering $20,000 to Marie Kruetz, a 26-year-old German woman whom he saw at the consulate, to drive him to an address in Paris. passport to enter the American consulate, but is pursued by Marine guards. CIA Deputy Director Abbott contacts Conklin about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Wombosi, and Conklin promises that he will deal with the agent who failed.īourne tries evading the Swiss police by using his U.S. Treadstone's head, Conklin, issues alerts to police to capture Bourne and assigns three agents to kill him: Castel, Manheim, and the Professor. The man takes everything but the gun, and starts using the name on the American passport, Jason Bourne.Īfter Bourne's departure, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. He goes to the bank to investigate the deposit box where he finds various currencies, passports and IDs, and a handgun. They find a laser projector under the man's hip that gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich, and the man decides to go investigate. They tend to his wounds and find he has no memory of his identity, but demonstrates advanced combat skills and fluency in several languages. In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an American man adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The film opened to critical and commercial success, grossing $214 million on a $60 million budget. Universal Pictures released the film to theatres in the United States on June 14, 2002. The first installment in the Jason Bourne film series, it was followed by The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and Jason Bourne (2016).Īlthough Robert Ludlum died in 2001, he is credited as an executive producer alongside Frank Marshall. It also features Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Walton Goggins, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from psychogenic amnesia attempting to discover his identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA. It was directed and co-produced by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. The Bourne Identity is a 2002 action-thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel.