AFollowing his aborted meeting with Bourne on the Pont Neuf, the CIA's head of Treadstone, Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper), heads over to the Treadstone safehouse where logistics technician Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) has begun to shut down the surveillance equipment and close down the unit. Bourne follows Conklin and breaks into the safehouse. He questions Conklin about Treadstone and his identity and, from the answers, he slowly begins to remember how he created the cover of John Michael Kane and planned the assassination of exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) on his yacht but couldn't do it because Wombosi's children were sleeping nearby. In fleeing the yacht, he was shot twice in the back. Bourne tells Conklin that he is done with Treadstone and orders him to relay the news that he died two weeks ago. He leaves the safehouse, having to fight his way through several operatives awaiting him in the stairwell but manages to get away. When Conklin follows, he is assassinated by another operative, code name Manheim (Russell Levy), dispatched by the CIA's Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox). Later, at a oversight committee meeting, Abbott informs the members that Treadstone has been shut down and proposes a new project to be called Blackbriar. In the final scene, Bourne tracks down Marie, who is now running a scooter rental shop in Mykonos, Greece.
QWhy was Bourne's money and IDs kept in a safe in Zurich?
ABourne put them there himself for safe-keeping so that he could get at them whenever he needs them, since he never knew where his next mission would take him.
QHow much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
AFor detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Bourne Identity can be found here.
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