The Bourne Ultimatum

Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police while wounded and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone, seemingly of him being forced to comply with the program. Six weeks later, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy reveals the audiotaped confession of Ward Abbott, the late former head of Treadstone, to Director Ezra Kramer. Meanwhile, in Turin, journalist Simon Ross of The Guardian has been writing a column on Bourne. He learns about Operation Blackbriar, the program succeeding Treadstone. Using the ECHELON system, the CIA detects Ross when he mentions Blackbriar during a phone call to his editor. After informing Marie's brother, Martin Kreutz, of her assassination in India, Bourne, who had read Ross' articles, arranges a meeting with him at London Waterloo station. Realizing the CIA is following Ross, he helps him evade capture, but Ross, in a panic, is shot dead by Blackbriar assassin Paz on orders of Deputy Director Noah Vosen. Vosen's team, reluctantly assisted by Landy, analyzes Ross' notes and identifies his source as Neal Daniels, a CIA station chief based in Madrid. Bourne makes his way to Daniels' office, dispatches Vosen's agents, and finds Nicky Parsons, a former Treadstone operative he has encountered. She tells him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and aids his escape from an arriving CIA unit, hinting at a romantic past prior to his amnesia. Meanwhile, Blackbriar asset Desh Bouksani is tasked by Vosen with killing Daniels. Upon noticing that Nicky accessed information about Daniels, Vosen suspects her cooperation with Bourne; he orders Bouksani to kill Nicky and Bourne, a decision with which Landy fiercely disagrees. Bourne follows Bouksani and fails to prevent Daniels' assassination. He intercepts Bouksani, who is pursuing Nicky, and strangles him to death. Bourne sends Nicky into hiding. Examining the contents of Daniels' briefcase, Bourne finds the address of the deep-cover CIA bureau in NYC, where Vosen directs Blackbriar, and heads there. Landy receives a phone call from Bourne, which is intercepted by Vosen. She tells him that his real name is David Webb and gives him the birth date "4-15-71". Vosen also intercepts a text to Landy from Bourne of a location to meet up, and leaves his office with a tactical team. Bourne, however, instead enters Vosen's office, and calls Vosen. Recording Vosen's voice, he accesses the Deputy Director's secure safe and takes classified Blackbriar documents. Realizing what is going on, Vosen sends Paz after Bourne and informs Dr. Albert Hirsch, the man who ran Treadstone's behavior modification program, of this situation. The resulting chase ends with both crashing their cars. Bourne holds the injured Paz at gunpoint, but spares his life. Bourne meets Landy at a hospital at 415 East 71st Street, having figured out Landy's coded message. He gives Landy the Blackbriar files before going inside. Bourne confronts Hirsch about his past; Hirsch reveals Bourne actually volunteered for Treadstone, and willingly killed a man he knew nothing about to prove his loyalty. While fleeing to the roof, Bourne is confronted by Paz, who questions why Bourne spared him. Bourne asks Paz if he understands the motivation behind his assignments, repeating the final words of the Professor, a Treadstone asset: "Look at us. Look at what they make you give." Paz lowers his gun, but Vosen appears and shoots at Bourne, who jumps into the East River. Three days later, Nicky watches a news broadcast about the exposure of Operation Blackbriar, the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, a criminal investigation against Kramer, and the status of David Webb, a.k.a. Jason Bourne. Upon hearing that his body has not been found, Nicky smiles. He turns out to have survived the fall and swims into the darkness.