Bourne's visit to the hotel also attracts the attention of the police and Landy. Bourne goes back to the Brecker Hotel in Berlin and remembers more about the Neski mission: he was sent to kill Neski on Conklin's orders and when Neski's wife unexpectedly showed up, he shot both of them and made it look like a murder-suicide. When Abbott's young associate Danny Zorn tells Abbott that he thinks Bourne was framed and provides evidence, Abbott stabs him. Upon hearing part of their conversation over Nicky's transmitter, Landy begins to believe that Bourne is being framed.
Zorn provides evidence that Bourne could have been framed He learns that he is implicated in the death of two CIA agents in a case linked to the murder of Vladimir Neski, and also that Abbott was the head of Treadstone. Bourne tracks down Landy in Berlin, and after determining that she is not running Treadstone, arranges to meet with Nicky, whom he interrogates. Landy and Abbott intercept and debrief Nicky Parsons, Treadstone's handler in Paris. He steals a car and heads to Munich, where he interrogates another Treadstone agent, who tells him that the project was shut down following Conklin's death. This allows Bourne to listen in on a call from Landy he learns her name and phone number and finds out that he is suspected in the recent killings in Berlin. When Bourne arrives in Naples, Italy, he is detained by an Italian Carabinieri officer and a CIA interrogator, but Bourne incapacitates the two men and, after copying the agent's SIM card on his own cell phone, escapes. Landy believes Bourne killed the CIA officer and source in Berlin, so Abbott and Landy set out to capture him. A Russian politician, Vladimir Neski, was going to identify the thief, but before he could do so, he was murdered by his wife in a Berlin hotel, who then committed suicide. Landy tells Abbott that the CIA agent who is believed to have stolen the $20 million was named in the stolen files. In Virginia, she learns that it is Bourne's fingerprint, but CIA chief Ward Abbott claims he does not know Bourne's whereabouts. Bourne travels to Italy to learn why he is again being targeted.īourne is targeted as the main suspect in BerlinĪfter Landy's team finds the planted fingerprint and determines that it is linked to the CIA's secret Treadstone project, Landy flies to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to find out more information. Bourne manages to swim away undetected, leaving Marie dead in the river. Kirill leaves, believing that he killed Bourne. As Bourne and Marie are driving away, Kirill fires a sniper rifle at the car and it veers off a bridge into a river. Kirill travels to Goa to kill Bourne, but Bourne flees with Marie. During the exchange, an assassin named Kirill plants Bourne's fingerprint on a bomb in the building's basement kills the agent and the source and steals the files and money, which he sells to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the " Neski Files", documents about the theft of $20 million from the CIA seven years earlier. Bourne is beginning to recover some of his memories, and he is troubled by disjointed flashbacks of an assassination he carried out in a Berlin hotel. Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. The film also stars Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz, Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, Karl Urban as Kirill and Julia Stiles as Nicolette Parsons. The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, an amnesiac and former CIA assassin played by Matt Damon, and his attempt to learn more of his shadowy past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy surrounding the CIA and Operation Treadstone.
The film is followed by a 2007 sequel entitled The Bourne Ultimatum. Universal Studios released the film to theaters in the United States on July 23, 2004, and it received a positive critical and public reaction similar to its predecessor, The Bourne Identity. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland and produced by Doug Liman and Frank Marshall. The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 spy mystery thriller film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. The Bourne Supremacy " They Should Have Left Him Alone" ―Tagline