Jason Bourne

Fishermen find Bourne floating in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back and no memory. A projector implanted in his hip leads to a Zurich safe deposit box with passports and cash. He learns he fights like a professional and that the CIA wants him dead. With Marie's help he reaches Paris. Little by little he remembers failing to kill the dictator Wombosi because children were nearby. He confronts Treadstone chief Conklin and tells him he is out.

Bourne and Marie are living in Goa when the Russian agent Kirill tries to kill him. It is Marie who dies. Bourne goes after the truth, passing through Naples, Munich and Berlin, and learns that Pamela Landy's boss, Ward Abbott, stole CIA money and made Bourne the fall guy. He records Abbott's confession and does not kill him, because Marie would not have wanted it. In Moscow, Bourne apologizes to the daughter of the couple he killed. Landy reveals his real name, David Webb.

Bourne arranges to meet journalist Simon Ross at Waterloo station, but the CIA kills Ross in front of him. Ross's trail leads to a new operation, Blackbriar. Bourne finds Nicky Parsons again, crosses Madrid and Tangier and reaches New York. Landy starts helping him in secret. In a hospital, Dr. Hirsch tells him he volunteered for Treadstone. Bourne spares the assassin Paz. The Blackbriar chief fires, and Bourne drops into the East River.

Twelve years later, Bourne earns a living in underground fights in Greece, with no peace. Nicky Parsons finds him in Athens with CIA files, and an assassin kills her. The files show his father, Richard Webb, helped create Treadstone. Bourne follows the trail to Berlin, London and Las Vegas. He learns his father was killed on Director Dewey's orders, and that his own recruitment was staged. Bourne takes on the assassin and leaves the CIA with an offer he is still thinking over.

Jason Bourne was created by Robert Ludlum in the novel The Bourne Identity (1980). In the films the story changes a lot: the book's villain Carlos never appears. Matt Damon plays Bourne in four films, and Legacy follows another agent, Aaron Cross.