The Bourne Identity

The film opens with the unconscious form of Jason Bourne floating around in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 kilometres south of Marseilles in France. Some fishermen rescue him and the doctor on board extracts two bullets from Jason's back and a small light-emitting diode gadget from his hip which projects an account number in a Zurich-based bank.

Jason spends the rest of the film trying to regain his memory, starting at the bank. His bank box contains heaps of money, six passports with different identities (e.g. Greek, Brazilian, Russian, etc...) and a gun. He is unaware that he is a trained assassin based in Paris as part of the Treadstone Project. As far as US defense officials are aware, Treadstone is an advanced army training program. However, it is, in fact, a mafia-like unit designed to eliminate internationally "dangerous" people. When his employers find out that instead of being dead at the bottom of the sea, he is still alive, he becomes a target because he could reveal the true identity of Treadstone. The head of Treadstone deploys other assassins in Europe to kill him.

At the US embassy in Zurich, he meets Marie, who drives him to Paris and travels around with him. The head of Treadstone goes to France to meet him. Jason survives the assassination attempts, gives Marie money and tells her to leave for her security, finally gets his memory back, quits Treadstone and goes to find Marie, who now runs a scooter hire company.

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Continuity mistake: This is the scene where Jason is on the fire escape platform in the consulate in Zurich. Before he goes down below the platform we see that the platform is cleared of all the snow. Then moments later, when security guard opens the door and Jason is under the platform, the top of the platform is fully covered with snow again. (00:23:46)

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Jason Bourne: How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know.

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Trivia: In the final scene at the scooter shop, look at the hanging plant behind Marie. The red bank bag used throughout the movie is the pot. (01:50:23)

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Chosen answer: He is taping up the car window that he broke in order to keep some of the winter weather out.

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Answer: He taped the door edges so they wouldn't leave fingerprints on the car.

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