The-Bourne-Identity-Reading Unit 3

Name: ESTEBAN REINOSO
Nrc: 3367
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES:
In the Mediterranean Sea near Marseille, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious man
floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The boat's medic finds a tiny laser projector
surgically implanted under the unknown man's skin at the level of the hip. When activated, it
displays the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich. The man wakes up and discovers he is
suffering from extreme memory loss. Over the next few days on the ship, the man finds he is
fluent in several languages and has unusual skills, but cannot remember anything about himself
or why he was in the sea. When the ship docks, he sets off to investigate the safe deposit box.
At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Deputy Director Ward Abbott learns about a
failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi. Meanwhile, in
Zürich, the amnesiac incapacitates two policemen using advanced hand-to-hand combat when
they attempt to arrest him. The next morning, he visits a bank using the number in his hip, and
opens a safe deposit box to find several passports containing his picture (all under different
names and nationalities), large amounts of assorted currencies, and a handgun. As the man
assumes he is American (he speaks with an American accent), he takes the name from the
American passport, Jason Bourne. He takes all the passports and money, but leaves the
handgun. As he leaves, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops
program.
After being chased by police, Bourne escapes into a U.S. consulate where he is again pursued by
authorities. Bourne escapes and encounters a woman named Marie Kreutz, offering her
$20,000 to drive him to Paris. Meanwhile, Alexander Conklin, the head of Treadstone, assures
Abbott that he will destroy any evidence connecting them to Bourne, who was responsible for
the failed assassination attempt on Wombosi. He activates three "assets" to take down Bourne:
Castel, Manheim, and The Professor.
Bourne arrives at the address on his passport, and after studying the apartment, hits
redial on his phone and is connected to the Hotel Regina. As John Michael Kane, one of the
passport aliases, he is identified and Bourne is informed that Kane died two weeks earlier in a car
crash. Castel ambushes Bourne and Marie at the apartment, but Bourne manages to defeat him
and attempts to interrogate him unsuccessfully. Marie finds wanted posters in Castel's bag with
both her and Bourne's pictures on them; as Bourne attempts to calm her down, Castel jumps
out of a window to his death. Marie goes into shock, and Bourne escorts her from the building.
Conklin plants a body in a Paris morgue in an attempt to fool Wombosi that Kane is
dead, but Wombosi doesn’t recognize the body. The Professor assassinates Wombosi at his
home. As Bourne investigates Wombosi he concludes that he must have been an assassin prior
to his amnesia. He and Marie leave the city and travel into the French countryside to stay with
Marie's stepbrother Eamon. In the morning, The Professor comes to kill Bourne. Bourne sends
Marie and Eamon to hide in the basement, while he grabs Eamon's shotgun and goes out to
find The Professor. After a brief standoff in a cropfield, Bourne shoots The Professor twice and
interrogates him briefly. The Professor reveals their mutual connection to Treadstone before
dying.
Bourne sends Marie away for her own safety. He contacts Conklin to arrange a meet, but
instead tracks Conklin's vehicle to discover the location of Treadstone's safe house in Paris.
Bourne breaks in and holds Conklin and logistics technician Nicky Parsons at gunpoint,
beginning to remember his last mission through successive flashbacks. "Kane" was an assumed
identity during his mission to infiltrate Wombosi's entourage and kill him, but Bourne failed to
kill Wombosi aboard his yacht when he intended to because his children were sleeping nearby.
Bourne fled and was shot twice in the back in the process. Bourne tells Conklin that he is leaving
Treadstone and warns not to follow him. Realizing that their conversation is being overheard,
Bourne leaves Conklin and Parsons before killing two agents who try to kill him. Abbott shuts
down Treadstone and has Manheim kill Conklin. Abbott goes before an oversight committee,
dismissing Treadstone and previewing a new project codenamed "Blackbriar". Sometime later,
Jason finds Marie renting out scooters to tourists in Greece, and the two reunite.
1.- Answer the following questions:
a) What is wrong with the man found in the sea?

the man finds he is fluent in several languages and has unusual skills, but cannot
remember anything about himself or why he was in the sea
b) Where is the bank Bourne needs to go to?

the bank is in Zurich
c) How much money is there in the safe-deposit box? How much does he offer to
Marie?
In the box there is large amounts of assorted currencies, and a handgun. Marie Kreutz,
offering her $20,000 to drive him to Paris
d) Does anyone kill the African dictator?

The Professor assassinates Wombosi at his home
e) What happens to Bourne’s boss?

He dies for Manheim
2.- Describe, in your own words, how was Bourne’s first encounter with Wombosi, to
the moment when he was shot and fell to the sea.
The meeting between Bourne and Wombosi the African dictator was when Bourne had
the mission to infiltrate and then try to kill Wombosi on the yacht but I can't because
his children were nearby sleeping so that is why he stopped and that's when Bourne fled
and was shot.
3.- Write a few questions you (as a police officer or doctor) could have asked Bourne to
help him remember what happened to him and what did he do for a living ☺
a) Do you remember how the accident was?
b) What belongings were you with in the accident?
c) What information do you have on your cell phone?
d) Do you remember someone before the accident?
e) Do you have your ID?

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Name: ESTEBAN REINOSO

READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES:

a) What is wrong with the man found in the sea?

b) Where is the bank Bourne needs to go to?

d) Does anyone kill the African dictator?

e) What happens to Bourne’s boss?

a) Do you remember how the accident was?

b) What belongings were you with in the accident?

c) What information do you have on your cell phone?

d) Do you remember someone before the accident?

e) Do you have your ID?

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