The Bourne Identity

Bourne and Marie spend the next few days together at the inn. Marie talks about her past growing up in Calgary, Canada, on a ranch and attending McGill University. She prods Bourne about his memory loss, and certain ideas and places trigger memories—mostly about geopolitics. He decides that he needs to go to Paris, and Marie insists that she will go with him. On the fourth day, the two have sex for the first time.

On the seventh day, Bourne and Marie make a plan to go to Paris. Marie is going to call Peter, her colleague, to see if he can do a search for information on Treadstone. From there, Bourne hopes to reach out to them.

As they continue to discuss their plan, Bourne expresses his frustration at being no closer to figuring out who he is. When he mentions the name “Carlos,” Marie is shocked, insisting that he never said the name before. She explains that Carlos is an international assassin. He has been “hunted for twenty years, believed to have killed between fifty and sixty political and military figures” (169).

The narrative shifts to a church in Arpajon, France, just south of Paris.