How It All Goes Down
- At the beginning of Book II, our protagonists start to fall in love, despite the whole thing where Bourne kidnapped her and beat her and endangered her life and put her in a position where she ended up being raped. Shmoop does not condone; Shmoop only reports.
- We learn that Marie was raised on a farm in Canada but went off to the big city to get a high-powered economics degree.
- Marie works for the Canadian government as an economist now. She likes her job but doesn't have a family or boyfriend. Well, that leaves the way clear for our hero.
- Oh, not quite: there was some guy named Peter with whom Marie was fairly serious. They are now broken up, but they're still friends.
- Marie is going to cable Peter when she's ready to go.
- Bourne and Marie both know she's going to have to leave at some point, but they don't talk about it.
- Instead, Marie tries to get Bourne to remember, without a whole lot of success.
- Marie does tell him that the fact that he couldn't find Treadstone isn't unusual, because companies like that would often be unregistered.
- Marie tells Bourne that he could be a roving financial negotiator. This rather ignores his ability to kill people with his bare hands and the ease with which he kidnaps people. But she's decided he's a good person, so that's that.
- Bourne, on the other hand, thinks that he is probably not an especially nice person. "I'm bad for you, baby," he keeps telling Marie.
- But Marie's not to be deterred by that, and she and Bourne have sex (though in a tasteful, PG way).
- The sex is so satisfactory that Marie decides she is not going to cable Peter. Instead, she's going to go with Bourne to Paris.
- Bourne protests, but Marie says she'll help him to get the money from Paris because she's an economist (we're not sure how that works, but we don't question), and also because she believes in him.
- Bourne agrees, and he and Marie have more tasteful sex.
- Time passes. Bourne and Marie check the papers, where there are reports about the watchmen who got killed while Bourne was rescuing Marie.
- Marie tells Bourne that she's involved in protecting Canadian assets from foreign takeover. That makes her sort of an economics spy. Our lovers have something in common.
- Marie says she'll get Peter to check out Treadstone, which she thinks may be one of the financial conglomerates she keeps an eye on.
- Treadstone may have abandoned Bourne because they thought he was involved with shady dealings. That's Marie's guess, anyway.
- Bourne's convinced he needs to go to Paris for the answer.
- Incidentally, Bourne mentions that "Carlos" is trying to kill him, which freaks Marie right out, because Carlos is a terrifying world famous international terrorist assassin.
- Bourne and Marie head off to Paris.
- And now we switch scenes to Carlos himself, who is meeting in a church with some old guy.
- Apparently Carlos deals with old guys because he figures they're more honorable and trustworthy, and also because they don't care as much if he offs them on a whim—you know, as long as he provides for their families and stuff.
- Carlos and the old guy make plans to trap Bourne (they call him"Cain") at the bank when he goes to Paris.