How It All Goes Down
- Marie and Bourne split up. Bourne goes to the library to read newspapers and see if he can find out who the fat man was talking about when he suggested Bourne killed someone six months before.
- And yep, Bourne finds it: Ambassador Howard Leland was killed, presumably because he had managed to convince France not to sell fighter jets to the Middle East and Africa.
- So Bourne now figures he assassinated Leland and decides that he's not going to meet Marie again because he is bad for her, baby.
- Not so fast, though. Suddenly, Bourne figures out he couldn't have killed Leland, because he was recuperating from getting shot himself at the time Leland was shot.
- So Bourne meets up with Marie after all. They go to a hotel and there's more talking about how he's maybe bad for her, baby.
- Marie says Bourne talks in his sleep about jumping from an airplane.
- "See a psychiatrist!" Marie says. Bourne doesn't want to, though, because he's still worried he'll find out he's an assassin.
- Marie calls Peter to start the Treadstone search.
- Bourne changes his hair and puts on glasses, then heads for a phone booth, and starts trying to get his money out of the Paris bank.
- Bourne deals with Antoine d'Amacourt—a banker who is maybe Shmoop's favorite character in the book. He is, as it turns out, appealingly corrupt.
- There is an arrangement to meet d'Amacourt at the bank.
- We switch to Marie at the bank. She's doing some spy work of her own, and by sneaking around, she confirms that there are special conditions attached to Bourne's account. Someone is supposed to be contacted when the account is opened without telling Bourne about it.
- Approaching the bank, Bourne sees one of the men who saw his face in Paris. Carlos's men are staking out the bank.
- So, because he is super tricky, Bourne calls from a phone booth to tell d'Amacourt that he's going to London for the afternoon.
- The bad guys who think he's going to London scamper out to try to catch him. That d'Amacourt can't be trusted at all.