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DAVID WEBB The sequel to Jason Bourne, and the final chapter of the Bourne saga.
This plot synopsis is an entirely original and fictional idea, for a final Bourne film in which Jason Bourne comes full circle. He will regain his true identity, he will become David Webb. As the title sequence was broken by calling the last movie "Jason Bourne" instead of "The Bourne Something", I feel like "David Webb" would be the perfect title of this film. And Bourne will finally go back to his former self, which I believe actually happened in one of the Ludlum novels. It's a fitting conclusion.
The basic summary of this plot will be that after the events in Las Vegas, the Agency covers up the truth about what happened. We cut to a CNN clip where they report on a shooting that took place at the Aria casino hotel. The suspect was an Iraqi refugee (playing on the real life media blitz of refugee phobia, and alluding to what Dewey said in the limo towards the end of JB) and during the evacuation by SWAT... an altercation led to a drunken tourist stealing a SWAT van, and was pursued by a police officer in an unmarked vehicle. Following a high speed chase through the strip, the suspect was apprehended and jailed. CIA director Robert Dewey resigns over the incident. (He's in fact dead. This will be the on the record narrative in the news media, alluding to the shadowy ability for the Agency to lie to the public).
Meanwhile, Aaron Kalloor is back to work after the incident. And he's not telling the media anything. Heather Lee has since debriefed him, and he's being paid and rewarded hansomely for his silence. Kalloor needs the money, and he's also a bit terrified of what might happen to him if he speaks out about what took place between himself and Dewey. He fears for his life, so he keeps his mouth shut. (This character no longer needs to be expanded upon in my opinion, as the Deep Dream Corporation subplot was kind of unnecessary).
In one of those board room sessions reminiscent of the beginning of Bourne Ultimatum, senior CIA member Heather Lee deems that Bourne is no longer a high priority target. The Agency has wasted an incredible amount of time, money, and assets trying to capture or eliminate Bourne. He's a mentally damaged individual with amnesia, all he's done is either try to regain his memory or stay off the grid. He's not actually motivated to cause any real harm to America, he just wants to be left alone. Every effort to nullify him has resulted in nothing but collateral damage and financial expenditure, and the need for cover ups. The main agenda on the table for the Agency right now, is combatting extraordinary threats to the United States. In particular, a former Asset from before Treadstone who defected and now works for a ring of Jihadist organizations around the globe. I haven't thought of a name for this character, so I will refer to him as "Villain".
Villain was an Agency asset who turned double agent and went off the grid. He was born in Kuwait, raised in the U.S. since childhood, graduated MIT and has extraordinary foreign language skills and intelligence. He's recruited to the Agency and turned into a trained killer using the same experimental training techniques by Dr. Albert Hirsch (cue flashback). He's sent to do a job in the middle east, to eliminate a high value target that happens to be embedded with a family. Including children. Much like Bourne on the boat with Wombosi, he's faced with the dilemna of killing children. In this case, he instead carries out the job. Instead of falling off a boat and losing his memory, Villain instead is tormented by what he was assigned to carry out and turns on the Agency. He is thus recruited by a Jihadist organization.
He's basically an evil version of Bourne... Has the same skills and abilities, but he has no moral compass and has since used his repetoire of training to mastermind terrorist attacks and inflict civilian casualties around the world. He has a vendetta with the agency and the country that created him. He's not a practitioner of conservative Islam, rather he works with Jihadists purely because they share a common cause. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Though Bourne was only concerned with staying off the grid and regaining his memory, Villain is actively trying to take down the agency and destroy America. Kind of a cliche for terrorist, but the fact that he's homegrown and received all his training from the U.S., and defected, fits perfectly into the Bourne archetype. This narrative also narrowly avoids the political incorectness of painting a bad guy character purely with an Islamaphobic brush. Think of a Kuwaiti-American version of Carlos the Jackal... The real twist here, will be to reveal that Treadstone was created specifically to eliminate Villain. Just like Blackbriar was created to eliminate Bourne. It will also be revealed that Bourne was also being trained specifically to be sent on a mission to take out Villain, and that it was going to be his next assignment after Wombosi. We all know how that turned out.
This all makes for some good flashbacks and some connections to the first film, and the events before the first film. Okay, fast forward back to present day. Heather Lee is in the situation room and an op is going down. They have a location on Villain, and they've sent an Asset to take him out. This could take place in a European capitol, or maybe in the middle east or north Africa. It would be a good scene to introduce us to Villain and his powerful skill set... much like Bourne, an expert in combat, evasion, countersurveillance, and survival. This scene would conclude with the Agency asset failing the mission, and being killed by Villain. This would look kind of reminiscent to the scene in Berlin at the very beginning of Bourne Supremacy. Heather Lee is starting to wonder who they could possibly use to take out such a hard target, as everyone they've sent in the past 2 decades failed. She starts to come to an obvious conclusion...
She wants to send Bourne.
And now we come to Jason Bourne. We find him in the present day living off the grid in Mexico. After Vegas, he slipped across the border and lives in hiding. (Somewhere not far from the border, a place that maybe is reminiscent of Goa. I think San Felipe in Baja would look great. Right at the top of the Sea of Cortez, a few hours southeast of Tijuana. It's remote enough to be believable, and also sets up for the next act). Back to the CIA. They've intercepted credible intelligence that Villain is trying to get his hands on a very dangerous weapon, possibly nuclear or biological. This indeed turns out to be true, as we go to a scene of Villain making the transaction and securing the payload. We won't reveal at this time exactly what he acquired... In a page from The Sum Of all Fears, we have Villain using his supreme intelligence to get his newly acquired weapon into a shipping container and on board a merchant vessel, at a port city in Algeria. The ship is en route for Los Angeles via Panama. Villain will then be seen boarding a flight to Los Angeles with one of his fake passports. I like Los Angeles for a location because the Bourne-iverse hasn't been there yet. It's the second largest city in America, a ripe target for bad guys, and a great scene for a final showdown. Plus, I imagine Hollywood enjoys filming in their own backyard because the permits are easy to get.
Heather Lee intercepts credible intelligence that Villain has just entered the United States via LAX. He's impossible to track though, she needs someone on the ground who has the skill set to handle this. She emails Jason Bourne. At the end of JB, we will reveal that in addition to that tape recording left in Heather's car in DC, Bourne also left an email address. Heather has not reached out to him at all, preferring to leave him be. The time has come though, where she knows she's going to need someone with the caliber of ability to deal with this extraordinary threat. Villain is inside the U.S. and planning something, though she doesn't know what... Bourne at an anonymous looking internet cafe in San Felipe, reading the email. He doesn't want to be involved in any of this, it looks like a setup. He doesn't quite trust Heather yet. Bourne replies with a phone number... an encrypted, untraceable sattelite phone.
Heather calls Bourne and briefs him on the situation. She tells him everything, a huge risk given the sensitive and classified nature of the situation. Bourne takes this as a sign of trust, but says he's not interested. Then comes the huge twist... Heather offers Bourne a shot at being fully exonerated. The premise of her bargaining chip is that she needs Bourne's help, and in exchange, the Agency will grant him his freedom. This is much like a plot line from the show "24", but I think the franchise has always leaned towards this outcome and it really is the final closure that Bourne really wants. They've basically just asked him to do a hit. To come back and do a job for them again, to kill someone. He doesn't want that anymore. He does remember Villain though, and he knows exactly what he's capable of (cue flashback). Bourne doesn't think the agency will just let him off the hook, but he knows that Villain will definitely harm a lot of innocent people and has to be stopped. Bourne reluctantly accepts.
Heather tells him a care package will be waiting, in a rental locker #201 at Union Station in downtown LA. But he must get there covertly, as this is a black op, and even the Agency is unaware that it's going down. This will provide him the cover necessary to do the job unencumbered.
He heads to the Tijuana border, casually walks across showing one of his fake passports. He gets off the tram in downtown San Diego and walks across the platform to the Amtrak. He's taking the next train to Los Angeles. (I think a scene of Bourne sitting on another train ride is kind of reminiscent to previous films, and also the added bonus of the Amtrak journey up the coast makes for a good bit of cinematography).
Bourne arrives at Union Station. He finds rental locker #201 and picks the lock. Inside is a duffel bag. He takes it into the men's room stall and opens it to inspect the contents: A handgun, a K-Bar knife, a collapsable sniper rifle, a cell phone, and cash. He powers on the phone and finds a dossier on Villain (reminiscent to those dossiers of Bourne that assets would receive on their phones in the previous films).
Meanwhile, Villain is at one of the shipping ports in Los Angeles (San Pedro, Long Beach, I don't know pick one). He has smartly infiltrated the customs department as a senior employee, and secures the shipment of his payload arriving from Algeria and clears it through customs. He then covertly has his shipment offloaded from the sea container, and on to a semi truck. The shit is about to get real...
Heather Lee is handed a call from the port of Los Angeles. A senior customs employee is found dead in his office. A shipping container has been signed for and cleared through customs by an unauthorized individual posing as a member of staff. They have a vague description of the vehicle departing the port, a white semi truck. Heather immediately forwards this information to Bourne.
Bourne quietly steals a car and moves to intercept. Bourne will be on comms with Heather using the iPhone and headset from the duffel bag, and she directs him to the target and provides intel from her command center. This is where the epic car chase, maybe followed by a foot chase (Bourne as the pursuer, for the first time) followed by some other super dramatic fighting and evasion. I like the idea of a scene where Bourne puts together the sniper rifle, takes up a position, aims through the scope.... Only to see Villain aiming right back at him through a scope on the building opposite, and Bourne dodges the shot at the last second. I also like the idea of a knife to knife fight. Not like where one guy has a knife and it flys away and they go hand to hand, I mean like a full on knife combat scene. They are trained for that, after all.
This is where it gets really tense and emotional, and Bourne kills Villain. In his dying words, Villain looks Bourne in the eyes and says "Look at us, look at what they make you give..." (drawing a strong reference from films 1 and 3). And that's when the helicopters appear overhead, shining the light on Bourne. Bourne looks up to see CIA commandos fast-roping down. He looks left, looks right, considers fight or flight, but they finally have him cornered. He is so morally defeated by it all, he's clearly been set up, and he is so tired of running. A commando raises his weapon at Bourne and orders him to his knees. Bourne surrenders. He drops to his knees and puts his hands on his head, he's got nothing left to do, and nowhere else to run. He doesn't care whats going to happen to him, assumes they will probably kill him. He's done with it all. They handcuff him and take him into custody.
It's revealed that the item onboard the stolen semi truck, the one brought in through the port by Villain... is a black market Soviet made nuclear warhead. Villain was going to bring it into the middle of Los Angeles, and detonate it. He would have successfully killed more than one million people in America's 2nd largest city, and Bourne was singlehandedly responsible for stopping it. Heather Lee gets a direct line to the president (a fictional unnamed president, not the current one obviously), and briefs him fully on the situation. The president makes a decision...
We then cut to Washington DC. The scene here is in a private, closed door session. Sort of a tribunal. Bourne is seated at this hearing, wearing whatever a Military Police detainee would be wearing I suppose, and shackles. With Heather Lee testifying as a key witness, she will talk about the true core of this entire Franchise. Young, capable, patriotic men. Eager to serve their country, being turned into merciless trained killers, brainwashed, and exploited. Villain was the first one of theirs to defect. Followed by Bourne, followed later by an Outcome agent named Aaron Cross who hasn't been seen since (tying off that loose end), and multiple others. The practice of behavior modification and experimental training has resulted in multiple "Malfunctioning 30 Million Dollar Weapons", and has scarred young men and driven some to suicide. And here we have Jason Bourne... A man who was tricked into his service, who was brainwashed by the false pretense of his father's death, and whose life was destroyed by the country he was sworn to protect, to "save American lives".
This would also be a very awesome opportunity for the court to call in another key witness... Pamela Landy. I always thought that she was the best supporting character in the whole trilogy, and it would be rad for her to have a cameo. Basically rehashing all the facts about Treadstone, Blackbriar, Ward Abbott, Conklin, what they did to Bourne, etc.
The judge will then say a few words about Bourne and the harm that he's done, but then to point out that the United States of America is in a debt to him for stopping Villain's plot to detonate a nuke inside the U.S. He's reached a final verdict:
"Jason Bourne. I'm holding in my hand a signed Presidential pardon in your name, given under the explicit condition of your signing off on a lifetime non disclosure agreement. After which, we the court will hereby honorably discharge you from your service to the Central Intelligence Agency. You can keep a secret, can't you son?" Bourne replies: "Yes sir". Judge concludes: "You will be sent to Heather Lee's office for debriefing before your release. This court is adjourned".
The shackles are taken off Bourne, he's handed a bag with his clothes inside, and he is walked upstairs to Heather's office. We then cut to a CNN clip on the TV, showing a journalist reporting on the incident in Los Angeles. "A gang member from east LA reportedly stole a white semi truck from the Port of Los Angeles yesterday. The truck contained expensive electronics, and was pursued by a police officer in an unmarked vehicle. After a high speed chase, the suspect was later arrested....". The nuclear threat, and Bourne's heroic effort, are kept completely in the dark. This is consistent with the sort of themes that are so intriguing about the CIA, the secrets and the cover ups. "In other news, a terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list, Villain, was reportedly killed by a coalition airstrike in Syria...".
Bourne alone with Heather in her office. He doesn't really know what to say, it's quite unreal that this is all happening. They just told him he's a free man. Heather says "Nobody believed me when I said I could bring you in". Bourne replies "Well, you were either going to bring me in or put me down. I guess I like this option better". Heather continues "I have a gift for you", and hands Bourne a United States passport. He opens it to the cover page and sees a photo of himself, and the name.... David Webb. His birthdate and birthplace, all of it. "You're no longer Jason Bourne" she says. "I also took the liberty of opening a bank account for you, here", she hands him a debit card with his name on it. "We put some funds in there, should be enough to buy a plane ticket or rent a car, if you want to go home. "Home?" Webb asks. "Yeah, home." Heather replies. He looks her squarely in the eye, shakes her hand, and says thank you. "You're free to go, Mr. Webb".
David Webb walks outside onto the streets of DC. No journalists, no media circus, nothing. Everything happened off the record.
He hails a cab, the driver asks him "Where to?", to which Webb replies "Enterprise". We then cut to a scene of Webb at the rental car counter. "I need a one way rental". Lady replies "okay sir, do you have an ID?" He hands her the passport and debit card. "Okay Mr. Webb, thank you. And where are you headed today?"
"Missouri" replies David Webb.
Here we cut to a scene of Webb driving across the American countryside in a rental car with DC plates on it. The final scene is in Nixa, Missouri. His hometown. (When they revealed his hometown at the end of Bourne Supremacy, I always thought for sure the series would end with him arriving here. It's very fitting). Webb pulls up in the driveway of a nondescript, suburban home. He opens to the back page of his passport that reveals an address:
12345 Main Street Nixa, MO 65714
He looks up and sees 12345 on the mailbox. Webb gets out of the car and walks to the door. He rings the doorbell.
A woman in her early 60's gets up to see who's at her door. On the mantle is family photos of her late husband Richard and her late son David, along with two American flags neatly folded into triangles. She thinks it might be the mailman or UPS, and opens the door to something she can't believe. Her son David, whom she was told died in an army training excercise 15 years prior, was standing on her doorstep. She collapses in her son's arms, weeping. "David! You're home!"
The international assassin and exonerated fugitive spy formerly known as Jason Bourne stands on the doorstep of his childhood home hugging his mother. A single tear rolls down his eye as he replies.....
"I'm home".
(fade to black, cue that Moby track, and roll credits).