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Is this a plot hole?

posted 8 years ago by thefilmguy7
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So Jason Bourne finds and interrogates the only other living Treadstone agent and that leads to a brutal fight to the death between the two. I can follow the plot thread through the whole movie but the one thing that isn't explained is how did Bourne find this guy? First he has pretty severe amnesia so how does he remember this guy at all? Secondly, this guy has undoubtedly moved around since his days with Treadstone, he most likely is using a fake name. How could Bourne track him down? It feels like there's a deleted scene missing explaining this. If anyone knows the answers then please let me know?

[–] iLikeMovies22 8 years ago

From what I remember it is explained. Jarda says "word is you had lost your memory", or something like that. And Bourne responds "you still should have moved". So it's a quick explanation. Supremacy is my least favorite of the Bourne movies for a couple reasons. And the whole scene with Jarda is one of them. The one big fight in the movie is between Bourne and a guy that isn't even after him. And the only explanation about how Bourne remembered is "you still should have moved". Why would Bourne even know where the guy lives? I wouldn't think they would know that type of stuff about each other. The Professor in Identity didn't know that Bourne was from Paris.

[–] thefilmguy7 8 years ago

Yeah I mean I over all really like Supremacy. That's my one real criticism. It seems all of them have one under developed element. Like how in Ultimatum out of no where they plant a backstory between Bourne and Julia Stiles character. Like first there's the coincidence that Julia Stiles just so happens to be stationed with the guy leaking secrets that bourne is looking for. That's a real stretch. It feels very forced to involve her yet again. Also the whole backstory between her and Bourne felt incredibly contrived. It doesn't at all match her behavior in the previous movies. In the last movie she seemed completely terrified of him and you had no sense that there was any emotional connection there at all. She didn't seem to sympathize with his situation in any way.

[–] WorldSacred 8 years ago

Jarda may well have been one of those memories that have been recovered through Bourne's realisation that he is a secret agent. Bourne has recovered his ability to do a number of things that he would have been trained. We can only assume though the only interaction between Bourne and Jarda that Bourne knew where Jarda lived. That Jarda decided not to move in the time he last knew Bourne and that day.

Bourne and Parsons (Julia Stiles) seem to have a history. Parsons seem to have kept a tab on Bourne's early career. Perhaps Parsons was involved in the Wombosi assassination. The movie plot does not really go into detail where Parsons was stationed in between Supremacy and Ultimatum. But, there seems to be some kind of understanding that Bourne was not a threat to her, in the Identity movie. Bourne poses some kind of threat in Supremacy, though the threat is not carried out. Perhaps a further understanding was made that Bourne was trying to put an end to the mind-altering program, and that Parsons had to adapt to Bourne's plan forming an alliance.

I did not sense any fear in Parsons towards Bourne in Ultimatum.

[–] mechajutaro 8 years ago

Is this a plot hole?

A plot hole in one of these Bourne flicks? Why, that's a sight unseen in all of Christendom!!! Before long, Kim Kardashian will be posting selfies sans clothing