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History
David Webb was born in Nixa, Missouri on September 13, 1970. When he was old enough, he joined the United States Army and fought in the Gulf War, eventually becoming a Captain in the US Army Special Forces. In January of 1997, he joined the CIA. Fiercely patriotic, when he was offered the chance to join a CIA black-ops program code-named Operation Treadstone in 1999, he readily volunteered. The program was not what he had expected, however; the process of behavior-modification, intended to completely remove any free will or conscience, included sleep deprivation and a process akin to waterboarding.
The final test of Webb’s loyalty was to kill another man, who was hooded and tied to a chair. He repeatedly refused, and was nearly drowned every time he hesitated. Finally, his will was broken, and he killed the unknown man with no remorse. At this point, he was told that he was no longer David Webb, and was given a new name: Jason Bourne.
For several years, he was a tool of the CIA, along with other operatives stationed all around the world – Bourne was based out of Paris. In 2002, he was sent to kill a deposed African dictator, Nykwana Wombosi, and very nearly succeeded. When he had snuck onto Wombosi’s yacht, he put his gun to the sleeping dictator’s head. What Bourne had not expected was for Wombosi to be surrounded by his numerous children. For his mission to be a success, he would have had to kill all of the children so there would be no witnesses. He couldn’t go through with it, and tried to escape, but not before Wombosi shot him in the back twice. Bourne toppled over into the stormy Mediterranean, and was presumed dead.
He was dragged out of the sea by a fishing boat, and when he regained consciousness, realized that he remembered nothing of his previous life – not even his name. The ship’s doctor who had treated him found a small laser pointer in his hip, which displayed an account number at the Gemeinschaft Bank in Zurich. After two weeks, the boat docked at Marseilles, and Bourne set off for Zurich, trying to find out who he was.
Officially out of money, he tried to sleep on a park bench once he got to Switzerland. Two cops came upon him, and tried to arrest him for sleeping in the park. When one of them grabbed him by the shoulder, Bourne, without knowing what he was doing or how he knew how to do it, knocked them both unconscious and stole one of their guns. Frightened by what he knew how to do, he deconstructed the gun and ran away.
In the morning, he went to the bank and opened his safety deposit box. He found many things, including a US passport issued to one Jason Bourne, and papers that said that he lived in Paris. Just when he was convinced that there was nothing else to it, he lifted up the false bottom of the box and found masses of various currency, several false passports, and a gun. Since he was officially freaked out, he emptied the deposit box of everything but the gun and left. Meanwhile, a CIA agent at the bank notified Langley of where Bourne was and what he was doing, and the CIA sent the rest of the Treadstone operatives after him.
The Swiss police were still looking for him, so Bourne ducked into the nearest US Consulate. He wasn’t safe for long, however, because the police talked with the American officials, and they tried to arrest him again. Bourne took down several of the security officers and fled via the rusted-out old fire escape, then climbed down the building itself. As he was on his way out, he spotted a young woman he’d seen in the Consulate earlier. He offered her $20,000 for a ride to Paris, which she initially refused. Once she was convinced that he wasn’t trying to scam her, she agreed.
The woman, whose name was Marie Kreutz, didn’t believe him when Bourne said he had amnesia, but after spending time with him, realized that this was in fact the case. He showed her the fake passports and demonstrated his crazy powers of observation, and she started to understand that he wasn’t just a confused American. They arrived in Paris, and investigated Bourne’s apartment for any clues, but there seemed to be nothing. The last number Bourne had dialed on his home phone was that of a hotel, and he asked if he’d been staying there. When the staff answered negatively, he asked about one of the other names on a fake US passport, John Michael Kane. Bourne was told that Kane died two weeks previously in a car accident. Just then, one of the Treadstone operatives, Castel, broke into the apartment and fought with Bourne. After defeating him and finding papers that identified them, Bourne and Marie fled. After evading the Parisian police, they went to go find out who Kane was. After gathering information, they went to the morgue to retrieve Kane’s body. Once they got there, however, the body was no longer present. They learned that Wombosi was the one who removed it, and sought him, but by the time they got there, the dictator had been killed by another Treadstone agent. As Bourne read a newspaper article about Wombosi, which stated that there had been an attempted assassination on his yacht in the Mediterranean three weeks earlier, he realized that he was the one who tried to kill Wombosi. The pair fled to Marie’s friend’s house, and were tracked there by another Treadstone agent, who Bourne also killed. He told Marie to go, and that he would look for her later.
Bourne used the equipment dropped by the deceased agent to contact his former handlers in Paris and inform them, with the assistance of a little visit and much gunplay, that he is no longer working for them. That done, he found Marie in Mykonos two months afterwards, and the two of them lived together for two and a half years, changing countries whenever they felt that they were getting too traceable.
While they were in Goa, Bourne was found, and Marie was killed by a bullet meant for him. Enraged, he flew to Berlin, in search of both the people who ordered the hit and the source of his latest recovered memory, and killed another Treadstone operative in Hamburg. In his attempt to procure more information, he took Nicky Parsons, the CIA operative formerly in charge of the Paris safehouse, and interrogated her. Unsatisfied with her answers, he finally recalled where the memory originated from, and went to investigate it. Bourne’s picture had been sent to the Berlin police, so he had only a short time to relive the memory of his first assassination before he had to flee halfway across the city. He found Ward Abbott, the one who had been behind the entire Treadstone fiasco and the recent hit on Bourne, and made him confess on tape to plotting the murder of Vladimir Neski and his wife before leaving. Abbott later shot himself, and Bourne mailed the incriminating tape to Pamela Landy, another player in the hunt for Bourne.
He discovered that the Neskis’ daughter was still living in Moscow, so he took the train, using a fake passport, to apologize. The hit man who killed Marie was still chasing him, and there was a large and very messy car chase through the city, which ended in the hit man’s death. Bourne found Irena, the daughter, and apologized to her before running away again. The Moscow police were still looking for him through the night, and as he was breaking into a pharmacy to treat his wounds, the darkness and the running water brought back terrible, vivid memories of his training. He fled Russia almost immediately after that, determined to end the chase once and for all.
Bourne went to Paris to tell Marie’s stepbrother the news about her death, then hopped the Chunnel train to London. While on the train, he picked up an issue of the Guardian, in which he read a piece in an ongoing series about himself and Marie. Since Simon Ross, the reporter, seemed to know more than he himself did, Bourne immediately got in contact with him once he arrived in the UK. Unbeknownst to the rogue agent, the ECHELON program had red-flagged Ross, and the CIA was tracking him, since he said ‘Blackbriar’ over the phone, which was the name of Treadstone’s successor program. Bourne arranged a meeting with Ross at Waterloo Station.
Ross told Bourne that he was ‘square one’ and ‘the dirty little secret’ according to his contact. Bourne needed the reporter’s information, so he directed Ross to avoid being spotted by surveillance in the huge, packed terminal via cell phone. However, Ross panicked and failed to follow Bourne’s instructions, and was killed as a result. Bourne quickly scooped up the notes that had been in Ross’s bag and left in the pandemonium, chasing after the shooter, another Treadstone/Blackbriar asset, who escaped.
Bourne immediately found a cybercafé and checked Ross’s notes for anything he could use. Googling the firm ‘Sewell and Marbury’ brought him to an address in Madrid, where he then set off to in an attempt to uncover the source. He waited until nightfall to break into the building, which was really a CIA safehouse. The safe there had been cleared hastily; the source, Neal Daniels, had fled, taking the contents with him. A photograph that had fallen triggered more memories of Bourne’s training, which let him know he was on to something. More CIA operatives were approaching, so Bourne quickly composed a distraction out of a flashlight, a rotating fan, and some duct tape so he could get the drop on the agents and disable them. A few moments afterwards, Nicky Parsons entered the safehouse, only to be immediately captured by Bourne, who demanded to know her business. Parsons just happened to be posted to Madrid after the Berlin incident, and told Bourne that she’d take him to Daniels, who had fled to Tangier.
The two of them arrived in Tangier the next morning, tracking Daniels to try and get his information. Back in New York, Noah Vosen, the head of the operation, had sent another asset after Daniels, giving him orders to turn on Bourne and Nicky once his primary job was finished. Bourne almost managed to stop Daniels’ car from getting blown up, but Daniels died in the explosion, and Bourne chased him through Tangier to stop him from killing Nicky. After a very brutal house-to-house fight which utilized Bourne’s improvisational skills in combat, the other asset lay dead. Nicky sent back the code using the asset’s cell phone that both of them were dead, trying to keep the heat off of them for as long as possible to buy them time to escape.
Bourne disguised Nicky by dying her hair black and cutting it, then sending her off on a bus. Afterwards, he went to the morgue, and, after a little bribe to the coroner, managed to find Daniels’ personal effects. Small scraps of paper within the former station chief’s briefcase had not been completely obliterated, giving Bourne the address of the CIA’s deep-cover headquarters in New York City. He knew where the source of all his problems was now.
Once he had arrived in New York, he immediately sought out Pamela Landy and called her up from an excellent vantage point. Vosen immediately sent the other asset after him, and Bourne misled the CIA with a text message sent to Landy’s phone about where they should meet. While everyone in the deep-cover HQ headed off to Tudor City and 42nd, Bourne ninjaed his way into the building, hacked Vosen’s safe with all of the incriminating information (and useful keycards) in it, and left to find the mysterious ‘4/15/71’ that Landy had told him of on the phone.
After a long and brutal car chase, Bourne realized that Landy had given him an address – 415 East 71st Street, the location of the hospital facility where he had been trained six years previously. He passed Vosen’s files on to Landy, who faxed them to a friend at CNN before the incensed Vosen could find her and stop her.
Meanwhile, Bourne had entered the research division and confronted Dr. Albert Hirsch, the mastermind behind the entire training program. He told Hirsch that he remembered everything, and that he wouldn’t kill Hirsch because the doctor would practically become a martyr. Just then, the asset arrived and tried to kill Bourne, who fled to the roof. Once they were both on the top of the building, the asset wanted to know why Bourne hadn’t killed him earlier when he’d had the chance. Bourne asked him if the asset even knew why he was supposed to kill him. As the other assassin contemplated this, a furious Vosen ran to the roof and fired at Bourne as he tried to escape the roof by jumping into the East River below.
After a three-day search, Bourne’s body still had not been found…
Personality
Above all, Bourne is determined and resourceful. Once he gets something into his head, he sticks with it, no matter what. He thinks outside the box, constantly searching for new and unexpected ways to gain the upper hand on an opponent or a situation. He’s the quiet, brooding type, not overly psychotic, not chirpy or chipper. He’ll talk if you interest him, or if he thinks you have something to offer, or even sometimes just to talk. Bourne is very lonely; his only connection to the rest of humanity died with Marie. Sometimes snippets of memory strike him, and they are usually so potent that he is completely immobilized. He also has a near-constant headache, a product of his intense and brutal training.
Appearance
Bourne is tall (6’1”) and buff-looking, with short, bristly brown hair and blue eyes. It’s easy enough to tell that he works out, or at least stays in shape somehow. Unless you are specifically looking for him, it’s quite easy for him to blend right into a crowd. His expression is usually intense and grim – in fact, he probably hasn’t smiled since the death of Marie. To all characters who would be aware, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Matt Damon.Also, his head is square.
History
David Webb was born in Nixa, Missouri on September 13, 1970. When he was old enough, he joined the United States Army and fought in the Gulf War, eventually becoming a Captain in the US Army Special Forces. In January of 1997, he joined the CIA. Fiercely patriotic, when he was offered the chance to join a CIA black-ops program code-named Operation Treadstone in 1999, he readily volunteered. The program was not what he had expected, however; the process of behavior-modification, intended to completely remove any free will or conscience, included sleep deprivation and a process akin to waterboarding.
The final test of Webb’s loyalty was to kill another man, who was hooded and tied to a chair. He repeatedly refused, and was nearly drowned every time he hesitated. Finally, his will was broken, and he killed the unknown man with no remorse. At this point, he was told that he was no longer David Webb, and was given a new name: Jason Bourne.
For several years, he was a tool of the CIA, along with other operatives stationed all around the world – Bourne was based out of Paris. In 2002, he was sent to kill a deposed African dictator, Nykwana Wombosi, and very nearly succeeded. When he had snuck onto Wombosi’s yacht, he put his gun to the sleeping dictator’s head. What Bourne had not expected was for Wombosi to be surrounded by his numerous children. For his mission to be a success, he would have had to kill all of the children so there would be no witnesses. He couldn’t go through with it, and tried to escape, but not before Wombosi shot him in the back twice. Bourne toppled over into the stormy Mediterranean, and was presumed dead.
He was dragged out of the sea by a fishing boat, and when he regained consciousness, realized that he remembered nothing of his previous life – not even his name. The ship’s doctor who had treated him found a small laser pointer in his hip, which displayed an account number at the Gemeinschaft Bank in Zurich. After two weeks, the boat docked at Marseilles, and Bourne set off for Zurich, trying to find out who he was.
Officially out of money, he tried to sleep on a park bench once he got to Switzerland. Two cops came upon him, and tried to arrest him for sleeping in the park. When one of them grabbed him by the shoulder, Bourne, without knowing what he was doing or how he knew how to do it, knocked them both unconscious and stole one of their guns. Frightened by what he knew how to do, he deconstructed the gun and ran away.
In the morning, he went to the bank and opened his safety deposit box. He found many things, including a US passport issued to one Jason Bourne, and papers that said that he lived in Paris. Just when he was convinced that there was nothing else to it, he lifted up the false bottom of the box and found masses of various currency, several false passports, and a gun. Since he was officially freaked out, he emptied the deposit box of everything but the gun and left. Meanwhile, a CIA agent at the bank notified Langley of where Bourne was and what he was doing, and the CIA sent the rest of the Treadstone operatives after him.
The Swiss police were still looking for him, so Bourne ducked into the nearest US Consulate. He wasn’t safe for long, however, because the police talked with the American officials, and they tried to arrest him again. Bourne took down several of the security officers and fled via the rusted-out old fire escape, then climbed down the building itself. As he was on his way out, he spotted a young woman he’d seen in the Consulate earlier. He offered her $20,000 for a ride to Paris, which she initially refused. Once she was convinced that he wasn’t trying to scam her, she agreed.
The woman, whose name was Marie Kreutz, didn’t believe him when Bourne said he had amnesia, but after spending time with him, realized that this was in fact the case. He showed her the fake passports and demonstrated his crazy powers of observation, and she started to understand that he wasn’t just a confused American. They arrived in Paris, and investigated Bourne’s apartment for any clues, but there seemed to be nothing. The last number Bourne had dialed on his home phone was that of a hotel, and he asked if he’d been staying there. When the staff answered negatively, he asked about one of the other names on a fake US passport, John Michael Kane. Bourne was told that Kane died two weeks previously in a car accident. Just then, one of the Treadstone operatives, Castel, broke into the apartment and fought with Bourne. After defeating him and finding papers that identified them, Bourne and Marie fled. After evading the Parisian police, they went to go find out who Kane was. After gathering information, they went to the morgue to retrieve Kane’s body. Once they got there, however, the body was no longer present. They learned that Wombosi was the one who removed it, and sought him, but by the time they got there, the dictator had been killed by another Treadstone agent. As Bourne read a newspaper article about Wombosi, which stated that there had been an attempted assassination on his yacht in the Mediterranean three weeks earlier, he realized that he was the one who tried to kill Wombosi. The pair fled to Marie’s friend’s house, and were tracked there by another Treadstone agent, who Bourne also killed. He told Marie to go, and that he would look for her later.
Bourne used the equipment dropped by the deceased agent to contact his former handlers in Paris and inform them, with the assistance of a little visit and much gunplay, that he is no longer working for them. That done, he found Marie in Mykonos two months afterwards, and the two of them lived together for two and a half years, changing countries whenever they felt that they were getting too traceable.
While they were in Goa, Bourne was found, and Marie was killed by a bullet meant for him. Enraged, he flew to Berlin, in search of both the people who ordered the hit and the source of his latest recovered memory, and killed another Treadstone operative in Hamburg. In his attempt to procure more information, he took Nicky Parsons, the CIA operative formerly in charge of the Paris safehouse, and interrogated her. Unsatisfied with her answers, he finally recalled where the memory originated from, and went to investigate it. Bourne’s picture had been sent to the Berlin police, so he had only a short time to relive the memory of his first assassination before he had to flee halfway across the city. He found Ward Abbott, the one who had been behind the entire Treadstone fiasco and the recent hit on Bourne, and made him confess on tape to plotting the murder of Vladimir Neski and his wife before leaving. Abbott later shot himself, and Bourne mailed the incriminating tape to Pamela Landy, another player in the hunt for Bourne.
He discovered that the Neskis’ daughter was still living in Moscow, so he took the train, using a fake passport, to apologize. The hit man who killed Marie was still chasing him, and there was a large and very messy car chase through the city, which ended in the hit man’s death. Bourne found Irena, the daughter, and apologized to her before running away again. The Moscow police were still looking for him through the night, and as he was breaking into a pharmacy to treat his wounds, the darkness and the running water brought back terrible, vivid memories of his training. He fled Russia almost immediately after that, determined to end the chase once and for all.
Bourne went to Paris to tell Marie’s stepbrother the news about her death, then hopped the Chunnel train to London. While on the train, he picked up an issue of the Guardian, in which he read a piece in an ongoing series about himself and Marie. Since Simon Ross, the reporter, seemed to know more than he himself did, Bourne immediately got in contact with him once he arrived in the UK. Unbeknownst to the rogue agent, the ECHELON program had red-flagged Ross, and the CIA was tracking him, since he said ‘Blackbriar’ over the phone, which was the name of Treadstone’s successor program. Bourne arranged a meeting with Ross at Waterloo Station.
Ross told Bourne that he was ‘square one’ and ‘the dirty little secret’ according to his contact. Bourne needed the reporter’s information, so he directed Ross to avoid being spotted by surveillance in the huge, packed terminal via cell phone. However, Ross panicked and failed to follow Bourne’s instructions, and was killed as a result. Bourne quickly scooped up the notes that had been in Ross’s bag and left in the pandemonium, chasing after the shooter, another Treadstone/Blackbriar asset, who escaped.
Bourne immediately found a cybercafé and checked Ross’s notes for anything he could use. Googling the firm ‘Sewell and Marbury’ brought him to an address in Madrid, where he then set off to in an attempt to uncover the source. He waited until nightfall to break into the building, which was really a CIA safehouse. The safe there had been cleared hastily; the source, Neal Daniels, had fled, taking the contents with him. A photograph that had fallen triggered more memories of Bourne’s training, which let him know he was on to something. More CIA operatives were approaching, so Bourne quickly composed a distraction out of a flashlight, a rotating fan, and some duct tape so he could get the drop on the agents and disable them. A few moments afterwards, Nicky Parsons entered the safehouse, only to be immediately captured by Bourne, who demanded to know her business. Parsons just happened to be posted to Madrid after the Berlin incident, and told Bourne that she’d take him to Daniels, who had fled to Tangier.
The two of them arrived in Tangier the next morning, tracking Daniels to try and get his information. Back in New York, Noah Vosen, the head of the operation, had sent another asset after Daniels, giving him orders to turn on Bourne and Nicky once his primary job was finished. Bourne almost managed to stop Daniels’ car from getting blown up, but Daniels died in the explosion, and Bourne chased him through Tangier to stop him from killing Nicky. After a very brutal house-to-house fight which utilized Bourne’s improvisational skills in combat, the other asset lay dead. Nicky sent back the code using the asset’s cell phone that both of them were dead, trying to keep the heat off of them for as long as possible to buy them time to escape.
Bourne disguised Nicky by dying her hair black and cutting it, then sending her off on a bus. Afterwards, he went to the morgue, and, after a little bribe to the coroner, managed to find Daniels’ personal effects. Small scraps of paper within the former station chief’s briefcase had not been completely obliterated, giving Bourne the address of the CIA’s deep-cover headquarters in New York City. He knew where the source of all his problems was now.
Once he had arrived in New York, he immediately sought out Pamela Landy and called her up from an excellent vantage point. Vosen immediately sent the other asset after him, and Bourne misled the CIA with a text message sent to Landy’s phone about where they should meet. While everyone in the deep-cover HQ headed off to Tudor City and 42nd, Bourne ninjaed his way into the building, hacked Vosen’s safe with all of the incriminating information (and useful keycards) in it, and left to find the mysterious ‘4/15/71’ that Landy had told him of on the phone.
After a long and brutal car chase, Bourne realized that Landy had given him an address – 415 East 71st Street, the location of the hospital facility where he had been trained six years previously. He passed Vosen’s files on to Landy, who faxed them to a friend at CNN before the incensed Vosen could find her and stop her.
Meanwhile, Bourne had entered the research division and confronted Dr. Albert Hirsch, the mastermind behind the entire training program. He told Hirsch that he remembered everything, and that he wouldn’t kill Hirsch because the doctor would practically become a martyr. Just then, the asset arrived and tried to kill Bourne, who fled to the roof. Once they were both on the top of the building, the asset wanted to know why Bourne hadn’t killed him earlier when he’d had the chance. Bourne asked him if the asset even knew why he was supposed to kill him. As the other assassin contemplated this, a furious Vosen ran to the roof and fired at Bourne as he tried to escape the roof by jumping into the East River below.
After a three-day search, Bourne’s body still had not been found…
Personality
Above all, Bourne is determined and resourceful. Once he gets something into his head, he sticks with it, no matter what. He thinks outside the box, constantly searching for new and unexpected ways to gain the upper hand on an opponent or a situation. He’s the quiet, brooding type, not overly psychotic, not chirpy or chipper. He’ll talk if you interest him, or if he thinks you have something to offer, or even sometimes just to talk. Bourne is very lonely; his only connection to the rest of humanity died with Marie. Sometimes snippets of memory strike him, and they are usually so potent that he is completely immobilized. He also has a near-constant headache, a product of his intense and brutal training.
Appearance
Bourne is tall (6’1”) and buff-looking, with short, bristly brown hair and blue eyes. It’s easy enough to tell that he works out, or at least stays in shape somehow. Unless you are specifically looking for him, it’s quite easy for him to blend right into a crowd. His expression is usually intense and grim – in fact, he probably hasn’t smiled since the death of Marie. To all characters who would be aware, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Matt Damon.
