"He'd sold me out; I had to kill him." Bourne respected her too much to sugarcoat the facts. She knew what he was, what he was capable of, and she hadn't run screaming. Death was a fact of life for him. "I actually used the magazine to blow up his house and destroy the evidence. Cut the gas line and stuck it in the toaster. It took a few minutes to go up, but by then I was already out of there.

"He'd given up the assignment of the person I thought was commanding the program, and I was determined to get to her and really pass my message on - that they were to leave me alone. She was in Berlin - and that was where I'd been heading in the first place, because of some new things I was remembering about my first mission for them."