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  • Complete Monster (includes Identity): Ward Abbott is a corrupt CIA chief, serving as one of the architects of Operation Treadstone and the head of its day-to-day operations. Abbott oversaw the creation of Treadstone and the implementation of its many brutal training routines, involving torture and psychological rewiring of soldiers into killing machines. After Abbott stole millions of dollars of CIA money with the help of Yuri Gretkov, Abbott tested Treadstone's capabilities by assassinating politician Vladimir Neski and his wife to silence their outrage against Gretkov's corruption. With dozens of people—terrorist, political dissident, and American citizen alike—murdered by Treadstone's operatives on Abbott's watch, Abbott later murders his subordinate Alexander Conklin to pin everything on him and rebrand Treadstone as "Blackbriar" to continue its operations. Later using Gretkov to kill off multiple CIA operatives and frame Jason Bourne for their deaths, Abbott tries to assassinate Bourne to cover his tracks—getting Bourne's lover Marie murdered in the process—and when he is nearing exposure, Abbott stabs his own assistant to death for unintentionally deducing Abbott's criminal activities. Even when he is Driven to Suicide by exposure, Abbott reiterates that he feels no remorse for anything he has done, proclaiming himself a patriot to his last breath.
  • Funny Moments: After the field agent from the CIA (Nevins) was knocked out by Jason he receives a phone call from Pamela Landy. After he confesses that Jason escaped, Pamela asks whether he locked down the area. Nevins answers that in Italy they don't exactly lock down, in the meanwhile figuring out that he actually is locked in the interrogation room.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Kirill is a Russian federal agent who moonlights as the personal triggerman for corrupt oil magnate Yuri Gretkov. Kirill opens the film by skillfully assassinating multiple CIA agents and silencing a source of information they were meeting who would expose Gretkov's criminal activities. Framing Jason Bourne for the murders, Kirill tracks Bourne down and nearly kills him, claiming Marie's life in the process. Later chasing Bourne through the streets of Moscow, Kirill seriously wounds him with a gunshot and is only held back from killing him by police presence. After a lengthy car chase during which time he matches up nicely with Bourne, Kirill is seriously wounded and left at Bourne's mercy, yet remains stoic with no sign of fear at his approaching death, telling Brendon solely to hurt him out of spite.
  • Rewatch Bonus: When Bourne arrives in Berlin, he sees a nearby poster advertising the protest at Alexanderplatz, so he'd already been planning his confrontation with Landy and the CIA.

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