History Series / Treadstone

''Treadstone'' is a miniseries airing on Creator/USANetwork, set in the same universe as ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.

* BoomHeadshot: Jang-Mi's boyfriend Dimitri gets his brains splattered on the windshield as they and Tara try to flee from the North Korean hit squad.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Oleg stumbles upon the Stiletto Six silo, Petra kills him before he sees the actual nuke hidden on their farm.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The series tackles two separate timelines at once and regularly switches between the two. While the first timeline focuses on only one plot in the 70s, the second timeline focuses on the present and no less than ''five'' individual plots, with the only things connecting them together being Treadstone itself, and the nuke known as "Stiletto Six". Among the present day plots there's:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: General Kwon was targeted for assassination after learning that a rogue faction within the North Korean government was attempting to buy a nuclear weapon and trying to thwart the purchase. He may have been loyal to one of the most evil governments on Earth, but he realized that letting them have a nuke would have been a terrible idea.

** Tara arranges the death of one of her friends in a Ghanaian prison to get him out and investigate the Stiletto Six conspiracy.

* FakingTheDead: During his escape, Bentley throws a corpse out the window to make the guards think that he jumped to his death. He hides himself by lying in the body's place on the morgue slab. Unfortunately, Petra figures it out and he is forced to fight her.

* MissingStepPlan: The KGB faction Petra belonged to came up with a scheme to put themselves back in power. Step One was to obtain a nuclear missile and destroy all records of its existence. Step Three was to restore the Soviet Union. After 25 years, no one has come up with a viable Step Two and most of the conspirators have given up on the scheme long ago.

** Soyun awakening as an agent in North Korea and being forced to follow the orders of her husbands boss.

* One dealing in the 1970s where the CIA and KGB are involved in secret operations to set up sleeper agents worldwide.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The two storylines consist of the present day when the CIA finds out that someone is activating dormant Treadstone assets years after Jason takes out the program. The other one is set in the 1970s where CIA agent John Bentley was almost subjected to a KGB-led brainwashing program and tries to investigate it.

* HeroesLoveRedheads: As part of his conditioning, Bentley was seduced by Petra, who was a redhead back then.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: North Korea is a heavily-surveilled country, as [=SoYun=] is all too keenly aware.

* ChekhovsGun: In the first episode, [=SoYun=] is given a syringe for assassinating General Kwon, but drops in down a drain during a struggle with him. The syringe later ends up in the hands of a Party loyalist, who uses it to blackmail her into spying on Major Gyun, her husband's new boss.

* FrightInducedBunkmate: At the end of the second episode, [=SoYun=] climbs into her son's bed and holds him, terrified that she's going to lose him.

* KlingonPromotion: [=SoYun=]'s husband Dae happened to be a subordinate of General Kwon, so when she killed Kwon, Dae got promoted to his job by the man who had activated her to assassinate Kwon.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The two storylines consist of the present day when the CIA finds out that someone is activating dormant Treadstone assets years after Jason takes out the program. The other one is set in the 1970s where CIA agent John Bently was almost subjected to a KGB-led brainwashing program and tries to investigate it.

* ContinuityNod: In the second episode, CIA agent Matt Edwards mentions that [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum he was part of a team trying to capture a rogue agent in New York City. This ''unnamed'' rogue agent had been trying to expose Blackbriar.]]

* ContinuityNod: In the second episode, CIA agent Matt Edwards mentions that [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum he was part of a team trying to capture a rogue agent in New York City. This unnamed rogue agent had been trying to expose Blackbriar.]]

* BadassGrandma: Decades undercover have not dulled Petra's instincts, as she manages to fend off and kill a younger would-be assassin.

* BoomHeadshot: Jang-Mi's boyfriend gets his brains splattered on the windshield as they and Tara try to flee from the North Korean hit squad.

* KlingonPromotion: [=SoYun=]'s husband Dae happened to be a subordinate of General Kwan, so when she killed Kwan, Dae got promoted to his job by the man who had activated her to assassinate Kwan.

''Treadstone'' is a minseries airing on Creator/USANetwork, set in the same universe as ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.

* KlingonPromotion: [=SoYun=]'s husband Dae happened to be a subordinate of General Kwan, so when she killed Kwan, Dae got promoted to his job.

* TitleDrop: For the course, the show's title is named as the black ops program destroyed by Jason Bourne.

* TitleDrop: For the course, the show's title is named as the black ops program destroyed by Jason Bourne.

* {{Fingore}}: In the pilot episode, one of Petra's pinkies is cut off in a fight with Bentley.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Oleg stumbles upon the Stiletto Six silo, Petra kills him before he sees the actual nuke hidden on their farm.

* TitleDrop: For the course, the show's title is named as the black ops program destroyed by Jasoun Bourne.

* FakingTheDead: During his escape, Bentley throws a corpse out the window to make the guards think that he jumped to his death. He hides himself by lying in the body's place on the morgue slab. Unfortunately Petra figures it out and he is forced to fight her.

* ManchurianAgent: The Treadstone project's aim was to train dozens of operatives under psychological programming and then seed them throughout the world, activating each one as necessary.

''Treadstone'' is a minseries airing on Creator/{{USA}}, set in the same universe as ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.