Bourne Tip SheetWill Cure Your Spy-Flick Amnesia

There's something quintessentially American about Hollywood's take on Robert Ludlum's amnesiac Jason Bourne. Maybe it's that as Bourne, Matt Damon kickpunches through globe-trotting adventures soimprovisationally — he's a grim practitioner of espionage jazz. But if you were to ask,"Now that there's a Damon-less Bourne movie coming out, what actually happened in those first three?" We'd say,"Um ... hey, look over there!" So, in preparation for The Bourne Legacy , we decided to figure it out. Above: The Bourne Identity, 2002 How it starts: A bullet-riddled Bourne floats in the Mediterranean. What Bourne remembers: Nothing.Well, OK: A few languages, advanced driving (and killing) skills. The bad guy: Conklin (played by Chris Cooper), head of an assassin squad called Treadstone The ally: Franka Potente's Marie Kreutz, who gives Bourne a lift The locations: Langley, Marseille, Paris, Zurich How it ends: CIA bossWard Abbott (Brian Cox) has Conklin killedand Treadstone dismantled.