PENGUIN READERS Teacher’s notes LEVEL 5 Teacher Support Programme The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum killed by another man who later took on his identity to work for the U.S. government. During the operation, he was shot in the head and lost his memory. A Canadian woman, Marie, now his wife, helped this man recover his memory. He is now known as David Webb and he teaches in Maine. Havilland explains that they need Webb to return to Asia as Bourne in order to stop a plot organized by Sheng Chouyang, a Chinese minister of state. McAllister goes to Webb’s house and tells him that a banker, Yao Ming, believes that Bourne has killed his wife but Webb doesn’t believe him. Some time later, Marie is kidnapped. Webb vows to find her and kill those who have hurt her using the powers he has as Jason Bourne. About the author The phone rings and Webb speaks to Marie and her kidnapper who says that Webb must go to Suite 690 at the Robert Ludlum (1927–2001) is the American author of Regent Hotel in Kowloon. numerous action-packed thrillers that have been hugely popular throughout the world. His novels include The Chapters 4–5: Webb, using the name of Cruett, arrives Bourne Trilogy, of which The Bourne Supremacy is the at the Regent Hotel and refuses to take the suite that second. Three films that are loosely based on this trilogy has been arranged for him. The assistant manager, and star Matt Damon as Bourne have also achieved Mr. Liang, finds him another room. He then goes great box office success. For more information, see the shopping for clothes and weapons and when he arrives Introduction to the book. back at his room, he finds out that Liang had been trying to ring him urgently. He sticks an ice pick into the wall Summary just inside the door and hides in the passage. Liang arrives Chapter 1: The story begins in 1985 in Kowloon, a and enters his room and screams in fear when he sees the district of Hong Kong. A priest dressed in white appears pick. Webb then arranges for a car to take him around in the harbor and heads toward a nightclub, accompanied town and asks the driver to get him a gun. Later, he by a short, strong Chinese man. The priest enters the observes how Liang leaves the hotel and goes to a public nightclub alone and whispers the name of a powerful telephone. Webb approaches him and gunfire explodes. taipan in the manager’s ear. He then sits down and nods Liang gives Webb the number he was going to call and to a Chinese man, who is smoking a few tables away. when the gunfire stops, Webb phones and eventually This man’s table bursts into flames causing chaos and speaks to his wife. The man who is holding her captive fights among the clientele. The priest now passes through tells Webb that the great taipan, Yao Ming, wants to meet a door unnoticed, cuts the throat of a guard, and kills him. Webb goes to Kowloon to meet the taipan. First he five taipans. He then writes a name in blood on a piece tackles the taipan’s three guards, leaving them hurt and of cloth. He goes back into the club, drops his white unconscious. Then he enters the apartment where the robe and machine gun on the floor and leaves. Outside taipan is, but he is not alone and Webb has to put his gun he cleans make up from his face and disappears into the on the floor. Webb tells the taipan that he didn’t kill his streets as a well-dressed Westerner. Inside the club, the wife. The taipan says he already knows and explains that manager discovers what has happened and sees that there is a new man, his enemy, acting as Jason Bourne and the name on the cloth is that of Jason Bourne. he wants Webb to capture him. Later that day, the taipan, who is really Lin Wen-zu of British Intelligence, meets Chapters 2–3: In Colorado, in the United States, a former McAllister in a house near Kowloon and tells him that his ambassador called Havilland has a meeting with the guards have been injured and Marie is ill and may need to undersecretary, McAllister. He explains that the original go into the hospital. Jason Bourne was working for the enemy when he was c Pearson Education Limited 2011 The Bourne Supremacy - Teacher’s notes 1 of 5 PENGUIN READERS Teacher’s notes LEVEL 5 Teacher Support Programme The Bourne Supremacy Chapters 6–7: Marie is under guard in the hospital. She plane to Hong Kong with Webb’s doctor, Mo Panov. At manages to escape and goes to the Canadian consulate. Tiananmen Square, Bourne enters Mao Zedong’s tomb She discovers that an old acquaintance of hers, Catherine convinced that the assassin and his employer are going to Staples, works there and she asks her for help. Meanwhile, have a meeting there. Once inside, however, he realizes Webb discovers that the new Jason Bourne can be that the whole thing is a trap for him and d’Anjou. A fight contacted through a Frenchman who can be contacted by follows, and Bourne manages to escape after shooting at a dealer at a casino in Macao. He goes to the casino and the glass box that contains the remains of Mao Zedong follows and fights with a trained assassin, who later leads creating chaos. Once outside again, he realizes that him to the place where he can find the Frenchman. There d’Anjou has been taken away in a van by the enemy. is a gun fight and Webb fights with a man who turns out Conklin and Panov arrive in Kowloon, use a decoy to lose to be an old friend, d’Anjou. D’Anjou explains that he had the people who are watching them and then make their previously trained a man to behave like Jason Bourne to way to Marie’s hotel. They then go to meet Catherine, but be an assassin for him in Asia. The man, however, started when she arrives at her apartment, a black car pulls up and accepting other contracts and d’Anjou now wants to kill Catherine is killed. Conklin orders the CIA man who is him. He says he will help Webb to find him. Meanwhile, with him to drive to Victoria Peak. He is convinced that Havilland and McAllister discover that Catherine is Havilland is being tricked. helping Marie and they send men to her apartment. Marie Chapters 12–13: Bourne goes to the Jinshan Bird is nearly captured again but she manages to escape with Reserve, having previously seen a suspicious van with Catherine in her car. this name on it outside the assassin’s hotel. He breaks in Chapters 8–9: Catherine goes to see Havilland and through the fence in time to see many cars and a truck McAllister and accuses them of lying to Webb and Marie. turn up. Seven prisoners, including d’Anjou, get out of the They convince her, however, that it was necessary to trick latter. Killing two guards, Bourne manages to follow the Webb into going to Asia as Bourne in order to stop the prisoners as they are taken through a gate and down a path plans of Sheng Chouyang and avoid a war. Webb and into the woods. Eventually he arrives at a meeting ground d’Anjou go to Kai Tak airport where it is suspected that where he sees Sheng Chouyang torturing and killing the an assassination attempt will take place against some prisoners. D’Anjou’s turn arrives and Sheng asks him British and Chinese leaders. Webb manages to identify about the whereabouts of Bourne. D’Anjou in refusing to the assassin, the new Bourne, who has planted a bomb tell him and sends Bourne the message that he is prepared under the leaders’ car. He manages to warn the leaders, to die in order to help him kill Sheng. Bourne creates a who get out of the car before it explodes, but the new diversion using firecrackers and manages to capture the Bourne escapes. They are then told by a contact that imposter although he fails to kill Sheng. Meanwhile, the new Bourne has been called to Beijing. Webb and Conklin meets Havilland and McAllister at the house d’Anjou travel there and follow the new Bourne to a hotel. on Victoria Peak. He tells them about Catherine’s death Meanwhile, Marie speaks to Catherine on the phone and demands to know the truth about what is going on. and begins to suspect that Catherine is no longer to be Bourne takes his prisoner to a small airport and manages trusted. She then sees Catherine with McAllister from the to hijack a plane after blowing up some fuel trucks. He apartment window and knows it is a trap. She runs from orders the pilot to fly south. the apartment. Chapters 14–15: Havilland meets Conklin and tells him Chapters 10–11: Bourne and d’Anjou see a priest come that Bourne is in Hong Kong with the assassin, but as out of the hotel they are watching and get on a bus they don’t have Marie, they can’t get to him. Conklin says heading for Tiananmen Square. D’Anjou tells Bourne he will bring Marie to the house. Later, Bourne arrives he is the imposter he had trained, and they take a taxi to at the house with the assassin and begins a battle with Tiananmen Square, too.