The Bourne Identity Chapter 21 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Back over to Bourne and Marie, who are fleeing the hotel room.
  • The concierge recognizes Marie's picture, but Bourne and Marie manage to get away to a cab. Bourne has Marie pull her hair back and change her makeup so she won't be so instantly recognizable.
  • Bourne and Marie get to another hotel, and now Marie doesn't want Bourne to tell her what he knows, partly because she is indecisive, and partly because we want to spin the plot out, I guess.
  • Marie wants to call the Canadian embassy. Bourne says okay, but he takes precautions.
  • Marie calls Dennis, who tells her he wants to send a car immediately. She convinces him to wait four hours till the morning.
  • In the night, assassins come to kill Bourne and Marie. But Marie sneakily gave Dennis the number of a different room than the one they're staying in, so the assassins just shoot up an empty room. Good thing there was no one in there, we guess.
  • The confused assassins leave.
  • Marie insists on calling the embassy again. She finds out that Dennis has been shot in the throat and killed.
  • Marie figures she'd better listen to Bourne's story now.