The Bourne Identity Chapter 25 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Villiers leaves in his car. Bourne follows him and pretends to almost run into him. When the General gets out of his car to make sure Bourne is okay, Bourne puts a gun on him and tells him to do as he says.
  • Villiers refuses. Bourne accuses him of being Carlos's lackey.
  • So Villiers freaks out and starts attacking Bourne. Bourne could shoot him but instead throws the gun away and subdues him.
  • Villiers says that Carlos assassinated his son.
  • Bourne and Villiers get in the car and talk. Bourne explains that Carlos has a contact at Villiers's house. Villiers denies it, and talks a little about glory and France and what have you.
  • Villiers says that Bourne doesn't know what it's like to lose a child. Bourne gets a headache-y thing, which suggests that maybe he does (background tragedy alert).
  • Bourne says that Carlos is using a number at Villiers's house. He asks Villiers if he answers the phone himself, and Villiers says no.
  • Instead, the phone is answered by various servants and his wife.
  • Villiers decides to believe Bourne, because Bourne could have shot him earlier when he attacked him but did not.
  • So Bourne and Villiers are buddies now, and they drive back to the General's house—though Bourne is still a little suspicious.
  • When Bourne and Villiers get back to the General's house, Bourne sees a young woman talking with the switchboard operator guy from Les Classiques—the dude who Bourne recognized from his former life.
  • Bourne goes and talks to Villiers, who tells him the woman he saw talking was his wife.
  • So… Villiers's young wife is betraying him to Carlos, who killed Villiers's son. This is a bad day for Villiers.
  • And we bop back to Carlos talking to his minions—this time some old beggar who is sneaky and smart and has a bunch of theories about what Cain is doing, though amnesia isn't on the list.
  • The beggar figures Cain will try to track the people from Les Classiques. Carlos decides to stake out the stake out and catch him if he can.
  • Carlos decides he's going to kill Cain on March 25, the day the original Jason Bourne was executed in North Vietnam. Which seems kind of dumb and pointless, but that's supervillains for you.