The Bourne Identity Chapter 34 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • We're with Carlos talking to that beggar. Carlos is really unhappy about the news that Angélique Villiers has been killed.
  • Carlos doesn't understand why Cain killed her. The beggar suggests that he's gone completely mad.
  • Carlos does the supervillain thing again and says he'll kill Bourne (again)—this time in New York.
  • Then we're back to Conklin, who's found out that Bourne, using the name Washburn, has come to New York. Conklin can't figure out why.
  • Conklin consults a psychiatrist named Dr. Morris Panov.
  • Conklin wants Panov to confirm that Bourne could have multiple personality disorder and think that he's both Cain and Carlos.
  • Panov reluctantly says it's possible, and Conklin decides with melodramatic burbling that that means he can kill Bourne.
  • Conklin also says to himself that Bourne's real name is David Webb, which is the first time that name is mentioned in the novel.
  • We're back in Paris with Marie and Villiers. They go back and forth for awhile but eventually share their information and decide they need to go to the American embassy to tell the whole truth about what happened to Bourne.
  • We get a brief glimpse of the Secretary of State freaking out at the report of what Marie told the embassy.
  • Then there's a telephone call, during which someone important chews out Crawford and tells him he's an idiot and that they shouldn't kill Bourne—because he's a good guy even if he is an amnesiac.
  • Unfortunately, Crawford can't get in touch with Conklin who is setting things up to kill Bourne.
  • Crawford says that if he can take Marie with him, he can go to where Bourne will be and maybe sort everything out.