arrested. Bourne locates Irena and confesses to murdering her parents, apologizing to her as he leaves. Later in New York, Bourne calls Landy; she thanks him for the tape, reveals to him his original name, David Webb, and his date and place of birth, and asks him to meet her. Bourne, who is watching her afar from a building tells her to get some rest, as he disappears into the crowd. Cast Matt Damon as Jason Bourne: An amnesiac and former assassin of the CIA's Operation Treadstone Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: Deputy Director and Task Force Chief, pursues Bourne after her operation goes badly Brian Cox as Ward Abbott: CIA Section Chief, who was formerly in charge of Treadstone Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz: Bourne's girlfriend Julia Stiles as Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons: A former agent who is taken from her post-Treadstone assignment to assist in the search for Bourne Karl Urban as Kirill: A Russian Federal Security Service agent and an expert assassin who is working for Gretkov Karel Roden as Yuri Gretkov: Kirill's employer Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn: Formerly assigned to Treadstone headquarters, is now on Abbott's staff Marton Csokas as Jarda: A Czech former Treadstone operative based out of Munich Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall: CIA Director Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's righthand agent Michelle Monaghan as Kim: Landy's number two agent Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski: Daughter of politician Vladimir Neski, whom Bourne killed Production There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one. According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot for the sequel was not only based on the novel The Bourne Supremacy but also on Bourne's threat in the first film to come after the CIA if it targeted him. Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that screenwriter Tony Gilroy's deviating so much from the book was necessary "because so much of the world has changed" since 1986, when the sequel was first published. Marshall said that Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this