Death of Conklin
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Bourne Identity
chewtoy45 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 11:12 AM)
- Did the assassin think he was killing Bourne?
- When Abbott shut the operation down, did he think Bourne had been killed or had he set up Conklin?
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
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clark_gillies — 10 years ago(October 05, 2015 02:16 AM)
Its built up for you to believe that he is going to kill Bourne, but pretty much what happened was the roof of Treadstone came crashing down, and Abbot knew Conklin had lost control and was a case of damage limitation.
Abbot knew Bourne was not dead (if you watch the DVD for the alternative intro and ending he actually offers Bourne the chance to come back to work for them).
Naturally it takes on a whole different meaning when we get to Supremacy. -
hilaryjrp — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 09:36 AM)
As other posters said, the DVD alternate ending makes it clear that the assassin intended to kill Conklin. However, 12+ years ago, before any of the sequels, it seemed that Conklin's rumpled overcoat-in-silhouette was meant to be mistaken as Bourne in a rumpled-overcoat-in-silhouette.