Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai contacted Jason Bourne, offered him a way to escape surveillance, and asked for his help retrieving something from a person who trusted him. Jason hesitated as Jiang Yan Hai promised to send evidence of what had happened after he appeared in New York.

• Jennifer stopped Jason Bourne and passed him a phone call from Jiang Yan Hai, who told him to collect a phone at a nearby store.
• After the call, Jennifer reported the strange encounter to 911 and was assured that the caller had been with the FBI.
• Jason collected the prepaid phone and earbuds, then answered Jiang Yan Hai’s call.
• Jiang Yan Hai offered to help Jason leave his past behind and asked him to retrieve something useful from a person who trusted him.
• Jason questioned Jiang Yan Hai’s motives, and Jiang Yan Hai said he would send photos and documents about what happened after Jason appeared in New York.

Jiang Yan Hai showed Jason Bourne evidence that the CIA was eliminating people tied to the Harvest Plan and helped him escape to New York. Jason agreed to wait there while Jiang Yan Hai arranged for the escaped agent and a surviving researcher to join him.

• Jiang Yan Hai sent Jason Bourne images of people connected to the Harvest Plan dying, and Jason drove away in a remotely unlocked car.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the CIA had killed agents and researchers to erase evidence of the Harvest Plan and its predecessor, the Black Thorn Project.
• Jason asked whether anyone had escaped, and Jiang Yan Hai told him about an agent in Alaska and a female researcher who had fled a drug-testing facility.
• Jason offered to save the researcher, but Jiang Yan Hai said the escaped agent could handle it with his help and asked Jason to wait in New York.
• Jason agreed to travel to a Manhattan apartment, while Jiang Yan Hai offered to arrange a disguise and a new passport.

Jason Bourne arrived at the apartment Liston Han Xiao had arranged for him, while Jiang Yan Hai and Er Dan monitored events from afar. Jiang Yan Hai then contacted Allen Klaus, the last surviving agent of the Harvest Plan, as Allen headed to find Dr. Marta for his medication.

• Jason Bourne entered a luxury apartment whose automated systems welcomed him and prepared a hot shower and takeout.
• Jiang Yan Hai woke when Er Dan reported that Reaper 5, Allen Klaus, had reached Chicago and was heading toward a parking lot.
• Allen Klaus drove toward Dr. Marta’s residence, hoping to obtain the pills he had gone without for several days.
• Jiang Yan Hai called Allen Klaus and revealed that he had erased Allen’s traces from cameras after his escape from Alaska.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Allen Klaus that the Harvest Plan’s organizer was eliminating everyone involved and that Allen was its only surviving agent.

After learning that the Harvest Plan had killed his fellow agents and targeted Dr. Marta, Allen rescued her and learned that the medicine was produced in Manila. Jiang Yan Hai offered help and directed them to New York, where he would arrange their onward travel.

• Allen learned from Jiang Yan Hai that Jason Bourne’s investigation had exposed Operation Stone and that the Harvest Plan was eliminating agents around the world.
• Allen asked where to find the medicine, and Jiang Yan Hai warned him that an action team had been sent to silence Dr. Marta.
• Allen reached Dr. Marta’s villa, defeated the team staging her suicide, and escaped with her through the forest.
• Allen gave Marta the identity Joan Monroe, then Jiang Yan Hai warned them to leave their roadside stop before they appeared in satellite imagery.
• Allen told Jiang Yan Hai that the medicine was produced in Manila, and Jiang Yan Hai offered to arrange tickets after they went to New York.

Allen and Marta escaped to a New York apartment after Jiang Yan Hai helped erase surveillance evidence and evade the Harvest Plan organization. They met Jason Bourne, and Allen acknowledged that both men had been treated as disposable tools by those they served.

• In the car, Allen told Marta that the caller used the codename Five, then followed the address sent to his phone.
• Mark questioned Terence about what he had concealed regarding Marta, while Eric ordered the team to move its work to an emergency facility.
• Jiang Yan Hai concluded that the organization was already behind and used Er Dan to erase network-connected camera footage as Allen and Marta entered New York.
• Allen and Marta followed their phone’s directions to an apartment, where Jason Bourne greeted them with food.
• Jason Bourne apologized for bringing danger to Allen and Marta, and Allen told him that neither man was to blame for being used as a tool.

Marta learned that Jason Bourne’s past actions had contributed to what happened to her, but she apologized after considering her own role as a researcher. As Jason and Allen discussed leaving the CIA behind, Jiang Yan Hai arrived in Manila and learned how quickly the Ma Gang and Black Star had expanded across Southeast Asia.

• Jason Bourne admitted to Marta that his actions had contributed to what happened to her, and Marta apologized for blaming him.
• Allen ate with Jason Bourne, said he hoped to live peacefully, and arranged for passport photos to be sent to Jiang Yan Hai.
• Jiang Yan Hai traveled to Manila while Jason Bourne, Allen, and Marta remained at Kennedy Airport.
• Yun Tao met Jiang Yan Hai at the airport and reported that the Ma Gang had gained control across much of Southeast Asia.
• Jiang Yan Hai considered how the Ma Gang and Black Star could continue expanding under their rules and leadership.

On a flight to Manila, Jiang Yan Hai reviewed how Ma Yun Fei had turned the Golden Triangle Special Zone into a stable, rapidly growing base and expanded the Ma Gang across Southeast Asia. He worried that the organization had become dangerously powerful, but took comfort in Black Star and Er Dan’s surveillance as he prepared for trouble with the CIA in Manila.

• Jiang Yan Hai read an intelligence report describing the Special Zone’s economic growth and the Ma Gang’s role in controlling violence and stabilizing its cities.
• Ma Yun Fei expanded his influence through smuggling, political corruption, and cooperation with police while avoiding trouble with the north.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized that his strategies had helped the Ma Gang spread across Southeast Asia and feared its power could become uncontrollable.
• Jiang Yan Hai reminded himself that Black Star operated inside the Ma Gang and that Er Dan monitored its members’ communications.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Yun Tao whether picking him up would jeopardize Yun Tao’s position, and Yun Tao assured him that Black Star’s core members would not betray him.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned that the CIA might act in Manila, and Yun Tao replied that Manila was Ma Gang territory.

Jiang Yan Hai settled into a secluded Manila villa while Jason Bourne and his companions flew out of America. In New York, Eric’s team tracked Marta’s escape to a car but found no trace of its route, prompting a search of private security footage.

• Jiang Yan Hai accepted Yun Tao’s help and went with him to a secluded villa near Manila, where he planned to stay under the identity of Technician.
• Jason Bourne and two companions passed through customs and boarded a plane without incident.
• At the Harvest Plan command center, Eric’s team examined satellite images and footage showing Marta getting into a car with another person.
• The investigators found no record of the car on roads within a hundred-kilometer radius, and a Technician suggested a hacker might have erased the footage.
• Eric ordered the team to ask local police to collect recordings from private, offline security cameras along the route.

Eric investigated the altered surveillance footage and realized that an elite agent from the Harvest Plan may have helped Marta escape. After his team found Allen driving the vehicle but no reliable trail through New York, behavioral analysts began assessing the agent’s likely motives and choices.

• Eric connected the attack on Marta’s pursuers to an elite Harvest Plan agent and checked on Jason Bourne, whose trail had vanished.
• Eric ordered his team to review the Harvest Plan cleanup and learned that Reaper 3 and Reaper 5 had been in Alaska, where the second drone’s target signal had moved at roughly forty kilometers per hour.
• Eric reasoned that the target’s speed across snowy, mountainous terrain pointed to a North American gray wolf, and ordered a wider video and behavioral investigation.
• Jason Bourne and his companions flew onward while Jiang Yan Hai stopped monitoring New York after arriving in Manila.
• Eric’s team found private-camera footage showing Reaper 5, Allen, driving a vehicle, but found no trace of it on other surveillance footage and suspected someone had interfered through the internet.
• Behavioral analysts told Eric that the agent would likely seek to understand why he had been attacked, and began weighing whether he could retaliate or would need to hide.

Eric and the analysts deduced that the missing agent had risked saving Dr. Marta because he needed the blue and green pills, and they traced a possible lead to a pharmaceutical factory in Manila. After learning the factory had raw materials that could be used to infect him with a living virus, Eric ordered surveillance and containment measures and activated Ras 3.

• The behavioral analyst concluded that the agent had chosen to rescue Dr. Marta because he needed medication, and Eric realized he was searching for the blue and green pills.
• Terence told Eric that the company had no stock of the pills and identified a factory in Manila that Dr. Marta knew about.
• A staff member warned that the Manila factory had raw materials for inoculating the agent with a living virus.
• Terence contacted factory manager Mike, and Eric ordered the staff to report the pair's arrival and keep them inside the underground laboratory if they entered.
• Eric ordered investigations at New York airports and approved sending Ras 3 from Bangkok.

Eric and the fat old man argued over the Harvest Plan, Jason Bourne, and the decision to target Allen and Marta while keeping Randy alive as a scapegoat. After flight records and surveillance failed to reveal Allen and Marta’s route, Eric realized someone had concealed their movements.

• Eric defended the Harvest Plan and blamed Jason Bourne’s actions for forcing the organization to purge its projects.
• The fat old man explained why Randy had to stay alive, and Eric agreed to prioritize dealing with Allen and Marta.
• Eric ordered the team to check passenger manifests for flights to Manila, but the search found no sign of Allen and Marta.
• The staff reviewed flight records manually and checked airport surveillance, but neither showed the targets or evidence of edited footage.
• Eric concluded that someone had tampered with the investigation and wondered who was behind it.

Eric waited for the suspected CIA assassin to make a move while avoiding involving Black Five. In Manila, Yun Tao urged Mayor Fernandez to report the assassin and have him watched or deported, then began to make another request.

• Eric chose to wait rather than report the matter, and told his team to await developments from Ras 3 near the target factory.
• Yun Tao visited Manila Mayor Fernandez and warned him that a CIA assassin had entered the country.
• Yun Tao gave Fernandez a photograph and information about the assassin's entry into the Philippines.
• Yun Tao suggested Fernandez report the assassin to his superiors, monitor him, or have the police deport him.
• Fernandez agreed to report the matter, and Yun Tao said he had one more request.

Yun Tao secured Mike’s cooperation for bringing two people into Qiming Pharmaceutical Group’s factory, while Jiang Yan Hai left the operation in Yun Tao’s hands. Ras 3 reached the factory and was stopped by police for questioning.

• Yun Tao told Fernandez that Qiming Pharmaceutical Group’s plant was connected to the CIA assassin and received the mayor’s approval to meet its manager.
• Yun Tao offered Mike a choice between cooperating and dying, then promised him money and protection in exchange for helping bring two people into the factory.
• Mike agreed to follow Yun Tao’s plan, and Yun Tao ordered someone to keep an eye on him.
• Jiang Yan Hai relaxed by the sea while Yun Tao handled the operation.
• Ras 3 arrived near the factory, where police cars surrounded the area, and officers asked him to come in for a detailed investigation.

Ras 3 was detained by Manila police while they inspected the pharmaceutical factory, and Eric tried to arrange his release. After learning that the city government had ordered the actions and Ras 3’s identity had been exposed, Eric was told to withdraw him and avoid escalating the incident.

• Ras 3 agreed to accompany the police for questioning after calling Eric, who told him to cooperate while arranging help.
• Eric ordered his people to find someone to bail Ras 3 out and asked why the police were investigating the pharmaceutical factory.
• Mike reported that police had halted production, were inspecting the factory, and had summoned him and its managers for questioning.
• The fat old man told Eric that the mayor had ordered the police action and that the Foreign Ministry had learned Ras 3’s identity was exposed.
• Eric argued that someone was manipulating events, but the fat old man warned that involving the Black Five Department would have serious consequences.
• Eric considered the advice to withdraw Ras 3 and contain the fallout, while the situation remained out of control.

Eric’s group could only stall while Ras 3 was held by police, as Allen, Jason Bourne, and Marta arrived in Manila to meet Jiang Yan Hai. Jiang Yan Hai escorted them into the cleared pharmaceutical factory, where Marta injected Allen with the Living Virus, and the group left after erasing their traces.

• Eric decided to find someone to get Ras 3 out, but the police held Ras 3 for questioning while his lawyer stalled for time.
• Allen, Jason Bourne, and Marta landed in Manila and met Jiang Yan Hai at the airport.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove them through the pharmaceutical factory’s back entrance, where police and guards let them pass without interference.
• Marta injected the Living Virus and other raw materials into Allen, saying a second injection would not help if the first failed.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Er Dan erased the laboratory and surveillance traces before the group left the factory.

Jiang Yan Hai brought Jason Bourne and the ailing Allen to a secure seaside villa, where Marta stayed to care for Allen as he adapted to the Living Virus. Later, Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne shared a quiet evening grilling lamb skewers, and Jason reflected on whether he could leave his violent past behind.

• Jiang Yan Hai examined Allen and told Marta that glucose and saline would help him recover as his body adapted to the Living Virus.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne settled on the beach, where Yun Tao brought barbecue supplies and a bonfire was lit.
• Jiang Yan Hai taught Jason Bourne how to grill lamb skewers while they talked about fighting, hope, and whether people could turn back from their pasts.
• Jiang Yan Hai served Jason Bourne the cooked skewers and showed him how to eat them.

Jiang Yan Hai shared a beach barbecue with Jason Bourne and offered him and Marta safe lives in Southeast Asia. Marta accepted that she could not return to her old life, and Jiang Yan Hai joked that she and the recovering Allen would become husband and wife.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne ate skewers and discussed the killers targeting Allen and Marta being deported without the investigation leading back to Bourne.
• Jiang Yan Hai offered to bring Nikki to safety, and Jason Bourne agreed to call her and arrange a flight.
• Marta reported that Allen’s vital signs had stabilized and asked whether she could return to her old life.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Marta that everyone believed her dead and offered her and Allen a place to live in Southeast Asia.
• Jiang Yan Hai congratulated Marta on gaining a husband, while Jason Bourne joked that he already had someone to care for.

Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne discussed seeking out an Asian contact connected to an object recovered from a former Soviet mine. After Allen recovered, he spoke with Jiang Yan Hai about what to do next, and Jiang Yan Hai offered to help him and Marta settle safely in Southeast Asia.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Jason Bourne about an Asian man who had retrieved something from an abandoned Soviet mine shaft, and Jason recognized him as a friend currently in Southeast Asia.
• Allen woke feeling better, and he threw away his old metal medicine case as a final farewell to it.
• Allen and Marta discussed how they had avoided the dangers they expected, and Marta said she did not blame him for what had happened.
• Allen asked Jiang Yan Hai what arrangements lay ahead, and Jiang Yan Hai explained his work with a mercenary group and another major power.
• Jiang Yan Hai offered to arrange a small island where Allen and Marta could live in seclusion, but Allen remained uncertain after realizing Han Xiao had not needed his help.

Jiang Yan Hai arranged a safe place in Thailand for Allen, Jason Bourne, and two others, coordinating with Arthur to place them at Mei’s guesthouse. Arthur confirmed the arrangements, and Jiang Yan Hai prepared to send them there.

• Allen accepted Jiang Yan Hai’s offer to help him find a place to live and live an ordinary life.
• Jiang Yan Hai contacted Arthur to ask whether Mei’s guesthouse in Thailand was safe for four people.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that Jason Bourne and Allen were among the group, and Arthur agreed to speak with Mei.
• Arthur confirmed Mei could take them in, and Jiang Yan Hai said they would protect Mei as well as themselves.
• Arthur told Jiang Yan Hai to send the group over, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to arrange it.

Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne met Jack, an old CIA agent who had become close to Bourne, at a pier in Phuket. Jack realized they had come for something in his possession and questioned Jiang Yan Hai’s intentions; he agreed to trust him but asked what he planned to do with it.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Yun Tao to keep the Ma Gang unaware of his arrival and arranged a car and yacht in Thailand.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Jason Bourne traveled to a small pier on Phuket Island, where Bourne called Jack out of his boat.
• Jiang Yan Hai recognized Jack as the former CIA agent from Who Am I, and Jack welcomed Bourne aboard.
• Jason Bourne admitted that he wanted something Jack possessed, and Jiang Yan Hai said it could cause uncontrollable consequences if it stayed with him.
• Jack asked whether Jiang Yan Hai intended to use the item for terrorism, and Bourne vouched that Jiang Yan Hai could cause far greater damage without it.
• Jack said he believed them but asked Jiang Yan Hai what he planned to do with the item.