The Bourne Legacy (2012)

The Bourne Legacy is a 2012 action thriller film and the fourth installment in the Bourne film series, which is based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels. It is directed by Tony Gilroy, screenwriter of the first three films and was released on August 8, 2012, in the Philippines and Singapore; August 9, 2012, in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Czech Republic; August 10, 2012, in the US and India; and August 13, 2012, in the UK.

The film uses the same title as The Bourne Legacy, a later Bourne novel written by Eric Van Lustbader, and like the previous two films in the franchise, has a completely different plot from the eponymous novels.

Plot: Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a member of Operation Outcome, one of the Department of Defense's black ops programs, which provides its agents with green pills that enhance physical abilities and blue pills that enhance mental abilities. He is deployed to Alaska for a training assignment, during which he pretends to lose his supply of pills in order to get more, and meets another Outcome operative, Number Three (Oscar Isaac). Number Three and Cross, codenamed "Number Five", lodge up in a cabin, but a blizzard prevents them from returning to civilization.

Meanwhile, Jason Bourne exposes Operation Blackbriar and the Treadstone Project, leading to CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) and Operation Blackbriar supervisor Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) being investigated by the FBI. Upon learning of this, CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn), also under investigation, calls Eric Byer (Edward Norton), a retired USAF Colonel responsible for overseeing the CIA's clandestine operations, for help.

Byer decides to eliminate all Outcome assets and deploys a Predator to destroy the cabin where Number Three is located. Cross had arrived early at the cabin, so Byer does not realize he is also there. Cross leaves to survey the area just as a missile destroys the cabin, killing Number Three. Cross uses a sniper rifle to destroy the Predator and, realizing that his superiors have ordered his assassination, removes a tracking device in his thigh, which he forces a wolf that attacks him to swallow. A second Predator deployed to eliminate Cross strikes the wolf, and Byer mistakenly assumes Cross has been terminated.

Byer also instructs the handlers of Outcome's other assets to replace their green and blue pills with yellow pills that kill them in a matter of hours, and captures one of Outcome's scientists, Dr. Donald Foite (Željko Ivanek), chemically brainwashing him into killing his colleagues. The only survivor is Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz), who escapes after Foite commits suicide in order to avoid being questioned by security. Shearing is later attacked in her house by CIA agents ordered to kill her, and rescued by Cross, who convinces her to help him. Shearing reveals that Cross was genetically modified to retain the benefits of the green pills without need of continuous consumption, a process they call "viralling off". Cross and Shearing decide to travel to Manila, where the pills are manufactured, to "viral off" the blue pills into Cross' body.