All 50 Uses of
Medusa
in
The Bourne Ultimatum
- Medusa.†
Medusa = Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone
- Jason Bourne had come out of Medusa with David Webb only a memory-a scholar who had another wife, other children, all slaughtered.†
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- General Norman Swayne had been an elite member of Command Saigon, the sole supplier of the old Medusa.†
- And now there was a new Medusa: different, massive, evil incarnate cloaked in contemporary respectability, searching out and destroying whole segments of global economies, all for the benefit of the few, all financed by the profits from a long-ago bastard battalion, un-logged, unacknowledged-non-history.†
- This modern Medusa was the bridge to Carlos the Jackal.†
- The father was David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, but once part of the notorious, unspoken-of Medusa, twice the legend that was Jason Bourne-assassin.†
- "Medusa," whispered Steven DeSole.†
- A man who felt there wasn't much left to live for, someone who had a death wish, perhaps ...a decent human being who was driven into an outfit like Medusa out of hatred and frustration.†
- Our man went crazy; he chucked everything and made his way to Saigon and into Medusa.†
- He became Delta One-no names were ever used in Medusa-and he was considered the most effective guerrilla leader in the war, as often as not fighting Command Saigon over orders as he did the enemy with death squads.†
- I knew a number of those Medusa pricks, and I can't think of one that I didn't want to put a bullet in his head!†
- Medusa.†
- Medusa's Delta and his mighty challenge to the Jackal.†
- "Medusa," said Webb quietly.†
- I want to use Medusa.†
- Medusa wasn't exactly the secret evil you seem to think it was.†
- My point, David, is that there can never be any connection between Medusa and the United States government.†
- There's no statute of limitations on war crimes, and Medusa was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of violent misfits who wanted the corrupt Southeast Asia back the way they knew it and used it.†
- If it was ever established that Washington was behind Medusa, the reputation of some very important people in the White House and the State Department would be ruined.†
- Some things we never want out of their black holes, and Medusa's one of them.†
- The member of Medusa who was called Delta was Jason Bourne, and Jason Bourne was a creation of American intelligence-and he's still alive.†
- ...Medusa, Alex.†
- If Bourne was plucked from Medusa, it has to follow that our covert operations were working with it-with them.†
- What the Jackal doesn't know or hasn't put together yet is how far this government-especially certain people in this government-will go to keep Medusa in its black hole.†
- Every officer in Command Headquarters who was connected to Medusa had one.†
- Well, hear it now, Mr. Medusa.†
- Medusa.†
- Otherwise he would have been clearer, more forthcoming; instead, for reasons Jason could not fathom, Alexander Conklin did not want to talk about Medusa or whatever he had learned in peeling away twenty years of deceit.†
- Medusa?†
- I can't touch our five-so far, five-inheritors of Medusa.†
- ...I've said nothing to anyone about going after former Medusa personnel-that was between you and me, nobody else.†
- Because I have to figure out another admiral before I move any further into Medusa territory.†
- You told me this morning he'd have no problem wasting any member of Medusa.†
- You could resign under doctor's orders and we take care of you-Medusa takes care of you.†
- What does it mean when a man who has a hundred million dollars in Zurich tells me that Medusa-point of origin Command Saigon, emphasis on 'command,' which is hardly civilian-should get rid of the military because Snake Lady doesn't need them any longer?†
- I told him Medusa might get him a villa someplace out of the country where he couldn't be reached if we thought it was necessary.†
- Present Carlos with a client as rich and as powerful as our current Medusa and it's irresistible to him-he's got the respect of the international big boys, not just the crud of the world, the fanatics of the left and right.†
- Swayne headed up the Quartermaster Corps in Saigon and supplied Medusa.†
- ...Medusa.†
- "Très bien!" had yelled the oldest French member of Medusa, who years later would save his life in a wildlife sanctuary in Beijing.†
- Medusa.†
- Medusa's Delta One would find out if he had to carve that skull apart.†
- "Try again," said Delta of Medusa.†
- Medusa-the civilian inheritors.†
- But you were part of that Saigon twenty years ago, part of Snake Lady-hell, Sergeant, you were Medusa, you are Medusa.†
- But you were part of that Saigon twenty years ago, part of Snake Lady-hell, Sergeant, you were Medusa, you are Medusa.†
- The minute the news breaks, I'm on Medusa's rug-so's Rachel!†
- A brutal killer from Medusa.†
- Whoever staged this gruesome 'suicide' had orders from high up in Medusa.†
- Remember, you insisted we keep Langley and Peter Holland away from Medusa.†
Definition:
Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone if they looked at her