they had physical symptoms: headaches, sensitivity to light.' Before Bourne, however, she had never seen an agent develop amnesia. Symptoms she witnessed included, 'depression, anger, compulsive behaviors. Essentially, her job as logistics coordinator involved managing the technical details of Treadstone missions and cleaning up collateral damage.Īs mental health supervisor, Parsons dealt with the wide array of psychological disturbances suffered by Treadstone agents, not only after their traumatic conditioning (which involved fake 'behavior modification' tools as near drowning, starvation, and sleep deprivation to break the will of the agents), but also in dealing with their daily lives as assassins. She also handled more important tasks, such as being commanded to cover up the very public death of an agent, the agent killed himself by jumping out a window to escape Bourne after Bourne beat him severely (although she specifically says that she couldn't because it was public and in Paris). In The Bourne Identity, she was responsible for many smaller tasks, such as printing wanted posters for Bourne and his traveling partner (later girlfriend), Marie Helena Kreutz, and operating a switchboard through which calls to and from Treadstone's base were filtered. She also served as Bourne's contact in Paris up until he was shot during the (failed) Nykwana Wombosi assassination.Īs logistics coordinator, Parsons handled many technical tasks during Treadstone missions. Parsons had two responsibilities in Treadstone: First, and most oft-portrayed in the movies, coordinating logistical operations second, monitoring the mental health of Treadstone agents. According to her file her date of birth March 28, 1979) The CIA utilized her young age as her cover when she worked for Treadstone in Paris she claimed to be an American student studying abroad. Landy confirms she is Treadstone and her file is pulled up at and can be seen on screen.

(Contradicting that is when Nicky enters Daniels office in Ultimatum and is forced to answer the phone.

Because she was a psychologist as well as logistics coordinator, Parsons had to have finished college. Parsons stated in The Bourne Supremacy that she had worked in Treadstone for three years before its demise, which occurred at the end of Identity, making Parsons 22 years old when she joined the program.

Though Julia Stiles was only 21 years old when The Bourne Identity was released (19-20 when it was filmed), Identity director Doug Liman stated that the Nicky Parsons character was about 25 years old. Little is known about Parsons' life before Treadstone however, several things can be inferred.

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