Alexander Conklin

"I want Bourne in a body-bag by sundown."

- Alex Conklin giving an assignment to his team.

Alexander "Ted" Conklin (played by Chris Cooper) is the main antagonist of The Bourne Identity.

He is the offical overlooking Operation Treadstone. He reports to CIA Deputy Director Abbot Ward about the failed assassination of Nykwana Wombosi, an African dictator. He then give an order to three "assets", Castel, The Professor, and Manheim to kill Jason Bourne. He remains in his office for a while to get the locations of Bourne from the analysts. Conklin also enlists Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons to assists him in tracking Bourne and Marie Helena Kreutz down.

After Castel and The Professor were killed, Conklin had a conservation with Bourne, who asks him about the assignment to kill Wombosi. Conklin tells Bourne that he planned the operation to kill the African dictator. The latter tell him that he wants to quit and warn him not to tell it to the others involved in Tereadstone, before knocking him out and confronts his team waiting for him.

As Conklin gives Nicky the order to shut down the safehouse, a man is waiting for him, and it's none other than the third "asset", Manheim. He was killed by the latter, who shoots him thrice. Treadstone is disbanded by Abbot and changed to "Operation Blackbrair".