The Bourne Identity: The Archive (and Updated Checklist)

 A wonderful movie:

• The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Bourne Identity
• Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 1: No Moment of Humanity
• Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 2: When Invisibles Go Too Far
• Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 3: Three Henchman Structure and Repeated Beats
• Rulebook Casefile: Tone Maintenance in The Bourne Identity
• Rulebook Casefile: The Bourne Identity’s Everyman that Isn’t
• Rulebook Casefile: The Way the World Works in The Bourne Identity

Here’s another example of one I had to cut because it’s no longer on the checklist, but which got an interesting answer:
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Are set-up and pay-off used to dazzle the audience (and maybe distract attention from plot contrivances)?

We’re shown very early on that the Americans are so frustrated that they’re looking up everywhere Marie has ever lived.  When this pays off for them an hour later, it doesn’t seem dubious.