Douglas Quaid er en fabriksarbejder, som henvender sig til det revolutionerende firma "Rekall", der kan forvandle hans spionfantasier til realistiske erindringer, men proceduren går gruelig galt, så skellet mellem fantasi og virkelighed udviskes. Det ender med, at Quaid må tage flugten, mens hans verden ramler ned om ørerne på ham.

Jason Bourne, der er blevet reddet med to kugler i ryggen, har fået totalt hukkommelsestab. Det går snart op for ham, at han bliver nødt til at finde ud af, hvem han er for at overleve. Han jages af mordere i et kapløb med tiden, samtidig opdager Bourne hurtigt, at han også har et udpræget dræberinstinkt.

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.