At every stage, you’ve known more than you should. I’m asking you one more time. Did you talk?
IVES (O.S.) Nobody talked. They’re running a temporal pincer movement.
Ives is next to the Protagonist, ready to help Neil... A what?
PROTAGONIST:
IVES:
A pincer movement. But not in space – in time. Half his team moves forwards through the event – he monitors them, then attacks from the end, moving backwards. Knowing everything.
PROTAGONIST:
Except where I stashed the plutonium.
The Protagonist lets Neil go... PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) Which is not plutonium, is it?
NEIL:
I told you – it’s what he’s after.
And you just told him where it is.
I lied.
PROTAGONIST:
Neil looks at Kat, bleeding out on the gurney.
Jesus.
NEIL:
PROTAGONIST:
He couldn’t verify from inside the room, he’d have shot her anyway.
Lying is standard operating procedure.
The Medic steps away from Kat, shakes his head.
MEDIC:
It’s spread too far.
PROTAGONIST:
Meaning what?
IVES:
She’s going to die.
NEIL:
(to Protagonist) Standard operating procedure?
(MORE) NEIL (CONT'D) (to Ives) Can’t you stabilize inverse radiation by inverting the patient?
IVES:
That takes days – The Protagonist points at the turnstile – Let’s go.
PROTAGONIST:
IVES:
We took control of this machine minutes ago – before that it’s Sator’s.