信条Tenet Movie Script

KAT:

As long as you can tell the difference... Sator smiles appreciatively, but pulls out his phone –

SATOR:

A moment’s business, my love... EXT. MAHIR’S BOAT – CONTINUOUS Mahir checks his radio –

IVES:

(over radio) Not clear. Repeat, not clear... INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist and Ives look back at the COLLAPSED ENTRANCE –

PROTAGONIST:

We’re committed now.

They turn and RACE through the mining tunnel...

IVES:

(into radio) Just hold tight – we’re almost there... EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY Neil spots SATOR’S GREY MI8 OVERHEAD, a rope hanging down.

Across the street he sees VOLKOV REVERSE-EXIT the tunnel mouth, CROUCHING to ‘DERIG’ a tripwired booby trap, carrying it towards the chopper, then LEAPING up onto the line – RISING from the streets... Neil STARES. CONCERNED. Checks his watch – ‘4:10’, ‘4:09’... Then TAKES OFF, SPRINTING – Neil!

WHEELER:

She watches him go ahead, then signals Blue team to keep pushing forward... INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist and Ives run down the tunnel... they slow as they see a BODY, blue armband, lying on the ground on the opposite side of a SET OF BARS at the end of the tunnel.

They can see into the hypocentre, the GIANT ATOMIC-HEWN CAVERN, daylight above, CAPSULE on the rock floor next to the mouth of a BORE HOLE. The Protagonist checks his watch –

‘4:

06’, ‘4:05’ ... Ives checks the ELECTRONIC LOCK –

IVES:

We don’t have anything big enough to blow this. Try him – The Protagonist reaches through the bars and checks the body

– FREEZES:

attached to a zip, a TALISMAN – A COIN WITH A HOLE HANGING FROM A SMALL LENGTH OF ORANGE AND YELLOW STRING... The Protagonist looks at it, quizzical, rises –

PROTAGONIST:

Nothing. Can you pick it?

SATOR (O.S.) I hope not. I paid a lot for that lock... WHAM! Ives goes down – SHOT BY VOLKOV, bullet SPARKING off his helmet – on the other side of the bars – gun pointed at the Protagonist, FIELD RADIO held out... Sator’s voice ECHOES through the tunnel – SATOR (CONT'D) (over phone) How do you like where my journey began, and yours ends?

Volkov takes the Protagonist’s gun. Forces him to push Ives’s gun through the bars.

PROTAGONIST:

A little radioactive for my taste.

Volkov drops the guns into the water, places the radio by the bars... EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – LATE AFTERNOON Sator steps away from Kat as he speaks quietly into the phone.

SATOR:

My fate was always bound up with radiation. We’d work where no one else would. We made a devil’s bargain – money for time. We sold our futures.

Kat looks at Mahir’s boat. Nothing. She looks to the shore.

Far in the distance, she can see the TENDER APPROACHING... INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist looks at Volkov. At the bars between him and the capsule...

PROTAGONIST:

Now you’re making the same mistake for the entire world.

SATOR:

(over phone) It wasn’t a mistake. I made the bargain I could. What was yours?

You fight for a cause you barely understand. With people you trust so little you’ve told them nothing about what you’re doing. When I die the world dies with me. And your knowledge dies with you. Buried in the tomb like an anonymous Egyptian builder sealed in the pyramid to keep his secret... INT. TURNSTILE BUILDING, STALSK-12 – DAY Neil comes into the turnstile room... he watches ENEMY TROOPS enter/exit the machine, inverting to join the battle. He waits for his chance... the room is empty... he sees himself through the proving window, and RUNS at the machine... EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – EVENING Sator speaks into his phone –

SATOR:

Your faith is blind. You’re a fanatic.

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone) What’s more fanatical than trying to destroy the world?