信条Tenet Movie Script

The Protagonist aims at the target – a shell casing LEAPS into the gun – he FIRES, and a bullet hole near the bullseye VANISHES – PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) Why does it feel so strange?

BARBARA:

You’re not shooting the bullet, you’re catching it.

Whoa.

PROTAGONIST:

The Protagonist examines the target – no bullet holes.

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) I’ve seen this type of ammunition before.

BARBARA:

In the field?

PROTAGONIST:

I was almost hit.

BARBARA:

Then you are exceedingly lucky... The Protagonist turns to her... BARBARA (CONT'D) An inverted bullet passing through your body would be devastating. The inverse radiation would spread through your body. Like polonium poisoning. Not pretty.

The Protagonist examines the rounds...

PROTAGONIST:

These look like today’s.

BARBARA:

They may have been made today, then inverted years from now.

PROTAGONIST:

Where did you get them?

BARBARA:

They came with the wall. I was assigned it, like all the material I’m studying here.

PROTAGONIST:

Do you have an analysis of the metals?

Sure. Why?

BARBARA:

PROTAGONIST:

The mixture of alloys can tell me where they might have been made.

Look, I know you said that ‘what’ is my business –

BARBARA:

Let’s not go off-topic.

PROTAGONIST:

I’m not seeing Armageddon here.

Barbara takes the round from him, and beckons him to follow – INT. ARCHIVE – CONTINUOUS Between tall sets of DRAWERS...

BARBARA:

A bullet may not seem like much, but it’s a simple machine – lead bullet, brass casing, gunpowder. If they can invert this – I see no reason they couldn’t invert pretty much anything. Even a nuclear weapon can only affect our future.

An inverted weapon might be able to affect our past as well.

Barbara stops at a drawer. Gestures around herself – BARBARA (CONT'D) Now that we know what to look for, we’re finding more and more inverted material... She opens a drawer, revealing a VARIETY OF RUSTED BITS AND PIECES – SCREWS, CRACKED LENSES, METAL RODS, BUTTONS... BARBARA (CONT'D) ...remnants of complex objects.

The Protagonist reaches out and lets a RUSTED BUCKLE leap into his hand.