信条Tenet Movie Script

The Protagonist shakes his head. Barbara reaches forward – BARBARA (CONT'D) How about now? – One of the rounds FLIES UP INTO HER HAND, FALLING IN REVERSE.

The Protagonist is taken aback. Barbara holds the round towards him so he can inspect it – BARBARA (CONT'D) It’s inverted – its entropy runs backwards. So, to our eyes, its movement is reversed. We think it’s a type of inverse radiation, triggered by nuclear fission.

PROTAGONIST:

You didn’t make it?

BARBARA:

We don’t know how. Yet.

PROTAGONIST:

So where’d it come from?

BARBARA:

Someone’s manufacturing them in the future. They’re streaming back at us.

Barbara places the round on the table, in front of a CAMERA.

Try it.

BARBARA (CONT'D) He puts on a glove – moves his hand over it, nothing.

BARBARA (CONT'D) You have to have dropped it.

The Protagonist reaches out again – it LEAPS UP INTO HIS HAND.

PROTAGONIST:

How can it move before I touch it?

She cues up the recording of what he just did –

BARBARA:

From your point of view you caught it, but from the bullet’s point of view... She plays it BACKWARDS – BARBARA (CONT'D) ...you dropped it.

ON THE SCREEN:

the round FALLS from his hand.

PROTAGONIST:

But cause has to come before effect.

BARBARA:

No. That’s just how we see time.

She PULLS the round towards herself using one finger – the round follows her finger as if MAGNETIZED...

PROTAGONIST:

What about free will?

BARBARA:

That bullet wouldn’t have moved if you hadn’t put your hand there.

Either way we run the tape, you made it happen.

She LAUNCHES it up into her other hand – BARBARA (CONT'D) Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.

Barbara PLAYS with the round in increasingly IMPROBABLE, BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENTS... The round SHOOTS AWAY FROM HER – the Protagonist CATCHES IT...

PROTAGONIST:

Instinct. Got it.

Barbara smiles, swaps him the round for the pistol. She then places a TRAY COVERED IN SHELL CASINGS beside him.