信条Tenet Movie Script

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) She takes it, suddenly interested...

KAT:

Wow. It’s extraordinary.

She lays the drawing on the table and grabs a loupe –

PROTAGONIST:

What’s it worth?

KAT:

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

There’s a lot of work before any kind of valuation – provenance, microscopic examination, X-rays... She is bent over the table, peering through the loupe.

The Protagonist studies her reaction as he –

PROTAGONIST:

But what does your heart tell you?

She steps back. Something about the drawing BOTHERS her...

KAT:

I’m sorry, where did you say you acquired this drawing?

PROTAGONIST:

Tomas Arepo.

Kat rises and turns to face the Protagonist. Cold.

KAT:

What do you want?

PROTAGONIST:

What I want is complicated.

KAT:

Do you work for my husband?

PROTAGONIST:

I’ve never met your husband. That’s the reason I’m here. Is there somewhere we can talk?

KAT:

In London? Not really.

INT. RESTAURANT – NIGHT The Protagonist and Kat sit at a corner table.

PROTAGONIST:

I bought my Goya for cents on the dollar from an irate Swiss banker.

Traced it to Arepo, and realized I’d scored a bargain when he told me who’d paid top dollar for another one of his pictures. Your husband.

KAT:

Where’s the bargain? Your drawing’s an obvious fake.

PROTAGONIST:

My drawing’s a very good fake – you know that better than anyone. The information’s the bargain.

KAT:

The information that I helped defraud my own husband?

PROTAGONIST:

He and I are in related businesses, but he’s a hard man to meet. If you and I were to make an arrangement –

KAT:

Arrangement? You mean blackmail.