信条Tenet Movie Script

NEIL:

Mahir and Rohan slipped out clean.

(turns to the Protagonist) I’ve seen too much and I’m still alive. Which means you’ve decided to trust me.

PROTAGONIST:

Or I’ve lost my edge.

NEIL:

Oh, your edge is intact.

The Protagonist looks at Neil.

PROTAGONIST:

There’s a cold war.

Nuclear?

Temporal.

NEIL:

PROTAGONIST:

NEIL:

(skeptical) Time travel?

PROTAGONIST:

No. Technology that can invert an object’s entropy.

NEIL:

You mean reverse chronology. Like Feynman and Wheeler’s notion that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time.

PROTAGONIST:

Sure, that’s exactly what I meant.

NEIL:

I’ve a master’s in physics.

PROTAGONIST:

Well, try to keep up.

NEIL:

The implications of this are –

PROTAGONIST:

Beyond secret.

NEIL:

Then why’d you take me in?

PROTAGONIST:

I thought we’d find the drawing and a couple boxes of bullets.

NEIL:

You were as surprised as I was.

PROTAGONIST:

I’m going back to Mumbai for answers. I’ll set you up as go- between. But remember – to you, all this is about plutonium. Or when we’re done, they’ll kill you.

NEIL:

Won’t you have to anyway?

PROTAGONIST:

I’d rather it was my decision.

NEIL:

So would I. I think.