信条Tenet Movie Script

How?

NEIL:

PROTAGONIST:

Dead drops. He buries his time capsule, transmits the location, then digs it up to collect whatever inverted material they’ve sent.

NEIL:

Instantaneous. Where’s he bury it?

PROTAGONIST:

Someplace that won’t be disturbed for centuries. What did the soil sample show?

NEIL:

Northern Europe or Asia, radioactive. Dried blood was European.

PROTAGONIST:

Pretty broad.

NEIL:

This is the start of the run.

The Protagonist looks back where they came. Then up ahead.

PROTAGONIST:

When does the material arrive?

NEIL:

Thursday. When does Sator arrive?

PROTAGONIST:

I don’t know. But he’ll be here.

NEIL:

Cargo’s in a reinforced truck.

Nuclear police front and back – SUVs with serious armour – you can’t break in through the windows.

PROTAGONIST:

And they can’t break out.

NEIL:

I don’t follow.

PROTAGONIST:

You will. So, light convoy through downtown, what’s the thinking?

NEIL:

A crowded, unpredictable traffic pattern makes planning an ambush almost impossible.

The Protagonist looks around at the congestion.

PROTAGONIST:

They have a point. Is the convoy monitored from the air?

NEIL:

No, tracked by GPS – a wrong turn or an unscheduled stop, in comes the cavalry.

Neil and the Protagonist hop a tram. The Protagonist studies the journey along the multi-lane road out of town.

PROTAGONIST:

We need big guns, guns that make the point without being fired. We need a fast car that doesn’t look fast and four heavy vehicles, all different – bus, coach, eighteen- wheeler... Neil nods.

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) One of them has to be a fire truck.

Neil looks up, interested.