信条Tenet Movie Script

On the other side of the glass, lit by BLUE LIGHT, Sator ‘ENTERS’ BACKWARDS, ‘PULLING’ Kat, who is now in a respirator. Sator ‘SHOVES’ her hard into a chair, removes his own respirator, ‘FLIPPING’ it up onto a hook on the wall.

The Protagonist looks into Kat’s frightened eyes... between them, embedded in a whirl of cracked glass, is a BULLET... Sator TURNS to meet the Protagonist’s gaze – his movements have the surreal edge of backwards motion as he places his GUN AGAINST KAT’S HEAD and pulls out his phone... He holds his PHONE up and plays a recording IN REVERSE –

SATOR:

(via recording) If you’re not telling the truth, she dies.

Sator moves the phone to his lips, SPEAKING IN REVERSE... the Protagonist stares at him, bemused.

PROTAGONIST:

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Sator listens to this played backwards...

SATOR:

(via recording) You left it in the car not the fire truck, right?

PROTAGONIST:

Who told you that?

SATOR:

(via recording) Tell me, now! Is it really in the BMW?

PROTAGONIST:

I don’t know!

SATOR:

(via recording) Tell me or I’ll shoot her again! The Protagonist looks at Kat, who is TERRIFIED –

KAT:

(pleading) Tell him! – then at Sator –

PROTAGONIST:

Leave her alone!

SATOR:

(via recording) I don’t have time to negotiate.

The Protagonist looks at the bullet hole in the glass – WISPS OF SMOKE are gathering...

PROTAGONIST:

Listen to me! I can help you!

SATOR:

(via recording) Three... Don’t! Help me!

PROTAGONIST:

KAT:

SATOR:

(via recording) Two... PLEASE!

KAT:

A FAINT TRICKLE of glass dust rises to where the bullet is lodged in the window... Wait!

PROTAGONIST:

SATOR:

(via recording) One... Sator LIFTS Kat – PUSHES her up against the glass... PLEASE! NO!

KAT:

PROTAGONIST:

The SMOKE COALESCES as BANG! The bullet RIPS THROUGH KAT’S SIDE on its inevitable journey to Sator’s gun. Kat SCREAMS –