信条Tenet Movie Script

SATOR:

(via recording) Next one’s a bullet to the head... He holds up a finger – Kat is SCREAMING – SATOR (CONT'D) (via recording) One... Please!

PROTAGONIST:

SATOR:

(via recording) Two... No!

PROTAGONIST:

SATOR:

(via recording) Three...

PROTAGONIST:

Okay! Okay! The car! The BMW! I left it in the BMW! Kat’s screams subside to moans as she PASSES OUT...

SATOR:

(via recording) We’re going to check this is real.

PROTAGONIST:

It’s in the glove box! The door OPENS behind the Protagonist – SATOR (O.S.) Where did you leave it?

The Protagonist spins around – Sator, BEHIND HIM, SMASHES his gun into the Protagonist’s cheek – THIS SATOR IS FORWARDS – SATOR (CONT'D) Car or truck – which one?! Sator HITS him again – the Protagonist falls near the glass – looks up through the glass to see ‘backwards’ Sator, on the blue side, staring at him dispassionately... SATOR (CONT'D) Which vehicle did you leave it in?! I need to know before I go out there!

PROTAGONIST:

I already told you! Forwards Sator looks through the window at his inverse self – then turns back to the Protagonist –

SATOR:

I believe you... Sator puts his GUN to the Protagonist’s forehead – SATOR (CONT'D) (indicates Kat) You wanted her here. I hope you’ll be happy together – Sator C*CKS his weapon – BLAMBLAMBLAM! – the double doors behind the Protagonist SMASH open – PARAMILITARIES BURST IN, GUNS BLAZING – the two guards are SHOT – Sator JUMPS FOR THE VAULT – HITS A BUTTON – On the other side of the glass, INVERTED SATOR runs backwards towards the other vault door – BOTH SATORS JUMP INSIDE AND ARE GONE – A Paramilitary SERGEANT enters, gun drawn – Clear! PARAMILITARY SERGEANT The Protagonist looks at the empty vault –

PROTAGONIST:

Where’d he go?

The past.

PARAMILITARY SERGEANT INT. TURNSTILE, TALLINN FREEPORT – MOMENTS EARLIER Sator runs out of the turnstile – into the blue side of the room – on the other side he sees the paramilitary AMBUSH IN REVERSE... for a few seconds he watches his older self interrogate the Protagonist, then fires up his phone, steps up to the glass – the Protagonist SHOUTS PASSIONATELY –

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording) It’s in the glove box!

SATOR:

We’re going to check this is real.

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording) Okay! Okay! The car! The BMW! I left it in the BMW! The sound of Kat’s MOANING is BUILDING and BUILDING. Sator holds up one finger – Three... No!

SATOR:

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording) Adds a second finger – Kat is SCREAMING now – Two...

SATOR:

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording) Please! And a third –

SATOR:

One. Next one’s a bullet to the head.

Kat’s SCREAM CRESCENDOS as Sator GRABS her and pushes her up against the glass, PULLS HIS TRIGGER, ‘HEALING’ her wound – One... Wait! SATOR (CONT'D)

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording) Holds up two fingers – Two...

SATOR: