信条Tenet Movie Script

PROTAGONIST:

At every stage, you’ve known more than you should. I’m asking you one more time. Did you talk?

IVES (O.S.) Nobody talked. They’re running a temporal pincer movement.

Ives is next to the Protagonist, ready to help Neil... A what?

PROTAGONIST:

IVES:

A pincer movement. But not in space – in time. Half his team moves forwards through the event – he monitors them, then attacks from the end, moving backwards. Knowing everything.

PROTAGONIST:

Except where I stashed the plutonium.

The Protagonist lets Neil go... PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) Which is not plutonium, is it?

NEIL:

I told you – it’s what he’s after.

And you just told him where it is.

I lied.

PROTAGONIST:

Neil looks at Kat, bleeding out on the gurney.

Jesus.

NEIL:

PROTAGONIST:

He couldn’t verify from inside the room, he’d have shot her anyway.

Lying is standard operating procedure.

The Medic steps away from Kat, shakes his head.

MEDIC:

It’s spread too far.

PROTAGONIST:

Meaning what?

IVES:

She’s going to die.

NEIL:

(to Protagonist) Standard operating procedure?

(MORE) NEIL (CONT'D) (to Ives) Can’t you stabilize inverse radiation by inverting the patient?

IVES:

That takes days – The Protagonist points at the turnstile – Let’s go.

PROTAGONIST:

IVES:

We took control of this machine minutes ago – before that it’s Sator’s.

PROTAGONIST:

How long will she live on this side?