信条Tenet Movie Script

PRIYA:

You’re familiar with the Manhattan Project? As they approached the first atomic test, Oppenheimer became concerned the detonation might produce a chain reaction, engulfing the world.

PROTAGONIST:

They went ahead anyway, and got lucky.

PRIYA:

Think of our scientist as her generation’s Oppenheimer – she devises a method for inverting the world, but becomes convinced that by destroying us, they destroy themselves.

PROTAGONIST:

The grandfather paradox.

PRIYA:

Unlike Oppenheimer, she rebels, splitting the algorithm into nine sections and hiding them the best place she can think of...

PROTAGONIST:

The past. Here. Now.

PRIYA:

There are nine nuclear powers. Nine bombs. Nine sets of the most closely guarded materials in the history of the world. The best hiding places possible.

PROTAGONIST:

Nuclear containment facilities.

PRIYA:

Sator’s lifelong mission, financed and guided by the future, has been to find and reassemble the algorithm.

PROTAGONIST:

Why did they choose him?

PRIYA:

The necessary combination of greed and ambition. But mostly, he was in the right place at the right time.

PROTAGONIST:

The collapse of the Soviet Union.

PRIYA:

The most insecure moment in the history of nuclear weapons.

PROTAGONIST:

And there he was. How many of the sections does he have?

PRIYA:

After the 241? All nine.

PROTAGONIST:

Christ. And that’s why you’re going to do it differently this time.

PRIYA:

To change things? So Katherine won’t get hurt?

PROTAGONIST:

So Sator won’t get the algorithm.

PRIYA:

If that universe can exist, we don’t live in it.

PROTAGONIST:

Let’s try. You’re going to warn me.

PRIYA:

No. I’m not. Ignorance is our ammunition. If you’d known what the algorithm was, would you have let it fall into Sator’s hands?

PROTAGONIST:

You want him to get the last section?

PRIYA:

It’s the only way he’ll bring together the other eight.

PROTAGONIST:

I was supposed to steal it, then lose it?

PRIYA:

(smiles) Mission accomplished.