信条Tenet Movie Script

PROTAGONIST:

You used me.

PRIYA:

As you used Katherine. Standard operating procedure. You’ve done your part.

PROTAGONIST:

My part? I’m the protagonist of this operation –

PRIYA:

You’re a protagonist.

(off look) What? You thought you were the only person capable of saving the world?

PROTAGONIST:

No. But I am. Because I haven’t told you where he’s assembling the algorithm, or when.

PRIYA:

You’re about to.

PROTAGONIST:

No, I’m not. So deal us in.

PRIYA:

Why would you involve her again?

PROTAGONIST:

She can get close to him.

PRIYA:

Does he still trust her?

PROTAGONIST:

He thinks she’s dead. But he used to.

PRIYA:

You have started looking at the world in a new way.

PROTAGONIST:

And now it’s your turn. Assuming she makes it out alive, whether or not you feel she knows too much... I can’t.

PRIYA:

PROTAGONIST:

If you don’t have the authority, talk to whoever’s in charge of loose ends. I need your word that she and her son will be safe.

PRIYA:

(frustrated) What good is someone’s word in our line of business?

The Protagonist just looks at her. She NODS.

PRIYA (CONT'D) They’ll be safe. There’s a rally point offshore at Trondheim. Get yourselves up there... EXT. WIND FARM, NORWAY – DAY Chinooks cross BACKWARDS through WHITE TURBINES. Service boats pull people off ladders. A large ICEBREAKER sits nearby – EXT. ICEBREAKER, BARENTS SEA – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist, IN RESPIRATOR, does PULL-UPS on deck, the movement ‘shaking’ snow back up onto the pipe... PRIYA (V.O.) Ives has a team ready to invert.

CUT BACK TO THE PROTAGONIST IN OSLO –

PROTAGONIST:

You have a turnstile? The exact technology we’re trying to suppress?

EXT. ICEBREAKER – DAY The Protagonist watches a CHINOOK long-line a container... PRIYA (V.O.) Fighting fire with fire is a treacherous business, but there are people in the future who need us to continue the algorithm’s journey into the past. You see... Taking a look at the sea CHURNING BACKWARDS into the stern as the inverted ship ‘progresses’, he heads below deck... CUT BACK TO PRIYA IN OSLO –

PRIYA:

...Tenet wasn’t founded in the past – it will be founded in the future.

INT. HOLD, ICEBREAKER – CONTINUOUS Coming out of an AIRLOCK, he removes his respirator. Walks past Wheeler drilling TENET SOLDIERS – non-inverted soldiers in respirators SPAR with inverted soldiers. Neil is amongst troops practising ‘LIFTING’ weapons from the floor.

INT. CABIN, ICEBREAKER – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist enters. Kat sits at a window.