信条Tenet Movie Script

Kat nods. The chopper lifts off and ZOOMS overhead. Mahir guns the powerboat, STREAKING towards the yacht... EXT. TENET CAMP – DAY The Soldiers head for the Chinooks. As they pass the containers, some stare at them... the Chinooks lift off, some Chinooks rise, LIFTING the containers... EXT. COAST OF VIET NAM – DAY Mahir pulls up fifty yards from the stern of Sator’s yacht... Kat grabs the pistol bag and slips into the water... INT./EXT. NORTHERN PLAIN – DAY The Chinooks BEAT LOW over the windswept plain. Stalsk-12 appears on the horizon – terraced strip-mined land leading to a set of CONCRETESTRUCTURES FUSED TO THE EARTH... EXT. SATOR’S YACHT, COAST OF VIET NAM – DAY Kat quietly pulls herself out of the water and onto a rear platform. She STEALTHILY makes her way up through the boat... EXT. LZ, STALSK-12 – CONTINUOUS The Chinooks long-lining containers RISE, slowing, as the other Chinooks BARREL in towards a large flat area – ANTI- AIRCRAFT GUNS start FIRING... The Protagonist grabs his gun and LEAPS from the Chinook as it hovers close to the ground... EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 – DAY The Chinooks long-lining containers fly BACKWARDS towards a giant DEPRESSION... INT. CONTAINER – CONTINUOUS Neil looks out a peephole –

WHEELER:

We’re coming in on the shock wave... hang on, people! – Neil GRABS his belts as WHUMMMMM!!!! The container SHUDDERS – EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 – CONTINUOUS The SHOCK WAVE CONTRACTS – the Chinook ‘SURFING’ backwards in on the shock as it approaches the hypocentre... ENERGY BUILDING... GROUND LIFTING AND FLATTENING... EXT. LZ, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist joins a unit of Red team soldiers who CHARGE an antiaircraft emplacement TAKING IT OUT BEFORE IT CAN FIRE ON THE SLOW-MOVING CHINOOKS... The Protagonist uses his assault rifle to take out a gunemplacement. Ives uses an inverse grenade to violently ‘reassemble’ an enemy gun emplacement out of existence, shredding the enemy with reverse shrapnel...

IVES:

Draw them back into the city, away from Blue team... The Chinooks drop down, land the containers – the Protagonist looks back to see, a hundred metres away, the containers OPEN – Blue team ‘SCRAMBLING’ BACKWARDS from the containers... SOME CARRY INJURED COMRADES, ALL SEEM EXHAUSTED... The Protagonist and Red team press forward, blasting at the remaining enemy troops who run for the cover of the city... the Protagonist checks his watch – a BRIGHT-RED ‘9:59’,

‘9:

58’... EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 – DAY The reverse explosion PEAKS. SUDDEN CALM as the Chinooks place the containers down – they open and Blue team runs out, ‘FORWARDS’, Neil at the head, guns raised, BLASTING at the ENEMY SOLDIERS on the ridge... Neil checks his watch – a BRIGHT-BLUE ‘9:57’,

‘9:

56’... he turns to see a GREY TRUCK ‘REVERSING’ towards the hole, tyres sucking up dust... a rope from its rear hitch TAUT into the hole... BANG! BANG! SHOTS are sucked out of the ground around him – Blue team FORCES the enemy away from the hole, towards Red team (whose members fight ‘backwards’) – Neil shouts to Wheeler –

NEIL:

Draw their fire! Pull them away... He RACES down the ridge, following Wheeler... EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – CONTINUOUS Kat comes out to find a JUNIOR CREW MEMBER cleaning up a SMASHED BOWL OF RASPBERRIES. He looks up at her, surprised.

JUNIOR CREW MEMBER Ma’am? We thought you’d gone ashore.

KAT:

I snuck back to surprise Andrei.

JUNIOR CREW MEMBER The Boss left... He trails off – they hear an INCOMING CHOPPER.

KAT:

I’ll get the mess. Have Mr Sator find me here. Don’t tell the others.

The Junior Crew Member nods, leaves – Kat moves to the RAIL, checks Mahir in the distance, the DAYBED, the water HOSE... EXT. LZ, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist, Ives and Red team head towards the large concrete turnstile building on the outskirts of the city – The Protagonist sees Wheeler running backwards towards a BUNKER on their right which UNEXPLODES – – GUNFIRE CRACKLES around them, pinning them down... They hit the bunker with an RPG, then race around the left of the turnstile building... EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 – DAY Wheeler leads Blue team down the hill – ‘chasing’ the enemy who run BACKWARDS – a BLUE TEAM member TRIGGERS A LANDMINE – another triggers an INVERSE LANDMINE –

WHEELER:

Hit the deck! Mines! As Blue team goes to the ground, Neil sees mines start to EXPLODE/IMPLODE in a wave towards him as the GREY TRUCK RACES BACKWARDS down the hill through the minefield, REVERSE- TRIGGERING THE MINES – Neil DIVES out of the way, almost run over... Then gets up to follow the ‘path’ of the grey truck... EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – LATE AFTERNOON Kat unzips the diver’s bag, feels the handle of the gun, then slides the bag under the daybed, checking she can reach. She moves to the rail, crouches to UNCLIP the bottom safety cable. She looks at Mahir’s boat across the water... EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY Ives leads Red team into the deserted concrete structures via an efficient cover-and-move formation... the Protagonist shelters behind LARGE CONCRETE CHUNKS. Which VIBRATE... GATHERING ENERGY... The Protagonist JUMPS AWAY as the chunks RIP FROM THE GROUND, BOUNCING VIOLENTLY, DUSTILY OFF EACH OTHER AND FLYING UP INTO A GAP IN THE SIDE OF A BUILDING as an INVERSE RPG ZIPS back up into a WINDOW – Ives has spotted the window and calls for an RPG to ‘follow’ the inverse one, BLASTING the building... the Protagonist checks his watch – ‘8:10’, ‘8:09’... EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 – DAY Neil checks his watch – ‘8:08’, ‘8:07’... he heads downhill, towards the city, where the rest of Blue team BEAT BACK the enemy... EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – LATE AFTERNOON Kat hoses the raspberries and glass from the deck... Sator appears, watching as she turns the water on herself.

SATOR:

They told me you’d gone ashore.

KAT:

They told me you’d flown off.

SATOR:

I came back. To see you and Max.

KAT:

Max is on shore with Anna. We need time, just you and me. After what -

SATOR:

I was joking. A stupid joke –

KAT:

You think I’m a terrible mother.

SATOR:

We both know my opinion of you is higher than yours of me.

KAT:

I want things to be better, Andrei.

She moves towards him. Sator nods. Picks up the phone –

SATOR:

Have the captain turn the boat so we’ll see the sunset from here.

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist RUNS across the street, FIRING at the enemy... he SPOTS the TUNNEL ENTRANCE between two buildings.

PROTAGONIST:

Ives! Splinter unit here! Ives nods. RACES over, drawing fire the whole way... EXT. HYPOCENTRE RIDGE, STALSK-12 Neil races into the city streets... he sees Commander Wheeler and a BLUE SOLDIER take shelter in a large jagged BREACH in the ground-floor wall of a massive structure.

Neil is FORCED to hit the deck, ducking INVERTED fire all around... he looks over at Wheeler, and sees DUST GATHERING AROUND THE BREACH...