信条Tenet Movie Script

Kat moves towards Sator, but he raises a finger...

SATOR:

I’m not. I’m creating a new one.

Somewhere, sometime, a man in a crystalline tower throws a switch and Armageddon is both triggered and avoided. Entropy inverts the same way the magnetic poles have switched 183 times over the millennia. Now time itself switches direction.

Sator looks out at the lowering sun... SATOR (CONT'D) The same sunshine we’ve basked in will warm the faces of our descendants generations from now.

Kat looks at Mahir’s boat. Nothing. She looks to shore, watching the TENDER APPROACHING... INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – DAY The Protagonist looks at his watch – ‘2:12’, ‘2:11’...

PROTAGONIST:

How can they want to destroy us?

SATOR:

(over phone) Because their oceans rose and their rivers ran dry. Don’t you see –?

Their world shrivelled because of us. They have no choice but to turn back, there’s no life ahead of them. And we’re responsible.

Knowing this, do you still want me to stop?

PROTAGONIST:

Yes. Each generation looks out for its own survival.

EXT. PRIVATE DECK, SATOR’S YACHT – CONTINUOUS Sator looks out at the glittering water –

SATOR:

That’s exactly what they’re doing.

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone) Sure, but not you. You’re a traitor. Bringing death to all because you have no life of your own left.

SATOR:

When I’m done, life continues.

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone) Not your son’s.

SATOR:

My greatest sin was to bring a son into a world I knew was ending... do you think God will forgive me?

PROTAGONIST:

(over phone) For killing your son? No.

SATOR:

He should understand – he killed his own.

EXT. CITY STREETS, STALSK-12 – DAY Neil, FORWARDS NOW, spots a GREY TRUCK outside the turnstile building – he jumps in, FIRING IT UP – RACING THROUGH THE STREETS, PAST THE IMPLODING/ EXPLODING BUILDING, racing for the tunnel mouth, trying to head off the Protagonist and Ives –

NEIL:

Wait! Wait! They dive into the tunnel, which COLLAPSES. Neil sets his sights on the hypocentre ridge above, GUNS the engine... EXT. LZ, STALSK-12 – DAY Wheeler leads Blue team towards the CHINOOKS LOWERING CONTAINERS... as they carry their wounded and lurch towards the containers, they see Red team ‘REASSEMBLING’ the anti- aircraft guns... INT. TUNNEL, STALSK-12 – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist watches Volkov pick up a BLACK, METAL, GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX BAR... the algorithm.

PROTAGONIST:

You don’t believe in God. Or a new future. Or anything outside your own experience.

SATOR:

(over phone) That’s all any of us knows. The rest is belief, and I don’t have it.

PROTAGONIST:

Without it you’re not human. You’re a madman.

SATOR:

(over phone) Or a god of sorts.

PROTAGONIST:

Like I said.