信条Tenet Movie Script

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) You gave me your word.

PRIYA:

And I told you what it would be worth. Here. Today. How did you know?

He holds up a dumb phone, plays a voicemail –

KAT:

(via recording) Cannon Place, 3 o’clock, it’s – Posterity.

PROTAGONIST:

EXT. SCHOOL GATES – CONTINUOUS Kat hits send, speaks into the phone –

KAT:

Cannon Place, 3 o’clock, it’s probably nothing... INT./EXT. CAR – CONTINUOUS The Protagonist watches Kat.

PROTAGONIST:

I told you you’d have to start looking differently at the world.

PRIYA:

I have to tie up the loose ends.

PROTAGONIST:

That was never your job.

PRIYA:

Then whose was it?

The Protagonist brings his focus back to Priya.

PROTAGONIST:

Mine. I realized I wasn’t working for you. We’ve both been working for me... I’m the protagonist.

PRIYA:

Then you’d better tie up those loose ends.

He shoots her through the seat back. She slumps forward.

PROTAGONIST:

Mission accomplished.

The Protagonist looks across the road. The kids stream out... Kat sees Max coming, takes one last look at the dark car... NEIL (V.O.) ...but it’s the bomb that didn’t go off... Kat shakes her head, smiling at her own folly, looks at the phone like it’s silly – NEIL (V.O.) ...the danger no one knew was real... She tosses the phone carelessly into her bag.

NEIL (V.O.) That’s the bomb with the real power to change the world.