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Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020
Scene 149 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
An unnamed intelligence operative, recruited into a shadow war fought through time-inverted weapons and objects, teams with an enigmatic ally to stop a dying Russian oligarch from using technology gifted by a dying future to erase the present.
The Protagonist in his zone of comfort — a skilled, anonymous field operative, competent and confident inside the Kiev operation.
Broken by torture and 'killed,' he needs a new purpose; Fay offers one that transcends the nation-state loyalties that just got his team killed.
He enters the wholly unfamiliar situation of Tenet — the wind turbine, the password test, and Barbara's proof that time itself can run backward.
Mumbai, London, Oslo, and Amalfi — he adapts to the world of inverted physics and Sator's inner circle, paying costs (Kat's trust, his own safety) to get close to the target.
Sator turns violently on Kat in the Tallinn storage facility, and she draws a gun on him — a false victory of leverage curdles into open danger, raising the stakes of the Tallinn operation underway.
The heist convoy closes formation around the nuclear truck.
Volkov reports the convoy is surrounded to Sator over radio.
Sator settles into the shadows to monitor the ambush remotely.
This scene
The BMW ZIPS ahead, weaving through traffic, pulls alongside the fire truck.
The Protagonist, DRESSED AS A FIREFIGHTER, jumps out of the BMW and grabs onto the side of the fire truck, BANGING the side to signal the driver. The fire truck pulls out onto the three-lane highway...