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Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020
Scene 16 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one
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.
A staged terrorist siege at the Kiev opera — chaos, disguise, and a world where nothing is what it appears to be.
Racing to clear bombs, the Protagonist is ambushed by a real SWAT and saved by a masked ally wearing a coin talisman, who vanishes as mysteriously as he appeared.
The Protagonist and the 'Target' emerge as a bomb detonates in the boxes above.
The drugged audience stirs beneath the explosion.
This scene
The van PULLS UP – rear door open – they JUMP INSIDE –