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Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020
Scene 218 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Last scene of 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.
The Tallinn ambush succeeds — he gets what the mission wanted, extracting the plutonium '241' from the armored convoy.
He pays a heavy price for it — Kat is shot, the material is lost to Sator anyway, and he is left not knowing whether any of it mattered.
Recovered and re-briefed by Priya, he returns to a now-familiar situation — the Tenet operation — but changed, moving to Stalsk-12 with the full picture of what's at stake.
Inverted Chinooks surf a reversed shockwave into position above the hypocentre.
Neil braces as Blue team's container shudders through the reversed blast.
The reverse explosion peaks as the landing intensifies.
This scene
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’...