Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

Inside the turbine he finds a survival cache of cash and passports, and refuses the suicide pills packed with it.

Scene 22 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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The story so farBefore scene 22

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.

Scenes 1–17
The Protagonist in his zone of comfort — a skilled, anonymous field operative, competent and confident inside the Kiev operation.
Scenes 18–20
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.
Just before
Scene 19
The Protagonist wakes from a coma; Fay reveals the suicide pill was a test and that his team didn't survive.
Scene 20
Fay tells the now-dead Protagonist his duty transcends nations and gives him the password 'Tenet.'
Scene 21
The Protagonist is delivered by launch to an offshore wind turbine.
Scene 22
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22INT. WIND TURBINE – CONTINUOUS

In the bare space, the Protagonist finds a SPORTS BAG, a COT, a pallet of WATER and PROTEIN BARS. He opens the sports bag to find passports, cash, credit cards and a HI-VIZ VEST.

Under the vest is a small black cylinder. He unscrews the top to find three SILVER SUICIDE PILLS. The Protagonist shakes his head as he tosses them back into the bag.