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Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020
Scene 220 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three
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.
The reverse explosion peaks as the landing intensifies.
Red team storms the anti-aircraft position while Blue team scrambles backward out of their containers.
Blue team, led by Neil, erupts from their containers to fight forward into the battle.
This scene
Kat comes out to find a JUNIOR CREW MEMBER cleaning up a SMASHED BOWL OF RASPBERRIES. He looks up at her, surprised.
JUNIOR CREW MEMBER
Ma’am? We thought you’d gone
ashore.
KAT
I snuck back to surprise Andrei.
JUNIOR CREW MEMBER
The Boss left...
He trails off – they hear an INCOMING CHOPPER.
KAT
I’ll get the mess. Have Mr Sator
find me here. Don’t tell the
others.
The Junior Crew Member nods, leaves – Kat moves to the RAIL, checks Mahir in the distance, the DAYBED, the water HOSE...