Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

Neil and the Protagonist rig a catapult line onto the tower's balcony from the roof next door.

Scene 37 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 19 min into a 2:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 37

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.
Scenes 21–32
He enters the wholly unfamiliar situation of Tenet — the wind turbine, the password test, and Barbara's proof that time itself can run backward.
Just before
Scene 34
Neil introduces himself and brainstorms ways to breach Singh's fortified house.
Scene 35
Armed guards patrol Sanjay Singh's tower.
Scene 36
Sanjay Singh mixes drinks inside his penthouse.
Scene 37
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37EXT. LOW ROOFTOP NEXT DOOR TO HIGH-RISE HOUSE – CONTINUOUS

Neil and the Protagonist race across the roof carrying a sports bag. Neil pulls out a WINCH, the Protagonist pulls out a large CATAPULT, loops it around two pipes, glancing down into the WALLED YARD at the foot of the high-rise house.

Neil BOLTS the winch to the roof, the Protagonist sights the upper balcony of the high-rise house, FIRES a ball with a line up and over the balcony railing...