Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

A masked terrorist cocks his weapon as the assault on the theatre begins.

Scene 4 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 1 min into a 2:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 4

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.

Just before
Scene 1
American operatives infiltrate a staged terrorist siege at the Kiev opera house under cover of a SWAT response, the Protagonist among them.
Scene 2
SWAT teams flood the lobby as the Protagonist watches gas canisters piped into the ventilation system.
Scene 3
A Well-Dressed Man and a Uniformed Official watch the audience below slump unconscious from the gas.
Scene 4
This scene

4INT. THEATRE, CONCERT HALL – CONTINUOUS

A Terrorist wets a rag in a drinking fountain, ties it around his nose and mouth. Others have WORKMAN’S RESPIRATORS AND FACE MASKS. They COCK THEIR WEAPONS, preparing...