Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

The Protagonist watches Kat's cold, distant interaction with her son Max at school pickup.

Scene 47 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Save the Cat: Break into Two

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Begins 27 min into a 2:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 47

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 44
The Protagonist arrives in London to meet Sir Michael Crosby.
Scene 45
A steward shows him in to lunch with Crosby at the club.
Scene 46
Crosby briefs him on Sator's origins in the secret city Stalsk-12 and gives him a forged Goya to use as bait for Sator's estranged wife, Kat.
Scene 47
This scene

47EXT. WEST LONDON PRIVATE SCHOOL – DAY

Mothers stand at the railings waiting for their kids. One of them, a smart YOUNG WOMAN, stands a little apart from the group. SCHOOLKIDS pile out of the school...