Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

Kat examines the forged Goya and grows wary once she learns it came from her old lover, the forger Arepo.

Scene 51 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Kat
Protagonist

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Begins 28 min into a 2:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 51

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.
Scene 47
The Protagonist begins surveilling Kat at her son's school gates — he commits to using her marriage against Sator, entering the upside-down world of the operation proper.
Just before
Scene 48
He watches Max taken away by Sator's driver, leaving Kat alone.
Scene 49
The newly tailored Protagonist arrives at Shipley's auction house.
Scene 50
He asks the receptionist for an appraisal with Kat Barton.
Scene 51
This scene

51INT. APPRAISAL ROOM – MOMENTS LATER

The Protagonist admires the paintings on the walls. The door opens and the Young Woman from the school gates comes in, dressed for business. This is KAT BARTON. She looks bemused, but gives him a genuine and friendly smile –

KAT

I’m sorry, I wasn’t notified of any

appointments, Mr...

PROTAGONIST

Goya?

KAT

Mr Goya?

The Protagonist opens his briefcase...

PROTAGONIST

No, I’m told you’re the person to

see about...

Offers the drawing to her...

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

...Goya.

She takes it, suddenly interested...

KAT

Wow. It’s extraordinary.

She lays the drawing on the table and grabs a loupe –

PROTAGONIST

What’s it worth?

KAT

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

There’s a lot of work before any

kind of valuation – provenance,

microscopic examination, X-rays...

She is bent over the table, peering through the loupe.

The Protagonist studies her reaction as he –

PROTAGONIST

But what does your heart tell you?

She steps back. Something about the drawing BOTHERS her...

KAT

I’m sorry, where did you say you

acquired this drawing?

PROTAGONIST

Tomas Arepo.

Kat rises and turns to face the Protagonist. Cold.

KAT

What do you want?

PROTAGONIST

What I want is complicated.

KAT

Do you work for my husband?

PROTAGONIST

I’ve never met your husband. That’s

the reason I’m here. Is there