Tenet · written by Christopher Nolan · 2020

The Protagonist extracts the Well-Dressed Man, giving him two minutes to defect or die, and takes a coat-check ticket for 'the package.'

Scene 7 of 275 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Protagonist
Well-Dressed Man

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Begins 2 min into a 2:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 7

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.

Scene 1
A staged terrorist siege at the Kiev opera — chaos, disguise, and a world where nothing is what it appears to be.
Just before
Scene 4
A masked terrorist cocks his weapon as the assault on the theatre begins.
Scene 5
SWATs breach the lobby and trade gunfire with the terrorists.
Scene 6
The four American operatives split up in the corridor; the Protagonist checks the boxes alone.
Scene 7
This scene

7INT. BOX, CONCERT HALL – CONTINUOUS

The Protagonist BURSTS in – takes out the Official beside the Well-Dressed Man –

PROTAGONIST

We live in a twilight world...

The Well-Dressed Man stares, shocked –

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

We live in a twilight world...

WELL-DRESSED MAN

(focuses)

And there are no friends at dusk.

PROTAGONIST

You’ve been made. This siege is a

blind for them to vanish you.

WELL-DRESSED MAN

But I’ve established contact –

PROTAGONIST

Bring you in or kill you – I have

two minutes. Make up your mind.

The Well-Dressed Man nods, climbs to his feet...

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

Where’s the package?

WELL-DRESSED MAN

Coat check.

He hands the Protagonist a numbered ticket.