Tenet (2020) Poster

(2020)

Robert Pattinson: Neil

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  • Neil : What the hell happened here?

    The Protagonist : Hasn't happened yet.

  • Neil : I'll see you in the beginning, friend.

  • The Protagonist : You wanna crash a plane?

    Neil : Well, not from the air. Don't be so dramatic.

    The Protagonist : ...well, how big a plane?

    Neil : That part is a little dramatic.

  • The Protagonist : Hey you never did tell me who recruited you, Neil.

    Neil : Haven't you guessed by now? You did! Only not when you thought. You have a future in the past. Years ago for me, years from now for you.

    The Protagonist : You've known me for years?

    Neil : For me, I think this is the end of a beautiful friendship.

    The Protagonist : But for me it's just the beginning.

    Neil : We get up to some stuff. You gonna love it. You'll see. This whole operation is a temporal pincer.

    The Protagonist : Whose?

    Neil : Yours! You're only half way there. I'll see you in the beginning, friend.

  • Neil : Lying is the Standard Operational Procedure.

  • Neil : What's happened, happened.

  • The Protagonist : Neil, wait.

    Neil : We just saved the world, can't leave anything to chance.

    The Protagonist : But can we change things if we do it differently?

    Neil : What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.

    The Protagonist : Fate?

    Neil : Call it what you want.

    The Protagonist : What do you call it?

    Neil : Reality. Now let me go.

  • Neil : Vodka tonic, and a Diet Coke. What? You never drink on the job.

    The Protagonist : You're well informed.

    Neil : It pays to be, in our profession.

    The Protagonist : Well, I prefer soda water.

    Neil : No, you don't.

  • The Protagonist : What's happened, happened. I get it now. But it's harder to take things on trust from people speaking half-truths.

    Neil : That's not fair.

    The Protagonist : You were a part of this before we met. Were you working for Priya?

    Neil : No.

    The Protagonist : Who recruited you, Neil?

    Neil : Can't possibly do you any good to know that right now. When this is over, we're still standing, and you still care, then you can hear my life story, okay?

  • The Protagonist : You really going back in?

    Neil : I'm the only one who can got that door open in time, right, Ives?

    Ives : I don't know any locksmiths as good as you.

    Neil : See? It's me in there again. Weaving another past in the fabric of this mission.

  • The Protagonist : You knew it was me coming out of that vault, why don't you say?

    Neil : It's a lot of explaining when someone who's about to put a bullet into his own brain.

    The Protagonist : But afterwards?

    Neil : Thing's the same. I knew you'd be okay. What's happened, happened. If I told you and you acted differently, who knows? Policy is to suppress.

    The Protagonist : Whose policy?

    Neil : Ours, my friend. We're the people saving the world from what might have been.

  • The Protagonist : This reversing the flow of time... doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened? Could we stop them?

    Neil : Optimistically, I'd say that's right.

    The Protagonist : Pessimistically?

    Neil : In a parallel worlds theory, we can't know the relationship between consciousness and multiple realities. Does your head hurt yet ? Try to get some sleep.

  • The Protagonist : I've been thinking, we're their ancestors. If they destroy us, won't that destroy them?

    Neil : That'd bring us to the grandfather paradox.

    The Protagonist : The what?

    Neil : You went back in time, and killed your own grandfather. How could you've been born to commit the act?

    The Protagonist : What's the answer?

    Neil : There's no answer. It's a paradox.

  • Neil : It seems you need an introduction to a prominent Mumbai local on short notice. I'm Neil.

    The Protagonist : I need an audience with Sanjay Singh.

    Neil : That's not possible.

    The Protagonist : Ten minutes, tops.

    Neil : Time isn't the problem. Getting out alive is the problem.

  • Neil : Documents are vulnerable to...

    Klaus : To fire? Absolutely!

    Neil : No, I was going to say water damage from the sprinkler systems.

    Klaus : We don't use sprinklers. The facility is flooded with halide gas, displacing all the air within seconds.

    Neil : Can you show me?

    Klaus : If I did, we'd suffocate.

    Neil : What about the staff?

    Klaus : Halide only fills the vaults. They just have to get into either corridor, and there is a ten-second warning.

    Neil : At least you give them ten seconds.

    Klaus : Well, Sir, our clients use us because we have no priorities above their property.

    Neil : Blimey!

  • The Protagonist : There's a cold war.

    Neil : Nuclear?

    The Protagonist : Temporal.

    Neil : Time travel?

    The Protagonist : No. Technology that can invert an object's entropy.

    Neil : You mean reverse chronology, like Feynman and Wheeler's notion that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time.

    The Protagonist : Sure, that's exactly what I meant.

    Neil : I have a master's in physics.

    The Protagonist : Well, try and keep up.

  • Neil : You don't appreciate the bombs that don't go off.

  • Neil : But in the future, those in power clearly believe you can kick grandpa downstairs, gouge his eyes out, slit his throat, without consequence.

    The Protagonist : Could they be right?

    Neil : Doesn't matter, they believe it. That's why they're willing to destroy us.

  • Neil : All doors are fireproof. Hydraulic closers, simple key and electronic triggers. Surprisingly easy once they've been locked down.

    The Protagonist : Why a lockdown?

    Neil : Power switches to fail safe securing the outdoors, indoors revert to factory settings. Then pickable locks, it's a child's play really.

    The Protagonist : Child's play? They're inside airport security, they have to worry about climate control not armed raid.

    Neil : So how do we get enough fire power through the perimeter to trigger the lockdown procedure. That wall of Freeport.

    The Protagonist : You've got something?

    Neil : You're not gonna like it.

  • The Protagonist : I'll set you up as a go-between. But remember, to you, it's all about the plutonium. Or when we're done, they'll kill you.

    Neil : Won't you have to do that anyway?

    The Protagonist : I rather be my decision.

    Neil : So do I. I think.

  • Neil : Everyone and everything that has ever lived... destroyed. Instantly. Precise enough?

    Kat : Including my son?

  • Neil : Vodka tonic and a diet coke. What? you never drink on the job.

    The Protagonist : You're well informed.

    Neil : Pays to be in our profession.

    The Protagonist : Well I prefer soda water!

    Neil : No you don't.

  • Ives : That facility is inside an airport security perimeter.. It's impregnable.

    Neil : Mmm, it wasn't last week.

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