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Our ride’s on the roof. Right.

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I’m fine. Why?

Well, down in the dream, Mal showing up.

Look, I’m, uh, sorry about your leg. Won’t happen again.

It’s getting worse, isn’t it? One apology’s all you’re getting, all right?

Where’s Nash? He hasn’t shown. You wanna wait?

We were supposed to deliver Saito’s expansion plans to Cobol Engineering two hours ago.

By now, they know we failed. It’s time we disappear.

Where you gonna go? Buenos Aires.

I can lie low there, maybe sniff out a job when things quiet down. You?

Stateside.

Send my regards.

He sold you out. Thought to come to me and bargain for his life.

So I offer you the satisfaction.

It’s not the way I deal with things.

What will you do with him? Nothing.

But I can’t speak for Cobol Engineering.

What do you want from us? Inception.

Is it possible? Of course not.

If you can steal an idea from someone’s mind…

…why can’t you plant one there instead?

Okay, here’s me planting an idea in your head.

I say, “Don’t think about elephants.” What are you thinking about?

Elephants.

Right. But it’s not your idea, because you know I gave it to you.

The subject’s mind can always trace the genesis of the idea.

True inspiration’s impossible to fake. That’s not true.

Can you do it? Are you offering me a choice?

Because I can find my own way to square things with Cobol.

Then you do have a choice.

Then I choose to leave, sir.

Tell the crew where you want to go.

Hey, Mr. Cobb.

How would you like to go home?

To America. To your children.

You can’t fix that. No one can.

Just like inception. Cobb, come on.

How complex is the idea? Simple enough.

No idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else’s mind.

My main competitor is an old man in poor health.

His son will soon inherit control of the corporation.

I need him to decide to break up his father’s empire.

Cobb, we should walk away from this. Hold on.

If I were to do this, if I even could do it…

…l’d need a guarantee.

How do I know you can deliver? You don’t.

But I can.

So do you want to take a leap of faith…

…or become an old man, filled with regret…

…waiting to die alone?

Assemble your team, Mr. Cobb. And choose your people more wisely.

Look, I know how much you wanna go home.

This can’t be done.

Yes, it can. Just have to go deep enough.

You don’t know that.

I’ve done it before.

Who’d you do it to?

Why are we going to Paris?

We’re gonna need a new architect.

You never did like your office, did you?

No space to think in that broom cupboard.

Is it safe for you to be here?

Extradition between France and the United States is a bureaucratic nightmare, you know that.

I think they might find a way to make it work in your case.

Look, I, uh, brought these for you to give to the kids when you have a chance.

It’ll take more than the occasional stuffed animal…

…to convince those children they still have a father.

I’m just doing what I know. I’m doing what you taught me.

I never taught you to be a thief.

No, you taught me to navigate people’s minds.

But after what happened…

…there weren’t a whole lot of legitimate ways for me to use that skill.

What are you doing here, Dom?

I think I found a way home.

It’s a job for some very, very powerful people.

People who I believe can fix my charges permanently.

But I need your help.

You’re here to corrupt one of my brightest and best.

You know what I’m offering. Let them decide for themselves.

Money. Not just money.

You remember.

It’s the chance to build cathedrals, entire cities…

…things that never existed…

…things that couldn’t exist in the real world.

So you want me to let someone else follow you into your fantasy?

They don’t actually come into the dream.

They just design the levels and teach them to the dreamers. That’s all.

Design it yourself.

Mal won’t let me.

Come back to reality, Dom.

Please. Reality.

Those kids, your grandchildren…

…they’re waiting for their father to come back home. That’s their reality.

And this job, this last job, that’s how I get there.

I would not be standing here if I knew any other way.

I need an architect who’s as good as I was.

I’ve got somebody better.

Ariadne?

I’d like you to meet Mr. Cobb.

Pleased to meet you.

If you have a few moments, Mr. Cobb has a job offer he’d like to discuss with you.

A work placement?

Not exactly.

I have a test for you.

You’re not gonna tell me anything first?

Before I describe the job, I have to know you can do it.

Why? It’s not, strictly speaking, legal.

You have two minutes to design a maze that it takes one minute to solve.

Stop.

Again.

Stop.

You’re gonna have to do better than that.

That’s more like it.