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How is he?

I don’t want to bother him unnecessarily, but…

Robert, I told you keep out the damn… Wait. So do it. Get…

Mr. Fischer. Put it through.

Never, never. Never do the same as I asked.

Leave that.

Here.

Must be a cherished memory of his.

I put it beside his bed. He hasn’t even noticed.

Robert…

…we need to talk about a power of attorney.

I know this is hard, but it’s imperative… Not now, Uncle Peter.

The vultures are circling.

And the sicker Maurice Fischer becomes, the more powerful Peter Browning becomes.

I’ve had ample opportunity to observe Browning…

…and adopt his physical presence, study his mannerisms, and so on and so forth.

So now in the first layer of the dream, I can impersonate Browning.

And suggest concepts to Fischer’s conscious mind.

Then, when we take him a level deeper his own projection of Browning should feed that right back to him.

So he gives himself the idea.

Precisely. That’s the only way it will stick. It has to seem self-generated.

Eames, I am impressed.

Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you.

Were you going under on your own?

No, no, I was just, uh, running some experiments.

I didn’t realize anyone was here, so…

Yeah, I was just, I was working on my totem, actually.

Here, let me take a look.

So you’re learning, huh?

An elegant solution for keeping track of reality.

Was it your idea? No, it was, uh, It was Mal’s, actually. This…

This one was hers. She would spin it in the dream and it would never topple.

Just spin and spin.

Arthur told me she passed away.

How are the mazes coming along?

Each level relates to the part of the subject’s subconscious…

…that we are trying to access.

So I’m making the bottom level a hospital, so Fischer will bring his father.

You know, l… Actually, I have a question about this layout.

No, no, no. Don’t show me specifics. Only the dreamer should know the layout.

Why is that so important?

In case one of us brings in our projections.

We don’t want them knowing the details of the maze.

You mean in case you bring Mal in.

You can’t keep her out, can you?

Right. You can’t build…

…because if you know the maze, then she knows it.

Well, she’d sabotage the whole operation.

Cobb, do the others know? No. No, they don’t.

You’ve gotta warn them if this is getting worse.

No one said it’s getting worse.

I need to get home. That’s all I care about right now.

Why can’t you go home?

Because they think I killed her.

Thank you. For what?

For not asking whether I did.

“I will split up my father’s empire.”

Now, this is obviously an idea that Robert himself would choose to reject…

…which is why we need to plant it deep in his subconscious.

The subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.

We need to find a way to translate this into an emotional concept.

How do you translate business strategy into emotion?

That’s what we’re here to figure out. Robert’s relationship with his father is stressed, to say the least. Can we run with that?

We suggest breaking up his father’s company as a “screw you” to the old man.

No, because I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.

We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis.

We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.

All right, well, try this. Um “My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps.”

That might work.

Might? We’re gonna need to do a little better than “might.”

Thank you for your contribution, Arthur.

Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.

Specificity?

Inception’s not about being specific.

When we get inside his mind, we’re gonna have to work with what we find.

On the top level, we open up his relationship with his father…

…and say, “I will not follow in my father’s footsteps.”

Then the next level down, we feed him, “I will create something for myself.”

Then, by the time we hit the bottom level, we bring out the big guns.

“My father doesn’t want me to be him” Exactly.

Three layers down, the dreams are gonna collapse with the slightest disturbance.

Sedation.

For sleep stable enough to create three layers of dreaming…

…we’ll have to combine it with an extremely powerful sedative.

Good night.

The compound we’ll be using to share the dream…

…creates a clear connection between dreamers…

…whilst accelerating brain function. In other words, more time on each level.

Brain function in the dream will be about 20 times normal.

And when you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded.

It’s three dreams, that’s 10 hours times 20…

Math was never my strong subject. How much time is that?

It’s a week, the first level down.

Six months the second level down, and the third level…

That’s 10 years.

Who’d wanna be stuck in a dream for 10 years?

Depends on the dream.

So once we’ve made the plant, how do we get out?

I’m hoping you have something more elegant than shooting me in the head.

A kick. What’s a kick?

This, Ariadne, would be a kick.

It’s that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake.

Snaps you out of the dream. We gonna feel a kick with this sedation?

That’s the clever part.

I customized the sedative to leave inner-ear function unimpaired.

That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling.

Or tipping.

The trick is to synchronize a kick that can penetrate all three levels.

We could use a musical countdown to synchronize the different kicks.

He hasn’t got any surgery scheduled, no dental, nothing.

Wasn’t he supposed to have a knee operation?

Nothing. Nothing that they’ll put him under for, anyway. And we need, We need at least a good 10 hours.

Sydney to Los Angeles.

One of the longest flights in the world. He makes it every two weeks.

He must be flying private, then.

Not if there were unexpected maintenance with his plane.

It would have to be a 747. Why’s that?

On a 747, the pilot’s up top…

…the first-class cabin’s in the nose, so no one would walk through.

You’d have to buy out the entire cabin and the first-class flight attendant.

I bought the airline.

It seemed neater.

Well, looks like we have our 10 hours.

Ariadne, Terrific work, by the way.