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Couldn’t have peed before you went under? Sorry.

Bit too much free champagne before takeoff?

Ha, ha, bloody ha.

We know he’s gonna be looking for a taxi in this weather.

Asshole! Hey, man, why don’t you try…? Walk away.

Just have him ca… I gotta go.

All right. Taxi. Thank you.

All right, Third and Market Snappy.

What are you doing? Sorry, I thought it was free.

It’s not. Maybe we could share.

Maybe not. Can you pull over and get this…?

Great.

Come on.

There’s $500 in there. The wallet’s worth more than that.

You might at least drop me at my stop.

I’m afraid that it doesn’t…

Cover him! Down! Down now!

What the hell is going on?

This wasn’t in the design.

Cobb?

Cobb?

Get him!

Are you all right?

Yeah, I’m okay. I’m okay.

Fischer’s okay, unless he gets carsick.

Saito?

Get Fischer in the back room now.

Get him in the back room. Move. What the hell happened?

Has he been shot? Is he dying?

I don’t know. Jesus Christ.

What happened to you? Blocked by a freight train.

Why put a train in a downtown intersection?

I didn’t. Where’d it come from?

Why the hell were we ambushed?

Those were not normal projections. They’d been trained, for God’s sakes.

How could he be trained? Fischer’s had an extractor teach his subconscious to defend itself, so his subconscious is militarized.

It should’ve shown in the research.

Why the hell didn’t it? Calm down.

Don’t tell me to calm down!

This was your job, goddamn it! This was your responsibility!

You were meant to check Fischer’s background!

We are not prepared for this! We have dealt with sub-security before!

We’ll be more careful and we’re gonna be fine!

This was not a part of the plan! He’s dying.

Put him out his misery.

No, don’t do that! Don’t do that. Cobb, hey, hey.

He’s in agony. I’m waking him up.

No It won’t wake him up.

What do you mean, it won’t wake him up? When we die in a dream, we wake up.

Not from this.

We’re too heavily sedated to wake up that way.

Right So, what happens when we die?

We drop into limbo. Are you serious?

Limbo? Unconstructed dream space.

What the hell is down there? Just raw, infinite subconscious.

Nothing is down there, except for what might have been left behind by anyone sharing the dream who’s been trapped there before.

Which, in our case, is just you.

How long could we be stuck? YUSUF: Can’t even think about trying to escape until the sedation… How long?

Decades. It could be infinite. Ask him, he’s the one who’s been there.

Let’s get him upstairs.

Great.

Thank you.

So now we’re trapped in Fischer’s mind, battling his own private army.

And if we get killed we’ll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg, hmm?

Someone got first aid?

You knew these risks and didn’t tell us? There weren’t meant to be risks.

I didn’t know we’d be dealing with gunfire. You had no right.

This was the only way to go three layers deep.

You knew about this and went along with it?

I trusted him.

When? When he promised you half his share?

No. His whole share. Besides, he said he’d done it before.

What, with Mal? Because that worked so good?

That has nothing to do with it. I did what I had to to get to my children.

You led us into a war zone with no way out?

There is a way out. We continue on with the job, and we do it as fast as possible…

…and we get out using the kick, just like before.

Forget it. We go any deeper, we just raise the stakes.

I am sitting this one out on this level.

Fischer’s security is surrounding this place.

Ten hours of flight time is a week at this level.

That means each and every one of us will be killed. That I can guarantee you.

We have no other choice but to continue on and do it as fast as possible.

Downwards is the only way forwards.

Get ready.

You, come on. Let’s go shake him up.

I’m insured against kidnapping for up to 10 million.

This should be very simple. Shut up! It won’t be.

In your father’s office, below the bookshelves is his personal safe. We need the combination.

I don’t know any safe.

That doesn’t mean you don’t know the combination.

Tell us what it is.

I don’t know.

We have it on good authority you do know.

Yeah? Whose authority?

Five hundred dollars, this cost. What’s inside it?

Cash, cards, ID. And this.

Useful?

Maybe.

You’re on. You’ve got an hour.

An hour?

I was supposed to have all night to crack this.

And Saito wasn’t supposed to be shot in the chest.

You’ve got one hour, now get us something useful, please.

What’s that? Good authority.

Uncle Peter.

Just make them stop.

The combination. I don’t know it.

Why does Browning say you do? I don’t know.

Just let me talk to him and I’ll find out.

You have one hour. Start talking.

You all right?

You okay?

Those bastards have had at me for two days.

They have someone with access to your father’s office.

They’re trying to open his safe. Yeah.

They thought I’d know the combination, but I don’t know it.

Yeah, well, neither do I, so… What?

Maurice told me that when he passed, you were the only one able to open it.

No, he never gave me any combination.

Maybe he did. I mean, maybe you just didn’t know it was a combination.

Well, what, then?

I don’t know, some meaningful combination of numbers…

…based on your experiences with Maurice.

We didn’t have very many, uh, meaningful experiences together.

Perhaps after your mother died.

After my mother died, you know what he told me?

“Robert, there’s really nothing to be said.”

Oh, well, he was bad with emotion.

I was 11, Uncle Peter.

How’s he doing? He’s in a lot of pain.

When we get down to the lower levels, the pain will be less intense.

And if he dies?

Worst-case scenario?

When he wakes up, his mind is completely gone.

Cobb, I’ll still honor the arrangement.

I appreciate that, Saito.

But when you wake up, you won’t even remember that we had an arrangement.

Limbo is gonna become your reality.

You’re gonna be lost down there so long that you’re gonna become an old man.

Filled with regret?

Waiting to die alone.

No.

I’ll come back.

And we’ll be young men together again.

Breathe.

These people are gonna kill us if we don’t give them the combination.

They just wanna ransom us. I heard them.

They’re gonna lock us in that van, and then drive it into the river.

All right. What is in the safe?

Something for you.

Maurice always said it was his most precious gift to you.

A will. Maurice’s will is with Port and Dunn.

That’s an alternate.

This would supersede the other if you want it to.

It splits up the component businesses of Fischer Morrow.

It’d be the end of the entire empire as we know it.

Destroying my whole inheritance?

Why would he suggest such a thing? I just don’t know.

He loved you, Robert.

In his own way.

In his own way.

At the end he called me in to his deathbed.

He could barely speak.

But he took the trouble to tell me one last thing.

He pulled me close.

And I could only make out one word.

“Disappointed.”

When were you in limbo?

You might have the rest of the team convinced to carry on with this job.

But they don’t know the truth. Truth? What truth?

The truth that, at any minute, you might bring a freight train through the wall.

The truth that Mal is bursting through your subconscious.

And the truth that, as we go deeper into Fischer we’re also going deeper into you.

And I’m not sure we’re gonna like what we find.

We were working together.

We were exploring the concept of a dream within a dream.

I kept pushing things.

I wanted to go deeper and deeper. I wanted to go further.

I just didn’t understand the concept that hours could turn into years down there…

…that we could get trapped so deep…

…that when we wound up on the shore of our own subconscious…

…we lost sight of what was real.

We created. We built the world for ourselves.

We built our own world.

How long were you stuck there?

Something like 50 years.

Jesus.

How could you stand it?

It wasn’t so bad at first, feeling like gods.

The problem was knowing that none of it was real.

Eventually, it just became impossible for me to live like that.

And what about for her?

She had locked something away, something deep inside her.

A truth that she had once known, but chose to forget.

Limbo became her reality.

What happened when you woke up?

Well, to wake up from that after years, after decades…

…to become old souls thrown back into youth like that?

I knew something was wrong with her. She just wouldn’t admit it.

Eventually, she told me the truth.

This one very simple idea that changed everything.

That our world wasn’t real.

That she needed to wake up to come back to reality…

…that in order to get back home…

…we had to kill ourselves.

What about your children? She thought they were projections…

…that our real children were waiting for us up there somewhere.

I’m their mother! Calm down.

I can tell the difference.

If this is my dream, why can’t I control this?

You don’t know you’re dreaming!

She was certain there was nothing I could do…

…no matter how much I begged, no matter how much I pleaded.

She wanted to do it, but she could not do it alone.

She loved me too much, so she came up with a plan on our anniversary.