11بخش

You knew it was me coming out of that vault.

Why didn’t you say?

That’s a lot of explaining when someone’s about to put a bullet in their own brain.

But afterwards?

Thing’s the same, I knew you’d be okay.

What’s happened’s happened.

If I told you and you acted differently, who knows?

The policy is to suppress.

Whose policy?

Ours, my friend.

We’re the people saving the world from what might’ve been.

Kat?

I’m here.

It’ll be quite a scar.

You’ll be okay.

Did it.

You did what?

Andrei has the algorithm.

You don’t know where he is.

Or when.

Get priya here to Oslo, - Why?

If I don’t do something, in two days, she tells me about the 241.

Nothing can change that.

We’ll see.

Just get her here.

Hello, priya.

What’s going on?

Where’s Neil?

Nursing Katherine barton, who almost died because of you.

What did I do?

It’s what you’re going to do.

In two days, you’re gonna have me dangle plutonium-241 in front of the world’s most dangerous arms dealer.

Now, I wanna know why.

You let sator get hold of 241?

No, I let him get ahold of the algorithm.

So, tell me about it, priya.

It’s, it’s unique.

The scientist who built it took her own life so she couldn’t be forced to make another.

One from the future?

About many generations.

Why does she have to kill herself?

Do you know about the Manhattan project?

As they approached the first atomic test, Oppenheimer became concerned that the detonation might produce a chain reaction, engulfing the world.

They went ahead anyway and got lucky.

Think of our scientist as her generation’s Oppenheimer.

She devises a method for inverting the world, but becomes convinced that by destroying us, they’re destroying themselves.

The grandfather paradox.

But, unlike Oppenheimer, she rebels, splitting the algorithm into nine sections and hiding them the best place she can think of.

The past.

Here, now.

There are nine nuclear powers.

Nine bombs.

Nine sets of the most closely guarded materials in the history of the world.

The best hiding place possible.

Nuclear containment facilities.

Sator’s lifelong mission, financed and guided by the future, has been to find and reassemble the algorithm.

Why do they choose him?

Because he was at the right place at the right time.

The collapse of the Soviet union.

The most insecure moment in the history of nuclear weapons.

How many sections does he have?

After the 241, all nine.

Jesus Christ.

And that’s why you’re going to do things differently this time.

To change things?

So Katherine won’t get hurt?

So sator won’t get the algorithm.

If that universe can exist

We don’t live in it.

Well, let’s try.

You’re going to warn me.

No, I’m not.

Ignorance is our ammunition.

Come on.

If you had known what the algorithm was, would you have let it fall into sator’s hands?

You want sator to get the last section.

That is the only way he’ll bring together the other eight.

I was supposed to steal it

Then lose it?

Mission accomplished.

You used me.

As you used Katherine.

Standard operating procedure.

You’ve done your part.

My part?

I’m the protagonist of this operation.

You

Are a protagonist.

Did you think you were the only one capable of saving the world?

No.

But I am.

Because I haven’t told you where he’s assembling the algorithm or when.

You’re about to.

No, I’m not.

So, deal us in.

“Us”?

Why would you want to involve her again?

Because she can get close to him.

Does he still trust her?

He thinks she’s dead.

But he used to.

You have started looking at the world in a new way.

And now, it’s your turn.

Assuming she makes it out alive,

whether or not you feel she knows too much.

I can’t.

If you don’t have the authority, then talk to whoever’s in charge of loose ends.

I need your word that she and her son will be safe, priya.

What good is someone’s word in our line of business?

They’ll be safe.

There’s a rally point offshore at trondheim.

Get yourselves up there.

Ives has a team ready to invert.

You have a turnstile?

The exact technology that we’re trying to suppress.

Fighting fire with fire’s a treacherous business.

But there are some people, in the future, who want to continue the algorithm’s journey into the past.

You see

Tenet wasn’t founded in the past.

It will be founded in the future.

Can’t get over the birds.

How’re you feeling?

Tell me you’re gonna kill him.

I can’t.

Why not?

Bet you’ve probably killed a lot of people.

Not with a dead man’s switch.

The fitness tracker he wears.

He’s obsessive about his health.

It’ll be linked to a switch, probably a simple e-mail burst that reveals the location of the dead drop, set to fire if his heart stops.

His death activates the algorithm.

He dies, the world ends.

No one dares kill him.

No, you’ve missed the point.

He’s intending to end his life.

Why?

He’s dying.

Inoperable cancer of the pancreas.

And he’s taking the world with him.

If he can’t have her, no one can.

He gets to choose the time and place for the end of the world.

What moment, What does he choose?

You told me about a holiday where you let him feel loved.

Vietnam.

You said he vanished, What day?

I went ashore with Max and he flew off, but I don’t know what day it was.

It was the 14th, Ten days ago.

He was in Ukraine.

At the Kiev opera siege.

How do you know about that?

The point is, he wasn’t on his yacht, so that’s his window.

To go back to that golden moment and have it be his last.

Everyone’s last.

We have to lift the algorithm from the dead drop without sator knowing.

If he believes it’s there, he kills himself.

And not the rest of us.

Where’s the dead drop?

Knowledge divided, my friend.

You’re not gonna tell me?

Ignorance is our ammunition.

But I need you back on that yacht, Kat.

Why?

You have to stop him killing himself until we know the algorithm is out of the dead drop.

But if I’m caught there, my son sees.

I don’t want those moments to be full of anguish if they’re gonna be his last.

They’re not.

It’s time.

We’re working our way back to the 14th, but without knowing where the dead drop is, there’s only so much I can do to prepare.

You know what a hypocenter is?

It’s ground zero for an underground nuclear test.

Sir Michael Crosby told me about a detonation in stalsk-12 on the 14th.

The dead drop is at the bottom of the hypocenter.

Well, then we better pull it out of that hole before the bomb goes off, en?

Line it up.

Move forward.

Next.

Line it up.

Where’s Neil?

He must’ve gone through already.

I didn’t get to say goodbye.

This is goodbye, isn’t it?

I’d like to say

That you don’t have to do this, Kat

Worst thing andrei ever did to me was that offer he made me.

Let me go if I agreed never to see my son again.

I shouted and Swore.

But he’d seen it on my face, just for an instant.

I considered it.

I don’t know if I hate him more for what he’s done, or because he knows that about me.

A chance to help save my child.

You can’t know what that means to a mother.

No.

You’ve killed people you’ve hated before.

It’s not usually personal.

Well, he’s dying anyway, Maybe it doesn’t even count.

It always counts, Kat.

You’re not there to kill him, you’re the backstop.

If we don’t lift that algorithm and he kills himself,

he takes us all with him.

You just keep up your end, okay?

Today’s the 14th.

Offshore of Siberia.

Time for us to go.

You keep going back another day, give you some time to get back into Vietnam.

And who gets me on the yacht?

I’ve got somebody good lined up.

When it’s over, when you’re raising your boy, carry this.

There may be a time and place you feel threatened.

Hit “talk,” state your location, hang up.

Who gets the message”?

Posterity.