Tenet (2020)
Robert Pattinson: Neil
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Quotes
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Neil : What the hell happened here?
The Protagonist : Hasn't happened yet.
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Neil : I'll see you in the beginning, friend.
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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.
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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.
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Neil : Lying is the Standard Operational Procedure.
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Neil : What's happened, happened.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Neil : You don't appreciate the bombs that don't go off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
