- All I have for you is a word.
Tenet.
It'll open the right doors...
[ fighting grunts ]
some of the wrong ones, too.
[ fighting grunts ]
Use it carefully.
- To do what I do,
I need some idea of the threat we face.
- As I understand it,
we're trying to prevent World War III.
- I'm not seeing Armageddon here.
- No.
Something worse.
- I gather you have an interest
in a certain Russian national.
- Why did you bring me in?
- Do you really want to know?
He can communicate with the future.
- Time travel?
- No.
Inversion.
- Aim it and pull the trigger.
[ click, casing falls ]
[ backwards gunshots ]
You're not shooting the bullet.
You're catching it.
- Whoa.
- Well, I've seen too much.
- Well, we'll try and keep up.
- Your duty transcends national interests.
This is about survival.
- Seems bold.
- "Bold" I'm fine with.
I thought you were gonna say "nuts."
- This is where our worlds collide.
How would you like to die?
- Old.
- You chose the wrong profession.
- The hell happened here?
- Hasn't happened yet.
- There are people in the future who need us...
- [ screams ] Hurry up!
- ...who need Tenet.
- You need to save them, here and now.
- This reversing the flow of time...
doesn't us being here now
mean it never happened?
You want to crash a plane?
- Well, not from the air. Don't be so dramatic.
- Well, how big a plane?
- That part is a little dramatic.