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.