Sound of Metal Page #15

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KAT:

(pleading)

Tell him!

– then at Sator –

PROTAGONIST:

Leave her alone!

SATOR:

(via recording)

I don’t have time to negotiate.

The Protagonist looks at the bullet hole in the glass – WISPSOF SMOKE are gathering...

PROTAGONIST:

Listen to me! I can help you!

SATOR:

(via recording)

Three...

PROTAGONIST:

Don’t!

KAT:

Help me!

SATOR:

(via recording)

Two...

KAT:

PLEASE!

A FAINT TRICKLE of glass dust rises to where the bullet islodged in the window...

PROTAGONIST:

Wait!

84.

SATOR:

(via recording)

One...

Sator LIFTS Kat – PUSHES her up against the glass...

KAT:

PLEASE!

PROTAGONIST:

NO!

The SMOKE COALESCES as BANG! The bullet RIPS THROUGH KAT’S

SIDE on its inevitable journey to Sator’s gun. Kat SCREAMS –

SATOR:

(via recording)

Next one’s a bullet to the head...

He holds up a finger – Kat is SCREAMING –

SATOR (CONT'D)

(via recording)

One...

PROTAGONIST:

Please!

SATOR:

(via recording)

Two...

PROTAGONIST:

No!

SATOR:

(via recording)

Three...

PROTAGONIST:

Okay! Okay! The car! The BMW! I

left it in the BMW!

Kat’s screams subside to moans as she PASSES OUT...

SATOR:

(via recording)

We’re going to check this is real.

PROTAGONIST:

It’s in the glove box!

The door OPENS behind the Protagonist –

SATOR (O.S.)

Where did you leave it?

85.

The Protagonist spins around – Sator, BEHIND HIM, SMASHES hisgun into the Protagonist’s cheek – THIS SATOR IS FORWARDS –

SATOR (CONT'D)

Car or truck – which one?!

Sator HITS him again – the Protagonist falls near the glass –

looks up through the glass to see ‘backwards’ Sator, on theblue side, staring at him dispassionately...

SATOR (CONT'D)

Which vehicle did you leave it in?!

I need to know before I go outthere!

PROTAGONIST:

I already told you!

Forwards Sator looks through the window at his inverse self –

then turns back to the Protagonist –

SATOR:

I believe you...

Sator puts his GUN to the Protagonist’s forehead –

SATOR (CONT'D)

(indicates Kat)

You wanted her here. I hope you’llbe happy together –

Sator C*CKS his weapon – BLAMBLAMBLAM! – the double doors

behind the Protagonist SMASH open – PARAMILITARIES BURST IN,

GUNS BLAZING – the two guards are SHOT – Sator JUMPS FOR THEVAULT – HITS A BUTTON –

On the other side of the glass, INVERTED SATOR runs backwardstowards the other vault door –

BOTH SATORS JUMP INSIDE AND ARE GONE –

A Paramilitary SERGEANT enters, gun drawn –

PARAMILITARY SERGEANT

Clear!

The Protagonist looks at the empty vault –

PROTAGONIST:

Where’d he go?

PARAMILITARY SERGEANT

The past.

86.

INT. TURNSTILE, TALLINN FREEPORT – MOMENTS EARLIER

Sator runs out of the turnstile – into the blue side of the

room – on the other side he sees the paramilitary AMBUSH INREVERSE... for a few seconds he watches his older self

interrogate the Protagonist, then fires up his phone, stepsup to the glass – the Protagonist SHOUTS PASSIONATELY –

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

It’s in the glove box!

SATOR:

We’re going to check this is real.

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Okay! Okay! The car! The BMW! I

left it in the BMW!

The sound of Kat’s MOANING is BUILDING and BUILDING. Sator

holds up one finger –

SATOR:

Three...

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

No!

Adds a second finger – Kat is SCREAMING now –

SATOR:

Two...

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Please!

And a third –

SATOR:

One. Next one’s a bullet to the

head.

Kat’s SCREAM CRESCENDOS as Sator GRABS her and pushes her upagainst the glass, PULLS HIS TRIGGER, ‘HEALING’ her wound –

SATOR (CONT'D)

One...

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Wait!

Holds up two fingers –

87.

SATOR:

Two...

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Don’t!

Sator holds up three fingers –

SATOR:

Three –

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Listen to me! I can help you!

SATOR:

I don’t have time to negotiate.

The Protagonist looks confused –

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Leave her alone!

SATOR:

Tell me or I’ll shoot her again!

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

I don’t know!

SATOR:

Tell me now! Is it really in theBMW!

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

Who told you that?

SATOR:

You left it in the car not the fire

truck, right?

PROTAGONIST:

(via recording)

I don’t know what you’re talkingabout.

SATOR:

If you’re not telling the truth,

she dies.

Sator GRABS his respirator from the hook, PULLS Kat to herfeet – DRAGS her backwards through the door, down a corridorinto an AIRLOCK, pulls off her respirator, puts his on...

88.

INT. TURNSTILE, TALLINN FREEPORT – THE PRESENT

The Protagonist looks through the glass at Kat –

FEMALE PARAMILITARY

She’s been shot!

PARAMILITARY SERGEANT

Get her this side!

Respirator-clad Paramilitaries pull Kat out of the room. TheParamilitary Sergeant turns to the Protagonist.

PARAMILITARY SERGEANT (CONT'D)

Was she shot with an inverted

round?

The Protagonist NODS. Neil enters – gestures to the Sergeant

–

NEIL:

This is Ives. He’s one of us –

The Protagonist GRABS Neil, THROWS him up against the wall –

PROTAGONIST:

Us?! Who are these guys?

NEIL:

Priya’s. Ours.

The Paramilitaries bring Kat into the room – the MEDIC,

moving SWIFTLY, examines Kat’s wound.

The Protagonist puts his arm AGAINST NEIL’S THROAT –

PROTAGONIST:

How did Sator know about the

ambush?

NEIL:

Posterity. An ambush on the streetscan’t stay out of the record –

PROTAGONIST:

Bullshit – he knew every move wemade! Somebody talked – was ityou?!

NEIL:

No.

PROTAGONIST:

At every stage, you’ve known morethan you should. I’m asking you one

more time. Did you talk?

89.

IVES (O.S.)

Nobody talked. They’re running atemporal pincer movement.

Ives is next to the Protagonist, ready to help Neil...

PROTAGONIST:

A what?

IVES:

A pincer movement. But not in space

– in time. Half his team moves

forwards through the event – hemonitors them, then attacks from

the end, moving backwards. Knowingeverything.

PROTAGONIST:

Except where I stashed theplutonium.

The Protagonist lets Neil go...

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

Which is not plutonium, is it?

NEIL:

I told you – it’s what he’s after.

And you just told him where it is.

PROTAGONIST:

I lied.

Neil looks at Kat, bleeding out on the gurney.

NEIL:

Jesus.

PROTAGONIST:

He couldn’t verify from inside theroom, he’d have shot her anyway.

Lying is standard operatingprocedure.

The Medic steps away from Kat, shakes his head.

MEDIC:

It’s spread too far.

PROTAGONIST:

Meaning what?

IVES:

She’s going to die.

NEIL:

(to Protagonist)

Standard operating procedure?

(MORE)

90.

NEIL (CONT'D)

(to Ives)

Can’t you stabilize inverseradiation by inverting the patient?

IVES:

That takes days –

The Protagonist points at the turnstile –

PROTAGONIST:

Let’s go.

IVES:

We took control of this machine

minutes ago – before that it’sSator’s.

PROTAGONIST:

How long will she live on thisside?

MEDIC:

Three hours, tops.

The Protagonist thinks. He looks at Kat, who is dying.

PROTAGONIST:

I’m taking her through. I’m notgoing to let her die, I’ll take mychances out there.

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