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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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Neil: What the hell happened here?
The Protagonist: Hasn't happened yet.

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Andrei Sator: How would you like to die?
The Protagonist: Old.
Andrei Sator: You chose the wrong profession.

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Barbara: Don't try to understand it. Feel it.

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Fay: All I have for you is a gesture
[links his fingers together]
Fay: in combination with a word: "Tenet." It'll open the right doors, some of the wrong ones too.

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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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Michael Crosby: Look, no offense, but in this world, where someone is claiming to be a billionaire, Brooks Brothers won't cut it.
The Protagonist: I'm assuming I'm on a budget.
Michael Crosby: Save the world, then we'll balance the books. Can I recommend a tailor?
The Protagonist: I'll manage. You British

don't have a monopoly on snobbery, you know.
Michael Crosby: Well, not a monopoly. More of a controlling interest.

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Neil: Lying is the Standard Operational Procedure.

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The Protagonist: I realized we're both working for me.

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Neil: What's happened, happened.

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The Protagonist: We live in a twilight world...
Well-Dressed Man: ...
The Protagonist: [cocks and point gun] We live in a twilight world...
Well-Dressed Man: ...and there are no friends at dusk.
The Protagonist: You've been made. This siege is a blind for them to vanish you.

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Fay: That test you passed? Not everybody does.

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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 fate 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: You don't appreciate the bombs that don't go off.

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The Protagonist: This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?

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Barbara: You're not shooting the bullet. You're catching it.
The Protagonist: Whoa.

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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: 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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Ives: They're running a temporal pincer movement.
The Protagonist: A what?
Ives: Pincer movement. But not in space, in time. Half his team moves forward through the event. He monitors them and then attacks at the end moving backwards. Knowing everything.