When Elizabeth went back to the boat from the future, why didn't she need an oxygen mask?

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In Tenet, when Elizabeth Debicki was inverted to meet her husband back in time, how come she didn't need a gas mask?

How come she is able to talk normally?



Best Answer

Kat continued to travel backwards in time before reverting herself back into forward motion (using the turnstiles on the Tenet command ship) just prior to the Vietnam sequence at the end.




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Is Kat inverted when she was shot?

Kat and the protagonist are both captured by Sator's men and sent back to the warehouse. Kat is given an oxygen mask and led into a blue room and shot by an inverted bullet by inverted Sator.

Is Neil inverted the whole time?

If it's time-travel then doesn't it contradict with the movie's tagline? (Not time travel, inversion). Neil isn't moving inverted the entire time or he simply couldn't interact with everyone else through the rest of the movie. And being inverted is the only time you need a mask.

How did Kat survive after being shot Tenet?

How did Kat survive after being shot? Sator shoots Kat with an inverted bullet, which means radiation poisoning as well as regular bullet damage. To head that off, the Protagonist and Neil take her through the temporal turnstile so she's also moving backward in time, just like the bullet.

Are there two Kats Tenet?

Yes, there are two versions of Kat for a moment. There's the "past" Kat \u2013 the one who we see approaching the boat and who will go on to live the events of the movie. "Future" Kat is the one who kills Sator and who goes off with Sator's body and Himesh Patel's Mahi.



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