All language subtitles for Inception 2010

[CHILDREN LAUGHING]

[PHILLIPA SCREAMS]

[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]

Are you here to kill me?

I know what this is

I've seen one before.
Many, many years ago

It belonged to a man I met
in a half-remembered dream

A man possessed
of some radical notions

COBB:
What is the most resilient parasite?

A bacteria? A virus?

An intestinal worm?

ARTHUR
Uh...

What Mr. Cobb is trying to say

An idea

Resilient. Highly contagious

Once an idea has taken hold of the brain
it's almost impossible to eradicate.

An idea that is fully formed,
fully understood, that sticks

Right in there somewhere

For someone like you to steal?

Yes. In the dream state,
your conscious defenses are lowered

and that makes your thoughts
vulnerable to theft.

It's called extraction

Mr. Saito, we can train
your subconscious to defend itself

from even the most skilled extractor

How can you do that?

Because I am the most skilled extractor

I know how to search your mind
and find your secrets. I know the tricks

And I can teach them to you,
so that even when you're asleep

your defense is never down

Look, if you want my help, you're gonna
have to be completely open with me.

I need to know my way around
your thoughts better than your wife

better than your therapist
better than anyone.

If this is a dream,
and you have a safe full of secrets

I need to know what's in that safe

In order for this all to work,
you need to completely let me in

Enjoy your evening, gentlemen
as I consider your proposal.

He knows

[RUMBLING]

What's going on up there?

[MEN SHOUTING]

[MACHINE HISSING]

[EXPLOSION]

[RUMBLING]

Saito knows. He's playing with us

Doesn't matter. I can get it here
Trust me.

The information is in the safe

He looked right at it
when I mentioned secrets

What's she doing here?

Just head back to the room.
All right? I'll take care of this

Okay, make sure you do
We're here to work.

If I jumped, would I survive?

With a clean dive, perhaps

Mal, what are you doing here?

I thought you might be missing me

COBB:
You know that I am

But I can't trust you anymore

So what?

MAL:
Looks like Arthur's taste

Actually, the subject is partial
to postwar British painters.

Please, have a seat

MAL:
Tell me

do the children miss me?

You can't imagine

What are you doing?

Just getting some fresh air

Stay where you are, Mal

[GRUNTS]

Goddamn it

[SOFT SCREECHING]

[SILENCED GUNSHOT]

[GUARD GRUNTS]

[SILENCED GUNSHOT
THEN GUARD GRUNTS]

SAITO:
Turn around

The gun, Dom

Please

Now the envelope, Mr. Cobb

Did she tell you?
Or have you known all along?

That you're here to steal from me
or that we are actually asleep?

I want to know the name
of your employer.

Ah, there's no use threatening him
in a dream, right, Mal?

That depends
on what you're threatening

Killing him would just wake him up

But pain

[SCREAMS]

Pain is in the mind

And judging by the decor,
we're in your mind, aren't we, Arthur?

[GRUNTS]

- What are you doing? it's too soon
- But the dream's collapsing.

I'm gonna try to keep Saito under
a little hit longer. We're almost there

[SILENCED GUNFIRE]

He was close. Very close

[SCREAMS]

[YELLS]

Stop him!

[GUNFIRE]

[GRUNTS]

[HISSING]

[SAITO GROANS]

This isn't gonna work. Wake him up

[GRUNTS]

He won’t wake

- Give him the kick
NASH: What?

Dunk him

[GUN COCKS]

[WOOD GROANING]

[SAITO GRUNTING]

COBB:
He's out

[SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

You came prepared, hmm?

Not even my head of security knows
this apartment. How did you find it?

It's difficult for a man of your position
to keep a love nest like this secret...

...particularly where there's
a married woman involved.

- She would never
- Yet here we are.

- With a dilemma.
- They're getting closer

- You got what you came for
COBB: Well, that's not true.

You left out a key piece of information
didn't you?

You held something back
because you knew what we were up to

- Question is, why'd you let us in at all?
- An audition.

- An audition for what?
- Doesn’t matter. You failed

We extracted every hit of information
you had in there.

But your deception was obvious

[MACHINE HISSING]

[EDITH PIAF'S
NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN" PLAYING]

[SONG ECHOING]

- So leave me and go.
- You don't seem to understand, Mr. Saito

That corporation that hired us
they won't accept failure.

We won't last two days

Cobb?

Looks like I'm gonna have to do this
a little more simply.

Tell us what you know!
Tell us what you know, now!

[LAUGHING]

SAITO:
I've always hated this carpet

it's stained and frayed
in such distinctive ways

But very definitely made of wool

Right now

I'm lying on polyester

Which means I'm not lying
on my carpet, in my apartment

You have lived up to your reputation
Mr. Cobb.

I'm still dreaming

[ALARM BEEPING]

How'd it go?
Not good.

Dream within a dream, huh?
I'm impressed.

But in my dream, you play by my rules

Ah, yes, but you see, Mr. Saito

We're not in your dream

We're in mine

[MEN SHOUTING]

[ALARM BEEPING FASTER]

[NASH YELLS]

Asshole.
How do you mess up the carpet?

- It wasn't my fault.
- You're the architect

I didn't know
he was gonna rub his cheek on it!

That's enough

You. What the hell was all that?

I have it under control.
I'd hate to see you out of control

We don't have time for this
I'm getting off at Kyoto.

ARTHUR:
He's not gonna check every compartment

Yeah, well, I don't like trains

Listen. Every man for himself

[PHONE RINGS]

Yes, hello?

PHILLIPA: Hi, Daddy.
JAMES: Hi, Dad.

Hey, guys. Hey. How are you?
How you doing, huh?

PHILLIPA: Good.
JAMES: Okay, I guess

Okay? Who’s just okay?
Is that you, James?

JAMES:
Yeah. When are you coming home, Dad?

Well, I can't, sweetheart. I can't
Not for a while, remember?

JAMES
why?

Look, I told you, I'm away
because I'm working, right?

PHILLIPA:
Grandma says you're never coming back

COBB:
Phillipa, is that you?

Put Grandma on the phone for me
will you?

PHILLIPA:
She's shaking her head

Well, just hope she's wrong about that

JAMES:
Daddy?

Yeah, James?

JAMES:
Is Mommy with you?

James, we talked about this

Mommy's not here anymore

JAMES:
Where?

WOMAN:
That's enough, kids. Say bye-bye

Listen, I'm gonna send some presents
with Grandpa, all right?

And you be good, you be

[DIAL TONE]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Our ride's on the roof
Right.

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. Why?

Well, down in the dream
Mal showing up.

Look, I'm, uh, sorry about your leg
Won't happen again.

It's getting worse, isn't it?
One apology's all you're getting, all right?

- Where's Nash?
- He hasn't shown. You wanna wait?

We were supposed to deliver
Saito's expansion plans...

To Cobol Engineering two hours ago

By now, they know we failed
it's time we disappear.

- Where you gonna go?
- Buenos Aires.

I can lie low there, maybe sniff out
a job when things quiet down. You?

Stateside

Send my regards

He sold you out. Thought to come
to me and bargain for his life.

So I offer you the satisfaction

it's not the way I deal with things

[HELICOPTER STARTING]

- What will you do with him?
- Nothing.

But I can't speak for Cobol Engineering

- What do you want from us?
- Inception.

Is it possible?
Of course not.

If you can steal an idea
from someone's mind...

Why can't you plant one there instead?

Okay, here's me planting
an idea in your head.

I say, "Don't think about elephants
What are you thinking about?

Elephants

Right. But it's not your idea,
because you know I gave it to you

The subject's mind can always trace
the genesis of the idea.

True inspiration's impossible to fake
That's not true.

- Can you do it?
- Are you offering me a choice?

Because I can find my own way
to square things with Cobol.

Then you do have a choice

Then I choose to leave, sir

Tell the crew where you want to go

Hey, Mr. Cobb

How would you like to go home?

To America. To your children

You can't fix that. No one can

- Just like inception
- Cobb, come on.

How complex is the idea?
Simple enough.

No idea is simple when you need
to plant it in somebody else's mind

My main competitor is
an old man in poor health

His son will soon inherit control
of the corporation.

I need him to decide to break up
his father's empire.

Cobb, we should walk away from this
Hold on.

If I were to do this
if I even could do it

I'd need a guarantee

- How do I know you can deliver?
- You don't.

But I can

So do you want to take a leap of faith

or become an old man
filled with regret...

Waiting to die alone?

Assemble your team, Mr. Cobb.
And choose your people more wisely

Look, I know how much
you wanna go home.

This can't be done

Yes, it can.
Just have to go deep enough

You don't know that

I've done it before

Who’d you do it to?

Why are we going to Paris?

We're gonna need a new architect

[BELLS TOLLING]

COBB:
You never did like your office, did you?

No space to think
in that broom cupboard

Is it safe for you to be here?

Extradition between France
and the United States...

Is a bureaucratic nightmare
you know that.

I think they might find a way
to make it work in your case.

Look, I, uh, brought these for you to give
to the kids when you have a chance.

It'll take more than
the occasional stuffed animal

to convince those children
they still have a father.

I'm just doing what I know.
I'm doing what you taught me

I never taught you to be a thief

No, you taught me to navigate
people's minds.

But after what happened

there weren't a whole lot of legitimate
ways for me to use that skill.

What are you doing here, Dom?

I think I found a way home

it's a job
for some very, very powerful people

People who I believe can fix
my charges permanently.

But I need your help

You're here to corrupt
one of my brightest and best

You know what I'm offering.
Let them decide for themselves

Money.
Not just money

You remember

it's the chance to build cathedrals
entire cities...

Things that never existed

things that couldn’t exist
in the real world.

So you want me to let someone else
follow you into your fantasy?

They don't actually come into the dream

They just design the levels
and teach them to the dreamers. That's all

Design it yourself

Mal won’t let me

Come back to reality, Dom

Please.
Reality

Those kids, your grandchildren

they're waiting for their father to come
back home. That's their reality.

And this job, this last job
that's how I get there.

I would not be standing here
if I knew any other way.

I need an architect
who's as good as I was

I've got somebody better

Ariadne?

I'd like you to meet Mr. Cobb

Pleased to meet you

If you have a few moments, Mr. Cobb has
a job offer he'd like to discuss with you.

A work placement?

Not exactly

I have a test for you

You're not gonna tell me anything first?

Before I describe the job,
I have to know you can do it

- why?
- it's not, strictly speaking, legal

You have two minutes to design a maze
that it takes one minute to solve.

Stop

Again

Stop

You're gonna have to do better than that

That's more like it

COBB: They say we only use a fraction
of our brain's true potential.

Now, that's when we're awake

When we're asleep,
our mind can do almost anything

Such as?

Imagine you're designing a building
You consciously create each aspect.

But sometimes, it feels like it's almost
creating itself, if you know what I mean

Yeah, like I'm discovering it

Genuine inspiration, right?

Now, in a dream,
our mind continuously does this

We create and perceive
our world simultaneously

And our mind does this so well
that we don't even know it's happening

That allows us to get right
in the middle of that process

How?
By taking over the creating part

Now, this is where I need you

You create the world of the dream

We bring the subject into that dream,
and they fill it with their subconscious

How could I ever acquire enough detail
to make them think that it's reality?

Well, dreams, they feel real
while we're in them, right?

It's only when we wake up that we realize
something was actually strange.

Let me ask you a question

You never really remember
the beginning of a dream, do you?

You always wind up
right in the middle of what's going on

I guess, yeah

So how did we end up here?

Well, we just came from the, uh

Think about it, Ariadne.
How did you get here?

Where are you right now?

We're dreaming?

You're in the middle
of the workshop, sleeping

This is your first lesson
in shared dreaming. Stay calm

[CUP RATTLING]

[RUMBLING]

If it's just a dream,
then why are you-?

["NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN" PLAYING]

COBB:
Because it's never just a dream, is it?

And a face full of glass hurts like hell
When you're in it, it feels real.

ARTHUR: That's why the military
developed dream sharing.

It was a training program for soldiers
to shoot, stab and strangle each other.

And then wake up

ARIADNE:
How did architects become involved?

COBB: Well, someone had to design
the dreams, right?

Why don't you give us
another five minutes?

Five minutes?

[MUSIC STOPS]

What-? We were talking
for, like, at least an hour

In a dream, your mind
functions more quickly.

Therefore time seems
to feel more slow.

Five minutes in the real world
gives you an hour in the dream

Why don't you see what you
can get up to in five minutes?

[MACHINE HISSING]

COBB: You've got the basic layout
Bookstore, café.

Almost everything else is here too

ARIADNE: Who are the people?
- Projections of my subconscious

- Yours?
- Yes.

Remember, you are the dreamer
You build this world.

I am the subject. My mind populates it

You can literally talk
to my subconscious.

That's one of the ways we extract
information from the subject.

How else do you do it?

By creating something secure
like a bank vault or a jail.

The mind automatically fills it
with information it's trying to protect

- You understand?
- Then you break in and steal it?

Well

I guess I thought that the dream space
would be all about the visual...

But it's more about the feel of it

My question is what happens when you
start messing with the physics of it all?

[RUMBLING THEN METAL GROANING]

it's something, isn't it?

Yes, it is

ARIADNE:
Why are they all looking at me?

Because my subconscious feels that
someone else is creating this world.

The more you change things, the quicker
the projections start to converge on you.

Converge?

They sense the foreign nature
of the dreamer.

They attack, like white blood cells
fighting an infection.

- What, they're gonna attack us?
- No, no.

Just you

[METAL CREAKING]

This is great, but I'm telling you,
if you keep changing things like this

Jeez, mind telling your subconscious
to take it easy?

It's my subconscious.
Remember? I can't control it

Very impressive

I know this bridge.
This place is real, isn't it?

Yeah, I cross it every day
to get to the college.

Never re-create places from your memory
Always imagine new places.

You draw from stuff you know, right?

Only use details. A streetlamp
or a phone booth. Never entire areas

- Why not?
- Building a dream from your memory

is the easiest way to lose your grasp
on what's real and what is a dream.

Is that what happened to you?
Listen to me.

This has nothing to do
with me, understand?

That why you need me
to build your dreams?

Hey, get off of her. Back up. Back up

Cobb! Cobb!
Get off of her!

Let me go! Let me go!
Mal!

Mal!
Cobb! Wake me up!

- Wake me up! Wake me up!
- No!

- Mal, no! No!
- Wake me up!

[GASPING]

Hey, hey, hey. Look at me
You're okay. You're okay.

- Hey.
- Why wouldn't I wake up?

There was still time on the clock

You can't wake up from
within the dream unless you die

- She'll need a totem
ARIADNE: What?

A totem, it's a small personal

That's some subconscious
you've got on you, Cobb!

She's a real charmer
Oh.

I see you met Mrs. Cobb
She's his wife?

Yeah. So a totem. You need
a small object, potentially heavy

Something you can have on you
that no one else knows.

ARIADNE: Like a coin?
ARTHUR: No.

It needs to be more unique than that
Like, this is a loaded die.

No, I can't let you touch it.
That would defeat the purpose

See, only I know the balance and
the weight of this particular loaded die

That way,
when you look at your totem

...you know beyond a doubt that
you're not in someone else's dream

I don't know if you can't see what's
going on, or if you just don't want to.

But Cobb has some serious problems
that he's tried to bury down there.

And I'm not about to just open my mind
to someone like that.

[DOOR CLOSES]

She'll he back. I've never seen anyone
pick it up that quickly before.

Reality's not gonna be enough for her now
and when she comes back...

When she comes back,
you're gonna have her building mazes

- Where are you gonna be?
- I gotta go visit Eames.

Eames? No, he's in Mombasa
it's Cobol's back yard.

It's a necessary risk

- Well, there's plenty of good thieves
- We don't just need a thief.

We need a forger

Rub them together all you want
they're not gonna breed.

You never know

COBB:
I'm gonna get you a drink

You're buying

- Your spelling hasn't improved
- Piss off.

How's your handwriting?

It's versatile
Good.

Thank you very much

Inception

Now, before you bother telling me
it's impossible, let me-

No, it's perfectly possible
it's just bloody difficult.

Interesting. Because Arthur keeps
telling me it can't be done.

Hmm. Arthur. You still working
with that stick in the mud?

He is good at what he does, right?

Oh, he's the best,
but he has no imagination

Not like you

Listen, if you're gonna perform inception
you need imagination.

Let me ask you something
Have you done it before?

We tried it. Uh, we got the idea in place
but it didn't take.

- You didn't plant it deep enough?
- No, it's not just about depth.

You need the simplest version
of the idea...

...in order for it to grow naturally
in your subject's mind. it's a subtle art

So, what is this idea
that you need to plant?

We need the heir of a major corporation
to dissolve his father's empire.

Right there you have
various political motivations

and anti-monopolistic sentiments
and so forth.

But all of that stuff, it's, um

it's really at the mercy of your
subject's prejudice, you see?

What you have to do is
start at the absolute basic

Which is what?

The relationship with the father

Do you have a chemist?
No, not yet.

Right. Okay, well,
there's a man here, Yusuf

He, uh, formulates his own versions
of the compounds.

Why don't you take me there?

Once you've lost your tail
The man at the bar.

COBB:
Cobol Engineering

That price on my head,
was that dead or alive?

Don't remember.
Let's see if he starts shooting

Run interference. I'll meet you downstairs
in the bar in, say, uh, half an hour?

Back here?
This is the last place they'd suspect

[CHUCKLES]

All right

Freddy. Freddy Simmonds

My God, it's you, isn't it?

[GRUNTS]

No, it isn't you

Not dreaming now, are you?

[GRUNTS THEN PEOPLE SHOUTING]

MAN:
Get him!

There!

[WAITER SPEAKING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

One café

Shh

[WAITER SHOUTING]

One café

One café

[MEN SHOUTING]

[HORN HONKS]

[GRUNTING]

[TIRES SCREECH]

Care for a lift, Mr. Cobb?

- What are you doing in Mombasa?
- I'm here to protect my investment

[WHISTLE]

Ah. So this is your idea
of losing a tail, huh?

Different tail

[ARIADNE CLEARS THROAT]

Cobb said you’d be back

I tried not to come, but...
But there's nothing quite like it

it's just

pure creation

Shall we take a look
at some paradoxical architecture?

ARTHUR: You're gonna have to master
a few tricks...

If you're gonna build three complete
dream levels. Excuse me.

ARIADNE:
What kind of tricks?

In a dream, you can cheat architecture
into impossible shapes.

That lets you create closed loops
like the Penrose Steps.

The infinite staircase

See?

Paradox

So a closed loop like that

will help you disguise the boundaries
of the dream you create.

But how big do these levels have to be?

It could be anything
from the floor of a building to an entire city

They have to be complicated enough
that we can hide from the projections

- A maze?
- Right, a maze

And the better the maze

Then the longer we have
before the projections catch us?

Exactly

My subconscious seems polite enough
Ha, ha. You wait, they'll turn ugly.

No one likes to feel someone else
messing around in their mind.

Cobb can't build anymore, can he?

I don't know if he can't, but he won't

He thinks it's safer
if he doesn’t know the layouts

why?

He won’t tell me. But I think it's Mal

His ex-wife?
No, not his ex

They're still together?
No.

No, she's dead

What you see in there
is just his projection of her

What was she like in real life?

She was lovely

YUSUF: You are seeking a chemist?
COBB: Yes.

To formulate compounds for a job?

And to go into the field with us

No, I rarely go into the field, Mr. Cobb

Well, we'd need you there to tailor
compounds specific to our needs.

- Which are?
- Great depth

A dream within a dream? Two levels?

Three

Not possible. That many dreams
within dreams is too unstable.

It is possible.
You just have to add a sedative

A powerful sedative

How many team members?
Five.

SAITO
Six.

The only way to know you’ve done the job
is if I go in with you.

There's no room for tourists
on a job like this, Mr. Saito.

This time, it seems there is

This, I think, is a good place to start
I use it every day.

COBB: What for?
- Here, I'll show you

Perhaps you will not want to see

After you

[MACHINE HISSING]

EAMES:
Ten. Twelve. All connected. Bloody hell

They come every day to share the dream

You see? Very stable

- How long do they dream for?
YUSUF: Three, four hours, each day

In dream time?

With this compound? About 40 hours
each and every day.

- Why do they do it?
YUSUF: Tell him, Mr. Cobb

After a while, it becomes
the only way you can dream

Do you still dream, Mr. Cobb?

- They come here every day to sleep?
MAN: No.

They come to be woken up

The dream has become their reality

Who are you to say otherwise, sir?

Let's see what you can do

[METAL GROANING]

You know how to find me

You know what you have to do

Sharp, no?

SAITO:
Are you all right, Mr. Cobb?

Yeah, yeah. Everything's just fine

Robert Fischer, heir to the Fischer Morrow
energy conglomerate.

COBB:
What's your problem with this Mr. Fischer?

That's not your concern

Mr. Saito, this isn't your typical
corporate espionage.

You asked me for inception

I do hope you understand
the gravity of that request.

Now, the seed that we plant
in this man's mind will grow into an idea

This idea will define him

It may come to change

Well, it may come to change
everything about him.

We're the last company standing
between them and total energy dominance

And we can no longer compete

Soon, they'll control the energy supply
of half the world.

In effect, they become
a new superpower.

The world needs Robert Fischer
to change his mind.

EAMES:
That's where we come in

How is Robert Fischer's relationship
with his father?

Rumor is the relationship
is quite complicated.

Well, we can't work based
solely on rumor, can we?

Can you get me access to this man here?
Browning.

Fischer Senior's right-hand man
Fischer Junior's godfather.

It should be possible,
if you can get the right references

References are something
of a specialty for me, Mr. Saito

BROWNING: I'm not smelling
settlement here. Take them down

LAWYER:
Mr. Browning

...Maurice Fischer's policy
is always one of avoiding litigation

Well, shall we voice your concerns
with Maurice directly?

Not sure that's necessary

No, no, no. I think we should

BROWNING
How is he?

I don't want to bother him
unnecessarily, but...

MAURICE: Robert, I told you keep out
the damn- Wait. So do it. Get-

NURSE: Mr. Fischer.
MAURICE: Put it through

Never, never.
Never do the same as I asked

Leave that

Here

BROWNING:
Must be a cherished memory of his

I put it beside his bed.
He hasn't even noticed

Robert

we need to talk about
a power of attorney.

I know this is hard, but it's imperative
Not now, Uncle Peter.

EAMES:
The vultures are circling

And the sicker Maurice Fischer becomes,
the more powerful Peter Browning becomes

I've had ample opportunity
to observe Browning...

And adopt his physical presence, study his
mannerisms, and so on and so forth.

So now in the first layer of the dream
I can impersonate Browning.

And suggest concepts
to Fischer's conscious mind

Then, when we take him
a level deeper...

...his own projection of Browning
should feed that right back to him

So he gives himself the idea

Precisely. That's the only way it will stick
It has to seem self-generated.

Eames, I am impressed

Your condescension, as always,
is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you

[DOOR OPENS]

Were you going under on your own?

No, no, I was just, uh, running
some experiments.

I didn't realize anyone was here, so

Yeah, I was just-
I was working on my totem, actually

Here, let me take a look

So you're learning, huh?

An elegant solution
for keeping track of reality

- Was it your idea?
- No, it was, uh...

It was Mal's, actually. This

This one was hers. She would spin it
in the dream and it would never topple

Just spin and spin

Arthur told me she passed away

How are the mazes coming along?

Each level relates to the part
of the subject's subconscious.

That we are trying to access

So I'm making the bottom level a hospital
so Fischer will bring his father.

You know, I ... actually, I have a question
about this layout.

No, no, no. Don't show me specifics.
Only the dreamer should know the layout

Why is that so important?

In case one of us brings in
our projections.

We don't want them knowing
the details of the maze.

You mean in case you bring Mal in

You can't keep her out, can you?

- Right.
- You can't build

because if you know the maze
then she knows it.

Well, she'd sabotage
the whole operation.

Cobb, do the others know?
No. No, they don't.

You've gotta warn them
if this is getting worse.

No one said it's getting worse

I need to get home.
That's all I care about right now

Why can't you go home?

Because they think I killed her

Thank you
For what?

For not asking whether I did

I will split up my father's empire

Now, this is obviously an idea that
Robert himself would choose to reject

which is why we need to plant it deep
in his subconscious.

The subconscious is motivated
by emotion, right? Not reason.

We need to find a way to translate this
into an emotional concept.

How do you translate business strategy
into emotion?

That's what we're here to figure out
Robert's relationship with his father.

...is stressed, to say the least
Can we run with that?

We suggest breaking up his father's
company as a "screw you" to the old man

No, because I think positive emotion
trumps negative emotion every time.

We all yearn for reconciliation,
for catharsis.

We need Robert Fischer to have
a positive emotional reaction to all this

All right, well, try this. Um

"My father accepts that I want to create
for myself, not follow in his footsteps."

That might work

Might? We're gonna need to do
a little better than "might."

Thank you for your contribution, Arthur

Forgive me for wanting
a little specificity, Eames

Specificity?

Inception's not about being specific

When we get inside his mind, we're
gonna have to work with what we find

EAMES: On the top level, we open up
his relationship with his father

and say, "I will not follow
in my father's footsteps."

Then the next level down, we feed him
"I will create something for myself."

Then, by the time we hit the bottom level
we bring out the big guns.

- "My father doesn’t want me to be him
- Exactly.

[MACHINE HISSING]

Three layers down, the dreams are gonna
collapse with the slightest disturbance.

Sedation

For sleep stable enough to create
three layers of dreaming...

...we'll have to combine it with
an extremely powerful sedative

[MACHINE HISSING]

Good night

YUSUF: The compound we'll be using
to share the dream...

Creates a clear connection
between dreamers...

...whilst accelerating brain function.
In other words, more time on each level

Brain function in the dream will be
about 20 times normal.

And when you enter a dream within
that dream, the effect is compounded

it's three dreams,
that's 10 hours times 20

Math was never my strong subject
How much time is that?

It's a week, the first level down

Six months the second level down
and the third level-

That's 10 years

Who'd wanna be stuck
in a dream for 10 years?

Depends on the dream

So once we've made the plant
how do we get out?

I'm hoping you have something more
elegant than shooting me in the head.

- A kick.
- What's a kick?

EAMES:
This, Ariadne, would be a kick

it's that feeling of falling you get
that jolts you awake.

- Snaps you out of the dream.
- We gonna feel a kick with this sedation?

YUSUF:
That's the clever part

I customized the sedative to leave
inner-ear function unimpaired.

That way, however deep the sleep
the sleeper still feels falling.

Or tipping

The trick is to synchronize a kick
that can penetrate all three levels.

We could use a musical countdown
to synchronize the different kicks.

["NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN" PLAYING]

EAMES: He hasn't got any surgery
scheduled, no dental, nothing.

COBB: Wasn't he supposed to have
a knee operation?

Nothing. Nothing that they'll
put him under for, anyway. And we need

We need at least a good 10 hours

Sydney to Los Angeles

One of the longest flights in the world
He makes it every two weeks.

He must be flying private, then

SAITO: Not if there were unexpected
maintenance with his plane.

ARTHUR: It would have to be a 747
- Why's that?

On a 747, the pilot’s up top

the first-class cabin's in the nose
so no one would walk through.

You'd have to buy out the entire cabin
and the first-class flight attendant.

I bought the airline

It seemed neater

Well, looks like we have our 10 hours

Ariadne? Terrific work, by the way

[MACHINE HISSING]

MAL:
You know how to find me

You know what you have to do

You remember when you asked me
to marry you?

Of course I do

You said you had a dream

That we'd grow old together

And we can

COBB:
You shouldn’t be here

Just wanted to see what kind of tests
you're doing on your own every night.

This has nothing to do with you.
This has everything to do with me

- You've asked me to share dreams with you
- Not these. These are my dreams.

ARIADNE:
Why do you do this to yourself?

It's the only way I can still dream

Why is it so important to dream?

In my dreams, we're still together

These aren't just dreams

These are memories.
And you said never to use memories

I know I did

You're trying to keep her alive
You can't let her go.

You don't understand.
These are moments I regret

They're memories that I have to change

Well, what's down there that you regret?

Listen, there's only one thing
you need to understand about me

ARIADNE:
This is your house?

Mine and Mal's, yes

Where is she?

She's already gone

That's my son, James

He's digging for something
maybe a worm.

[JAMES GIGGLING]

That's Phillipa

I thought about calling out to them

so they'd turn and smile
and I could see...

Those beautiful faces of theirs
but it's all too late.

MAN:
Right now or never, Cobb

COBB:
Then I start to panic

I realize I'm gonna regret this moment

that I need to see their faces
one last time.

WOMAN:
James! Phillipa! Come on in!

COBB:
But the moment's past

And whatever I do,
I can't change this moment

As I'm about to call out to them

they run away

If I'm ever gonna see their faces again
I've gotta get back home.

The real world

[TRAIN APPROACHING]

[SIREN WAILING IN THE DISTANCE]

What are you doing here?

My name is

I know who you are.
What are you doing here?

I'm just trying to understand

How could you understand?

Do you know what it is to be a lover?

To be half of a whole?

No

I'll tell you a riddle

You're waiting for a train

A train that will take you far away

You know where you hope
this train will take you...

But you don't know for sure

But it doesn’t matter

How can it not matter to you
where that train will take you?

COBB:
Because you'll be together

MAL: How could you bring her here, Dom?
- What is this place?

This is a hotel suite where we
used to spend our anniversary

What happened here?

You promised!
You promised we'd be together!

Please, I need you to stay here
just for now!

You said we'd be together!
You said we'd grow old together!

I'll come back for you. I promise

[YELLING]

Do you think you can just build
a prison of memories to lock her in?

Dc you really think that
that's gonna contain her?

SAITO:
it's time

Maurice Fischer just died in Sydney

- When's the funeral?
- Thursday. In Los Angeles

Robert should accompany the body
no later than Tuesday. We should move

All right

Cobb, I'm coming with you
I promised Miles. No.

The team needs someone who
understands what you're struggling with

And it doesn’t have to be me

but then you have to show Arthur
what I just saw.

Get us another seat on the plane

COBB: If I get on this plane
and you don't honor our agreement

...when we land,
I go to jail for the rest of my life

Complete the job en route

I make one phone call from the plane

...you have no trouble
getting through Immigration

I'm sorry.
Oh, yeah, absolutely

Thank you

Excuse me, I think this is yours?
You must have dropped it.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT:
Would you care for a drink?

Oh. Water, please

Oh, um, same, please

um

Thank you

You know, I couldn't help but notice

but you wouldn't happen to be related
to the Maurice Fischer, would you?

Yes, he, um

He was my father

Well, he was a very inspiring figure
I'm sorry for your loss.

Here you go
Thank you.

COBB
Hey.

To your father

May he rest in peace, huh?

[MACHINE HISSING]

[HORN HONKS]

Couldn't have peed before you went under?
Sorry.

Bit too much free champagne
before takeoff?

Ha, ha, bloody ha

We know he's gonna be looking for a taxi
in this weather.

- Asshole! Hey, man, why don't you try-?
- Walk away.

[MAN SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
ON RADIO]

[TURNS OFF RADIO]

Just have him ca- I gotta go

All right. Taxi. Thank you

All right, Third and Market. Snappy

- What are you doing?
- Sorry, I thought it was free

it's not.
Maybe we could share

Maybe not.
Can you pull over and get this-?

Great

Come on

There's $500 in there.
The wallet's worth more than that

You might at least
drop me at my stop

I'm afraid that it doesn’t

[GUNFIRE THEN EAMES GRUNTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

- Cover him!
EAMES: Down! Down now!

What the hell is going on?

ARIADNE:
This wasn't in the design

Cobb?

Cobb?

[GUNFIRE]

[YELLS]

Get him!

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay

Fischer's okay, unless he gets carsick

Saito?

COBB:
Get Fischer in the back room now

- Get him in the back room. Move.
ARTHUR: What the hell happened?

COBB:
Has he been shot? Is he dying?

ARTHUR: I don't know
- Jesus Christ.

- Where were you? What happened to you?
- Blocked by a freight train.

Why put a train
in a downtown intersection?

- I didn't.
ARTHUR: Where'd it come from?

Why the hell were we ambushed?

Those were not normal projections.
They'd been trained, for God's sakes

How could he be trained?
Fischer's had an extractor

teach his subconscious to defend itself
so his subconscious is militarized.

It should've shown in the research, I'm sorry

COBB: Why the hell didn't it?
- Calm down.

COBB:
Don’t tell me to calm down!

This was your job, goddamn it!
This was your responsibility!

You were meant to check
Fischer's background!

- We are not prepared for this!
- We have dealt with sub-security before!

We'll be more careful
and we're gonna be fine!

This was not a part of the plan!
He's dying.

Put him out his misery

No, don't do that! Don’t do that
Cobb, hey, hey.

He's in agony. I'm waking him up

No. It won't wake him up

What do you mean, it won't wake him up?
When we die in a dream, we wake up.

Not from this

We're too heavily sedated
to wake up that way.

Right. So, what happens when we die?

- We drop into limbo
- Are you serious?

- Limbo?
ARTHUR: Unconstructed dream space

ARIADNE: Well, what the hell is down there?
- Just raw, infinite subconscious.

Nothing is down there, except for
what might have been left behind

by anyone sharing the dream
who's been trapped there before

Which, in our case, is just you

- How long can we be stuck there?
YUSUF: We can't even think about

trying to escape until the sedation ..
- How long?

Decades, it could be infinite. I don't know.
Ask him, he's the one who's been there

ARTHUR: Let's get him upstairs

[GROANING]

Great

Thank you

So now we're trapped in Fischer's mind
battling his own private army

and if we get killed,

we'll be lost in limbo till our brains
turn to scrambled egg, hmm?

ARTHUR: Someone got first aid?

- So you knew these risks and you didn't tell us?
- There weren't meant to be risks.

- I didn't know we'd be dealing with load of gunfire
- You had no right.

This was the only way
to go three layers deep

You knew about this and went along with it?
And you, you went along with this?

I trusted him

You trusted him? What, when he promised you
half his share?

No. His whole share.
Besides, he said he'd done it before

What, with Mal?
Because that worked so good?

That has nothing to do with it.
I did what I had to, to get back to my children

So you led us into a war zone
with no way out?

There is a way out. We continue on with
the job, and we do it as fast as possible.

And we get out using the kick
just like before.

Forget it. We go any deeper
we just raise the stakes.

I am sitting this one out on this level, boys

COBB: Fischer's security is
surrounding this place as we speak

Ten hours of flight time
is a week at this level.

That means each and every one of us
will be killed. That I can guarantee you

We have no other choice but to continue on
and do it as fast as possible.

Downwards is the only way forwards

Get ready

You, come on. Let's go shake him up

I'm insured against kidnapping
for up to 10 million.

- This should be very simple
COBB: Shut up! It won't be.

ARTHUR: In your father's office
below the bookshelves...

...is his personal safe.
We need the combination

[SIGHS]

I don't know any safe

COBB: That doesn't mean
you don't know the combination

Tell us what it is

I don't know

We have it on good authority
you do know.

Yeah? Whose authority?

- Five hundred dollars, this cost
EAMES: What's inside it?

Cash, cards, ID. And this

Useful?

Maybe

You're on. You've got an hour

An hour?

I was supposed to have all night
to crack this.

And Saito wasn't supposed
to be shot in the chest.

You've got one hour,
now get us something useful, please

[SCREAMING]

- What's that?
- Good authority

Uncle Peter

Just make them stop

The combination
I don't know it.

- Why does Browning say you do?
- I don't know.

Just let me talk to him
and I'll find out.

You have one hour. Start talking

FISCHER:
You all right?

[GROANING]

You okay?

Those bastards been at me for two days.

They have someone with access
to your father's office.

- They're trying to open his safe
- Yeah.

They thought I'd know the combination
but I don't know it.

- Yeah, well, neither do I, so
- What?

Maurice told me that when he passed
you were the only one able to open it

No, he never gave me any combination

Maybe he did. I mean, maybe you
just didn't know it was a combination

Well, what, then?

I don't know, some meaningful
combination of numbers...

Based on your experiences
with Maurice.

We didn't have very many, uh,
meaningful experiences together

Perhaps after your mother died

After my mother died,
you know what he told me?

"Robert,
there's really nothing to be said

Oh, well, he was had with emotion

I was 11, Uncle Peter

How's he doing?
He's in a lot of pain

When we get down to the lower levels
the pain will be less intense.

And if he dies?

Worst-case scenario?

When he wakes up,
his mind is completely gone

Cobb, I'll still honor the arrangement

COBB: I appreciate that, Saito

But when you wake up, you won't even
remember that we had an arrangement.

Limbo is gonna become your reality

You're gonna be lost down there so long
that you're gonna become an old man.

Filled with regret?

Waiting to die alone

No

I'll come back

And we'll be young men together again

Breathe

These people are gonna kill us
if we don't give them the combination

They just wanna ransom us
I heard them.

They're gonna lock us in that van
and then drive it into the river.

All right. What is in the safe?

Something for you

Maurice always said
it was his most precious gift to you

- A will.
- Maurice's will is with Port and Dunn

That's an alternate

This would supersede the other
if you want it to.

It splits up the component businesses
of Fischer Morrow.

It'd be the end of the entire empire
as we know it.

Destroying my whole inheritance?

- Why would he suggest such a thing?
- I just don't know.

He loved you, Robert

In his own way

FISCHER: In his own way

At the end

he called me into his deathbed

He could barely speak

But he took the trouble
to tell me one last thing

He pulled me close

And I could only make out

one word

Disappointed

[SIGHS]

When were you in limbo?

You might have the rest of the team
convinced to carry on with this job.

But they don't know the truth
Truth? What truth?

The truth that, at any minute, you might
bring a freight train through the wall.

The truth that Mal is bursting
through your subconscious.

And the truth that,
as we go deeper into Fischer

we're also going deeper into you

And I'm not sure
we're gonna like what we find

We were working together

We were exploring the concept
of a dream within a dream.

I kept pushing things

I wanted to go deeper and deeper
I wanted to go further.

I just didn't understand the concept that
hours could turn into years down there...

That we could get trapped so deep

that when we wound up on the shore
of our own subconscious...

We lost sight of what was real

We created.
We built the world for ourselves

We did that for years

We built our own world

How long were you stuck there?

Something like 50 years

Jesus

How could you stand it?

It wasn't so had at first
feeling like gods.

The problem was knowing
that none of it was real.

Eventually, it just became impossible
for me to live like that.

And what about for her?

She had locked something away,
something deep inside her.

A truth that she had once known,
but chose to forget.

Limbo became her reality.

What happened when you woke up?

Well, to wake up from that
after years, after decades...

...to become old souls thrown back
into youth like that?

I knew something was wrong with her.
She just wouldn't admit it.

Eventually, she told me the truth.

She was possessed by an idea.

This one very simple idea
that changed everything.

That our world wasn't real.

That she needed to wake up
to come back to reality...

...that in order to get back home...

...we had to kill ourselves.

- What about your children?
- She thought they were projections...

...that our real children were waiting
for us up there somewhere.

MAL: I'm their mother!
COBB: Calm down.

I can tell the difference.

If this is my dream,
why can't I control this?

You don't know you're dreaming!

COBB: She was certain
there was nothing I could do...

...no matter how much I begged,
no matter how much I pleaded.

She wanted to do it,
but she could not do it alone.

She loved me too much, so she came up
with a plan on our anniversary.

- Sweetheart, what are you doing?
- Join me.

Just- Just step back inside. All right?
Just step back inside now, come on.

No. I'm going to jump,
and you're coming with me.

No, I'm not.

Now, you listen to me.

If you jump, you're not gonna wake up,
remember? You're gonna die.

Now, just step back inside.

Come on. Step back inside
so we can talk about this.

We've talked enough.

Mal.

- Come out onto the ledge or I'll jump right now.
- Okay.

We're gonna talk about this.

All right?

- I'm asking you to take a leap of faith.
- No, honey.

No, I can't. You know I can't do that.

Take a second, think about our children.

Think about James.

Think about Phillipa, now.

If I go without you,
they'll take them away anyway.

- What does that mean?
- I filed a letter with our attorney...

...explaining how I'm fearful
for my safety.

How you've threatened to kill me.

- Why did you do this?
- I love you, Dom.

Why did-? Why would you do this to me?

I've freed you from the guilt
of choosing to leave them.

We're going home to our real children.

Oh, no, no, no, Mal, you listen to me,
all right? Mal, look at me, please?

You're waiting for a train.

- Mal, goddamn it, don't do this!
- A train that will take you far away.

James and Phillipa are waiting for you!

You know where you hope this train
will take you, but you can't know for sure.

- Mal, look at me!
- But it doesn't matter.

- Mal, goddamn it! Mal, listen to me!
- Because you'll be together.

Sweetheart! Look at me! Mal, no!

Jesus Christ!

She had herself declared sane
by three different psychiatrists.

It made it impossible for me to try
to explain the nature of her madness.

So I ran.

[CHILDREN GIGGLING]

MAN:
Right now, or never, Cobb.

WOMAN:
James! Phillipa! Come on in! Come on!

All right, let's go.

I left my children behind and I've been
trying to buy my way back ever since.

Your guilt defines her.
It's what powers her.

But you are not responsible
for the idea that destroyed her.

And if we are gonna succeed in this...

...you have to forgive yourself,
and you're gonna have to confront her.

But you don't have to do that alone.

- No, you're not...
- I'm doing it for the others.

Because they have no idea the risk
they've taken coming down here with you.

We have to move.

Time's up.

All right. I don't know any combination.

- Not consciously, anyway.
COBB: How about instinctively, huh?

I got somebody in your father's office
right now ready to tap in the combination.

Give me the first six numbers
that come to your head right now.

- I have no idea.
- Right now!

I said, right now! Right now!

Five, two, eight, four, nine, one.

You'll have to do better than that.

All right. Bag them.
You're going for a ride.

FISCHER: We're worth more to you alive.
You hear me?

What'd you get?

His relationship with his father
is even worse than we imagined.

This helps us how?

The stronger the issues,
the more powerful the catharsis.

- How are we gonna reconcile them?
- I'm working on that.

Work faster.
The projections are closing in quick.

We gotta break out of here
before we're totally boxed in.

Damn it.

You mustn't be afraid to dream
a little bigger, darling.

We need to shift his animosity
from his father to his godfather.

- Destroy his one positive relationship?
- No, repair his relationship with his father...

...whilst exposing his godfather's
true nature.

We should charge Fischer a lot more
than Saito for this job.

His security is gonna
get worse as we go deeper.

- I think we run with Mr. Charles.
- No.

EAMES: Who's Mr. Charles?
- Bad idea.

The second we get into that hotel
his security's gonna be all over us.

We run with Mr. Charles
like on the Stein job.

- You've done it before?
ARTHUR: Yeah, and it didn't work.

The subject realized he was dreaming
and his subconscious tore us to pieces.

Excellent. But you learned a lot, right?

- I need some kind of distraction.
EAMES: No problem.

How about a lovely lady
that I've used before?

Listen to me.
You drive carefully, all right?

Everything down there is
gonna be unstable as hell.

Don't jump too soon. We only got
one shot at that kick. We gotta make it.

I'll play the music to let you know
it's coming. The rest is on you.

- You ready?
- Ready!

Sweet dreams.

WOMAN:
Am I boring you?

I was telling you my story.
I guess it wasn't to your liking.

Um, I have a lot on my mind.

There goes Mr. Charles.

Mr. Fischer, right?

Pleasure to see you again.
Rod Green from marketing. I-

Hmm.

- And you must be?
- Leaving.

In case you get bored.

Must've blown you off.

That is, unless her phone number
really is only six digits.

Funny way to make friends,
someone stealing your wallet like that.

[SCOFFS]

Goddamn it. The wallet alone
is worth at least 500-

About $500, right?

Don't worry about it.
My people are already on it as we speak.

Who or what is Mr. Charles?

It's a gambit designed to turn Fischer
against his own subconscious.

ARIADNE:
And why don't you approve?

It involves telling the mark
that he's dreaming...

...which involves attracting
a lot of attention to us.

- Didn't Cobb say never to do that?
- Hmm.

So now you've noticed how much time...

...Cobb spends doing things
he says never to do.

Mr. Saito, can I have a moment?

- I'm sorry, but...
MAN: Hold on! Wait!

You look a bit perkier.

Very amusing, Mr. Eames.

[RUMBLING]

Turbulence on the plane?

No, it's much closer.

That's Yusuf's driving.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GLASSES CLINKING]

Um, I'm sorry.
Who did you say you were?

COBB:
Rod Green from marketing.

But that's not true at all, is it?

My name is Mr. Charles.
You remember me, don't you?

I'm the head of your security down here.

Get out on a different floor,
keep moving.

Dump the wallet.
Security will be looking for that.

- Okay.
- We need to buy Cobb a little more time.

[COUGHING]

Security, huh?

- You work for the hotel?
- No, no.

I specialize in a very specific type
of security.

Subconscious security.

You're talking about dreams?

Are you talking about, um, extraction?

I am here to protect you.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[CHATTERING STOPS]

Mr. Fischer, I'm here
to protect you in the event...

...that someone tries to access
your mind through your dreams.

You're not safe here.

They're coming for you.

[YELLS]

Strange weather, isn't it?

You feel that?

What's happening?

Cobb's drawing Fischer's attention
to the strangeness of the dream...

...which is making his subconscious
Look for the dreamer.

For me. Quick, give me a kiss.

- They're still looking at us.
- Yeah, it was worth a shot.

We should probably get out of here.

[GUNFIRE]

COBB: You feel that? You've actually
been trained for this, Mr. Fischer.

Pay attention to the strangeness
of the weather, the shift in gravity.

None of this is real. You're in a dream.

Now, the easiest way
for you to test yourself...

...is to try and remember how you arrived
at this hotel. Can you do that?

Yeah, l...

COBB: No, breathe, breathe.
Remember your training.

Accept the fact that you're in a dream,
and I'm here to protect you. Go on.

Mm-hm.

- You're not real?
- No.

No. I'm a projection
of your subconscious.

I was sent here to protect you
in the event...

...that extractors
tried to pull you into a dream.

And I believe that's what's
going on right now, Mr. Fischer.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Can you get me out of here?

Right away. Follow me.

Hold on a second.

Jesus Christ! What are you doing?

These men were sent here
to abduct you, all right?

If you want my help,
you have to remain calm.

I need you to work with me, Mr. Fischer.

If this is a dream, I should just
kill myself to wake up, right?

I wouldn't do that if I were you,
Mr. Fischer.

I believe they have you sedated,
and if you pull that trigger...

...you may not wake up.

You may go into a further dream state.
Now, you know what I'm talking about.

You remember the training.

Remember what I said to you.

Give me the gun.

- This room should be directly below 528?
- Yeah.

[SAFE BEEPS]

Think, Mr. Fischer, think.

What do you remember
from before this dream?

There was, um, a lot of gunfire.

There was rain.

Uncle Peter.

- Oh, my God, we've been kidnapped.
- Where were they holding you?

- They had us in the back of a van.
- That explains the gravity shifts.

You're in the back of a van.
Keep going.

It had something to do with, um...

Something to do with a safe.

God, why is it so hard to remember?

It's like trying to remember a dream
after you've woken up.

Listen, it takes years of practice.

You and Browning have been pulled
into this dream...

...because they're trying to steal
something from your mind.

I need you to focus and try
and remember what that is.

What is it, Mr. Fischer? Think!

A combination. They demanded
the first numbers to pop into my head.

They're trying to extract a number
from your subconscious.

It can represent anything.
We're in a hotel right now.

We should try hotel rooms.
What was the number, Mr. Fischer?

Try and remember for me.
This is very important.

Five.

Five, two- It was something,
it was a long number.

That's good. We can start there.
Fifth floor.

Yep.

- So do you use a timer?
- No, I have to judge it for myself.

While you're all asleep in 528,
I wait for Yusuf's kick.

- Well, how will you know?
- His music warns me.

And then when the van hits the barrier
of the bridge, that should be unmistakable.

So we get a nice synchronized kick.

If it's too soon,
we won't get pulled out.

But if it's too late,
I won't be able to drop us.

- Well, why not?
- Because the van will be in freefall.

- Can't drop you without gravity.
- Right.

They're with me. Go on.

Mr. Charles.

- Do you know what that is, Mr. Fischer?
- Yeah, I think so.

They were trying to put you under.

- I'm already under.
- Under again.

What do you mean,
a dream within a dream?

Hey. I see you've changed.

I'm sorry?

Oh, I'm sorry.
I mistook you for a friend.

Oh.

Good-looking fellow, I'm sure.

No, no, no. That's Fischer's
projection of Browning.

Let's follow him
and see how he behaves.

- Why?
- Because how he acts will tell us...

...if Fischer is starting to suspect
his motives the way we want him to.

Shh.

[DOOR OPENS]

- Uncle Peter.
- You said you were kidnapped together?

Well, not exactly. They already had him.
They were torturing him.

And you saw them torture him?

The kidnappers are working for you?

Robert.

You're trying to get that safe open?
To get the alternate will?

Fischer Morrow has been my entire life.
I can't let you destroy it.

I'm not gonna throw away
my inheritance.

I couldn't let you rise
to your father's last taunt.

- What taunt?
- The will, Robert. That will?

That's his last insult.

A challenge for you to build something
for yourself...

...by telling you you're not worthy
of his accomplishments.

- What, but that he was, um, disappointed?
- I'm sorry.

But he's wrong.

You can build a better company
than he ever did.

Mr. Fischer? He's lying.

- How do you know?
- Trust me, it's what I do.

He's hiding something,
and we need to find out what that is.

I need you to do the same thing to him
that he was going to do to you.

We'll enter his subconscious and find out
what he doesn't want you to know.

All right.

[MACHINE HISSING]

COBB: He's out.
- Wait.

Whose subconscious are
we going into exactly?

We're going into Fischer's.

I told him it was Browning's
so he'd be a part of our team.

He's gonna help us break
into his own subconscious.

COBB:
That's right.

Security's gonna run you down hard.

And I will lead them on a merry chase.

- Just be back before the kick.
- Go to sleep, Mr. Eames.

ARTHUR:
You good?

Hey. You ready?

Yes, yes. I'm fine. I'm ready.

ARIADNE:
Cobb?

Cobb? What's down there?

Hopefully, the truth
we want Fischer to learn.

I mean, what's down there for you?

[SHOTGUN COCKS]

[GUNFIRE THEN YUSUF YELLS]

[ELEVATOR DINGS]

[YUSUF YELLS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[METAL GROANING]

[SECURITY GUARD SCREAMING]

[YELLING]

[GUNSHOT]

[LAUGHS]

Did you see that?

COBB:
Eames, this is your dream.

I need you to draw the security away
from the complex, understand?

- Who guides Fischer in?
COBB: Not me.

If I know the route,
everything could be compromised.

- I designed the place.
COBB: No, you're with me.

SAITO:
I could do it.

All right. Brief him on the route
into the complex.

- Fischer, you'll be going with him.
- All right. What about you?

You keep this live.
I'll be listening in the whole time.

The windows on that upper floor are big
enough for me to cover you from that tower.

FISCHER:
You're not coming in?

In order to find out the truth
about your father...

...you're gonna need to break into
Browning's mind on your own.

SAITO:
Come on, Fischer!

[BUFFER SOUNDING]

- Sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!
- Go, go, go!

Move!

Go!

[GUNFIRE]

YUSUF:
Sod it.

I hope you're ready.

[''NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN'' PLAYING]

[SONG ECHOING]

No, it's too soon.

[SONG ECHOING]

Cobb, do you hear that?

I first noticed it about 20 minutes ago,
I thought it was the wind up here.

Yeah, I hear it. It's music.

So, what do we do?

We move fast.

Yusuf's 10 seconds from the jump.

Which gives Arthur three minutes.

- Hey!
- That's him!

- Which gives us what?
- Sixty minutes.

- Can they make that route in an hour?
- They have to climb to the terrace.

Then they need a new route,
a more direct route.

[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

It's designed as a labyrinth.

There must be access routes
that cut through the maze.

Eames?

[GUNFIRE]

Did Eames add any features?

I don't think I should tell you.

We don't have time for this.
Did he add anything?

He added an air-duct system
that can cut through the maze.

Good. Explain it to them.

ARIADNE: Saito?
- Go ahead.

[SECURITY GUARD GRUNTS]

Paradox.

[SCREAMS THEN THUDS]

[BOTH GASPING]

ARIADNE: What was that?
- The kick.

Cobb! Cobb, did we miss it?

Yeah, we missed it.

FISCHER:
Man.

Couldn't someone have dreamt up
a goddamn beach? Huh?

Uh-huh.

EAMES [OVER RADIO]:
Well, what the hell do we do now?

We finish the job before the next kick.

- What next kick?
- When the van hits the water.

WOMAN [ON RECORDING]: If you'd like to
make a call, please hang up and try again.

If you need help, hang up...

How do I drop you without gravity?

Arthur has a couple minutes,
and we have about 20.

[SAITO COUGHING]

You okay?

SOLDIER: Run! Turn around!
Move to base! Move to base!

Go, go, go!

There's something wrong.

They're heading your way,
like they know something.

Just buy us more time, all right?

- Come on!
- On my way.

SOLDIER:
Come on! Move!

[SILENCED GUNSHOT]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

All right.

[SILENCED GUNSHOT]

Okay. That's the antechamber
outside the strong room.

- Does the strong room have windows?
- It wouldn't be very strong if it did.

Let's hope Fischer likes
what he finds in there.

- Are those projections his subconscious?
- Yes.

- Are you destroying parts of his mind?
- No. They're just projections.

[COUGHS]

[SAITO COUGHING]

- We're here.
- You're clear, but hurry.

There's an entire army headed your way.

[WHISPERS]
I'm in.

[STATIC OVER RADIO]

[TURNS RADIO OFF]

SOLDIER:
There he is.

- There's someone in there.
- Fischer, it's a trap. Get out.

Come on. Come on, a little lower.

ARIADNE:
Cobb.

No, she is not real.

How do you know that?

She is just a projection.
Fischer. Fischer is real.

[GRUNTS]

Hello.

ARIADNE: Eames!
Eames, get to the antechamber now!

EAMES: What happened?
- Mal killed Fischer.

I couldn't shoot her.

There's no use in reviving him.
His mind's already trapped down there.

It's all over.

So that's it, then? We failed?

We're done. I'm sorry.

It's not me that doesn't get back
to my family, is it?

Shame. I wanted to know what was
gonna happen in there. I swear we had this.

Let's set the charges.

No, there's still another way.

- We have to follow Fischer down there.
- Not enough time.

No, but there will be enough time
down there.

And we will find him.

Okay, as soon as Arthur's music kicks in,
just use the defibrillator to revive him.

We can give him his own kick
down below.

Look, you get him in there.

As soon as the music ends,
you blow up the hospital...

...and we all ride the kick
back up the layers.

It's worth a shot, if Saito can hold
the guards off while I set the charges.

Saito will never make it, will he?

- Cobb, come on. We've gotta try this.
- Go for it.

If you are not back before the kick,
I am gone with or without you.

She's right. She's right.
Come on. Let's go.

Can I trust you to do
what needs to happen here?

Mal's gonna be down there.

I know where to find her.
She'll have Fischer.

- How do you know?
- Because she wants me to come after him.

She wants me back down there with her.

All right?

- This is your world?
- It was.

And this is where she'll be.

Come on.

[GUNFIRE]

Saito. Saito.

I need you to take care of Fischer
while I go set some charges, okay?

No room for tourists on these jobs.

Don't be silly.

ARIADNE:
You built all this? This is incredible.

We built for years.

Then we started in on the memories.

This way.

COBB:
This was our neighborhood.

Places from our past.

That was our first apartment.

Then we moved to that building
right there.

After Mal became pregnant,
that became our home.

You reconstructed all of this
from memory?

Like I told you, we had lots of time.

ARIADNE:
What is that?

That's the house Mal grew up in.

- Well, will she be in there?
- No.

Come on.

We both wanted to live in a house,
but we loved this type of building.

In the real world,
we'd have to choose, but not here.

[GRUNTS]

[GUNFIRE]

[GRUNTS]

[BEEPS]

[BEEPS]

[BEEPS]

How are we gonna bring Fischer back?

We're gonna have to come up
with some kind of a kick.

What?

I'm gonna improvise.

Listen, there's something you should
know about me. About inception.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GUNFIRE]

An idea is like a virus. Resilient.

Highly contagious.

And the smallest seed
of an idea can grow.

It can grow to define...

...or destroy you.

MAL:
The smallest idea, such as:

''Your world is not real.''

Simple little thought
that changes everything.

So certain of your world. Of what's real.

Do you think he is?

Or do you think he's as lost as I was?

COBB:
I know what's real, Mal.

No creeping doubts?

Not feeling persecuted, Dom?

Chased around the globe...

...by anonymous corporations
and police forces...

...the way the projections
persecute the dreamer?

Admit it.

You don't believe in one reality anymore.

So choose.

Choose to be here.

Choose me.

[COUGHS]

You know what I have to do.

I have to get back to our children
because you left them.

Because you left us.

- You're wrong.
COBB: I'm not wrong.

You're confused.

Our children are here.

And you'd like to see their faces again,
wouldn't you?

Yes, but I'm gonna see them
up above, Mal.

[GUNFIRE]

[BEEPS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[SAITO COUGHING]

Up above?

Listen to yourself.
These are our children.

Watch.

James? Phillipa?

Don't do this, Mal. Please.
Those aren't my children.

You keep telling yourself that,
but you don't believe it.

- No, I know it.
- What if you're wrong?

What if I'm what's real?

You keep telling yourself what you know.

But what do you believe?

What do you feel?

Guilt.

I feel guilt, Mal.

And no matter what I do,
no matter how hopeless I am...

...no matter how confused,
that guilt is always there...

...reminding me of the truth.

What truth?

That the idea that caused you to question
your reality came from me.

You planted the idea in my mind?

What is she talking about?

The reason I knew inception was possible
was because I did it to her first.

- I did it to my own wife.
- Why?

We were lost in here.

I knew we needed to escape,
but she wouldn't accept it.

She had locked something away,
something deep inside.

A truth that she had once known,
but chose to forget.

And she couldn't break free.

So I decided to search for it.

I went deep into the recess of her mind
and found that secret place.

And I broke in...

...and I planted an idea.

A simple little idea
that would change everything.

That her world wasn't real.

That death was the only escape.

You're waiting for a train.

[METAL GROANING]

A train that'll take you far away.

You know where you hope
this train will take you...

...but you can't know for sure.

Yet it doesn't matter.

- Now, tell me why!
- Because you'll be together!

COBB: But I never knew that that idea
would grow in her mind like a cancer...

...that even after she woke...

That even after
you came back to reality...

...that you'd continue to believe
your world wasn't real.

That death was the only escape.

Mal, no! Jesus!

- You infected my mind.
- I was trying to save you.

You betrayed me.

But you can make amends.
You can still keep your promise.

We can still be together, right here...

...in the world we built together.

[COUGHING]

[BEEPS]

[GUNFIRE]

[GRUNTS]

[''NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN'' PLAYING]

[SONG ECHOING]

[DEFIBRILLATOR CHARGING]

[THUNDER CRASHING]

Cobb, we need to get Fischer.

You can't have him.

- If I stay here, will you let him go?
- What are you talking about?

Fischer is on the porch.

- Go check he's alive, Ariadne.
- Cobb, you can't do this.

Go check he's alive right now. Do it.

[ARIADNE GRUNTING]

He's here! And it's time,
but you have to come now!

COBB: You take Fischer with you, all right?
- You can't stay here to be with her.

I'm not. Saito's dead by now.

That means he's down here somewhere.
That means I have to find him.

I can't stay with her anymore,
because she doesn't exist.

I'm the only thing
you do believe in anymore.

No.

I wish.

I wish more than anything, but...

...I can't imagine you
with all your complexity...

...all your perfection,
all your imperfection.

- You all right?
- Yeah.

Look at you.

You're just a shade.
You're just a shade of my real wife.

And you were the best
that I could do, but...

...I'm sorry, you're just not good enough.

Does this feel real?

[GUNSHOT]

- What are you doing?
- Improvising.

[GASPING]

No, no, no!

In there, now. Go, go, go.

I was dis-

I was dis- Disa-

- I know, Dad.
- Dis-

I know you were disappointed...

...I couldn't be you.

No.

No, no, no.

I was disappointed...

...that you tried.

[BEEPING]

What?

Come on, come on.

Dad?

[SOBBING]

That's the kick, Ariadne!
You have to go now!

Don't lose yourself!
Find Saito and bring him back!

I will!

You remember when you asked me
to marry you?

Yes.

You said you dreamt
that we'd grow old together.

But we did.

We did. You don't remember?

I miss you more than I can bear...

...but we had our time together.

And I have to let you go.

I have to let you go.

I'm sorry, Robert.

[ARTHUR YELLS]

You know, the will means that Dad
wanted me to be my own man...

...not just to live for him.

That's what I'm gonna do, Uncle Peter.

What happened?

- Cobb stayed.
- With Mal?

No, to find Saito.

He'll be lost.

No, he'll be all right.

SAITO:
Have you come to kill me?

I'm waiting for someone.

COBB:
Someone from a half-remembered dream.

Cobb?

[SCOFFS]

Impossible.

We were young men together.

I'm an old man.

Filled with regret.

Waiting to die alone.

I've come back for you.

To remind you of something.

Something you once knew.

That this world is not real.

To convince me to honor
our arrangement?

To take a leap of faith, yes.

Come back...

...so we can be
young men together again.

Come back with me.

Come back.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT:
Hot towel, sir?

We'll be landing in Los Angeles
in about 20 minutes.

Do you need immigration forms?

Thank you.

Hot towel, sir?

- No.
- Do you need immigration forms?

Welcome home, Mr. Cobb.

Thank you, sir.

Welcome.

This way.

MILES:
James? Phillipa?

Look who's here.

Hey.

- Hey, guys! Hey! How are you?
PHILLIPA: Daddy! Daddy!

JAMES: Daddy!
COBB: How are you?

Look what I've been building!

- What are you building?
JAMES: We're building a house on the cliff!

COBB: On the cliff? Come on, I want you
to show me. Can you show me?

JAMES: Let's go.
PHILLIPA: Come on, Daddy!