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When Kat is shot on the blue side:

From the inverted perspective, Sator comes out of the turnstile, un-shoots an inverted Kat, and exits with her on the opposite side, back to the Freeport entrance.

A few moments later, which is earlier to the inverted people on the blue side, Ives and crew remove her back to the red side.

So from an inverted perspective team Ives placed her there to be un-shot. But they also didn’t, they took her to Oslo.

Doesn’t this indicate the timeline was forked or rewritten?

I watched the movie again for the 8th time and a few things stood out that I didn’t really notice before:

1. Kat’s infamous “including my son?” line. Indicates Max is a very important character in-universe. We’re talking John Connor levels of important. And she knows it. The line makes no sense unless she’s just delirious from the reverse radiation. Perhaps this is not what Nolan intended but it’s how it came out.

2. Withholding of info on Sator’s cancer. Kat doesn’t reveal this to Neil and TP until the trip back from Oslo. This withholding makes no sense unless she’s been recruited into the Tenet organization prior to the events of the movie and therefore has reason not to disclose the terminal illness. In-universe there is no way the topic would not have come up in her initial meetings with TP.

3. In the tunnel, Ives or TP shout “Not Clear” into the radio. This seems like a weird screenwriting error. They should have shouted “Hold” (which they do later) or other word due to the risk of the first word (Not) not transmitting. Both characters have military training and should know better. What’s up with this?

4. I’m no expert in clothing but it’s clear from the internal logic of the movie, that Neil dresses like a billionaire. Is that because he is British Intelligence? Or is it because he was raised a billionaire? (Neil=Max theory)