Int. Bathroom, warehouse - later

 

Cobb and Arthur, wearing BALACLAVAS, PULL the sack from

Fischer's head. He is chained to the radiator.

 

FISCHER

I'm insured against kidnapping up

to ten million-this'll be simple-

 

COBB

No, it won't.

 

Fischer looks at Cobb, unnerved.

 

ARTHUR

In. your lather's office, below the

bookshelves, is his personal safe.

We need the combination.

 

FISCHER

I never noticed a safe-

 

COBB

Doesn't mean you don't know the

combination.

 

FISCHER

Well, I don't.

 

ARTHUR

We have it on good authority that

you do.

 

FISCHER

Whose?

 

INT. OFFICE, WAREHOUSE - CONTINUOUS

 

Yusuf looks through Fischer's wallet. Eames is opening a

HINGED, THREE-WING MIRROR.

 

YUSUF

Five hundred dollars, this cost?

 

EAMES

What's inside?

83.

 

YUSUF

Cash, cards, ID... and this-

 

Yusuf holds up a SNAPSHOT: the photo from Maurice Fischer's

office- YOUNG ROBERT holds his HOMEMADE PINWHEEL, his FATHER

blows on it. Eames takes it from Yusuf. STUDIES it. Cobb

enters. Eames hands him the snapshot.

 

EAMES

Useful?

 

Cobb studies the snapshot. Eames examines himself in the

hinged mirror from multiple angles: ONE BY ONE the myriad

Eames reflections BECOME BROWNINGS. Cobb pockets the photo.

 

COBB

You're on. You've got an hour.

 

EAMES

An hour? I was supposed to have all

night to crack him.

 

COBB

And Saito was supposed to keep his

guts on the inside. You've got an

hour-get something we can use.

 

Eames turns from the mirror AS BROWNING. He glances at his

watch, then SCREAMS, as if begging for mercy-

 

INT. BATHROOM, WAREHOUSE - CONTINUOUS

 

Browning's CRY reverberates- Fischer looks up, concerned-

 

FISCHER

What's that?

 

ARTHUR

Good authority.

 

Another cry rings out. Fischer recognizes the voice.

 

FISCHER

Uncle Peter?! Make them stop-

 

ARTHUR

The combination.

 

FISCHER

I don't know it!

 

ARTHUR

Why would Browning tell us you did?

 

FISCHER

Let me talk to him-I'll find out.

84.

 

INT. BATHROOM, WAREHOUSE - MOMENTS LATER

 

Cobb pushes Browning (Eames), bloody and bruised, into the

room and forces him down next to Fischer. Cobb handcuffs

Browning's wrist to a metal bracket on the side of the sink.

 

COBB

You've got an hour. Get talking.

 

Cobb leaves.

 

BROWNING (EAMES)

They've had me for two days.

They've got someone with access to

your father's office and they're

trying to open his safe-they

thought I'd know the combination,

but I don't-

 

FISCHER

Neither do I, Uncle Peter.

 

BROWNING

(confused)

Maurice told me that after he

passed only you would be able to

open it.

 

FISCHER

He never gave me the combination.

 

Browning thinks for a minute. Realizes something.

 

BROWNING

He did, he just didn't tell you

that it was a combination.

 

FISCHER

What, then?

 

BROWNING

Something only you would know. Some

meaningful combination of numbers

from your experiences with Maurice-

 

FISCHER

We didn't have a lot of meaningful

experiences together.

 

BROWNING

Perhaps after your mother died...

 

FISCHER

After my mother died, I went to him

in my grief.

(MORE)

85.

FISCHER (CONT'D)

You know what he told me? "There's

really nothing to be said, Robert."

 

BROWNING

He always had a hard time with

emotional-

 

FISCHER

I was eleven, Uncle Peter.

 

Browning (Eames) takes this in.

 

BROWNING

He loved you, Robert. In his way.

 

FISCHER

"In his way?" At the end he called

me to his deathbed. He could barely

speak, but he took the trouble to

say one last thing to me. He pulled

me close... I could make out only

one word. "Disappointed."

 

Browning can say nothing.

 

INT. OFFICE, WAREHOUSE - CONTINUOUS

 

Cobb pulls off his balaclava. Looks down at Saito, who is

breathing fast, shallow.

 

COBB

How's he doing?

 

ARIADNE

He's in a lot of pain.

 

Cobb takes Saito's hand. Looks him in the eye.

 

COBB

When we get you down to the next

level, the pain will be less

intense.

 

Saito nods, breathing hard.

 

ARIADNE

(low)

And if he dies?

 

COBB

His conscious mind will drop out of

the dream. He'll be trapped in

Limbo for a lifetime...

 

ARIADNE

What will that do to him?

86.

 

Cobb looks at her. Grave.

 

COBB

When he wakes... his mind could be

completely gone.

 

SAITO

When... when we wake I will still

honor our arrangement...

 

Cobb looks down at Saito sadly.

 

COBB

Saito-san, when you wake you might

not even remember that we had an

arrangement. You'll have forgotten

this world. Limbo will be your

reality. Lost there so long, you'll

have become an old man...

 

SAITO

Filled with regret?

 

COBB

Waiting to die alone. Yes.

 

SAITO

Then I'll take the chance and come

back. And we'll be young men

together again.

 

Saito smiles weakly. Cobb nods at him, turns to Ariadne.

 

ARIADNE

When were you trapped in Limbo?

 

Cobb says nothing. Ariadne pulls him away from Saito.

 

ARIADNE

Cobb, you might have convinced the

rest of this team to carry on with

the job. But they don't know the

truth.

 

COBB

What truth?

 

ARIADNE

The truth that at any minute you

might bring a freight train through

the wall. The truth that Mal is

bursting up through your

subconscious.

(MORE)

87.

ARIADNE (CONT'D)

The truth that as we go deeper into

Fischer, we're also going deeper

into you-and I'm not sure we're

going to like what we find there.

 

Cobb stares back at Ariadne. Saying nothing.

 

ARIADNE

This is not just about Fischer,

it's about you. Tell me what

happened to you and Mal. Trapped in

Limbo.

 

Cobb looks at her. Thinking it through.

 

COBB

We were on a job. Exploring dreams

within dreams. But we didn't

understand how your mind can turn

hours into years. How you can get

trapped. Trapped so deep that when

you wash up on the shore of your

subconscious...