Int. Hotel lobby - continuous

 

Saito moves through the lobby. Browning is coming in the

other direction. Saito assumes him to be Eames.

 

SAITO

I see you've changed.

 

BROWNING

I'm sorry?

 

Eames comes up behind Browning, catching Saito's eye.

 

SAITO

I'm... I mistook you for a friend.

 

BROWNING

Good-looking fellow, I'm sure.

 

Browning moves off. Saito approaches Eames.

 

EAMES

That's Fischer's projection of

Browning. We'll keep an eye on how

he behaves-

 

SAITO

Why?

 

EAMES

How he acts will tell us if

Fischer's starting to suspect his

motives the way we want him to.

109.

 

INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR, FIFTH FLOOR - MOMENTS LATER

 

Cobb leads Fischer around a corner. Arthur and Ariadne are

waiting in the corridor.

 

COBB

They work for me.

 

Fischer starts looking at room numbers. Stops at 528. Cobb

draws his gun, steps back from the door and KICKS it open.

 

INT. ROOM 528 - CONTINUOUS

 

Cobb JUMPS into the room, gun up. The room is empty. Arthur

and Ariadne search the room. Saito and Eames arrive. Eames

shuts the door. Arthur FINDS something-

 

ARTHUR

Mr. Charles!

 

Arthur holds up a MECHANISM CASE. Cobb shows it to Fischer.

 

COBB

You know what this is?

 

Fischer's eyes roam over the dials and plungers.

 

FISCHER

I think so. But I don't understand.

 

COBB

They were going to put you under.

 

FISCHER

I'm already under.

 

COBB

Under again.

 

FISCHER

A dream within a dream?

 

ARTHUR

Shhhh!

 

Arthur is at the door. Someone is there. A key goes into the

lock- the door starts to open- Arthur REACHES OVER and GRABS

the person entering, THROWS THEM TO THE FLOOR- puts his gun

in their face. IT IS BROWNING.

 

Fischer stares, disbelieving, at his own godfather.

 

FISCHER

Uncle Peter. What's going on?

 

Cobb pulls the key from Browning's hand: ROOM 528.

110.

 

COBB

You said you were kidnapped

together?

 

FISCHER

Not exactly, they already had him.

They'd been torturing him...

 

COBB

You saw them torture him?

 

Fischer shakes his head. Looks at Browning. Thinking.

 

FISCHER

The kidnappers are working for you.

 

BROWNING

No, Robert-

 

FISCHER

You're trying to get that safe

open. To get the alternate will.

 

Browning looks up at Fischer.

 

BROWNING

Fischer Morrow's been my entire

life. I can't let you destroy it.

 

FISCHER

I'm not going to throw away my

inheritance. Why would I?

 

BROWNING

I couldn't take the chance of you

rising to your father's final

taunt.

 

FISCHER

What taunt?

 

BROWNING

That will. I'm sorry, Robert, but

it's his final insult. A challenge

to build something for yourself.

He's telling you that you aren't

worthy of his achievements.

 

Fischer takes this in. Devastated.

 

FISCHER

That he was "disappointed?"

111.

 

BROWNING

I'm so sorry. But he was wrong.

You'll make his company even

greater than he ever could.

 

COBB

Your godfather's lying, Robert.

 

Fischer turns to Cobb.

 

FISCHER

How do you know?

 

COBB

It's what I do. He's hiding

something.

 

Cobb looks at Browning.

 

COBB

Let's find out what.

 

Cobb nods at Arthur, who starts unpacking the mechanism.

Browning watches. Silent.

 

COBB

Let's do to him what he was going

to do to you.

 

Cobb rolls up his sleeve. Nods at Fischer to do the same.

 

COBB

We'll penetrate his subconscious

and find out what he doesn't want

you to know.

 

Fischer looks Cobb in the eye. Decides- rolls up his sleeve,

offering his bare arm. The team run tubes to each other-

Arthur injects Fischer, whose head slumps.

 

ARTHUR

He's out.

 

ARIADNE

Wait, Cobb-I'm lost. Whose

subconscious are we going into?

 

COBB

Fischer's. I told him it was

Browning's so he'd come with us as

part of our team.

 

ARTHUR

(impressed)

He's going to help us break into

his own subconscious.

112.

 

COBB

That's the idea. He'll think that

his security is Browning's and

fight them to learn the truth about

his father.

 

Arthur hits buttons on the mechanism. The team goes out one

by one. Cobb is last.

 

COBB

Fischer's subconscious is going to

run you down hard.

 

ARTHUR

I'll lead them on a merry chase.

 

COBB

Be back in time for the kick.

 

ARTHUR

I'm on it.

 

Cobb is no longer listening- he stares at the net curtains,

BILLOWING like those in Mal's suite- a GLIMPSE of someone

(Mal?) As the screen goes WHITE, and we are-