Lots of spoilers! ! ! After the end of the second brush today, I will try to analyze the final temporal pincer movement.
First of all, the goal of this mission is not to stop the explosion, but to take out the algorithm that will cause the reversal of world time before the countdown ends and Sator has not committed suicide. Once the algorithm is taken out, even if Kat kills Sator or the bomb explodes at the end of the countdown, it will not lead to the end of the world. The time flow of the red team and the blue team is opposite within ten minutes. The red team is positive and the blue team is inverted. That is, the blue team has finished the task when the red team starts the task, so all the terrain and strategic information obtained by the blue team can be obtained. Unfold the task well. The figure below is a schematic diagram of the task I drew. Neil's task trajectory is represented by a green line. (The red number is the countdown displayed on the red team's watch, and the green one is the countdown for the blue team and Neil)
The task of the red team is to cover the splinter group composed of Ives and the protagonist to enter the base and take out the algorithm. Here are some important time nodes:
1. Neil and the blue team start the mission together (this time is the end of the red team's mission), and all the players are fighting against time.
2. When the countdown for both the red team and the blue team is at 5:00, the two teams simultaneously attacked a building to cover the splinter group and enter the base underground.
3. When Neil's countdown was about four minutes left, he saw Volkov (Russian mercenary) set a trap at the entrance of the base and decided to return to the correct time through the timestile of the base (revolving door that changes the entropy direction) to remind the protagonist and Ives . Before entering the timestile blue door, Neil saw that the opposite future self stepped back into the red door, confirming that he could perform inversion (this is what Ives emphasized when the protagonist entered the door for the first time after Sator tortured him, if you don’t see the glass Entering the machine on the opposite side means that you have gone or not. This detail has appeared many times. When the counter-time protagonist is in vault fighting with himself, it is after observing the opposing self's future actions, and then he breaks free from the right time and enters the machine. )
4. Neil returned to the correct timeline for about 4 minutes. He drove after the protagonist and Ives, but did not catch up. He watched the protagonist enter the entrance of the base to trigger the mechanism, and the entrance was bombed and collapsed by the mechanism.
5. Neil threw the rope into the center of the base where the protagonist was, and pulled the protagonist and Ives up. Say goodbye to the protagonist, enter timestile again and return to reverse time. (After the three people escaped, Ives asked the protagonist how to open the lock. The protagonist said that he did not open it. Neil should know from here about his fate to save the protagonist again)
6. Neil opened the locked iron door.
7. Neil blocked a gun for the protagonist and died.
Some additional details:
There is a time machine called timestile in the base. Ives mentioned it during briefing. It is precisely because of this machine that there are anti-time soldiers among the enemies of the base. If Neil didn’t have half of the mission inversion, he would not see the protagonist who ended the mission. As mentioned before, the mission of the blue team ended when the mission of the red team started, so Neil’s other blue teammates were as early as ten minutes. Left the battlefield before.
From the perspective of the protagonist, the order of 5, 6, and 7 is 7, 6, and 5. So when Volkov threatened with a gun through the iron gate, the protagonist saw the soldier with a red string on the backpack stood up to block the gun, and the door was blocked. Open, the soldier retreats and leaves from the timestile.
In the film reviews of some big guys, I saw that Neil was the protagonist who went to the opera house to save at this time, but I prefer Neil in the opera house to happen before Neil and the protagonist officially met (the restaurant where I met seems to be called mumbai yacht ?), because Neil was on time when he was in the opera house. It would be strange if Neil rushed to Ukraine to rescue the protagonist and then returned to stalsk-12 to unlock the lock. My own idea is that Neil saved the protagonist of Ukraine during another time travel. At this time, after completing the task of removing the algorithm, he returned to the timestile of the base to take the bullet and die.
Actually, I didn’t want to understand the details of Neil’s blocking gun. If I remember correctly, Volkov shot with a normal bullet instead of an inverse bullet, so the trajectory of this bullet is in the order of Neil in reverse time. The bullet returned to the barrel from the point of impact, and Volkov released the trigger. So if the protagonist fights with himself according to the logic of the plot, before the bullet returns to the barrel, Neil will have fatal injuries caused by the bullet as soon as he comes out of Timestile. (The protagonist began to bleed blood from the wound on the cruise ship, and for the anti-time protagonist, the fight has not yet occurred.) So according to this logic, Neil is once timestile to anti-time, and a bullet is stuck in his body. , But this fatal injury did not kill him. He didn't die until the bullet left his body and returned to the barrel after he opened the lock. This sequence...?
This is also my biggest confusion about this mechanism, everything that happened will happen, just like the protagonist himself wrestling with the future self has already happened, so in the future he will definitely go back to the past through the time machine to complete this thing. Then his free will has no control over his future at all. . . Indeed, after the protagonist learned that he was fighting on his own, he explained that if he told you at that time, who would know what you would do, but this seems to be completely fatalistic! ! ! My brain power can only go to this point. If I continue to think about it, I will abuse myself. You are welcome to discuss and correct me.
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