The problem was that I knew that none of that was real.
Eventually, it has became impossible for me to live like that.
And what about for her?
She has locked something away. Something deep inside her.
The truth that she once known. She chose to forget.
Limbo became her reality.
What happened when you woke up?
Well, to wake up from that after, 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 are waiting for us out there somewhere.
- Look, Cobb! I'm their mother. - Calm down.
Can't you even tell the difference?
If this is my dream, why can't I control this?
Because you don't know you're dreaming!
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 step back inside, alright? Just step back inside now, come on.
- No. I'm going to jump and you're coming with me. - No, I'm not. But 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 unto the ledge or I'll jump right now.
Okay.
We're gonna talk about this. Alright?
- I'm asking you to take a leap of faith. - No, honey.
I can't. You know, I can't do that.
Take a second and 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 threatened to kill me.
- Why did you do that? - I love you, Dom.
Why did you..why... 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.
No, no, no, no, Mal, You listen to me! Alright? 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.
- They're waiting for us! - But you can't know for sure.
- Mal, look at me! - But it doesn't matter.
- Mal, goddamn it! - Because you will be together.
Sweetheart, look at me! Mal, no! Jesus Christ!
She had herself declared sane by three different psychiatrists.
That made it impossible for me to try to explain the nature of her madness.
So, I ran...
Right now, or never, Cobb.
Alright, let's go.
I left my children behind and I've been trying to buy myself 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. You're gonna have to confront her.
But you don't have to do that alone.
- No, no, you don't... - I'm doing it for the others.
Because they have no idea of the risk they've taken coming down here with you.
We have to move.
- Time's up. - Alright. I don't know any combination.
- Not consciously anyway. - How about instinctively, huh?
I got somebody standing in front of his office right now
ready to tap in the combination.
I need the first six numbers that come to your head right now.
- I have no idea. - Right now!
- I said right now! Right now! - 5, 2, 8, 4, 9, 1.
You'd have to do better than that.
Alright. Gag him. We're going for a ride.
What more do you like? To kill me?
What did you get?
That boy's 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 you gonna reconcile then pursue his strengths?
- Well I'm working on that, don't I? - Move fast.
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.
Now, we need to shift his animosity from his father to his godfather.
We're gonna destroy his one positive relationship?
No, we'll repair his relationship with his father
by exposing his godfather's true nature.
We should thrice Fischer's loot more than Saito's mission.
What about his security? It's gonna get worse as we go deeper.
- No, I think we're going with Mr. Charles. - No.
- Who's Mr. Charles? - A bad ides.
The second we get into that hotel and approach Fischer
his security will be all over us. We run with Mr. Charles like we did on this timed job.
- So, you've done it before? - Yeah, and it didn't worked.
The subject realized that he was dreaming and his subconscious tore us to pieces.
Excellent. But you've learned a lot, right?
I need some kind of distraction.
No problem. How about a lovely lady that I've used before?
- Listen to me. You drive carefully, alright? - Yeah.
getting down there is gonna be unstable as hell.
Don't jump too soon. We only have one shot at that kick you're gonna make.
I'll play the music and you'll know it's coming, the rest is on you.
- Are you ready? - Ready!
Sweet dreams.
Am I boring you?
I was telling you my story. I guess it wasn't to your liking.
I have a lot in my mind.
There goes Mr. Charles.
Mr. Fischer, right?
Pleasure to see you again. Rod Green from marketing.
- And you must be? - Leaving.
In case you get bored.
She must have blown you off.
That is unless her phone number really is only six digits.
528-491
Funny way to make friends, someone stealing their wallet like that.
Goddamn it. The wallet alone is worth at least...
$500, right?
Listen, 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.
And why don't you approve?
Cause it involves telling the mark that he's dreaming`
which involves attracting a lot of attention to us.
So Cobb said he couldn't do that?
So now you've noticed how much time Cobb spends
doing things he says never to do.
Mr. Saito, may I have a moment?
- I'm sorry, but... - Wait!
- You looked to be "livelier". - Very amusing, Mr. Eames.
Turbulence on the plane?
No, I mean, it's must closer. It's Yusuf's driving.
- I'm sorry, who did you say you were? - Rod Green from marketing.
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 and keep moving.
Dump the wallet. The security will look for that.
- Okay. - We need to buy Cobb a lot more time.
Security, huh?
- You work for the hotel? - No, no.
I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
Are you talking about dreams? Are you talking about extraction?
I am here to protect you. Look...
Excellent work. Now, what is your plan?...
Mr. Fischer, I am 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.
Strange weather, isn't it?
You feel that?
What's happening?
Cobb is 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's worth a shot.
We should probably get out of here.
Feel that? You've actually been trained for this, Mr. Fischer.
Pay attention to the strangeness of the weather, the shifting gravity.
None of this is real. You're in a dream.
Now, the easiest for you to test yourself...
is to try to remember how you arrived at this hotel. Can you do that?
See, I don't, I...
Breath, breath. Remember your training.
Accept the fact that you're in a dream and I'm here to protect you.
Go on.
- 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 try 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.
Stay there.
Jesus Christ! What are you doing?
These men were sent here to abduct you, alright.
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.
Think, Mr. Fischer, think what do you remember from before this dream?
There was...there was a lot of gunfires. And there's....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 right now. Keep going.
It had something to do with... 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 has 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 the 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 enough. We could start there.
- Fifth floor. - Yup.
- So do you use a timer? - No, I have to judge it for myself.
While you're all asleep in 528, I'll 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.
If it's too late... I won't be able to drop us.
Why not?
Cause of the van, that will be in free fall. 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, yeah. - 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've mistaken you for a friend.
Good looking fella, I'm sure.
That's Fischer's projection of Browning. Let's follow him and see how he behaves.
- Why? - Because how he acts would tell us...
if Fischer is going to suspect his motives, the way we wanted to.
- 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? So you 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. Why would I?
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, that he was disappointed, hmm?
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.
Alright.
He's out.
Wait, whose subconscious are we going into exactly?
We're going into Fischer's.
But I told him it was Browning's so he can be a part of our team.
He's gonna help us break into his own subconscious.
That's right.
Security's gonna run you down, huh.
And I will lead them on a merry chase.
Just be back here for the kick.
Go to sleep, Mr. Eames.
Are you good?
- Are you alright? - Yes, yes. I'm..I'm fine. I'm ready.
Cobb? Cobb? What's down there?
Hopefully the truth we want Fischer to learn.
I mean, what's down there for you?
Did you see that?
Eames, this is your dream.
I need you to draw the security away from the complex, you understand?
- Who will guide Fischer in? - Not me.
Find all the route, everything could be compromised.
- I designed the place. - No, you're with me.
I could do it.
Alright, you'll reach on the route into the complex.
- Fischer, you'll be going with him. - Alright.
- What about you? - Keep this alive. I'll be listening in the whole time.
The windows on that upper floor are big enough for me...
to cover you from that south tower. You see it?
- Yeah. 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.
Come, Fischer!
Sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!
Move!
Go!
So they're shooting me!
I hope they're ready.
It's too soon.
Cobb, do you hear that?
First heard it about twenty minutes ago. I thought it was the wind up here.
Yeah, I hear it. It's music.
- So what do we do? - Move fast.
Yusuf's ten seconds for the jump.
Which gives Arthur three minutes.
Hey!
- Which gives us what? - Sixty minutes.
Can they make that route in under an hour?
They still have to climb down to the middle terrace.
Well then, they need a new route. A more direct route.
It's designed as a labyrinth.
There must be access where we can cut through the maze, right?
Eames?
Did Eames add any features?
I don't think I should tell you. If Mal finds out...
We don't have time for this. Did he add any?
He added an air duct system that can cut through the maze.
Good. Explain it to them.
- Saito? - Go ahead.
Paradoxical.
- What was that? - The kick.
- Cobb, did we miss it? - Yeah, we missed it.
Couldn't you instead just have dreamt of a goddamn beach?
What the hell do we do now?
We finish the job before the next kick.
- What next kick? - When the van hits the water.
If wanna make a call, please hang up and try again.
If you need assistance...
How do I drop you without gravity?
Arthur has a couple of minutes, we have about twenty.
Are you okay?
Move out! To the base!
There's something wrong. They're heading your way like they know something.
Just buy us some more time, alright? Come on!
On my way.
That's the antechamber, it's just stronger.
Was it stronger if it have any windows?
No, I mean it wouldn't be very strong if it did.
Let's hope Fischer likes what he finds in there.
Are those projections part of his subconscious?
Yes.
Are you destroying those parts of his mind?
No, no. They're just projections.
We're here.
You're clear but hurry. There's an entire army headed your way.
We're in.
- There's someone else in there. - Fischer, it's a trap, get out!
Come on. A little lower.
- Cobb. No, she is not real! - How do you know that?
She is just a projection. Fischer...Fischer is real!
Hello.
Eames! Eames! Get to the antechamber now!
- What happened? - Mal killed Fischer.
I couldn't shoot her.
But 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.
Well, it's not me who's gonna get back to my family, is it?
It's a shame, I really want to know what's gonna happen in there.
- I swear we have this one.. - Let's set the charges.
No, there's still another way.
We just have to follow Fischer down there.
We don't have 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.
That's worth a shot.
And Saito can hold the guards out while I set the charges.
Saito, will never make it, will he?
Cobb, come on! We've got to try.
Let's go!
Look if we're not that fully kicked, I am gonna leave in vain.
She's right. She's right.
Can I trust you to do what's gonna happen here?
I mean, Mal's gonna be down there.
I know where to find her. She'll have Fischer.
How do you know?
She wants me to come after her, she wants me back down there with her.
Are you alright?
- This is your world? - Was.
This is where she'll be.
Come on.
Saito...
I need you...I need you to take care of Fischer while I go set some charges, okay?
No room for tourists on this jobs.
Don't be silly.
You built all these? This is incredible.
We built for years.
We started in on the memories.
This way.
This is our neighbourhood. The place is from my past.
That was our first apartment and we moved to that building right there.
After Mal became pregnant, that became our home.
You reconstructed all of these from memory?
Like I told you, we have lots of time.
What is that?
It's the house Mal grew up with.
- Will she be in there? - No.
Come on.
We both wanted to live in a house but we love this type of building.
In the real world, we'd have to choose, but not here.
How are you gonna bring Fischer back?
I'm gonna have to come up with some kind of a kick.
What?
The improvised.
Listen, there's something you should know about me. About inception.
An idea is like a virus. Resilient.
Highly contagious.
The smallest seed of an idea can grow.
It can grown to define or destroy you.
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?
Why do you think he's as lost as I was?
I know it'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.
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.
- Not at all. - You're confused.
Our children are here.
And you'd like to see their faces again, wouldn't you?
Yes, but I want to see them up above, Mal.
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?
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.
The truth that she had once known but she chose to forget.
She couldn't break free.
So I decided to search for it.
Going deep into the recess of her mind and found that secret place.
I broke in and I planted an idea.
A simple idea that I knew would change everything.
That her world wasn't real.
That death was the only escape.
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 can't know for sure!
And it doesn't matter!
- Now tell me why! - Because we'll be together.
And I never knew that... that idea would grow in her mind like a cancer...
that even after she woke.
... that even after yo came back to reality
that you keep to believe your world wasn't real.
That death was the only escape.
Mal, no! Jesus!
- You're infecting 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.
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's on the porch.
- Go check if he's alive, Ariadne. - Cobb, you can't do this.
Go check if he's alive, right now! Do it.
He's here and it's time but you have to come now!
- Take Fischer with you, alright? - 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.
I wish...
I wish more than anything, but...
...I can't imagine you with all your complexity.
All your perfection. All your imperfection.
Are you alright?
Look at you.
You're just a shade. You're just a shade of my real wife.
And you are the best that I could do, but...
...I'm sorry, you're just not good enough.
This will feel real?
- What are you doing? - Improvise.
No, no, no!
Get in there, now! Go, go, go!
Disappointed...
I know, Dad.
I know you were disappointed. I couldn't be you.
No, no, no!...
I was disappointed that you tried to be like me
Come on, come on, come on!
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
Dad?
That's the kick, Ariadne! You have to go now!
Don't lose yourself! Find Saito and bring him back!
I will!
Do you remember when you asked me to marry you?
Yes.
You said you dreamt that we'll grow old together.
But we did.
We did, you don't remember?
I'd 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.
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 alright.
Are you going to kill me?
I'm waiting for someone.
Someone from a half-remembered dream.
Cobb? Impossible.
We were young men together.
I'm an old man...
Filled with regret.
Waiting to die alone, huh.
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 man together again.
Come back with me. Come back.
Hot towel, sir?
We'll landing in Los Angeles in about twenty minutes.
Do you need immigration forms?
Thank you.
- Hot towel, sir? - Oh no.
Do you need immigration forms?
- Welcome home, Mr. Cobb. - Thank you, sir.
Welcome home. This way.
James? Phillipa?
Look who's here!
Hey kids, how are you?
- Daddy! - How are you?
Look what I built, Daddy!
- What are you doing there? - I built a house made of rocks!
- Out of rocks? - Come, I want you to see it.
Can you make me one?
Come on, Daddy!