Why is Sator blackmailing Kat?

As the mission progresses, the Protagonist and his partner Neil meet Sator’s estranged wife, Kat, who is desperate to rescue her child from her husband’s clutches. Kat tells them that Sator was blackmailing her with regard to a fake artefact which she had sold through him.

What does the drawing mean in Tenet?

Tenet’s painting subplot informs viewers about character motivations but also underlines many of the film’s central themes. Tenet suggests that Kat mistakenly authenticated the artwork, presumably by Francisco Goya, but the subtext implies that she orchestrated the scheme as an act of self-serving revenge.

Why can Kat breathe in Tenet?

The reason Kat wasn’t wearing a mask was simply that she was no longer inverted. Once they had gone back to the appropriate point in time, Neil brought her through the turnstile, which allowed them to progress forward in time again and not require a mask.

Why didn’t Kat need a mask on the boat?

What is a Sator?

The word sator is a noun that means ‘sower’ or ‘farmer’, and is an image for ‘father’ as in ‘creator’. The image of an almighty farmer is present in Latin writers’ work right before the advent of Christianity.

How did Sator get the gold?

In the Tenet movie, Sator is shown to receive gold shipments from the future. He buries a capsule, transmits the coordinates (presumably via a hidden newspaper message or an equivalent), then digs it out and retrieves the inverted gold that was inserted there by future humans.

How is Kat saved in Tenet?

How did Kat survive after being shot? Sator shoots Kat with an inverted bullet, which means radiation poisoning as well as regular bullet damage. To head that off, the Protagonist and Neil take her through the temporal turnstile so she’s also moving backward in time, just like the bullet.

Why does Katkat join up with Sator?

Kat joins up, not just to get back at her estranged husband Sator, but also to ensure she frees her young son, Max, from the villain’s grip.

Why does Kat go back in time to save Sator?

Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in Vietnam. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm.

Is Kat’s son a key soldier in the inversion War?

It’s possible that the revelations in Tenet’s intense, mind-bending ending suggest that Kat’s son may be a key soldier in the inversion war. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Tenet, now playing in theaters.

What happened to Kat in the Blue Room?

Kat and the protagonist are both captured by Sator’s men and sent back to the warehouse. Kat is given an oxygen mask and led into a blue room and shot by an inverted bullet by inverted Sator.