Who threatened Neil despite of quantum breach?

While Tenet is not a direct Inception sequel, John David Washington himself has confirmed the films are related. Specifically, the actor suggested Tenet is an «in-law» of the earlier movie; an intriguing proposition that means very little unless you start to think about the central idea of Tenet in a slightly different way. It’s not just a series of heists designed to save humanity, it’s a mind-heist targeting The Protagonist himself.

From the moment The Protagonist wakes from his gruesome recruitment test and is given the word «Tenet» and the mysterious hand gesture by Martin Donovan’s Tenet associate, he sets about attempting to uncover the real truth about Tenet’s inversion, time travel, and the future’s plan to destroy the world. The entire plan by Tenet (the organization) is to implant ideas so that The Protagonist comes to the realization that he must start the organization himself in the future and dedicate himself to defeating the future antagonist’s plot. That moment on the ship is the second time an idea is implanted in his head – the word tells him not only what to call his organization but also how to enact the final battle plan. Two simultaneous ten-minute missions meeting at the middle (hence the word «Tenet») and the gesture of two hands locking together. The first idea implanted is that The Protagonist must be willing to give up anything for the cause, which he does by choosing to «die».

Everything else that follows in Tenet’s time travel timeline – from following Sator back to his own origin story in the Russian closed city through to finding out that he hired Neil in the future (by traveling further back in time) – is designed to implant the irresistible idea that The Protagonist must start Tenet himself. His training and the very principle through which he’s called «The Protagonist», his test, the ship exchange, Tenet’s heists that introduce the idea of a temporal pincer movement are all elements of a grand inception enacted on The Protagonist by his future self. There’s even an explanation that The Protagonist’s ignorance at certain points is key to him succeeding, precisely because the idea has to form in his own mind rather than him just being told. That’s the true link between Inception and Tenet and it’s far more impressively achieved than if Tenet was simply an Inception sequel.

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