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Cobb

[After Saito has been shot in the first dream layer]

Get Fischer in the backroom now. [Opens car door] Get him in the backroom. Move. What the hell happened?..Has he been shot? Is he dying?

Arthur

I don't know.

Cobb

Jesus Christ.

Arthur

Where were you what happened to you?

Cobb

We were blocked by a freight train.

Arthur

[to Ariadne]

Why would you put a train crossing in the middle of a down-town intersection?

Ariadne

I didn't!

Arthur

Then where'd it come from?

Cobb

Let me ask you a question: why the hell were we ambushed? Those were not normal projections, they've been trained, for God's sake!

Ariadne

How could he be trained?

Arthur

Fischer has had an extractor teach his subconscious to defend itself. His subconscious has militarized. It should have shown in the research. I'm sorry.

Cobb

When why the hell didn't it?!

Arthur

Calm down.

Cobb

Don't tell me to calm down! This was your job, God damn it! This was your responsibility! You were meant to check Fischer's background thoroughly! We are not prepared to deal with this type of security!

Arthur

We have dealt with some security before! We'll be a little more careful, and we'll be fine!

Cobb

This was not a part of the plan! [on Saito] He's dying, for God's sake!

Eames

[Eames approaches with a gun and it aims it at Saito]

I'm putting him out of his misery.

Cobb

Don't do that! [shoves him back] Don't do that.

Eames

[exasperated]

He's in agony. I'm waking him up.

Cobb

No. It won't wake him up.

Eames

What do you mean, "it won't wake him up"? If we die in a dream, we wake up.

Yusef

Not from this. [everyone looks at him] We're too heavily sedated to wake up that way.

Eames

So, what happens when we die?

Cobb

We drop into Limbo.

Arthur

[angry]

Are you serious?!

Ariadne

Limbo?

Arthur

Unconstructed dream space.

Ariadne

Well, what the hell is down there?

Arthur

Just raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing is down there. Except for whatever that might have been left behind by whoever's sharing the dream who was trapped down there before. Which in our case, is just you.

Ariadne

But how long could we be stuck there?

Yusef

Not even think about waking up until –

Eames

How long?!

Yusef

Decades! It could be infinite! I don't know! [motioning to Cobb] Ask him, he's the one who's been there!

Eames

[Saito is moved upstairs]

Great. [to Cobb, sarcastic] Thank you. So, now we're in Fischer's mind battling his own private army. And, if we get killed, we'll all be lost in Limbo until our brains turn to scrambled egg. Hm?
[Cobb says nothing and walks away]

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