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(We see it there at the start of the sequence.) But how did the Audi end up at the gunfight in the first place, in its own timeline? Someone must have inverted it and reverse-driven it there - but who did that, and why? Later, inverted Sator and his inverted henchman climb into it and drive it to the turnstile facility, where it ends up. Then (in reverse time) the protagonist pushes the brake pedal, which for some reason causes the car to start accelerating. Sator's people put non-inverted Kat and the protagonist into it. In its inverted timeline, it starts off parked in the middle of the motorway during a gunfight. This is probably the most reasonable explanation, but in that case I don't understand how Sator gets the algorithm, because the algorithm ends up in that car after the car chase (in forward time), so if that car belonged to the good guys all along then there's no chance for Sator to get hold of it. Since the turnstile has been captured by Ives and his team, that means they must have inverted it. The inversion must have been performed after the events that we see on screen. But it doesn't seem to make much sense for anyone to do this. In the case of the silver Saab, the protagonist finds it outside of the turnstile facility, so it seems to make sense that it was inverted there and then parked outside.

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Plus the Audi un-breaks the wing mirror of another car, and the Saab un-explodes and then un-flips, so it really seems like they're inverted.

But they're driving backwards, so if the cars aren't inverted then they must be in reverse gear, which wouldn't make for such a great high-speed car chase. One could argue that these cars are not really inverted at all and are merely being driven by inverted drivers. The question is, why are these cars inverted? Who inverted them, when, and why? In the car chase sequence, there appear to be two inverted cars: the silver Saab driven by the inverted protagonist, and the black Audi that Kat is trapped in. After re-watching Tenet on the small screen there is one thing really bugging me.