Inception Vault

[Marguerite Gilbeau]

DominickDom" Cobb and Arthur are "extractors", who perform corporate espionage using an experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract valuable information through a shared dream world. Their latest target, Japanese businessman Saito, reveals that he arranged their mission himself to test Cobb for a seemingly impossible job: planting an idea in a person's subconscious, or "inception". To break up the energy conglomerate of ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, Saito wants Cobb to convince Fischer's son and heir, Robert, to dissolve his father's company. In return, Saito promises to use his influence to clear Cobb of a murder charge, allowing Cobb to return home to his children. Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, a conman and identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts a powerful sedative for a stable "dream within a dream" strategy; and Ariadne, an architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes, recruited with the help of Cobb's father-in-law, Professor Stephen Miles. While dream-sharing with Cobb, Ariadne learns his subconscious houses an invasive projection of his late wife Mal.

When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney, Robert Fischer accompanies the body on a ten-hour flight back to Los Angeles, which the team (including Saito, who wants to verify their success) uses as an opportunity to sedate and take Fischer into a shared dream. At each dream level, the person generating the dream stays behind to set up a "kick" that will be used to awaken the other sleeping team members from the deeper dream level; to be successful, these kicks must occur simultaneously at each dream level, a fact complicated due to the nature of time which flows much faster in each successive level. The first level is Yusuf's dream of a rainy Los Angeles. The team abducts Fischer, but they are attacked by armed projections from Fischer's subconscious, which has been specifically trained to defend him against such intruders. The team takes Fischer and a wounded Saito to a warehouse, where Cobb reveals that while dying in the dream would normally wake Saito up, the powerful sedatives needed to stabilize the multi-level dream will instead send a dying dreamer into "limbo", a world of infinite subconscious from which escape is extremely difficult, if not almost impossible, and a dreamer risks forgetting they are in a dream. Despite these setbacks, the team continues with the mission.

Eames impersonates Fischer's godfather, Peter Browning, to suggest Fischer reconsider his father's will. Yusuf drives the van as the other dreamers are sedated into the second level. In the second level, a hotel dreamed by Arthur, Cobb persuades Fischer that he has been kidnapped by Browning and Cobb is his subconscious protector. Cobb persuades him to go down another level to explore Browning's subconscious (in reality, it is a ruse to enter Fischer's). The third level is a fortified hospital on a snowy mountain dreamed by Eames. The team has to infiltrate it and hold off the guards as Cobb takes Fischer into the equivalent of his subconscious. Yusuf, under pursuit by Fischer's projections in the first level, deliberately drives off a bridge and initiates his kick too soon. This causes an avalanche in Eames' level and removes the gravity of Arthur's level, forcing him to improvise a new kick synchronized with the van hitting the water. Mal's projection emerges and kills Fischer; Cobb kills Mal, and Saito succumbs to his wounds. Cobb and Ariadne enter Limbo to rescue Fischer and Saito, while Eames sets up a kick by rigging the hospital with explosives.

Cobb reveals to Ariadne that he and Mal went to Limbo while experimenting with the dream-sharing technology. Sedated for a few hours of real time, they spent fifty years in a dream constructing a world from their shared memories. When Mal refused to return to reality, Cobb used a rudimentary form of inception by reactivating her totem (an object dreamers use to distinguish dreams from reality) and reminding her subconscious that their world was not real. However, when she woke up, Mal still believed that she was dreaming. In an attempt to "wake up" for real, Mal committed suicide and framed Cobb for her death to force him to do the same. Facing a murder charge, Cobb fled the U.S., leaving his children in the care of Professor Miles.

Through his confession, Cobb makes peace with his guilt over Mal's death. Ariadne kills Mal's projection and wakes Fischer up with a kick. Revived at the mountain hospital, Fischer enters a safe room to discover and accept the planted idea: a projection of his dying father telling him to be his own man. While Cobb remains in Limbo to search for Saito, the other team members ride the synchronized kicks back to reality. Cobb eventually finds an aged Saito in Limbo and reminds him of their agreement. The dreamers all awake on the plane and Saito makes a phone call.

There were seven people on the plane in Inception: Cobb, Arthur, Saito, Ariadne, Eames, Yusuf and Robert Fischer. They all went into a road rage in the first level of the dream, and on the second level, leaving Yusuf behind, who was driving the van, and in charge of waking them back up to the first level, the rest entered the dream.

On the 3rd level, they were in a heavily guarded snow-covered hill-top compound, leaving Arthur behind in the second level. Five of them enter, namely, Cobb, Saito, Ariadne, Eames and Robert Fischer, where Saito and Fischer die and Cobb and Ariadne enter the fourth level to bring them back, leaving Eames in charge.

Ariadne finds and sends Fischer back. On the 3rd level of dream, after Fischer's revival, only two (Eames and Fischer) were left. Fischer enters in a room with his Father's deathbed who (the Father) is supposed to plant the idea. Who is the father supposed to be impersonated by? It can't be someone from the team since there was no one left to do that. Then who was the Father and how?

Part of their plan (as detailed by Mr Nick's answer) is to convince Fischer that Browning is trying to undermine his father's wish that he break up their business empire. They use Eames' forgery skills to impersonate Browning as part of this process.

So they design the lowest (planned) layer of the dream to be a highly guarded hospital. The idea here is that (like the bank-vault) that Robert Fischer will fill that hospital with projections that he closely associates with medical care or illness .... i.e. his father.

Their plan is that the cathartic experience he dreams in that final hospital room will seal the business break-up plan in Robert's mind. So even later when he comes to and realizes that it is all a dream, and perhaps doubts Browning's involvement, he may still go through with it.

As stated in the comments, Fischer's father was a projection of Fischer's mind. When they first enter Fischer's mind, they wouldn't be able to convince Fischer's mind to turn away from Peter Browning and toward his father just by being themselves, so Eames impersonates Browning as part of a plan to make Fischer believe that Browning is betraying him. Then on the next level, we learn that it works when Fischer has this interaction with Browning (Who at this point is his projection, not Eames):

The result of this shift is confirmed again, when Fischer's father's projection says he wants Fischer to go his own way, and they complete their mission. It's all a result of the team's influence on Fischer's mind and his perspective on his father.

Am new to DataVault, our DV architect is vaulting product information. we get a flat product file from our source system. one of the attributes is the manufacturer name. ie Coke, Pepsi, etc. thats all we get, no other information about the manufacturer. Now our architect has created a main product hub/satellite with many data points in the satellite. but decided to create a separate hub/satellite for manufacturer. the natural key is the manufacturer name. furthermore, he only created a hub but no satellite stating that there are no attributes in the satellite so its optional. again the only piece of information we get about the manufacturer is the name. would you normally create a hub/satellite for something where you only get the name? i totally understand that sometime in the future, we may get more manufacturer data like address, inception date, etc. in this case the satellite concept makes sense. but we may never get manufacturer information, its not something we are expecting as of now. so should the manufacturer name just be an attribute of the product, or should it be in its own satellite. and note that its a many to 1, with many products having the same manufacturer.

I agree that for now this sounds like a Ref table. If in the future more information about the manufacturer becomes available, you can build out the Hub/Sat at that time. And you will need to refactor the FK joins to the Manufacturer Ref table as a Link to the new Hub.

From your perspective, what is the manufacturer? Is it a first class business entity? Or is it just an attribute on a [product] (business entity) that is provided by a [supplier]. If it is something that your business cares about, model it properly. If it is just an attribute then its reference data.

If it is something more fundamental then model it as a hub but push back to the source to get a better source file (if it is more fundamental, then it is also more likely that the sources will have better managed data around it)

created a hub but no satellite stating that there are no attributes in the satellite so its optional. again the only piece of information we get about the manufacturer is the name. would you normally create a hub/satellite for something where you only get the name? i totally understand that sometime in the future, we may get more manufacturer data like address, inception date, etc. in this case the satellite concept makes sense. but we may never get manufacturer information, its not something we are expecting a

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