[Background] The Crowd Control Productions Extraction
It's been a year since the events of the Fischer Inception, and Cobb has been taking a breather from extraction jobs, much less inceptions. He's been more or less a civilian, spending time re-bonding with his kids: Philippa has started to Ask Questions, since she Knows a Few Things, and while she loves her dad, there is still a bit of concern there and he's been doing his best to reassure her that everything is as it should be. James on the other hand, is just glad to have his dad back.
Meanwhile, his team has been trying to get on without him, and while Ariadne is growing in confidence as an architect, her conscience is starting to get to her about some of the jobs Arthur has been running.
Enter Hilmar Bergsson, CEO of Crowd Control Productions, an Iceland-based producer and distributor of computer games. Rumor has it that one of his employees, Matti Gunnarsdattir, has been leaking potential VR (virtual reality) versions of their most popular titles to a ring of dreamcades, dream-sharing parlors often run by shady types. The problem is, Bergsson cannot prove that the thefts are taking place, since the designs are changing hands in a shared dream. Thus, the dream team (Cobb hates that name, as it "sounds like a bad title for a cheesy baseball movie"; doesn't stop Eames from using it to annoy him) has to take over a dreamcade in Reykjavik and intercept both the designs being leaked and the contact receiving them, a job that is going to require more than a few agile minds to create a dream which these subjects will not suspect is anything but their dream...
And things do not go as planned (Do they ever??). Matti is highly skilled at dream-sharing and her contact is even better, and their projections converge on the team's location in the dream. Projections in the form of Vikings, who trash the place, and ninjas who pick off the team one by one. Cobb ends up getting separated from the team, and taken out...
Which drops him into limbo...
Meanwhile, his team has been trying to get on without him, and while Ariadne is growing in confidence as an architect, her conscience is starting to get to her about some of the jobs Arthur has been running.
Enter Hilmar Bergsson, CEO of Crowd Control Productions, an Iceland-based producer and distributor of computer games. Rumor has it that one of his employees, Matti Gunnarsdattir, has been leaking potential VR (virtual reality) versions of their most popular titles to a ring of dreamcades, dream-sharing parlors often run by shady types. The problem is, Bergsson cannot prove that the thefts are taking place, since the designs are changing hands in a shared dream. Thus, the dream team (Cobb hates that name, as it "sounds like a bad title for a cheesy baseball movie"; doesn't stop Eames from using it to annoy him) has to take over a dreamcade in Reykjavik and intercept both the designs being leaked and the contact receiving them, a job that is going to require more than a few agile minds to create a dream which these subjects will not suspect is anything but their dream...
And things do not go as planned (Do they ever??). Matti is highly skilled at dream-sharing and her contact is even better, and their projections converge on the team's location in the dream. Projections in the form of Vikings, who trash the place, and ninjas who pick off the team one by one. Cobb ends up getting separated from the team, and taken out...
Which drops him into limbo...