Tony Montana's agency is relentlessly, almost pathologically high for the entire film. He makes every choice that builds and then destroys his empire. Control rises and falls with circumstances — the empire grows, peaks, and collapses — but agency barely dips below 70 until the cocaine eats his judgment. The key insight: even when control hits negative numbers in Act V, Tony's agency stays elevated because he is STILL choosing. Choosing to fight Sosa, choosing to pick up the M16, choosing to walk into the bullets. The gap between plummeting control and stubbornly high agency is the film's portrait of self-destruction as an act of will.