An unnamed intelligence operative, recruited into a shadow war fought through time-inverted weapons and objects, teams with an enigmatic ally to stop a dying Russian oligarch from using technology gifted by a dying future to erase the present.

1. Scenes 1–17

   The Protagonist in his zone of comfort — a skilled, anonymous field operative, competent and confident inside the Kiev operation.

2. Scenes 18–20

   Broken by torture and 'killed,' he needs a new purpose; Fay offers one that transcends the nation-state loyalties that just got his team killed.

3. Scenes 21–32

   He enters the wholly unfamiliar situation of Tenet — the wind turbine, the password test, and Barbara's proof that time itself can run backward.

4. Scenes 33–144

   Mumbai, London, Oslo, and Amalfi — he adapts to the world of inverted physics and Sator's inner circle, paying costs (Kat's trust, his own safety) to get close to the target.

5. Scenes 145–158

   The Tallinn ambush succeeds — he gets what the mission wanted, extracting the plutonium '241' from the armored convoy.

6. Just before
7. Scene 158

   The Protagonist extracts the orange case containing the plutonium '241.'

8. Scene 159

   He escapes back to the getaway BMW with the case.

9. Scene 160

   Neil and the Protagonist examine the recovered case as backwards radio chatter reveals Sator's inverted Audi chasing them; he holds Kat hostage, forces a mid-chase handoff, then abandons her in the runaway car as he escapes with the material.

10. Scene 161

    This scene