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. Just before
3. Scene 16

   The extraction van pulls up and the pair jump inside.

4. Scene 17

   Safe in the van, the Protagonist realizes the driver has turned a gun on him.

5. Scene 18

   Captured and tortured in a rail yard, the Protagonist watches the 'Target' die under interrogation and bites a cyanide pill rather than give up his team.

6. Scene 19

   This scene