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. Just before
4. 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.

5. Scene 19

   The Protagonist wakes from a coma; Fay reveals the suicide pill was a test and that his team didn't survive.

6. Scene 20

   Fay tells the now-dead Protagonist his duty transcends nations and gives him the password 'Tenet.'

7. Scene 21

   This scene