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 20

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

5. Scene 21

   The Protagonist is delivered by launch to an offshore wind turbine.

6. Scene 22

   Inside the turbine he finds a survival cache of cash and passports, and refuses the suicide pills packed with it.

7. Scene 23

   This scene