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 23

   He waits out days eating, exercising, and climbing the turbine's ladder.

5. Scene 24

   An air horn wakes him to the arrival of a maintenance crew.

6. Scene 25

   He blends in with the hi-viz crew boarding a service catamaran.

7. Scene 26

   This scene