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 24

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

5. Scene 25

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

6. Scene 26

   He disembarks at a European port and takes a waiting getaway car with a preset destination.

7. Scene 27

   This scene