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 27

   Posing as maintenance staff, he enters an anonymous office park.

5. Scene 28

   He locates the 'Windfarm Transitions' tenant listing in the lobby.

6. Scene 29

   Barbara challenges him with the Tenet handshake before letting him through a locked door.

7. Scene 30

   This scene