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. Scenes 21–32

   He enters the wholly unfamiliar situation of Tenet — the wind turbine, the password test, and Barbara's proof that time itself can run backward.

4. Just before
5. Scene 37

   Neil and the Protagonist rig a catapult line onto the tower's balcony from the roof next door.

6. Scene 38

   They winch-launch themselves up the side of the building.

7. Scene 39

   Sanjay and the Woman in the sari step out onto the balcony.

8. Scene 40

   This scene