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.

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5. Scene 38

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

6. Scene 39

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

7. Scene 40

   The Protagonist holds Sanjay at gunpoint, demanding to know who supplied the inverted ammunition that nearly killed him.

8. Scene 41

   This scene