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. Scene 1

   A staged terrorist siege at the Kiev opera — chaos, disguise, and a world where nothing is what it appears to be.

2. Just before
3. Scene 2

   SWAT teams flood the lobby as the Protagonist watches gas canisters piped into the ventilation system.

4. Scene 3

   A Well-Dressed Man and a Uniformed Official watch the audience below slump unconscious from the gas.

5. Scene 4

   A masked terrorist cocks his weapon as the assault on the theatre begins.

6. Scene 5

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