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. Scene 47

   The Protagonist begins surveilling Kat at her son's school gates — he commits to using her marriage against Sator, entering the upside-down world of the operation proper.

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6. Scene 50

   He asks the receptionist for an appraisal with Kat Barton.

7. Scene 51

   Kat examines the forged Goya and grows wary once she learns it came from her old lover, the forger Arepo.

8. Scene 52

   Kat tells the Protagonist about Sator's control over her and their son; Volkov arrives to intimidate him.

9. Scene 53

   This scene