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 5

   SWATs breach the lobby and trade gunfire with the terrorists.

4. Scene 6

   The four American operatives split up in the corridor; the Protagonist checks the boxes alone.

5. Scene 7

   The Protagonist extracts the Well-Dressed Man, giving him two minutes to defect or die, and takes a coat-check ticket for 'the package.'

6. Scene 8

   This scene