counterplot

Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012

Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot.

From Time Magazine Archive

In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impossible Mission Force, the counter espionage team, stages a counterplot to stave off the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.

From Time Magazine Archive

No more curious mixture of plot and counterplot than this minor chapter of the Bithoor romance came to light during that disastrous upheaval in India.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan

During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.

From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)

Over the plotting and counterplotting, the rivalries and jealousies which followed, we must pass.

From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Hall, Thornton

So after all the plotting, the counterplotting, the dangers and hardships; after all her own gallant efforts, the girl had lost the game.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville