counterplot

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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was as though nature had stopped her orchestra in disgust at the plot and counterplot brewing on her darkened stage.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William