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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes.

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

However, therefore, abominable it is to be the aggressor in this point, yet it cannot be inconsistent with virtue to counterplot and to take all manner of advantage against the man who is undermining us.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop