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

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

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

Plot and counterplot, mystery and excitement, sentiment and romance—all skilfully blended.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

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

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Charles Neville Buck

Sir Robert Wingate listened while John Strong told the story of the plotting and counterplotting in Chicago.

From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Alice Carsey

Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat