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

With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets.

From Time Magazine Archive

As nearly as I could make it out, there was a counterplot against the Furious.

From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

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

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

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 Allan Pinkerton

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

From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall