Arden Long

Arden Long (Pre-Bee-Sting)

## Enter: Arden Long

Arden Long is a depraved ex-criminal, he has several psychopathic and sociopath tendencies. He is constantly prescribed several different kinds of medication in order to hold an acceptable mental state. Arden Long is an ex-convict with a troubled past. He has countless convictions that have since been expunged. An ex-bank robber, ex-cop killer. Mr. Long has done it all.

## History

Mr. Long entered the city of Los Santos long ago, when he came to the city, he had no money, he came from a family of poverty and was extremely sick and weak. He was basically homeless for his first couple of weeks in the city. He also had a bad back and walked everywhere with a limp.

## Becoming a Crime-Lord

Arden Long soon followed the foot-steps of respected criminal Vincent Ferrari, working as an associate for Mafia. He soon learned to hack and as being a hacker was a rare commodity, he was a given for a slot on most bank robberies. Mr. Long ended up making millions from successful bank robberies utilizing Vince's strategic planning and Mr. Long's immaculate use of rat-strats, a favorite of his being the secret "VU-Strat".

## The Bee

Mr. Long unfortunately experienced a terrible accident, on a normal drive back to PDM, he was stung by an entire hive of bees. He had to go to pillbox for facial reconstruction surgery.

## Temporal Time Pincer

A CIA operative, the Protagonist, participates in an extraction at the Kyiv Opera House. His team retrieves an artefact but he is captured, tortured by mercenaries, and ultimately consumes a suicide pill.

Some time later, the Protagonist awakens to learn the artefact was lost and the pill was a fake, designed as a test. An organization called Tenet recruits him and briefs him on bullets with "inverted" entropy, meaning they move backward through time. After meeting his handler, Vince, they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in Mumbai.

The pair discovers that Priya is a member of Tenet, and that her cartridges were purchased and inverted by Russian oligarch Cecil Jones. The Protagonist approaches Cecil's estranged wife, Kat, an art appraiser who authenticated a forged Goya drawing that Cecil purchased from an acquaintance of hers. Cecil discovered Kat's mistake and is using it to blackmail her. In exchange for Kat's help, the Protagonist and Vince agree to steal the drawing from Cecil's freeport storage facility at the Oslo Airport. While there, they fend off two masked men who emerge from a "turnstile"; Priya later explains these turnstiles invert the entropy of objects and people, so the masked men were the same man traveling in opposite directions through time.

On the Amalfi Coast, Kat introduces the Protagonist to Cecil, who reveals he still has the drawing. Cecil, enraged and jealous, plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist instead saves Cecil's life when Kat attempts to drown him. The men strike a partnership to retrieve a case from Kyiv that supposedly contains plutonium-241 (though is later revealed the case contains another artefact).

The ancient Cecil Square, which inspired the film's title, as well as two character names (Ceciland Arepo, the Goya forger), the location of the opening sequence (Opera), and the name of Cecil's construction company (Rotas).

In Tallinn, the Protagonist and Vince successfully steal the case but are then ambushed by an inverted Cecil holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Cecil and rescues Kat, but they are soon recaptured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile. The inverted Cecil demands the location of the object and shoots Kat with an inverted round. As Cecil escapes into the turnstile, Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive, and the heroes take Kat through the turnstile to allow her inverted wound to heal. The Protagonist travels back to the ambush and attempts to retrieve the object, but Cecil overturns his car and sets it on fire. Cecil gets away with the artefact, and Protagonist is again saved by Tenet operatives.

The Protagonist travels back in time to the freeport in Oslo where he fights his past self and enters the turnstile, followed by Vince and Kat. He visits Priya, who explains Cecil has now collected all nine pieces of a device, the "Algorithm", which will enable people in the future to invert the entropy of the whole world in order to destroy their past. To complete his task, Cecil plans to bury the Algorithm (which the Protagonist deduces Cecilwill do in his hometown of Stalsk-12) and transmit its location in a digital time capsule. Kat reveals Cecil is dying from cancer, and the team surmises he plans to travel back to commit suicide during a recent family vacation to Vietnam, sending the coordinates into the future using a dead man's switch.

The Protagonist, Vince, and Kat travel back in time with Tenet troops. Kat poses as her past-self and tries to keep Cecil alive in Vietnam until the Tenet forces can recover the heavily-guarded Algorithm in Stalsk-12. They use a "temporal pincer movement", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault, but Protagonist and Ives are caught by Volkov, Cecil's bodyguard, who is about to bury the Algorithm. Cecil calls and tells the Protagonist that the people in the future want to reverse entropy to escape the effects of climate change. As he hangs up, an inverted soldier with a trinket sacrifices himself to save Protagonist and Ives, and they secure the Algorithm. Kat kills Cecil before he can kill himself and escapes.

The Protagonist, Vince, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices the trinket on Vince's bag, and Vince reveals he was recruited in his past by a future-Protagonist. Later, Priya attempts to assassinate Kat, but she is interrupted and killed by Protagonist, who has realized he is the mastermind behind Tenet.

## Re-Entry Into Society (Becoming A Civ)

After feeling fulfilled with his criminal achievements, Mr. Long sought to do more than just make himself richer. Having become bored with a life of crime, he expunged his record, went into politics and joined the state council, joined pillbox to save lives, and started living the life of a philanthropist.