In Oslo, the protagonist and Neil break into a Freeport facility at the Oslo Airport to investigate a storage unit linked to Andrei Sator. Inside the Freeport, they encounter a turnstile, a machine that inverts the flow of time. The protagonist faces an inverted version of himself in a disorienting fight, where one version moves forward in time, and the other moves backward. This moment is pivotal, as it marks the protagonist’s first direct encounter with inversion in action, revealing the complexities of time manipulation and setting the stage for the larger conflict with Sator.