Character Relationship Map: Counter Clockwise

Characters

• Ethan (played by Michael Kopelow) — protagonist

  Ethan is the central figure trying to understand a crisis involving a scientific experiment and apparent time-related events. He insists he is innocent when questioned about killings, warns Ceil that...

• Tiffany (played by Devon Ogden) — supporting

  Tiffany is someone Ethan contacts during the unfolding crisis. He urges her to seek help or meet him immediately, and later arranges to meet her somewhere other than his mother's unsafe house. Ethan t...

• Fiona (played by Kerry Knuppe) — supporting

  Fiona is someone Ethan contacts and urges to seek help or meet him immediately. He tells Ceil that Fiona, along with Tiffany, is believed to be in danger of being killed within hours. Her threatened f...

• Ceil (played by Alice Rietveld) — supporting

  Ceil is Ethan's collaborator in trying to make sense of the crisis. After he tells her that Fiona and Tiffany may be killed soon and explains his belief that a time machine is involved, he asks her to...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Ethan → Fiona (Alliance Protective Connection) — Ethan attempts to alert Fiona to danger as he races to prevent the threatened deaths.

  Ethan contacts Fiona and urges her to seek help or meet him immediately. He tells Ceil that Fiona may be killed within hours.

• Ethan → Tiffany (Alliance Protective Connection) — Ethan tries to protect Tiffany by warning her and arranging a safer meeting place.

  Ethan contacts Tiffany and urges her to seek help or meet him immediately. He later arranges to meet her somewhere other than his mother's unsafe hous...

• Ethan → Ceil (Alliance Investigative Collaborators) — Ceil helps Ethan investigate the crisis by examining the connections he identifies.

  Ethan explains his theory about the time machine and the threatened deaths to Ceil, then asks her to investigate connections among the people involved...

Story Analysis

An experiment's failure draws Ethan into a time-related crisis involving killings, threatened lives, and a hostile figure from his past.

Plot Progression

1. The Experiment Goes Wrong — Ethan and Ceil encounter an unusual energy reading during an experiment involving a tracker. When the tracked subject does not return, Ethan begins searching for an explanation and finds clues suggest...
2. Suspicion and Imminent Deaths — Ethan is questioned about killings and insists he is innocent. As the interrogation is disrupted, he contacts Tiffany and Fiona and warns Ceil that they may be killed within hours.
3. The Time Machine Connection — Ethan tells Ceil that he believes a time machine is connected to the crisis and recounts an assassin's reference to Roman and Syndicate Red. He asks Ceil to investigate possible links involving the pe...
4. Danger Reaches Ethan's Life — After learning that his mother's house is unsafe, Ethan arranges to meet Tiffany elsewhere. He warns his mother to keep track of everything, then faces a hostile leader who taunts him, presses a recru...