The cargo plane sequence — the game's single most technically accomplished action set piece, the airdrop creating the mechanics for a zero-gravity fight in a disintegrating aircraft. Sneaking onto the plane is the five minutes before the spectacle, the moment of ordinary infiltration before everything accelerates past the ordinary. Marlowe receiving the airdrop is the game's acknowledgment that the villain's operation continues regardless of Nate's interference — the supply chain is functional, the organization is larger than any individual agent it deploys.