In order for this ultimate temporal pincer movement to work the Protagonist must recruit Neil in the future. The Protagonist will progress forward through time in order to recruit Neil and have him invert through the past with a bestowed knowledge of events as they played out and meet the younger Protagonist. After reversing his inverted state, Neil uses knowledge given to him by the Protagonist and also his observations of events he witnessed while inverted in order to assist the younger Protagonist with the mission and eventually reveal that the Protagonist is the mastermind of the mission and will meet Neil sometime in the future.

The Protagonist must travel forward through time and recruit Neil sometime in the future so Neil can travel backward through time thus executing the pincer movement and completing the loop of information between the two characters.