The mechanism…

A man in a suit and glasses stands in a dimly lit, ornate room, looking toward the camera as smoke or steam drifts past him. The scene cuts to a man in a fedora and a woman in a red jacket standing together in a similar setting, followed by a shot of a man in a suit and glasses standing beside another man, then a close-up of a metal gate being opened, and finally a man in a suit walking through a doorway into a dark, industrial-looking space.