

Smack in the middle of all this, impressed by his battle against Kaecilius, the Ancient One suddenly names Stephen a Master. During this sequence of scenes, he's confronted by Mordo and Wong, the London Sanctum is destroyed, Strange is blown into the New York Sanctum, he explores it and fights Kaecilius there, and on it goes right up through to the climax in Hong Kong. Starting with the scene where Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto to turn back time and read the stolen pages from the Book of Cagliostro, the rest of the movie appears to take place continuously, without any big jumps in time. Then the movie shifts into a different mode. The first half of the film fast-forwards through several months of time from the car accident, Strange's recovery, multiple attempts to regain the use of his hands, to finally his training at Kamar-Taj. But the path it takes to get there is full of fits and starts. We also know it ends shortly before next year's Thor: Ragnarok. We know it starts during the events of Captain America: Civil War, because War Machine's spinal injury was one of the cases offered to Strange while he was driving his Lamborghini before it crashed. Doctor Strange uses several "time jumps" in its storytelling.
