diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/nameplate.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/nameplate.rs
index a17c0051..0f9a0b18 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/nameplate.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/nameplate.rs
@@ -382,14 +382,62 @@ impl UiScript {
             super::event::fire_global(lua, "NAME_PLATE_CREATED", &[ScriptValue::Frame(id)]);
         }
         for slot in effects.added {
+            self.set_plate_unit_token(slot, true);
             super::event::fire_global(
-                lua,
+                self.lua(),
                 "NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED",
                 &[ScriptValue::Str(nameplate_token(slot))],
             );
         }
     }
 
+    /// Put `namePlateUnitToken` on (or take it off) the plate frame holding `slot`'s GUID.
+    ///
+    /// Retail's nameplates are FrameXML's, and the field is how **every** later-era plate addon
+    /// gets from a frame back to its unit: `plate.namePlateUnitToken or plate.UnitFrame.unit` is
+    /// the idiom, six times in `Cinematic/Effects.lua` and `PlateParts.lua` alone. Without it an
+    /// addon that walks `GetNamePlates()` can read a plate's rect and nothing about its unit, so
+    /// it cannot tell a friendly plate from a hostile one — and Cinematic, which switches every
+    /// plate kind ON in CineMode precisely so it can decide visibility by *fading* instead, then
+    /// faded none of them. The measured symptom was friendly nameplates appearing the moment
+    /// CineMode started, on a profile whose every friendly-plate box is unticked.
+    ///
+    /// Set before `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED` and cleared after `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED`, so a
+    /// handler for either event reads the field the event is about. The token string is the same
+    /// one the event carries, so `UnitIsFriend(plate.namePlateUnitToken, "player")` resolves
+    /// through the ordinary unit path.
+    fn set_plate_unit_token(&mut self, slot: usize, present: bool) {
+        let Some(frame) = ({
+            let model = self.model_mut();
+            model
+                .nameplates
+                .token_slots
+                .get(slot)
+                .copied()
+                .flatten()
+                .and_then(|guid| model.nameplates.frame_for_guid(guid))
+        }) else {
+            return;
+        };
+        let lua = self.lua();
+        let id = lua
+            .app_data_mut::<Model>()
+            .expect("model app_data")
+            .frame_id(frame);
+        let Ok(table) = crate::script::object::frame_wrapper(lua, id) else {
+            return;
+        };
+        let value = if present {
+            mlua::Value::String(match lua.create_string(nameplate_token(slot)) {
+                Ok(s) => s,
+                Err(_) => return,
+            })
+        } else {
+            mlua::Value::Nil
+        };
+        let _ = table.raw_set("namePlateUnitToken", value);
+    }
+
     /// Fire `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED` for each slot, then clear its token pair and free the slot.
     /// The firing comes first on purpose: see [`UiScript::sync_nameplates`] step 1.
     fn fire_plate_removals(&mut self, slots: &[usize]) {
@@ -399,6 +447,7 @@ impl UiScript {
                 "NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED",
                 &[ScriptValue::Str(nameplate_token(slot))],
             );
+            self.set_plate_unit_token(slot, false);
             self.set_unit(&nameplate_token(slot), None);
             self.set_unit(&nameplate_target_token(slot), None);
             // Freed only now, so the slot is reusable from the next claim on — and never inside
diff --git a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/nameplate_tokens.rs b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/nameplate_tokens.rs
index 8c2164af..59374c09 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/nameplate_tokens.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-ui/src/script/tests/nameplate_tokens.rs
@@ -650,3 +650,57 @@ fn pfuis_own_oncreate_body_runs_on_the_frame_the_created_event_hands_it() {
          with a nil plate there, that cache would leak for the session"
     );
 }
+
+/// `plate.namePlateUnitToken`: the field every later-era plate addon reads to get from a frame
+/// back to its unit (`plate.namePlateUnitToken or plate.UnitFrame.unit`, six sites in Cinematic
+/// alone). Live by the time `NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED` runs and gone once `_REMOVED` has, so a
+/// handler for either reads the field the event is about; and a plate walked out of
+/// `GetNamePlates()` carries it too, which is the call an addon that fades plates actually makes.
+#[test]
+fn a_plate_carries_the_unit_token_its_event_names() {
+    let mut s = vm();
+    drive(&mut s, &[feed(WOLF, "Wolf")]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>(
+            r#"local p = C_NamePlate.GetNamePlates()[1]
+               return tostring(p.namePlateUnitToken) .. "/" .. tostring(UnitName(p.namePlateUnitToken))"#
+        )
+        .unwrap(),
+        "nameplate1/Wolf",
+        "the walked plate names its own unit"
+    );
+
+    // The field is the event's own token while the added handler runs: recorded there, not after.
+    s.run(
+        r#"seen = nil
+           watch = CreateFrame("Frame")
+           watch:RegisterEvent("NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED")
+           watch:RegisterEvent("NAME_PLATE_UNIT_REMOVED")
+           watch:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
+               local plate = C_NamePlate.GetNamePlateForUnit(arg1)
+               seen = event .. ":" .. tostring(plate and plate.namePlateUnitToken)
+           end)"#,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    drive(&mut s, &[feed(WOLF, "Wolf"), feed(BEAR, "Bear")]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return tostring(seen)").unwrap(),
+        "NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED:nameplate2",
+        "set before the added event, not after it"
+    );
+
+    // Everything leaves: the field goes with the unit, so a pooled frame reused for the next unit
+    // cannot answer the departed one's token.
+    let frames = s.eval::<i64>("return table.getn(createdFrames)").unwrap();
+    drive(&mut s, &[]);
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.eval::<String>("return tostring(createdFrames[1].namePlateUnitToken)")
+            .unwrap(),
+        "nil",
+        "cleared once the plate's unit is gone"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        frames, 2,
+        "two pooled frames, both of which outlive their units"
+    );
+}