You can put the first stage of your plan into action, and the second as well.

I shall reveal the next stage of my plan when we meet again.

The doctor doesn't mind that the woman abandoned the later stages of his plan.

He hoped they would prove as useful in the next stage of his plan.

It was time to let himself be captured and move on to the next stage of his plan.

He could move to the next stage of his plan.

Now it was time to put the final stage of her plan into operation.

He then disappears to execute the next stage of his plan.

Which means I had no interference with the next stage of my plan.

The next stage of my plan to flush him into the open.