Counterpart Recap: Birds of a Feather

Season: 1 / Episode: 2 / Starz Maaaan, listen. I’m gonna tell you like a young, double agent, dimension-hopping spy told me. These supposedly dead wives ain’t loyal. Man, Emily Prime aka EPMD getting HIB the blues. Some dudes walk in trying to act like this ain’t the get down and HIB seen this shit coming a mile away. That’s the rendition order that EPMD got for him. Not Quite Paid in Full HIB got no more intel for her, so she’s like, yeah, be a good lad and walk to your interrogation/probable death now. HIB like…aiight. AIIGHT. If that’s how we gonna play it. Dude swipes the napkin off the table, exits the building and starts stuffing pieces in his ears before he surrenders to these rendition bastards and gets in the car. They got dude in the backseat and he sees one of them got the heat in the holster. Camera zoom out one time so we can see that muzzle blast 1-2-3 times in the car. HIB the only one standing out that muthafucka, yo. He gets out, tosses the napkin and leaves them cats piled in the car on top of each other like they just won the championship. HIB back at home and get some intel. They know Baldwin’s real name from the other side, but not a lot of other intel to be gained. Also, HIB gotta go see the connect about some shit before he cross over again. Going to See a Man About an Attempted Murder HIB goes and sees the godfather and tells him that some Hungarians came to do the work on him. Godfather be like, go to work. If they put you in for murder, then yeah, yo…