Counterpart Recap: Shaking The Tree

Season: 1 / Episode: 5 / Starz Maaaan, listen. All these bright eyed, gloomy tailed folks making their way across the divide. They talkin’ about maintenance for the embassy but ehh… That shit don’t even sound right. Why you dressed like you got stock in Apple for phones that don’t even exist in your world yet talking about maintenance? They peel off in the BMW and end up in fucking Slum Village. The three travelers get a tour of the new place from this creepy ass landlord. He like, look, this a chill spot. Don’t make no trouble, or I’ll make trouble for you. Gonna be pretty fucking hard after your boy got the Coke Zero pressed against the back of his head for the makeshift silencer before getting his brains Jackson Pollock-ed against the wall. Something tells me these cats ain’t here to install a new cooling system at the embassy. Non Prime So Laaaaaaaame HIB out on the stroll when Andrei calls your boy up to play some Go. He don’t look thrilled to see this dude, but he gotta play the part, nahmean. Andrei must be getting the brakes beat off of him, because he like well damn, Howard, you done leveled up. HIB bout to hit him with the endgame but realizes that not sucking at Go might blow his cover. So he throws that shit. But also, Andrei is an asshole, man. Dude is basically patting HIB’s head the whole time like, “There you go, boy. You almost got it. You might actually win. The sequence is right there.” Man, kiss my prime ass, Andrei. A dude can’t just relax and play some…