Counterpart Recap: Point of Departure

Season: 2 / Episode: 4 (14), Point of Departure / Starz ***Spoilers be going down memory lane and taking marriages hostage. Previous COUNTERPART recaps are here.*** Maaaan, listen. Anytime we open with Mira, we already know some cold shit bout to happen this episode. Mira is following some tracking device and she must be looking for that shit Management been keeping hidden. Dude at the gate of some (seemingly) abandoned hangar tries to stop her, but she just asks his name. Considering we didn’t get to hear his answer, that probably means we’ll never know what it was. Wait, we getting an Emily flashback?! Back when she wasn’t quite a double dealing spy, she’s on a trip with her mother. They talking wedding rings and nuptials until Emily brings up her dad and mom is like…yeah, we not gonna do that today, sis. Turns out Emily’s mom was a scholar and ended up giving up all that shit for…well, we’re not sure. We are sure she still bitter about that shit. Now we in the present and Emily Prime aka EPMD looks like she driving down that same road. She pulls up to a residence and the landlord acting like he knows her. EPMD just rolls with it and makes her way to her “usual cottage.” Meanwhile, Howard in Black is a terrible Howard. Like, this domestic shit ain’t really for him. He must have left that back on Prime when he was still in interface. Emily Amnesia is excited because she read the title of a book and HiB is like…wow…reading monosyllabic words…wow. E-Amnesia is like,…