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Season: 2 / Episode: 6 (16), “Twin Cities” / Starz ***Spoilers be bringing your daughter’s pop albums and fucking up the timeline. Previous recaps are here.*** Maaaaaan, listen. You know how Counterpart does when it hits us with the flashback. Need I remind y’all of Snake Ass Clare Zero Year?!?! Well, we all the way back in East Berlin, 1987 and your boy Yanek bout to do some deep cover spy shit.
Your boy Yanek got a whole ass family, yo. And apparently, he’s trying to do some shit to get his family out of Berlin, which includes a camera with all the film. And also, Yanek seems to be in charge at work cuz your boy walked in and started barking orders. Everybody goes to lunch, and he left alone to get his spycraft on. They got all kinds of electronics and shit behind lock and key, but while your boy taking pictures, it seems like some shit is looping. Aka not doing what the fuck it’s supposed to be doing. I don’t know what Light Source Syncotron means, but when it looks like computers start bleeding and you getting earthquakes, that shit can’t be great.
Your boy Yanek goes back into the room and this shit look like Godzilla about to emerge from underground or some shit. And…welcome to the crossing. Cuz whatever the hell they were doing done created a hallway and Yanek meets…himself. Yep, here we are yo. The origin story of all origin stories. Zero Year+30 Something Mira, in the present brings Yanek to the not so safe house. Yanek remembers that shit cuz he used to bring …
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