Counterpart Recap: No Strings Attached

Season: 2 / Episode: 7 (17), “No Strings Attached” / Starz ***Spoilers be loading ominous looking crates preparing for the end of days. Previous recaps are here.*** Bruh. Bruuuuhhhhh. We start with that hot mixtape that Mira dropped in the last episode, saying she wants to meet all of management. Ya know, to make all this shit go away. Or, make all of them go away. Management with that advanced age plotting what to do, knowing damn well who they are dealing with. They don’t think the crossing will open to let this happen, but there seems to be a plan for that too.

Prime finally lets the other side’s ambassador go and gives him a package for their fourth floor. I gotta say, the security check for this shit feels maaaaad light. Prime that ain’t Amazon sending a package? Sheeeeiiiiittt. We having all the dogs, all the bio-chem, all drones on patrol for that hand off. Ahhhhh shit, Wes/Ian Origin Story, Zero Year up in this piece! Yeah, Wesley ten years ago, was not the cold steel of determination that we know Ian Shaw to be now. This dude apparently shared some trade secrets in the pillow talk and his wife died because of it. Ops made his ass a defector, sent him to the other side, and set him up with a new name to work their strategy. Your boy really got a relocation assignment while crying over his dead wife, yo. We stan a multitasker.

Your dude in the present day, driving to meet Emily Prime aka EPMD. But he’s got Management’s Emissary with him. Yeah, betrayal in the air lik…