Changes: Outside In

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Inside Out is the second episode of Season 2 of the Starz Original Series Counterpart.

The episode is written by Counterpart co-producer Justin-Britt Gibson (Into the Badlands, The Strain).

Outside In is directed by filmmaker Kyle Patrick Alvarez (13 Reasons Why).

Synopsis

Imprisoned in Dimension Two, D1 Howard's loyalties are tested. D2 Emily gets a promotion.

Full Recap

EDITOR’S NOTE: All action in this episode - with the exception of a single flashback - takes place in Dimension Two.

Later on the night of the Office of Interchange raid on the Indigo school in Potsdam (See ‘’Love the Lie’’) , Mira and Aldus arrive at a safehouse. Aldus is still reeling from the deaths of his pupils at the school. Mira gives him a glass of gin and tells him to drink it. Aldus believes their mission is over because the school is exposed. Mira says Indigo has much still to do. Aldus is still despondent. She tells him to be strong for their former students and for her. She then seduces him masturbating him on a couch.

Prisoner 014

D1 Howard, imprisoned in Dimension Two, remembers the night of Emily’s accident. She claimed she was going to the drycleaners. He wrapped her scarf around her neck and warned her it was cold out. She promised she wouldn’t be long and he said, I’ll be here.

Howard awakens in his cell at the D2 Office of Interchange. He is taken to an interrogation room and warned that the “charges of cross-world interaction don’t apply now that the doors are closed”. His interrogator Osman warns that if Howard is not labeled as “cooperative”, he’ll be sent to “black site”.

Howard has apparently been cooperating, explaining the story of how Baldwin wanted to kill his Emily and his other switched places with him. Apparently, D2 Management believes D1 Emily is part of the Indigo plot and that she and D2 Howard were working together. Osman has the letters Emily exchanged with her husband’s counterpart (See: ‘’The Lost Art of Diplomacy’’). Osman characterizes the letters as conspiracy, Howard tries to correct him. Osman presses, saying he doesn’t really know his wife. He then informs Howard that his Emily is out of her coma. Howard questions why they’re watching his Emily.

Osman explains that D2 Howard rushed into her hospital room emotional at the site of his wife. He suggests that switching Howard out for his other was her plan all along.

Im Westen nichts Neues

Emily prepares for her day, takes her anti-depressant and heads off to work at the OI. There is no added security in Dimension Two (See ‘’Inside Out’’), the guards at The Crossing are playing cards. D2 has not converted their customs area into prison cells like their counterparts. It sits empty as do the Interchange rooms where Howard used to work.

In one of the conference rooms, Emily is in a meeting with the head of diplomacy. D1’s Ambassador Sy (Ramon De Ocampo) details the horrible conditions Dimension Two has created at his embassy. Every room has been transformed into a prison cell. He says they’re filled with “stranded crossers” drinking too much. He wants to know when they’re going home. The head of diplomacy says their side didn’t close off The Crossing. His people are the ones who have cut off communication and stranded him there.

The ambassador says D2 is to blame for the attack on D1 OI, but the D2 diplomat denies this. She claims their investigation shows the attackers were homegrown in Dimension One.

Once Ambassador Sy leaves, Emily lays into the Head of Diplomacy about their strategy of lying to representatives of the other side. She says they should have asked for help instead of denying involvement. She says the doors might still be open and they could chase down Indigo with shared intelligence instead of “shared fucking incompetence”.

A Glimpse of Management

In one of Berlin’s numerous allotment gardens or Dauerkleingarten, an unnamed man (Louis Mahoney) comes in to his tiny, inexpensive home to find Mira waiting for him with an armed thug. She says it didn’t take long to find him. He is aware of Indigo. Mira defends her choices saying that compared to the acts D1 committed against their world (See The Flu), the attack on the OI (See No Man's Land) “was an act of mercy”. She defends the school at Potsdam saying that the children were the soldiers “you and the rest of Management were unwilling to create.”

Mira says it’s time the “worlds” had new leadership.

Mira’s thug has not been able to find the case with the Management communications array inside the house (See ‘’Inside Out’’). The man claims it’s not there but Mira is under the impression that members of Management keep it close at all times. He says she’ll never find it and she’ll never find the others. She picks up a small scythe blade and holds it in her lap. He says it’s funny because he was “the only one of us who ever believed there was good in” Mira. This gives her pause.

New Developments

Emily attempts to visit D1 Howard in the detainment center at OI. She is refused entry. She chooses to sit in the waiting area until visiting hours end.

As she’s leaving the OI, she walks past Ian Shaw but doesn’t speak. Ian walks past her as well but then stops and turns around to look at her walk away.

At home, Emily is surprised to find Anna in her kitchen cooking. She’s broken up with Marco because he was cheating on her. Anna’s also bleached her hair. Emily says Marco was a bore and everyone thought so. She says she didn’t point out his shortcomings because her mother used to give her unsolicited advice and it drove her bonkers.

Anna says she wanted to talk to Howard about it, but, from her perspective, he’s purposefully out of contact. Not knowing that her father has switched with his counterpart, Anna believes he’s simply returned to his distant, un-father-like behavior. She says she misses him.

In the bowels of the OI, the agents guarding The Crossing are still playing cards at 0100 when the alarm sounds and the door to the other side opens.

The Head of Diplomacy joins two armed guards stationed inside The Crossing. A lone figure crosses from Dimension One. He carries a heavily-taped binder of documents. He says it’s for Management and drops it on the floor of the Crossing. Once he returns up to his side, the alarm sounds again and the doors close again.

Emily Gets a Promotion

Upon arrival at work, Emily is met by two agents. She is taken inside to a special elevator at the end of a hallway guarded by heavily armed men. She’s told the elevator takes her to the Fourth Floor which is supposedly the offices of Management.

When she steps out of the lift, the floor is long abandoned and in disrepair. She finds one of the Management camera devices in a room with a single table and two chairs. She’s joined by man who explains that he is authorized to speak on behalf of Management. He says management hasn’t actually come to the OI in some time due to “sort of a security concern”.

He says they know she’s been trying to visit D1 Howard. He says Management is aware that she and Howard have been “associating” while he’s been there and warns that under the Konigsberg Act, Emily could be punished for the aiding and abetting of a crosser.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Königsberg was a German city on the Baltic Sea. After it’s capture by the Soviets in World War II, the name was changed to Kaliningrad. It remains under Russian control.

He says Management is going to make a conditional exception for Emily. He says she is now promoted to Deputy Director of Strategy replacing Bob Dwyer. He shows he, pictures of Mira and says Management wasn’t telling the truth when they claimed ignorance of Indigo. He says Mira is the leader of Indigo and Management was aware of her activities for some time.

Apparently, Mira’s been active for a long time. He says in January of 1996, Mira was behind the bombing of the Dimension One Embassy. The attack killed two people. Management sanctioned Mira’s death after the bombing. They thought she was dead until the most recent attack.

He explains that the doors opened and an offer was made by “neighboring Management”. It said that if D2 were to turn over Mira, full diplomacy between worlds would be reinstated. Emily is tasked with finding Mira.

He gives her a lead, the Schmidts. Formerly clerks with the Office of Interchange Diplomacy Department, they are suspected of giving their son (Spencer) to Indigo for training and a subsequent undercover job in D1. Management believes the Schmidts could lead Emily to Mira. Management wants Emily to find Mira and “terminate her without doubt or delay”. He says Management trusts Emily because of her work linking Alexander Pope to Indigo showed them she’s on their team.

Emily pushes for Howard’s release. She says he is “just an Interface man” and there’s no reason to have him locked up. He balks, but she presses. They are at an impasse until the phone rings. It’s Management with a counteroffer. They say if Emily brings them Mira, Howard will be released. He then warns her not to speak to anyone about the conversation or anything else. He says she won’t be seeing him again.

Dog Walker DOA

Ian Shaw sits alone in a café watching two women talk outside. One of the women, Nomi (Krissi Bohn) enters the café and sits across from him. She knows him but says he’s not been around for a while and wonders if he’s been in London. He blames work in Berlin, claiming he’s been “drowning”. She says her bosses have her back and forth between Berlin and Zurich.

Ian’s phone rings. The message screen says “FOUND POPE’S NEPHEW”.

Two agents are already outside an apartment when Ian arrives. Loud music is playing inside. One of the agents attaches a device to the door that burns through the lock. Inside, they find bloody paw prints and Pope’s dog walker (Justin Marks) is dead on the sofa. Pope’s dog is yipping. They’re disappointed after searching for him for 11 days. Ian says Indigo are leaving no loose ends.

Howard meets with his interrogator again. The man offers to send Howard home when the crossing reopens on the condition that he spy on his Emily and report back to D2. Howard points out this is the same offer Pope made just before Howard killed him. He refuses to spy for them.

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-He says Management is going to make a conditional exception for Emily. He says she is now promoted to Head of Strategy replacing [[Bob Dwyer]]. He shows he, pictures of Mira and says Management wasn’t telling the truth when they claimed ignorance of Indigo. He says Mira is the leader of Indigo and Management was aware of her activities for some time.
+He says Management is going to make a conditional exception for Emily. He says she is now promoted to Deputy Director of Strategy replacing [[Bob Dwyer]]. He shows he, pictures of Mira and says Management wasn’t telling the truth when they claimed ignorance of Indigo. He says Mira is the leader of Indigo and Management was aware of her activities for some time.
 Apparently, Mira’s been active for a long time. He says in January of 1996, Mira was behind the bombing of the Dimension One Embassy. The attack killed two people. Management sanctioned Mira’s death after the bombing. They thought she was dead until the most recent attack.