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!!Emily Prime

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!!Emily Burton Prime



!!Emma Silk

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!!Emma !!Emily Silk
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An experienced agent with the OO who serve's as Aldrich's NumberTwo when in the field.

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An experienced agent with the OO who serve's serves as Aldrich's NumberTwo when in the field.
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The diplomacy director of the OI, , and Quayle's father-in-law.

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The diplomacy director of the OI, , and Quayle's father-in-law.
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The operations director of the OI aka Housekeeping, and Quayle's father-in-law.

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The operations director of the OI aka Housekeeping, and Quayle's father-in-law.
Housekeeping.



The diplomacy director of the OI.

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The diplomacy director of the OI.
OI, , and Quayle's father-in-law.
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The operations director of the OI aka Housekeeping.

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The operations director of the OI aka Housekeeping.
Housekeeping, and Quayle's father-in-law.
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: In the Season 1 finale, kills BigBad Alexander Pope in Self Defense with a fire poker]]
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She gets shot on the cheek by Howard Prime, leaving the remains of her scar wound on.
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The diplomacy director of the BI.

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The diplomacy director of the BI.
OI.



The strategy director of the BI.

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The strategy director of the BI.OI.



A mercenary sent to Earth to take on the BI.

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A mercenary sent to Earth Alpha to take on the BI.
OI.
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!!Bureau of Interchange Actual

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!!Bureau !!Office of Interchange Actual
Alpha



An American employee of the BI based in Berlin, he served with the agency for 30 years as an agent waiting for an upcoming promotion when he gets involved with the BI's Office of Operations.

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An American employee of the BI OI based in Berlin, he served with the agency for 30 years as an agent waiting for an upcoming promotion when he gets involved with the BI's OI's Office of Operations.



Howard's superior at the BI and the strategy director.

* IdiotBall: Quayle fails to keep a level head [[spoiler:after finding out his wife is the mole within the Bureau of Interchange]] and incautiously starts openly questioning the mole within the BI regarding past incidents. He also fails to take basic precautions to keep a subterfuge of his from being found out.

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Howard's superior at the BI OI and the strategy director.

* IdiotBall: Quayle fails to keep a level head [[spoiler:after finding out his wife is the mole within the Bureau Office of Interchange]] and incautiously starts openly questioning the mole within the BI OI regarding past incidents. He also fails to take basic precautions to keep a subterfuge of his from being found out.



The operations director of the BI aka Housekeeping.

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The operations director of the BI OI aka Housekeeping.



!!Bureau of Interchange Prime

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!!Bureau !!Office of Interchange Prime



* InternalAffairs: His job is to keep an eye on BI personnel to make sure no one is corrupt.

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* InternalAffairs: His job is to keep an eye on BI OI personnel to make sure no one is corrupt.



* ClickHello: Baldwin has just killed one of the two alternate Bureau of Interchange officers. The other one has just ended a phone call when he gets greeted with an audible click, upon which he (and the audience) sees who Baldwin is. He is shot immediately afterward.

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* ClickHello: Baldwin has just killed one of the two alternate Bureau Office of Interchange officers. The other one has just ended a phone call when he gets greeted with an audible click, upon which he (and the audience) sees who Baldwin is. He is shot immediately afterward.
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!!Bureau of Interchange Prime
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....There was no ambiguity about her being their daughter, and I am completely unsure why the entry was written that way


An unknown woman from Earth Prime ([[spoiler: most likely to be a Howard's daughter]]), her presence brings trouble to Howard and his Earth Prime counterpart.

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An unknown woman from Earth Prime ([[spoiler: most likely to be a Howard's daughter]]), her presence brings trouble to Howard and his Earth Prime counterpart.
Emily Prime's daughter. Has a fraught relationship with her parents.

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The operations director of the BI.

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The operations director of the BI.
BI aka Housekeeping.


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!!Claude Lambert

Ambassador to the Alpha world.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's the ambassador from Earth Prime.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He tries his best to accomodate both worlds during covert diplomatic negotiations.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He tries his best to accomodate accommodate both worlds during covert diplomatic negotiations.



An experienced agent with the Office of Operations.

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An experienced agent with the Office of Operations.
Operations in the strategy department.


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Howard Prime's ex-wife and works in strategy.
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Howard's superior at the BI.

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Howard's superior at the BI.BI and the strategy director.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:For Howard Silk Prime's character arc when Emily Silk Prime warns him that Pope is after him.]]
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* ExactWords: Howard impersonates Prime Howard and is given a lie detector test. He is asked questions about things Prime Howard did so he simply tells his interrogators that he does not remember these events. The interrogators are astonished by how well he is beating the lie detector, not realizing that Howard is telling the truth. He was not present during the events in question and thus has no memories of what happened.
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* IdiotBall: Quayle fails to keep a level head [[spoiler:after finding out his wife is the mole within the Bureau of Interchange]] and incautiously starts openly questioning the mole within the BI regarding past incidents. He also fails to take basic precautions to keep a subterfuge of his from being found out.

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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Talking about her will spoil the fact that she was in contact with Howard Silk Prime for some time.]]



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!!Bureau of Interchange

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!!Bureau of Interchange
Interchange Actual



!!Ian Shaw

An experienced agent with the Office of Operations.



!!Bob Dwyer

The strategy director of the BI.

* InternalAffairs: His job is to keep an eye on BI personnel to make sure no one is corrupt.



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He tries his best to accomodate both worlds during covert diplomatic negotiations.



!!Bureau of Interchange Prime

[[folder:Personnel]]

!!Bureau of Interchange Prime

!!Ian Shaw

An experienced agent with the Office of Operations.

* InternalAffairs: Conducts inquiries on anything that happens in the actual world alongside Emily Prime.

!!Emily Prime
* SherlockScan: The relations between her and her ex were bad enough that while most people missed it, she knew within an hour of meeting normal Howard that he was not actually Howard Prime.

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[[folder:Officials]]

!!Bob Dwyer

The strategy director of the BI.

* InternalAffairs: His job is to keep an eye on BI personnel to make sure no one is corrupt.

[[/folder]]



!!Howard Silk Prime

* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit: when Howard walks by the nurse's station, he normally puts one of the flowers from the bouquet he's bought for Emily into the vase on the counter, because they're the nurse's favorite flowers, too. Howard Prime doesn't do this. [[spoiler:Which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].
* SirSwearsALot: A key way of telling him apart from the other Howard.

!!Emily Prime
* SherlockScan: The relations between her and her ex were bad enough that while most people missed it, she knew within an hour of meeting normal Howard that he was not actually Howard Prime.


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!Government

!!Howard Silk Prime

* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit: when Howard walks by the nurse's station, he normally puts one of the flowers from the bouquet he's bought for Emily into the vase on the counter, because they're the nurse's favorite flowers, too. Howard Prime doesn't do this. [[spoiler:Which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].
* SirSwearsALot: A key way of telling him apart from the other Howard.
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* WaifFu: [[spoiler:{{Averted}}. When she fights a man sent to kill her, she shows some impressive moves, but she's still clearly in trouble unless she can get hold of a weapon. (She does.)]]
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!!Emily Prime
* SherlockScan: The relations between her and her ex were bad enough that while most people missed it, she knew within an hour of meeting normal Howard that he was not actually Howard Prime.
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An unknown woman from Earth Prime, her presence brings trouble to Howard and his Earth Prime counterpart.

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An unknown woman from Earth Prime, Prime ([[spoiler: most likely to be a Howard's daughter]]), her presence brings trouble to Howard and his Earth Prime counterpart.
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* SirSwearsALot: A key way of telling him apart from the other Howard.

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* NiceGuy: In contrast to all the secretive, sinister people around him, Howard is just a decent man who wants his wife to get better and doesn't want innocent people to get hurt by all this insanity.




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* YourCheatingHeart: He's married to Roland Fancher's daughter, but is also shown with a prostitute.
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Cleared up some timeline and purpose misunderstandings for Emma Silk and Eric


Howard's wife, who has been in a coma for years.

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Howard's wife, who has been in a coma for years.
six weeks prior to the start of the series.



Howard's brother-in-law, who wants Howard to award rights to terminate Emma's life.

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Howard's brother-in-law, who wants Howard to award rights to terminate Emma's life.
move Emily back to England for long term care.
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An influential man who helps out Howard Silk Prime by providing things he needs such as visas to get to Earth.

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An influential man who helps out Howard Silk Prime by providing things he needs such as visas to get to Earth. Heavily hinted to be one of the top members of a conspiracy directed at the non-Prime Earth.
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* ColdSniper: In "Birds of a Feather", he fires at Nadia on her shoulder so that Baldwin can't use her.

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* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit by not putting one of the flowers in the bouquet for Emily in the nurse's vase when he walks by her, [[spoiler:which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].

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* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit visit: when Howard walks by not putting the nurse's station, he normally puts one of the flowers in from the bouquet he's bought for Emily in into the vase on the counter, because they're the nurse's vase when he walks by her, [[spoiler:which favorite flowers, too. Howard Prime doesn't do this. [[spoiler:Which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].

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* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit [[spoiler:which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].

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* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit by not putting one of the flowers in the bouquet for Emily in the nurse's vase when he walks by her, [[spoiler:which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].
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!!Bureau of Interchange

[[folder:Personnel]]

!!Howard Silk

An American employee of the BI based in Berlin, he served with the agency for 30 years as an agent waiting for an upcoming promotion when he gets involved with the BI's Office of Operations.

!!Peter Quayle

Howard's superior at the BI.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Believes that Howard's work should be rewarded, but the bureaucrats who outrank him say that he doesn't have a say in it since someone else got the promotion in "The Crossing".

!!Ian Shaw

An experienced agent with the Office of Operations.

!!Cyrus

An experienced agent with the OO who serve's as Aldrich's NumberTwo when in the field.

* NumberTwo: To Aldrich in the field during an OO mission.

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[[folder:Officials]]

!!Aldrich

The operations director of the BI.

!!Bob Dwyer

The strategy director of the BI.

* InternalAffairs: His job is to keep an eye on BI personnel to make sure no one is corrupt.

!!Roland Fancher

The diplomacy director of the BI.

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!!Civilians

[[folder:Earth]]

!!Emma Silk

Howard's wife, who has been in a coma for years.

!!Eric

Howard's brother-in-law, who wants Howard to award rights to terminate Emma's life.

!!Clare

An unknown woman who's gotten the BI's attention.

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[[folder:Earth Prime]]

!!Howard Silk Prime

* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Alternate Howard takes the place of normal-verse Howard one night on a visit to the hospital. He misses one crucial detail in the routine visit [[spoiler:which accidentally tips off the assassin "Baldwin" that something isn't right]].

!!Baldwin

A mercenary sent to Earth to take on the BI.

* ClickHello: Baldwin has just killed one of the two alternate Bureau of Interchange officers. The other one has just ended a phone call when he gets greeted with an audible click, upon which he (and the audience) sees who Baldwin is. He is shot immediately afterward.
* DarkActionGirl: She kills anyone who gets in her way. [[spoiler:Except for her actual Earth counterpart.]]
* HyperAwareness: She's reported to note even the most minute detail of their target's routines as mentioned in "The Crossing" in order to accomplish missions with deadly effectiveness. This becomes a ChekhovsSkill later in the same episode.

!!Alexander Pope

An influential man who helps out Howard Silk Prime by providing things he needs such as visas to get to Earth.

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!!Others

[[folder:Anna]]

An unknown woman from Earth Prime, her presence brings trouble to Howard and his Earth Prime counterpart.

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[[folder:Angel Eyes]]

An unknown person sent to Earth for an unknown purpose.

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