History Series / Counterpart2018

* The opening credits show a document dated 28 October 2015 regarding a "defector", followed by a personnel record for a Philipp Kistler, and finally a section of a transcript of a debriefing between an interrogator named Janz and the aforementioned Kistler.
* In "Birds of a Feather", the top right corner of a document can briefly be seen to show a date in 2018, establishing the time period for the series.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Birds of a Feather", the top right corner of a document can briefly be seen to show a date in 2018, establishing the time period for the series.

* SWATTeam: The SEK[[note]]Spezialeinsatzkommando, meaning "Special Commandos" or "Special Forces"[[/note]] is summoned to help BI agents in a raid in "The Crossing".

* SWATTeam: The SEK is summoned to help BI agents in a raid in "The Crossing".

* HyperAwareness: The assassin "Baldwin" is reported to note even the most minute detail of their target's routines in order to accomplish missions with deadly effectiveness. This becomes a ChekhovsSkill later in the same episode.

* ClickHello: The assassin codenamed "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.
* 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]].

* HyperAwareness: The assassin "Baldwin" is reported to note even the most minute detail of their target's routines in order to accomplish missions with deadly effectiveness. This becomes a ChekhovsGun later in the same episode.

* {{Flashback}}: Employed in the show to explore the past history of [[spoiler:Baldwin/Nadia]].

Simmons stars as mild-mannered Howard Silk, a mid-level functionary within the Bureau of Interchange in Germany whose principal task, for the last thirty years, has been to carefully speak apparently nonsensical one-sentence fragments to another person, obtain a reply, and then having noted both down, pass them on to another part of the organization he's in. All that changes one day when his higher-ups tell him he's been personally requested in a top-secret meeting, and discovers... himself. Only from another universe, and with a dire warning about a conspiracy afoot that could have widespread effects on both universes. This TV series explores some of the ramifications of discovering that there is, in fact a parallel world and universe which contains many of the same people as one's "home" world.

Simmons stars as mild-mannered Howard Silk, a mid-level functionary within the Bureau of Interchange in Germany whose principal task, for the last thirty years, has been to carefully speak apparently nonsensical one-sentence fragments to another person, obtain a reply, and then having noted both down, pass them on to another part of the organization he's in. All that changes one day when his higher-ups tell him he's been personally requested in a top-secret meeting. This TV series explores some of the ramifications of discovering that there is, in fact a parallel world and universe which contains many of the same people as one's "home" world.

* SecretWar: This is revealed to be a possibility when Alternate Howard Silk reveals that the governing authorities in his world are divided between relative moderates and hard-liners who are "more ideological", and it is the latter that are letting their battle spill over into the "normal" world. [[spoiler:The root of the conflict and why it's spilling over at all appears to be from the hard-liners blaming the "normal" world for a mass disease that afflicted the "alternate" world some years before.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SecretWar Something's going in behind the shadows of Berlin.]]

''Counterpart'' is a dramatic sci-fi series which is currently airing on Creator/Starz as part of the 2018 [=TV=] season in the United States, starring Creator/JKSimmons. The executive producer of the show is Justin Marks.

Simmons stars as mild-mannered Howard Silk, a mid-level functionary within the Bureau of Interchange whose principal task, for the last thirty years, has been to carefully speak apparently nonsensical one-sentence fragments to another person, obtain a reply, and then having noted both down, pass them on to another part of the organization he's in. All that changes one day when his higher-ups tell him he's been personally requested in a top-secret meeting. This TV series explores some of the ramifications of discovering that there is, in fact a parallel world and universe which contains many of the same people as one's "home" world.

''Counterpart'' is a dramatic sci-fi series which is currently airing on STARZ as part of the 2018 [=TV=] season in the United States, starring Creator/JKSimmons. The executive producer of the show is Justin Marks.

''Counterpart'' is a dramatic sci-fi series which is currently airing on STARZ as part of the 2018 [=TV=] season in the United States, starring J. K. Simmons. The executive producer of the show is Justin Marks.

''Counterpart (2018)'' is a dramatic sci-fi series which is currently airing on STARZ as part of the 2018 [=TV=] season in the United States, starring J. K. Simmons. The executive producer of the show is Justin Marks.

* Doppelganger: One of the reasons why the Bureau of Interchange keeps such a tight lid on the knowledge that a parallel universe exists is the brain-bending effect it has on people when they realize alternates of their own selves exist.

* CloningBlues: One of the reasons why the Bureau of Interchange keeps such a tight lid on the knowledge that a parallel universe exists is the brain-bending effect it has on people when they realize alternates of their own selves exist.

''Counterpart'' is a dramatic series which is currently airing on STARZ as part of the 2018 [=TV=] season in the United States, starring J. K. Simmons. The executive producer of the show is Justin Marks.

Simmons stars as mild-mannered Howard Silk, a mid-level functionary whose principal task, for the last thirty years, has been to carefully speak apparently nonsensical one-sentence fragments to another person, obtain a reply, and then having noted both down, pass them on to another part of the organization he's in. All that changes one day when his higher-ups tell him he's been personally requested in a top-secret meeting. This TV series explores some of the ramifications of discovering that there is, in fact a parallel world and universe which contains many of the same people as one's "home" world.

* Flashback: Employed in the show to explore the past history of [[spoiler:Baldwin/Nadia]].