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The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2 is titled Glass House. It dropped on December 27, 2025.
This episode changes things. Now we are inside The Orphanage, the intelligence agency where Alexander Hale works. You get to see how the team first spotted the brain hack aimed at their analyst.
Most of the story unfolds in flashbacks, replaying the last episode’s events, but this time, it’s from the agency’s side. It all starts a month before Hale even knew he had been compromised. As the flashbacks roll out, you find out why the agency’s leaders chose to let the hack keep running. They saw an opportunity and decided to use it against whoever was behind it.
The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2 recap: Glass House
The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2 takes the events from Episode 1 and tells them from a different angle, with the help of The Orphanage’s long game coming to light. This episode also reveals the people who are silently working to change Alexander Hale’s reality.
The episode starts with flashbacks that give a different angle to the Belarus mission, from Michelle’s perspective. We listen to the words that she rehearsed, learning to behave in a way that would later lead her directly to Alexander. What was once spontaneous in front of our eyes turns out to be exactly predetermined.
In another flashback, we travel one month back in time when Alexander hadn’t figured out yet that he was compromised. Chinese intelligence had handed over a screenshot to North Korean authorities, thus revealing that Alexander’s sensory feed had been hacked with the help of Cassandra U-358 technology.
Frances gave the evidence to Moira, who then, after an undisclosed time, took it to St. George. As a result of both parties making a decision based on profit, they chose not to close the breach but to allow it to stay open, using Alexander as a lure to find the rogue agent.
In this setting, the character of Samantha Parker is introduced in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2.
Samantha, who was previously called too unconventional, had the foresight to tell The Orphanage that this was the scenario that was likely to take place. With St. George leading the operation, Moira was the one who tracked Samantha down and recruited her for Operation Claymore, which was presented to the public as a simple training exercise but was actually created to build a false world around Alexander. The plan was daring and straightforward: control what Alexander saw, control what the enemy saw, and thereby predict the next move.
Samantha’s background provides an answer to her way of thinking. Having attended Yale, she left academia and later abandoned playwriting. Her thought process is imaginative and driven by patterns, which makes her particularly effective in predictive analysis. Her mission is to completely study and analyze Alexander, including his past, daily life, and sense of conscience, all of which she uses to guess how he behaves in a critical situation.
As shown in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2, during the following month, Samantha closely monitors Alexander. Ultimately, when the moment arrives to infiltrate his real life, Moira comes to her with the idea of bringing Michelle to the project, who is already aware of the fact that this role choice will end her intelligence career. Michelle agrees to the role anyway. One of the ideas that Samantha comes up with is to make Michelle a bit challenging to Alexander’s ego and conscience while not overdoing it, thus making her attractive to him.
The situation becomes more complicated when the two of them notice that Michelle and Alexander have already met. The two agencies, without any communication or coordination, had picked the same woman for different operations that were related to the same man. To make matters worse, Samantha’s explanation is both candid and troubling: Michelle is Alexander’s type.
In the actual timeline, in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2, Alexander starts to grow suspicious about the anti-anxiety drugs that he has been using. Acting on a hunch, he takes a trip to a train station that has no network coverage, destroys a pill, and photographs it with a microscopic lens. He then discovers that there was metallic nanite residue left behind. He concludes that biohacking could be related to the medication.
Later, he tells Moira that he got the pills from his ex-fiancée, Dr. Rachel Kasparian, and has been taking them for eight months. Nevertheless, he lies about how often he experiences panic attacks, which deepens Moira’s concern about the fact that Alexander is still withholding information.
Moira reassures him publicly and then tells Samantha to think like the enemy: her analysis is correct, in that whoever hacked Alexander will eventually send someone to check that the signal hasn’t been tampered with. They will hang back and observe while remaining close enough to act if need be.
The trap is set in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2.
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Samantha sets up Alexander and Michelle’s first date in a bookshop with a rare-books basement that blocks all signals. Remy is staged nearby in case things get bad. There’s also an escape route in place, but Samantha knows Alexander won’t use it: just like in Belarus, he will make his own choice to follow his moral code instead of an order.
The date gets started, awkwardly but believably, and three operatives enter the bookshop: a woman and two men. One manages to scan Alexander and confirm the authenticity of the data stream. While he is being scanned, Michelle communicates with Alexander in Morse code, telling him not to move. Moira tells Remy not to move, either.
As the operatives are walking away, a burst of feedback disrupts all their equipment and Remy’s. A fight breaks out. Michelle tells Alexander to run in Morse code, but as predicted, he doesn't. He runs to the basement with no signal, and one of the operatives follows him there. Michelle intercepts the other two, and the fight moves underground.
The battle is fierce, but controlled, and Alexander and Michelle win the fight. Remy takes care of the final operative who stayed upstairs. Alexander has a panic attack, and Michelle talks him through it. She tells him that her real name is Natalie and asks him to keep it a secret. She reassures him about Belarus, saying he was the only agent to make the right choice.
Later, in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2, it’s revealed that Samantha scripted this entire conversation to gain Alexander’s trust. The cover story goes off without a hitch. Remy’s attacker is taken out on a stretcher as a heart attack victim. The other two men are captured by The Orphanage.
Upon questioning, all three turn out to be CIA officers who have been turned by some unknown handler. The woman, Clarissa, confesses that she was approached by a man who spoke perfect American English but walked with a cane. She never saw his face. She is instructed to report that Alexander’s signal was unaltered and then cut off contact with her handlers using a specific script.
At The Orphanage, Moira updates St. George. It is clear that the enemy is not recruiting new operatives; instead, he is recognizing weak links in the existing CIA agency and turning them.
After the mission, Alexander burns a photograph of Rachel. Samantha reconsiders her analysis. Before, she defined Alexander's motivation in seven words: To earn a place where he belongs. She begins profiling Michelle: To build a place where she belongs.
To end The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 2, there is one final reveal: Cobb meets with his uncle, Henry Schiff, at Victor’s restaurant. Schiff walks with a cane. Cobb expresses his concern about a compromised agent inside The Orphanage, and Schiff urges him to investigate.
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