The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 recap: Schiff traps Hale with no way out

The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 is titled Allegiance. It was released on December 27, 2025.

In this Episode, intelligence analyst Alexander Hale finally comes face-to-face with his enemy. But he doesn’t get the answers he has been chasing. Instead, he is trapped, cornered, and forced into a choice that feels impossible. Meanwhile, his agency, The Orphanage, starts to wonder if Alexander has turned on them.

The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 pulls back the curtain on Schiff, the shadowy figure always lurking in the background. Through a flashback to East Berlin, 1989, we see a Stasi officer trying to swap a list of West Berlin KGB agents for American citizenship. He almost pulls it off, but then the Berlin Wall falls. The whole plan crumbles, and Eastern German police swoop in and arrest him.

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The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 recap: Allegiance

The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 begins by at last revealing the background of Schiff, as it starts with a flashback to 1989 in East Berlin. An aspiring young Eastern German man who desires to defect to the United States agrees to give a list of KGB agents in Berlin in exchange for citizenship in America. His CIA agent tells him to wait in a hotel, assuring him that an American female would pick up the list and take him to a safe place.

That strategy fails in the middle of the night when the Berlin Wall collapses. The woman runs away, the extraction is canceled, and the man, who turns out to be Schiff, is arrested by East German police. He is tortured and lost in the Soviet prison system, where he is assumed to be dead.

In the present time, in The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6, Schiff is in the Paris catacombs, where he is finally confronted by Alexander Hale. Schiff reveals that he is fully aware of the Cassandra project and passes over the unedited, full file on Hale. The reality is horrendous: The orphanage lied regarding the lethality of the biohack. It is incurable, irrevocable, and impossible to remove the technology. The increasing headaches experienced by Hale are irreversible.

Hale threatens to murder Schiff and takes him in, but Schiff is ready. He brings out the wedding ring of Hale’s mother. This indicates that he has eyes on Hale’s family. If Schiff dies, they die. Hale sets him free with no other choice.

The demand that Schiff makes is easy but perilous: Hale must bring St. George to him. In The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6, it is revealed that she is the American woman who was expected to extract him in 1989.

As this plays on, Parker and Moira become even more worried about the disappearance of Hale. Parker confesses that she knew Hale was not stable but took the mission nonetheless. When Hale returns, The Orphanage assumes that the operation is a failure to determine whether he has been compromised.

As Hale is interrogated, he denies that he is being threatened and fabricates his meeting with Schiff. Moira feels the manipulation but goes by the book, taking away Hale’s office keys and letting him leave under observation.

Elsewhere, St. George tells Marlowe about her history with Schiff, but she is not aware of what happened to him after he was arrested. The investigation by Marlowe brings the truth out: Schiff had come out of prison, escaped and taken several names, rose through the Soviet ranks, and was thought to be dead more than once, first by the Soviets, then by the British.

He finally got to the United States, changed his maiden name, and became a CIA agent, climbing the hierarchy in silence. Over the years, he has been a ghost within the intelligence system without coming under the radar of The Orphanage.

In The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6, Cobb encounters Marlowe and confesses the truth about his uncle. He admits that he disclosed little information, such as the details about St. George, but he had no knowledge of who Schiff was, nor was he aware that he was the hacker who created Cassandra. Cobb also confirms that the hard drive retrieved earlier had dummy data, but Cassandra was real. Marlowe asks him to remain ignorant and ask why Hale once spared his life.

Back on the surveillance, Hale gets home, where Michelle waits to meet him. Formally, she is there to trade possessions. Unofficially, she sends him a warning with Morse code that the apartment is also bugged. When Hale’s parents call, saying that they want to see their son, he proposes to have a meeting at Victor’s restaurant.

During dinner, Hale is paranoid, and his mother feels that something is amiss. In the kitchen, Hale whispers to Victor whether or not it is possible to get in touch with St. George beyond official ways. Victor acknowledges that it is almost impossible, but agrees to carry out discreet investigations.

Hale says goodbye to his parents and tells them that he loves them in Hakka, insisting they say it back. It is a short but highly loaded moment, and The Orphanage instantly declares it suspicious.

Hale later goes back home and discovers that Michelle is still there preparing soup in the pretext of being concerned. In The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6, Hale, knowing that he is under surveillance, gazes at the mirror in the bathroom and sends out a message that is intended to reach Schiff, assuring him that he will guide him to St. George. All this is heard by The Orphanage.

The response is swift. Parker calls Moira and writes an encrypted message to Michelle with one command to kill Alexander Hale.

The Copenhagen Test Season 1 Episode 6 concludes with Hale completely compromised, Schiff in motion, and Michelle having to decide between her orders and the man she might still be willing to save.