When Emily Cooper makes it to the top floor of her Parisian apartment block in the first episode of Emily in Paris , she dramatically opens the windows of her new home to the view of a charming square featuring a dreamy café-and-sun-soaked-terrace combo. Little did she know that tucked on the corner on the left-hand side of the street, an underground quantum lab was in the works.
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