Even if she is her favorite, the Emperor would not fully trust her, and especially if Burnham claims to have played dead for a while (do we know how long?) without telling her and/or the Emperor and mirror!Burnham had their own secret signals/codewords/message traditions/etc. The set-up being a trap is the only way the Emperor showing up makes sense to me. Especially in under an hour! Lucky for Michael that she had time to send an encrypted message to the Discovery.
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Date: 2018-01-15 12:22 pm (UTC)