Originally Posted by
Often1
It appears that OP was there 2 hours prior to departure, but that the companion arrived after T-45 and thus blew the deadline.
OP's post seems to suggest that OP and the companion arrived together, but maybe there's room for interpretation. Waiting 75 minutes in the priority line does seem well out of the norm. OP's cryptic statement about the "methodology" for getting past security also seems . . . suspect, at least to me.