STITCHERS Ends With a Bang

S1E10 “Full Stop”

This week the writers’ goal was to rip the audience’s hearts out – and they succeeded, multiple times. Fisher and Cameron are sent to the hospital, and the team has to stitch into the mind of a young waitress to find out what happened.

Fisher meets Les Turner at the beginning of this episode, and Turner tells Fisher not to investigate the Ed Clark case. Turner says that they are handling the case internally, and that investigating the case could put Kirsten in danger.

Cameron, Kirsten, Camille, and Fisher all meet for dinner. Fisher is annoyed that Cameron and Camille are there, because he wants to talk to her about the Clark case. Camille makes Kirsten go to the bathroom with her for girl talk. While they are in there, they hear gunshots. The waitress serving them is dead, and Fisher and Cameron are both unresponsive.

At the hospital, they find out that Cameron suffered a concussion and Fisher is in ICU. Kirsten demands to stitch into the waitress immediately, but Maggie refuses and reminds them that Cameron is the only one who can coordinate the stitch tech.

Camille, Linus, and Kirsten go to their house and Kirsten tells them about the key. Linus points out that it is a safety deposit box key, and they all go through Clark’s papers, and they find a bank statement.

In the morning at the lab, Cameron comes in like his normal self. They begin the stitch, and Cameron teaches Camille how to do it. In the stitch, Kirsten is back at the restaurant, and she sees the shots fired. Fisher saved Cameron before he could be killed. Kirsten sees the man who shot them.

Camille reconstructs the face with Kirsten’s help, and Maggie knows who the man is. He was close to Kirsten’s parents.

Later, Cameron is showing Camille more about stitching, and tells her that Kirsten is extremely gifted with stitching. Linus is angry at Cameron for not choosing him to learn to stitch, and Cameron tells him that he doesn’t have the right “finesse” for it.

Kirsten goes to the bank and is able to get into the safety deposit box. Inside is the “K” book that was missing from Ed Clark’s study.

Kirsten goes to Cameron’s apartment, and she can’t figure out what Ed left her. Cameron finds a device that comes out of the binding.

They plug the device into Cameron’s TV, and a video begins to play. Kirsten’s father is talking to the screen, and her mother is laying in a bed with tubes connected to her head, and a young Kirsten is laying in a bath of water, like the one at the Stitchers lab.

Kirsten’s father is attempting to stitch Kirsten into the mind of her mother to wake her up from her coma. When he begins, Kirsten’s head begins to hurt but she is able to see inside the mind of her mother. Her mother then begins to seize and dies, and Kirsten is unconscious. Her father is the reason she has temporal dysplasia. Kirsten doesn’t remember that happening.

Maggie finds the shooter, but he is dead in his apartment.

At Kirsten’s and Camille’s house, Linus comes and yells at Camille for not sticking up for him when it comes to stitching. He leaves the house, still angry.

At the lab, they decide to stitch into the shooter. Kirsten finds out that he was protecting her, but couldn’t see who hired him to kill Fisher. She also sees Cameron walk by the shooter. Then she sees her mother, but Cameron takes her to a different memory. She hears an important phone call between the shooter and someone else, but doesn’t tell Maggie about it because she is angry at her for not letting her see her mother.

Cameron and Kirsten go to the hospital and find out that Fisher is still on life support. They go back to the lab.

Since Cameron saw the shooter, he wants Kirsten to stitch into him. He has a serum that can stop his heart for four minutes. Everyone refuses to stitch, but Les Turner thinks it’s a good idea. While they are arguing, Cameron injects himself, and everyone rushes to begin the stitch.

Kirsten sees all of the memories with her in it, and realizes that Cameron has had feelings for her the entire time they have known each other. Camille gets her to the street where Cameron saw the shooter, but everything is too blurry. She is then pulled into the hospital when Cameron was a young boy. He walks down the hallway, and stops at one of the rooms. He sees a young Kirsten painting her mother’s nails, and he goes into the room and talks to her. He tells her everything will be okay.

Kirsten bounces, and they are unable to revive Cameron. The episode ends with Cameron flatlining.

By the end of this week’s episode, I realized that my jaw had been dropped the entire time, and that my heart had been laid on the floor and crushed into a thousand pieces.

I’m going to start off with the lighter part of the episode this week.

First – no sign of Janice. With everything that happened to Kirsten inside Cameron’s stitch, I doubt she will be showing up again – or at least I can hope. Liam will definitely be showing up for season two, especially after last episode’s mysterious phone call.

We didn’t get to find out any more information on Maggie and her connection to Kirsten’s parents or Ed Clark. She is very protective of the team, and she is constantly trying to shield them from Les Turner, who’s becoming a threat to the Stitchers team. He was willing to allow Cameron to stop his heart for four minutes, and he tells Fisher to back off the Clark case. The only person Turner cares about is Kirsten, and that is because she is vital to the program.

Linus is angry at everyone, and justly so. He is Cameron’s right hand man, but if he doesn’t have the right skills to stitch then he shouldn’t do it. I don’t think he should be angry at Camille; at this point he is just being a jealous pain in the butt. I’m very happy that Camille is having a larger part in the stitching process, and that Cameron was willing to teach her how to do it. I just hope that this doesn’t mean that Cameron is out for good.

My favorite character, Fisher, is in the hospital on life support. Generally, this is how things go when it comes to television. Think: Game of Thrones, Red Wedding. I doubt the writers will be bumping Fisher from the show, but we will have to wait until season two to find out. Fisher also wears a wedding ring on his finger, but no longer has a wife – so obviously he has to stay alive so we can find out about that detail, right? A girl can dream.

Kirsten’s father is even worse than I thought. He is the reason that Kirsten’s mother died and that she has temporal dysplasia. It makes her a perfect fit stitching, but at the cost of her mother, father, and her ability to feel and process emotions. Will this be something that Kirsten will struggle with in the next season, or will she brush it off?

Kirsten and Cameron. When Kirsten stitched into Cameron, it showed her what the rest of the audience knew. Although I find it hard to believe that they saw each other at the hospital as young kids, it’s too cute for me to complain about. This is the part where my heart shattered into a thousand pieces, along with the rest of the Stitchers audience:

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As of now, I refuse to believe that Cameron is actually dead. I really hope that the next season the writers don’t start off with everything being back to normal, and then all the explaining is done through flashbacks. I have a feeling that it is going to happen, because Stitchers is fond of flashbacks.

Thankfully, Stitchers returns with another season. The show has improved with every episode (despite some awkward dialogue), and I look forward to season two.

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