'Stitchers' finale recap: 'Full Stop'

The finale episode was chocked full of information, action, and ended with one heck of a cliffhanger!

Fischer finally started asking Turner questions about Ed. Turner told him not to investigate it and that keeping Kirsten safe is one of their priorities, a comment which causes Fischer to question if she’s in danger. He doesn’t get an answer from Turner, so he leaves. When he leaves Maggie and Turner agree that since Fischer has started asking questions about Ed Clark, he’s not going to stop until he has answers.

Later, Fischer meets up with Kirsten and Camille at a local bar and grill. When Cameron shows up, Fischer isn’t happy about it for some reason. He tells Cameron it’s because he wants to talk to Kirsten about Ed. Camille takes this as a cue (not that one was given) and whisks Kirsten off to the bathroom for a girl talk about whether or not she’s hooking up with Fischer. While they are talking, they hear several gun shots and run out to see what happened. Cameron and Fischer are both down, along with several others.

Cameron is OK, but Fischer is in ICU. I can’t help but think Turner is behind this. Perhaps it’s his way of stopping or at least stalling his investigation. Meanwhile, Kirsten tells Camille and Linus about the key she found at her mother’s tomb, so they search Ed’s records for bank receipts to see if they can figure out if he had a safety deposit box they can match it to. They found one.

When Cameron returns from the hospital, they have Kirsten stitch into the waitress who died in the shooting. During the stitch, Kirsten is able to get a good look at the face of the shooter, and using facial reconstruction they are able to create a 3-D digital image. Before they can look for the identity, Maggie stops them and says she knows who he is, and that he was close to Kirsten’s parents. So, who was the actual target: Cameron or Fischer? Does Liam have something to do with this?

There was some concern when Cameron was in the hospital, because he’s the only one who can “pilot” a stitch. As a result, Cameron begins teaching Camille how to run the program. Linus is jealous, but not how you think. It’s not that Cameron is working with Camille, he’s jealous because he thinks he should be the one learning to do it. The big blow, however, is that Cameron admits that he doesn’t think Linus has what it takes to do it.

Meanwhile, Kirsten goes to the bank to access the safety deposit box. Even though her name is on the box registration, there’s a problem. Her signature doesn’t match the card. That makes sense considering she didn’t even know about it before now, but then she remembers Ed making her practice her signature in cursive when she was a kid. So, she talks the banker into letting her try her signature again, commenting that it had been a while. This time, it worked, but all that was in the box was the missing encyclopedia volume K.

Kirsten gets Cameron to look at the book. He is able to find a hidden video chip in the binding, and they watch it. It shows her father stitch her into her mother. It appears her mother was in a coma. During the stitch her mother died, and the process is what caused Kirsten's temporal dysphasia.

Knowing who the shooter is, Maggie takes a special ops team after him. When they get to his place, they find him stabbed to death, so she brings his body back to stitch to find out why he went after Fischer.

In this stitch, Kirsten figures out that the man was called upon to attack them, but he refused to hurt Kirsten. Then, she sees the man when he was younger. He was with her and her mother. After that, she overhears the man on the phone with someone who evidently was “using” him to send a message to her by telling him, then killing him and letting her get the message from his memories when she stitched into them. That way only she would get the message! It was Maggie. Maggie was telling her that Turner and everyone else she trusts is lying to her, but Maggie can’t prove it yet. She tells Kirsten to keep working for the Stitchers program, and when she thinks Kirsten is ready, she’ll tell her the truth. When Kirsten comes out of the stitch she claims she saw and heard nothing of value, but the way she looked at Maggie let Maggie know she got the message.

Cameron catches up to Kirsten later, but she’s scared about who to trust. He tells her he has an idea and takes off to the lab. When they get there he explains that he wants to stop his heart with potassium methochloride, and during the four minutes that his heart can be flatlined without causing permanent damage he wants Kirsten to stitch in and find out what he might remember about seeing the shooter at the bar. Then the doc can jump start his heart.

Just as everyone is telling him what a horrible idea it is, Turner shows up and says he thinks it’s a good idea. They argue that if there is a continued threat to the program, they’ve got to figure out what or who it is, but Camille, Linus, Kirsten, and Maggie all refuse to participate. Too late, Cameron injects himself anyway, declaring that he has to keep Kirsten safe.

The rest of the gang doesn’t have much of a choice at this point. Kirsten does stitch in, but again, it’s as if it was all just to give her a message. She sees herself from Cameron's point of view and realizes that he loves her. Timing is extra crucial for this stitch, considering that they will have to use the defibrillator to restart Cameron’s heart, but when she gets to the crime scene, she is uncontrollably “pulled” to another memory. There she sees that Cameron met her as a child. When he was recovering from heart surgery, her mother was in a coma in the same hospital. Time’s up, she bounces, but they don’t seem to be able to get Cameron to respond at all!

So, was this message of “trust me” from Cameron himself, or from Turner to get Kirsten to trust Cameron? Of course, we’ll have to wait until next season to find out if they will be able to revive Cameron, who might be behind it all, and just how much Cameron really knew all along.

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