It’s back to the Stitch Lab for the start of Stitchers season three and we pick up three days after the finale left off with Kirsten still mentally trapped and the team scrambling to save her before it’s too late. Unlikely and very temporary alliances are formed as Blair will do whatever it takes to keep his golden goose alive and able to continue stitching. He learns all too well by the end that nothing and no one can break this team apart. “Out of the Shadows” was written by Jeff Schechter and directed by J. Miller Tobin. Here’s what happened.
KIRSTEN COME HOME | Kirsten (Emma Ishta) has been trapped inside the stitch memory of her mother for three days and counting and the team is getting desperate to get her out. Cameron (Kyle Harris) comes up with an idea to reboot the whole lab to force her to bounce but other than nearly killing her, it does nothing. Linus (Ritesh Rajan) gets the idea to detangle Kirsten from the memory that is holding her there and thinks Ivy (guest star Sarah Davenport) is the key to doing so. She insists she doesn’t know anything but when she realizes how upset he is being trapped in here and not knowing what happened to his own father, she gives him her smart watch so he can make a call out and know for sure. He is finally able to get news but it is the heartbreaking kind. His father died two days earlier and to jam the knife deeper into the hearts of all, the funeral already took place while he was trapped in the lab. Cameron comes up with an idea to hijack the original memory of Kirsten’s mom being used to hold her and turn it onto itself. Linus steels himself enough to help Kirsten and the team and they manage to make it so Cameron is speaking to Kirsten as her mother in the memory. At first, he tries to convince her to leave nicely but when that doesn’t work, he is forced to make her bounce by turning her memory of her mother into a woman who blamed Kirsten for everything and doesn’t love her. It works and Kirsten wakes up sobbing but not before a tiny moment of her actual mother sneaks through and tells her that Kirsten can’t help her if she’s trapped in here. Now awake, Kirsten realizes what Cameron did and slaps him before passing out.
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GETTING THE GANG | Just because they saved Kirsten doesn’t mean the team isn’t still in hot water with Blair (guest star John Billingsley) and he immediately has them arrested. When Kirsten wakes up almost a day later she finds the team gone and only Ivy left to fill in the blanks. She tracks down Blair and tells him she won’t continue stitching unless it’s with her team but he holds the location of her very-much-alive mother over her head to get her to back down. Her mother’s research was in speeding up the evolution of the human brain and while they could never get an experiment to work correctly, the lab accident that “killed her” actually evolved her own brain making her Blair’s most treasured asset. He tells Kirsten she will continue stitching until they have perfected it enough to stitch into her mother’s living super brain and successfully map it. Kirsten isn’t ready to give up her team so she and Ivy head down to the lab where, with Tim (guest star Cameron Britton), they hatch a plan to break them out by Kirsten assuming the identity of a high-ranking NSA officer. It works almost perfectly as she gets right to the room they are being held (much fancier than she expected) but it backfires when they have Cameron take a guard’s clothes and then they leave that guard tied up, with the door open and he is discovered. They all end up back in the holding room together this time.
SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT | They don’t spend long in the holding room because Maggie (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) gets word that Blair needs them in the lab ASAP. They arrive to find him waiting for them and with him, the body of his son who was just killed in a hit and run. He wants them to stitch into him to find out who did it and even though Kirsten and Linus both tell him where he can shove it, Maggie convinces them to take the high road and help the boy. They stitch in and Kirsten explores the memories of Blair’s son, one of which has her noticing a framed photo in Blair’s office. She moves on to his death memory and is horrified as she watches the boy be hit by a car and then as he dies in the street, her own father grabbing the boy, looking him in the eyes, and communicating a message to Kirsten through him. He tells her Blair is trying to kill her mother and that she needs to find her and then contact him. She bounces and when Blair asks what she saw, she lies and says nothing. He doesn’t believe her and hold Camille (Allison Scagliotti) at gunpoint until Kirsten tells him that her own father killed his son just to send her a message. He still refuses to let her team stay so she goes over his head to the Admiral Decker (guest star Richard Lawson) who is in on the Stitchers Program and threatens to tell the world about it if he doesn’t reinstate her team and get rid of Blair. He does just that and even offers Maggie Blair’s old job. That night Kirsten pays Cameron a visit and finds out that Nina left him. She asks him how long he would have waited for her when she was trapped and when he says, “Forever,” she kisses him.
OTHER THOUGHTS:
• Linus’s father was one of the last good and pure souls in the universe and I can’t believe he has been taken from us.
• I understand that Blair thinks world leaders knowing each other’s wishes and needs would end conflict forever but I feel like he’s not taking into account that people can be power hungry jerks. It’s teensy hiccup in his plan.
• Line of the Night goes to the ever eloquent Camille for, “Touch me again and I’ll rip out your rip cage and wear it like a vest.”
So what did you think? Is Blair really out of the team’s hair? Does this mean Kirsten and Cameron are officially a couple? Where do you think they’re keeping Kirsten’s mom? Has Ivy told them everything she knows about her dad? Let us know your theories in the comments below!
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