Stitchers – Red Eye

By starrymag | May 14, 2016

By: Lyndsey Nadeau

 

The bodies—er, samples—have multiplied. This week’s episode of “Stitchers” entitled Red Eye is different from any before. Instead of solving a case involving one victim, they’re faced with stitching into six victims who mysteriously died on an international flight without warning. At the same time, Nina (Jasmin Savoy Brown) is finally losing her patience with Cameron (Kyle Harris) and Kirsten (Emma Ishta) isn’t slowing down in the search for her father.

May the Odds Be Ever in our Favor

A plane from New York to Australia with a scheduled stopover in Los Angeles lands with twelve passengers who suffered deadly heart attacks. All of the passengers were strangers seated in different parts of the plane. With no leads, the team must stitch into as many bodies as possible. The surviving passengers are being detained for 24 hours so there is a critical time constraint that will only allow them to stitch into six victims.

Stitch #1

• In this stitch, Kirsten sees the flight attendant, Deedee Willis (Layla Alizada). Deedee was a victim and her memory will be invaluable to find more information about the passengers.
• There is a man in the middle of the plane searching for something in the overhead compartment.
• The victim stands and walks down the aisle, where Kirsten notices a “suspicious-looking lady” who slams her laptop shut. She’s not a victim, but the man next to her is.
• When the victim returns to her seat, she suddenly dies as if someone flicked a light switch.

Stitch #2

• Kirsten enters the memory of Deedee and notices a man drape his jacket over his wife as a blanket. She is also a victim.
• The suspicious woman on the laptop is doing some high-level math.
• A man is setting his smart watch for Los Angeles time. His name is Jay Kolden (Chris Ufland) and he is not a victim.
• The guy searching through the overhead bin was looking for his passport.

 

After only two stitches, Kirsten has already developed a headache. This is worrisome for Cameron, who thinks that stitching into six samples in twenty-four hours will be too much for her. She brushes it off as no big deal because she has a case to solve.

Stitch #3

• Kirsten stitches into the memory of the victim sitting next to the woman with the laptop.
• The woman, Tracy Green (Aynsley Bubbico), is working on quantum computing.
• There are only five quantum computers in the world, making her a prime suspect.

 

Fisher (Damon Dayoub) and Linus (Ritesh Rajan) interrogate Tracy and discover she works for a company that designs tech for quantum computers. When Linus asks to look at her computer, she says it crashed right before the plane landed.

 

Later, the team searches through the victims’ possessions. Nothing connects one victim to another, and there is nothing out of the ordinary. Another dead end.

 

Cameron insists that Kirsten should relax between stitches and leads her to take a seat by his desk while the team works on the case. Shortly after, her nose starts bleeding, but she neglects to tell anyone like she had promised. Camille (Allison Scagliotti) realizes that all of the victims were heading to Australia and not Los Angeles so they all had passports on them. This is the one similarity that ties them together.

Stitch #4

• Kirsten stitches into the memory of Matt Calter (Christopher Peterson), the man who was searching for his passport in the overhead bin.
• Her blood pressure starts to drop dangerously low, but she isn’t giving up now.
• Matt eventually finds his passport and puts it into his jacket pocket next to his heart. This is a big clue.

 

The team decides to look through the victims’ passports, hoping to find something unusual to point them in the right direction. When they fail to find anything unusual, Kirsten reminds them that something completely ordinary can be a clue. Camille asks for a knife and cuts one of the passports open, revealing a radio frequency (RF) chip. All passports contain these chips, but they’re only used to store information.

 

They need to stitch into another victim to get a better understanding. Since bouncing out of a stitch requires so much energy, they decide to stitch into two victims for two minutes each without bouncing between them. This will leave Kirsten in homeostasis while they quickly switch the samples.

Stitch #5-6

• Kirsten stitches into the victim sitting next to Jay Kolden. The passenger moves past Jay as he sets his watch, then notices a nervous guy writing a letter a few rows back.
• She enters homeostasis, where she’s scared and alone. Little Cameron appears to help soothe her, then gives her some advice. She needs to stitch into all of the victims at the same time to see all of their perspectives at once. He then shows her a memory from when she was a little girl, where she is wearing a Daisy Chain on her head. This is the inspiration she needs.
• Stitch #6 is a failure because Linus forgot to properly map the memory due to his exhaustion.

 

Before she can tell the others her “new idea,” Kirsten passes out. Regardless, she refuses to give up now and wants them to try the daisy chain of samples to see all perspectives at once.

The Daisy Chain Stitch

• Kirsten realizes the man she thought was named Jay Kolden is actually Vincent Grant.
• Vincent is making some type of deal with another man in the airport terminal. The two men, Vincent and Jay, swap identities.
• Vincent paid Jay to swap identities so Jay would go to prison in place of him. This would explain why the real Jay was nervously writing a letter.
• Vincent had told Deedee that he was setting his watch to L.A. time, but he was really setting a stopwatch for 45 seconds.

 

Vincent is on the FBI Most Wanted list as a high-tech arms dealer. Knowing this, they conclude he must have turned his smartwatch into an electromagnetic field emitter (EMF). An EMF can react with an RF chip (found in the passports) to alter the natural rhythm of a heart and cause an instant heart attack. Jay was Vincent’s real target and everyone else was collateral damage. Vincent knew that no one would look for him if they thought he was dead.

 

Kirsten and Fisher rush back to the airport to find Vincent before he leaves for Tokyo. Fisher grabs him, but Vincent threatens to kill more people—including Fisher—with one press of a button on his smart watch. Before he can do this, Kirsten slams him over the head with Tracy’s laptop.

 

Now that the Stitchers team successfully stitched into multiple victims at once, stitching has become a little more interesting for future cases.

Cameron’s Two Girlfriends

Like deja vu, Cameron ditches Nina for work. She makes it clear that she will make work sacrifices for him, but he won’t do the same for her. He promises to discuss it with her at dinner, but dinner never happens. This time, she isn’t in the mood for an apology. Is this the end of Nina and Cameron? One would hope so since Cameron doesn’t seem interested. The poor woman is being completely neglected and should find someone who treats her better.

 

Meanwhile, what Cameron lacks in concern for Nina, he definitely makes up for with Kirsten. He is not a fan of Kirsten stitching into so many samples at once and frequently shows this throughout the episode.

 

Kirsten says she misses hanging out with Cameron outside of work and he promises that he will get drinks with her and Nina once the day is over. Not even Cameron realizes he’s dating two women at once. And it certainly doesn’t help when Kirsten accidentally answers Cameron’s phone while Nina is calling to ask where her boyfriend is.

Finding Control

In the previous episode, Linus found out that his father was sick. Now, he’s obsessively trying to find a way to help. When he realizes his father’s illness isn’t something he can control, he puts all of his effort into the case.

 

Camille finally tells him the truth about Liam and his relation to Daniel Stinger. Thankfully, Linus trusts her.

Looking for Ivy Brown

Kirsten attempts to call her half sister Ivy Brown (Sarah Davenport), but the woman wants nothing to do with her. After Ivy hangs up, Kirsten calls back and leaves a voicemail, hoping to change her mind. Evidently, there’s a reason for Ivy to hate her half sister that Kirsten knows nothing about.

 

To speed things up, Kirsten wants to start seeing Liam (Jack Turner) as soon as possible and asks Camille to break up with him. Camille calls Liam and suggests Kirsten is still into him and he takes the bait. When they hang up, Liam is in Kirsten’s room taking pictures of her in-depth research.

 

Right as Kirsten plans to sleep for three days, Ivy calls and wants to meet up. Maybe she’ll finally get some answers.