Callie Thomas

**Parents**

* Lewis Thomas (father)
* Rae Thomas (mother)

**Other Relatives**

* Meghan Thomas (paternal aunt)

**Callie Thomas** is the protagonist of the 2020 Facebook Watch series *Stereoscope.* A teenage girl who lost her father, Callie and her mother went to clean out his house, only for Callie to find a strange stereoscope that her father had been researching when he passed. She is the daughter of Lewis and Rae Thomas.

She is portrayed by Bree Winslow.

## Physical Appearance

Callie is a teenage African-American girl with curly black hair and brown eyes. In the series premiere, she wears a pair of overalls over a red shirt.

In Episode 3 onwards, she wears a red jacket over a camo t-shirt.

## Characteristics

Callie is an intelligent young woman who, sadly, often finds herself at odds with her mother's viewpoints. She doesn't believe in simply acting like the past never happened, but believes it is something to preserve so others can learn from it. Since the absence of her father, Callie has been walking on eggshells around her mother, worrying constantly about whether or not something will happen to make her mother go off the deep end.

Callie shows herself to be determined and creative, but has a tendency to be secretive about her problems and what is really going on in her life. She is rather intuitive, being able to draw conclusion that The Reek could harm the scope after watching it glitch out in Episode 8, and was able to quickly form a plan to get rid of both The Reek and the scope in one fell swoop.

## Background

Callie was born to Rae and Lewis Thomas some time ago. She had a good relationship with her father, who encouraged her interests in physics and scientific pursuits. Some time before the beginning of the series, Callie's father came into contact with an alternate version of himself and a man named Drew, the former of whom sent him away to another dimension with a strange stereoscope and took his place in Callie's world in order to continue his studies of the scope. Callie and her mother went through life unassuming of who this man truly was, and the alternate Lewis's obsession with the scope drove Callie's mother Rae to divorce him.

After the death of the man she believed to be her father, Callie was pulled out of school so she and her mother could sort things out with the house and all of Lewis's things.

## Stereoscope (2020)

### The Red Wall

After the death of her father, Callie and her mother go to clean his stuff out of their house. Callie seems to be attached to her father and doesn't wish to let go of his memory as quickly as her mother seems to want to. While she is returning an item to her father's room, she finds that his study is full of strange drawings, charts, and diagrams, and finds an old black stereoscope in one of the boxes. Callie looks through it that night, and sees a world where the house is furnished in red. She then goes downstairs and sees her mother being attacked by a strange monster, which scares her into dropping the stereoscope.

### Outside Looking In

The next morning, Callie refuses to go into town with her mother to further examine the stereoscope. She finds a color wheel on the wall describing the contents of various pictures, and looks through the second picture, where she sees a world in which the house she lives in has a plant theme and is furbished with quite a bit of plants. She goes downstairs and sees that her family had never been split up in this world, but is interrupted by the arrival of her Aunt Meg before she can investigate further. Her aunt gives her a dress for her school's homecoming dance, and tells Callie to not let her mother become her life. She then goes outside and witnesses a fight between her mother and her aunt and goes back into the house, refusing to listen to her mother. Callie looks through the stereoscope again, and in the red world she sees that the alternate version of herself has been murdered. As she examines her own corpse, the monster from the night before tries to attack her, scaring her into dropping the scope once again.

### Crossing the Veil

After Callie drops the scope, looks through her father's journal and finds an entry describing The Reek and how it is somehow connected to the scope. Callie wakes up when she hears something pounding at the front door. She goes downstairs, and as she approaches the front door, sees lights flickering, and a shadow moving around. She opens the door ad finds her mother outside testing new motion-sensor lights... at 2:00 AM. Rachel sees the watch that Callie's wearing and asks her where she got it, to which Callie says that she found it with her father's things. She asks if she can keep the watch, and her mother allows it, saying that the watch couldn't have belonged to her father, as he was allergic to silver. Rachel then tells Callie that she can talk to her about her father -- they just can't dwell on the past, as life is about moving forward, not backwards.

The next day, Callie goes to the storage barn where she and her father used to hang out before the divorce. She thinks back to a time when her father told her about the possibility of parallel worlds, using a folded-up sheet of paper as an example. Callie asks if he thinks he'd be able to travel to another world one day, and her father says that he'd settle for seeing them, but one day they would be. Callie says that she'd be too scared to see another world. Callie sets her bag down on the table and takes out the stereoscope, this time choosing to view World 2. She looks through her father's journal and finds another page about The Reek. She then sees a bug crawling on the floor and goes to get the scope. She looks at the bug through the scope, and when she flips the switch, the bug vanishes. Back in the house, Rachel hears her gong being struck, but there is nobody there to have done that. In the shed, Callie hears a thud and gets up to investigate, looking around the corner and seeing a strange man, who calls into the shed that he knows she's there. Callie tries to hide from the man and flips the scope off.

### The Reek

The man Callie meets in the shed introduces himself as Drew, claiming to be from another dimension and know her father. He tells her about the monster she's been seeing, but she sees smoke coming from her house and runs back. She finds her mother burning all of her father's research on the scope and becomes distraught, trying to stop her and telling her that this is the only thing that could bring him back. Rae doesn't listen to her, and becomes angry at Callie when she finds the stereoscope on her and throws it in the fire with everything else. Callie starts to become hysterical and tries to get the scope out of the fire, then retreats to her father's now-empty study. That night, Callie sneaks out to go find Drew again, only to be caught and reprimanded by her mother. Callie lashes out at her when she starts to apologize, saying she's tired of having to worry about her mother, and that maybe she shouldn't live with her anymore. Later that night, Callie is woken up by footsteps in the house and finds Drew in her bedroom.

### Lights in the Dark

Rae comes into Callie's bedroom and searches the room for Drew, insisting that she heard someone else in the room talking to Callie. Callie, however, insists that nobody was there. When she's sure her mother is gone, she takes her backpack and heads to the barn to meet up with Drew.

### Missing Pieces

After narrowly escaping The Reek in World 4, Callie insists that she and Drew try to search another dimension for her father. Drew inadvertently reveals that his Lewis is the one who sent her father to another world, and Callie becomes irate. She tells Drew to leave her alone, and that she'll find her father herself. When Drew tries to stop her, she threatens him with the scope, telling him she'll send him back to his world if he tries to test her.

Callie goes back to her house, where her mother and aunt are sitting on the porch, and tells them her father is alive, as well as everything she knows about the scope. Meghan is dismissive of her claims of monsters and other worlds, and becomes extremely concerned about Callie's arm, which is now bloodied from where The Reek scratched her. Callie tries to use the scope to prove she's not crazy, but realizes she dropped the disk. Meghan tries to get her to come with her, saying that Rae called her to take Callie back to the city. Rae, however, denies this, and asks Callie if The Reek had horns and a strange mouth. Callie, realizing that Rae has seen The Reek as well, apologizes for what she's been hiding and how she's been treating her. Callie then rejects her aunt's offer to go to the city, opting to stay with her mother.

After gathering some supplies, Callie and Rae prepare to go back to the old house to search for the disk. However, Drew shows up on the front porch holding the disk, saying it'll be hard for them to jump worlds without it and Callie will need all the help she can get.

### The Fallen World

After reluctantly choosing to trust Drew, Callie takes the disk from him and tells him that they aren't even. She goes back into her room to get the journal, and Rae follows, asking her if they can trust Drew. Callie tells her that he didn't have to come back, but he did, and that he knows about the scope so they should keep an eye on him. Rae refuses, saying that she'll keep an eye on Drew and Callie will stay behind, that if she lost her then she'd never forgive herself. Callie refuses to stay behind, saying that she wouldn't be able to forgive herself if something happened to Rae -- and besides, the strongest shape in the universe has three sides. Rae smiles at her, and they leave the house to go find Drew.

In the shed, the trio makes a plan to find Lewis, and Callie sets the scope to World 2, and they jump. When they arrive in World 2, there is a large shimmering wall dividing them. Rae asks if this is the veil, and Callie takes out the disk, causing the shimmers to disappear. Drew says that that was just how the veil looked in his world before everything fell, and Rae asks if that's bad. Callie tells her that it just means they don't have time to waste, and they need to get moving. The trio exits the shed and head to Callie's house, where they find the windows boarded up and a chair barricaded against the door. Drew forces their way inside and they look around the house, finding that it appears to be abandoned. There are plants and paintings pushed up against the windows to keep something from looking inside. Suddenly, World 2's Lewis charges at them with a bat, demanding to know who they are. World 2's Callie and Rae come out from the living room, and Drew tells them that they're going to need their help.

The group gets together in the living room, and World 2's Lewis says that this is as real as the things that have been hunting them, thanks to Callie. Rae says that they didn't know what was going to happen, and that Callie was just using the scope to try and find her father. World 2's Lewis says that he's sorry that her father is missing, but he isn't here. Callie suggests that they all go to find him together, and World 2's Lewis says that he has a better idea and goes to get it. Concerned, his wife goes after him. She tells him that they don't know what's been hunting them, and her husband tells her that they could be using that thing even more -- not if he can help it.

Callie's counterpart asks her how she's going to find her dad. Callie says that they'll look, unless her dad can help them. World 2's Lewis then comes back in the room with a shotgun and orders her to give him the scope, and Rae tries to intervene, but World 2's Lewis tells her that if she moves again, he'll pull the trigger. He orders Callie to slide the scope across the floor, and she does so. He orders them to move away and he takes the scope to use it to help his family escape. When he uses the scope, The Reek comes through the veil and kills the other Callie and Lewis. As the monster goes after World 2's Rae, Drew grabs the scope and pulls the disk out. The Reek starts to fade for a moment, but it stays grounded in the world. Drew exclaims that the veil is falling, and he throws the scope to Callie and Rae as The Reek kills him. The Reek converges on Callie and her mother, and Rae uses the scope to transport them to another world.

### Worlds Collide

Callie and Rae enter to a world shrouded in fog. Rae tries to reach Callie and asks her if she's okay. Callie, in her terror-induced grief, remembers the carnage that occurred mere moments earlier and cries in anguish that she killed everyone. Rae assures her that they're still okay, and tries to calm her down. At this point, they take notice of where they are, and Rae wonders aloud where they went. Callie hushes her, and she gets up, realizing that they're in World 5. Rae asks if the veil fell in his world, and Callie confirms, saying that The Reek could be anywhere. Rae walks into the kitchen and Callie tries to stop her, but they both see a triangle painted on the window. Rae calls Lewis's name, and Callie covers her mouth. They hear a creaking upstairs, and they pause. The creaking continues, and Callie, believing that it could be her father, tells Rae to stay put and that she has an idea. She walks past a corpse covered by leaves, and picks up an apple sitting on the destroyed island. Kneeling down near the hall, she rolls the apple into the hallway. They hear a snarl, and Callie starts to crawl away to her mother, but falls and nearly makes contact with the corpse of World 5's Rae.

The Reek comes out of the hallway and chases them outside, making Callie drop the scope, and Rae holds the front door shut to keep The Reek inside. She tells Callie to run, and Callie tries to get her to come with her. Rae tells her that she loves her, and that she needs to hide so she can be safe. As Callie moves away, The Reek breaks the door down and sends Rae flying into the yard. As the monster comes out of the house, Rae tells Callie to go and grabs a sharpened rock from the steps. There is a loud bang and The Reek disappears in a flash of light, and the original Lewis comes out of the house. He goes down to Rae and helps her up, and Callie calls to him as she runs up to hug him. He asks them what they're doing here and how they were able to find him, and Rae tells him that Callie figured it out. As the family embraces, Lewis tells them that they have to get out of here, and Callie tells him that they have to go back inside and get the scope. Lewis refuses to let them go inside, as The Reek is still in there and they need to come up with a plan. He holds his hand out to Callie, asking her to trust him, and she reluctantly takes his hand and they flee.

Lewis takes them to the shed, where he's been living ever since he was sent to World 5. He explains that without the scope, he was stuck in World 5, but The Reek couldn't kill him if it couldn't find him, so he set up shop in the secret room in the shed. Now that they're together again, they can figure out how to get out of the world.

### I Knew You Wouldn't Leave Me

Callie bandages Rae's wound while they're locked in the secret room in the barn. Lewis says that he can't believe that they're both here, and Rae says that Callie kept pushing even when she pushed back, and admits that she's been a mess without Callie. Later, while Rae is asleep, Callie and Lewis go over what they know about The Reek. Lewis says that from what he can tell, The Reek lives in a dark plane between worlds. Callie suggests that fire could kill it, and Lewis says that he's tried everything against it -- fire, blades, and bullets will not harm it. He suggests using the scope to get back to their world and never use it again. They won't be able to kill The Reek, but it won't be able to get to them. Callie agrees, and Lewis says that they need to get moving before it gets dark again.

The family goes back to the house, and Lewis goes to the front door while Callie and Rae hide nearby. He manages to get the attention of The Reek, who is still inside the house, and lures it out into the yard. Callie and Rae run inside the house to find the scope, and start to search the house. Lewis runs into the barn, being chased by The Reek, and locks himself inside. The monster starts to pound on the door and Lewis cocks his shotgun, but the pounding stops. Lewis then realizes that it went back to the house. Callie starts to get frantic, realizing that the scope isn't where she dropped it. They go upstairs after Rae suggests that it got moved, and they find the scope sitting on the floor of the study. They hear a roar outside, and Rae urges Callie to hurry and send them back. Callie flips the disk and uses the scope, sending them both back to their own world. They run downstairs to get to the barn, but are interrupted by the arrival of Meghan. Meg starts banging on the door, ordering Rae to let her in, and Rae and Callie decide to jump through World 2 in order to avoid her. They land in the middle of the dead bodies they left behind, and Callie finds herself unable to move as she sees Drew's dead body. Rae pulls her out of the house and they run to the barn, and Callie uses the scope again.

They land in the barn in World 5, and Lewis runs up to them and hugs them. As they embrace, they hear The Reek start pounding on the barn door again. Lewis urges Callie to use the scope again, and Callie flips the switch as The Reek's roar echoes through the barn.

### Infinity View

Upon returning to her own world, and reuniting with her aunt, Callie and her family realize that the veil protecting their world has fallen, and The Reek is now inside. They run to Meghan's car, only to realize too late that Meghan has left her keys in her purse, which is sitting on the porch. Suddenly, The Reek attacks them and starts trying to drag Lewis out of the car. In the chaos, Callie notices that the scope now has two large slash marks on it. She remembers that when The Reek scratched her back in World 5, it hit the scope and started to distort. She remembers the journal entries she had seen about The Reek being connected to the stereoscope. Callie gets out of the car and gets The Reek to follow her. She trips and falls, and as The Reek is upon her, she shoves the scope into its mouth. The Reek starts to physically distort before slowly fading out of the world in a glow of light. The lights start to pulse, and then explode as The Reek is removed from our world. Callie and her parents embrace one another, and they head back to Meghan's car.

The next morning, Callie starts to redecorate her room, hanging a wind chime from the window and setting up a small planetarium on the dresser. In the living room, the family is taking out various items from the attic and debating whether to "box" or 'burn" them. Lewis brings up a small picture of an old car, and Callie says to box it and her parents choose to burn it. Callie takes the box of unwanted items outside, and sees something in the firepit. She goes to move the sand from it, and finds the small tin container that was originally boxed with the stereoscope. She opens it, and finds three more disks inside. She hears her parents coming outside, and takes the container out into the backyard, where she buries it. As she goes back into the house, a large veil of light appears across the sky.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skillset

* **Intelligence:** As the daughter of a physics teacher Callie was raised to have an interest in science, and her intelligence was fostered from a young age.

### Equipment

* **The Stereoscope (formerly):** Callie was in possession of The Stereoscope, an object that allows humans to view parallel worlds, before it was destroyed by The Reek.

## Relationships

### Rae Thomas

Rae is Callie's mother. The two have a strained relationship, and tensions between them have only gotten higher after Lewis's death. While Callie wanted to keep some of the things that belonged to her father, Rae was adamant on getting everything that reminded her of Lewis out of sight and out of mind. Rae would always apologize to Callie whenever she lashed out and hurt her, but Callie eventually grew numb to her apologies and began to ignore them.

In Episode 4, Callie finally lashes out at her mother after she burns all of Lewis's research; she says that she's sick of worrying about her mother and wondering what will happen that could cause her to snap. When Rae follows her to the abandoned house next door, Callie snaps again, and says that maybe her aunt is right -- and she shouldn't be living with Rae. She insists to Drew that her mother can't help them, lies to Rae about there being someone in the bedroom with her to cover for Drew, and has no problem leaving the house without her mother's knowledge.

In Episode 6, there is a turning point in their relationship. Callie, after learning that Drew's Lewis is the one that got rid of her father, goes to Rae and Meghan to tell them everything. Meghan is dismissive of everything she says, but Rae, having seen The Reek in Lewis's research and in person, believes her, asking Callie to verify what she saw with her. They reconcile and Rae joins Callie in the search for Lewis.

### Lewis Thomas

Lewis is Callie's father. They both appear to have had a strong, healthy relationship, as they were seen laughing and joking around together in flashbacks. Lewis actively encouraged a passion for learning in his daughter.

### Meghan Thomas

Meghan is Callie's paternal aunt. Meghan is a relatively good figure to her, offering advice and "auntspiration" on Callie's current situation and giving her opportunities to talk about her own feelings on the current situation. She even offers Callie a place to stay so she doesn't have to deal with as much in the wake of her father's death. However, Meghan's shaky relationship with Callie's mother seems to cloud her judgement and give her seemingly well-meaning advice a different tone.

After Callie tells her mother and aunt about the scope, Meghan is quick to dismiss her claims as hysteria. She tried to convince Callie that she was simply having a breakdown due to repressed grief, and tried to make her come with her to the city. When Callie refused and said she wasn't going anywhere with her, Meghan left, saying quite passive-aggressively that everything she did, she did for them.

### Drew

Callie, at first, was suspicious of Drew and his claims to be from another world. However, after learning that he knew of her father's whereabouts, Callie began to trust him. She was able to learn more about the scope and its functions through him, and they fought The Reek when they attempted to find Lewis in World 4. However, learning that Drew's Lewis was responsible for sending her father into another world caused her to become extremely distrustful of him, to the point where she threatened to send him back to World 5, now a desolate place due to the collapse of its veil, if he tried to come after her.

## Alternate Selves

 World 3
 World 5

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Stereoscope*, Episode 1, "The Red Wall". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (August 21st, 2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Stereoscope*, Episode 2, "Outside Looking In". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (August 27th, 2020)
3. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 3, "Crossing the Veil". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (September 4th, 2020)
4. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 4, "The Reek". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (September 11th, 2020)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Stereoscope*, Episode 5, "Lights in the Dark". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (September 18th, 2020)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *Stereoscope*, Episode 6, "Missing Pieces". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (September 25th, 2020)
7. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 7, "The Fallen World". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (October 2nd, 2020)
8. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 8, "Worlds Collide". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (October 9th, 2020)
9. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 9, "I Knew You Wouldn't Leave Me". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (October 16th, 2020)
10. ↑ *Stereoscope*, Episode 10, "Infinity View". Atkinson, Trent (writer) & Tsodykovskaya, Lena (director) (October 23rd, 2020)