Just the Two of Us

**Just the Two of Us** is the seventh episode of Season 3, and the 28th episode overall of *Stitchers*. It aired on July 24, 2017.

## Synopsis

Kirsten becomes stuck inside an autistic man with unique empathetic abilities; she must confront her emotions about her relationship with Cameron and unlock a memory in the victim's mind to bounce back to reality.

## Summary

Kirsten bounces from a stitch to find everyone in the lab gone, and all the screens showing static. While looking for people in the lab she finds Cameron out cold on the floor, waking him up with a slap. The two of them smell gas and assume the lab was gassed out, and leave to look for Camille at Kirsten’s house.

While at the house, Cameron and Kirsten are conversing over dinner. Cameron keeps referring to ‘mother’, and tells Kirsten a story about his mother and a man named Bill who she married after his father went away. She thanks him for sharing and puts her hand on his, and he pulls away saying he doesn’t think “with everything” going on, that they should touch each other. They have some other awkward physical interactions where they keep showing affection to each other but one pulls away.

Kirsten turns to leave the room and go to bed, when she sees a woman standing outside the window. She calls Cameron who goes outside to look but sees no one. She speculates that the NSA sent someone to watch and asks if that was ‘mother’. Cameron says she’s just having after effects from stitching, and that she needs to rest, and Kirsten asks him to sleep in her room (implying that she didn’t want to be alone). He asks if he should sleep on the floor, and the scene cuts to them in the same bed, but with lots of space between them. While in bed, Kirsten asks Cameron questions like ‘what’s my favourite movie’ and ‘which bone did I break’. Cameron answers her questions and falls asleep, just as she asks how he knew which bone she broke as she had never told him.

She wakes up to find Cameron gone from the bed and rushes to the living room to find him, bumping into him coming back from the kitchen.

They return to the lab to look for everyone and find it still deserted, this time with a mug of fresh coffee on the table, which Kirsten pours out and finds a set of keys inside. They look up and see that there are distorted images of figures behind the static of the screens, and Cameron begins working to fix the static so they can see the images. Kirsten goes to the locker room and finds a puzzle piece inside one of the lockers, as she’s calling out to Cameron that she found something, the lights go out.

She comes back to the stitch lab to see Cameron changing the colours of the lights in order to view the distorted images. They flip the lights to green and through the static, reveal pictures of emotions: happy, sad, scared etc, and Kirsten says these are images used to help autistic people to figure out how they feel. Kirsten changes the colours and a puzzle board appears inside the stitch tank, which Kirsten has the one remaining piece for. She gets back into the stitch tank with the puzzle piece to put it in place and asks Cameron what it means, to which he replies “challenge accepted”. He lays under the tank to see the puzzle from beneath and it reveals a house at the address 5915 Gelson Street. Thinking it could be a trap, they decide to go there to investigate as either way it will be the answer.

At the house they are in the garage and there is a ‘65 falcon which Cameron says he used to be obsessed with as a kid. Cameron muses that it’s too bad they don’t have a key, and Kirsten pulls the keys she found in the mug out of her pocket. They get in the car and start looking for clues. Cameron finds a rubicks cube in the glove box, and Kirsten turns the car on. She tries to turn it off but it stays running, even after she removes the key. Cameron says it’s a faulty ignition switch, but the room is filling with exhaust fumes and they need to get the door open before they pass out. Both doors are locked and they struggle to find something to break the door with, until Kirsten finds a tire iron in the trunk of the car. They use it to try and break the door but it doesn’t work, and Cameron falls down, struggling to breathe. After getting him up they both ram themselves against the door until it falls open.

They make it back to Cameron’s place and while Kirsten goes to shower Cameron has an idea about the rubicks cube. He tells her they were wrong about thinking the garage was a dead end, showing her the cube.

Cameron realises it’s an unsolvable rubicks cube, and they talk about how it’s been a while since they’ve worked this closely together and they both missed it. Kirsten poses that someone is forcing them to work closely together so they can work through their issues. Returning to the lab they find new images under the static on the screens, and Kirsten then believes it’s Stinger orchestrating the whole thing. Cameron disagrees with her. She then accuses Cameron of orchestrating it and he says she’s being ridiculous. They have a brief back and forth, where he then says their relationship was a mistake. This leads him to another breakthrough about the clues on the monitors, but tells Kirsten they do better working alone which she replies “Oh.”, showing that this comment hurt her.

In another room Kirsten finds another clue in the form of a computer and uses it to find out what the current case they’re working on is: a 20 year old autistic man named Tom Dewitt, after which, she realises she’s stitched into Tom, and Cameron isn’t real. She tells Cameron about her revaluation and that this experience is forcing her to confront her feelings about him. Cameron doesn’t believe her but she asks him questions about their time over the last two days, pointing out weird anomalies in their time together such as not remembering travelling from place to place, just appearing there after talking about going, which he can’t explain, proving her theory to herself.

Cameron then gets a gun, gives it to Kirsten and tells her to shoot him if he’s a figment of her imagination. She says she doesn’t want to hurt him even if he’s just a projection, to which be responds “I guess that means you love me”. They share a caring look, and as she’s handing him back the gun it accidentally goes off, shooting him in the stomach. She then tries to talk to the real Cameron, telling him she’s going to make the bounce. Just then, Jake (the victim from the previous episode) and other victims from previous stitches, begin to appear to her in the stitch lab.

She tells them she wants to speak for them (referencing comments from previous episodes that she helps to speak for the silent/dead), but she can’t do it alone. Ed appears, puts his hand on her shoulder and tells her she can. She expresses her doubt and he tells her “Tom is the most silent of us all”. She resolves to help Tom.

She realises that each monitor in the lab is showing static images that are puzzle pieces, and that Tom’s memories are mixing with her emotional state: meaning any feelings Cameron expressed to her during this stitch were actually from Tom. She realises ‘mother’ is Toms mother, and tries to decipher the puzzle on the screens. After putting the screens together she starts to see a pattern, telling real world Cameron that she thinks the images are making a face.

Kirsten moves the screens to piece the image together, and it shows her a face: she exclaims “I know that face!” And bounces out of the stitch back to real life. She announces that she figured it out, and Camille muses that Linus finally broke Kirsten, everyone clearly confused by Kirsten’s behaviour. She says she knows that Bill Kurland killed Tom (Toms stepfather). She realises he killed Tom because he loved Tom’s mother so much, but she was so consumed with caring for Tom that their relationship suffered. Thinking he was doing a favour to both Tom and his mother, he killed Tom so that she wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore, and Bill would have more time with her as a result.

Away from the group, Cameron tells Kirsten she was only in the stitch for 3 seconds when she thought it was days. She says that was all the time she needed and kisses him.

## Episode's Cast

**Starring**

* Emma Ishta as Kirsten Clark
* Kyle Harris as Cameron Goodkin
* Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Maggie Baptiste
* Ritesh Rajan as Linus Ahluwalia
* Allison Scagliotti as Camille Engelson
* Damon Dayoub as Detective Quincy Fisher

**Guest Starring**

* Mo Diaby as Jamie B