"on Stitchers..." "This is gonna be her first real relationship." "Right." "I got it." "if you can." "hold on." "Ayo:" "Her oxytocin levels are rising in response to what she's seeing in the stitch." "Things are heating up. the more it's gonna mess with your ability to stitch." "you're handling this stitch?" "He's got the yips." "He's worried about you." "I have a history of watching people I care about get into bad situations or worse." "Then maybe we shouldn't be together." "Do you know how hard it is for Kirsten to keep seeing her mother like that?" "And where exactly does Kirsten see Jacqueline Stinger cooped up?" "How could you betray me?" "I just..." "Can we please talk?" "Listen to me!" "Just... but I don't know how to fix this." "Me neither." "Cameron." "I feel so..." "Cameron?" "Camille?" "is that gas?" "Can anyone hear me?" "Where the hell is everybody?" "Cameron." "Cameron?" "Cameron?" "Cameron?" "Cameron!" "Cameron?" "God." "please help!" "♪ Take me inside ♪" "♪ Take me inside ♪" "Cameron!" "Cameron!" "God." "Cameron?" "wake up." "this is only a little bit personal." "good." "Kirsten." "What?" "Where is everyone?" "I don't know." "I bounced from the stitch and everyone was gone." "What is that smell?" "maybe." "What's the last thing you remember?" "I don't..." "I was prepping for a stitch and then..." "I... my face." "Did..." "I feel like someone slugged me." "Is my cheek red?" "no." "It's fine." "Okay." "we need to search the lab." "Yep." "it was like this when I bounced." "I'ts like everyone but the two of us vanished into thin air." "What's with the monitors?" "too." "this place is a ghost town." "Look." "Ow!" "That's really hot." " Whatever happened..." " We just missed it." "even our corpse is missing." "Do you remember who he or she was?" "uh..." "She was..." "I can't remember." "Is this a side effect of being gassed?" "but it's got organized attack written all over it." "We got to call this in." "Line's dead." "let me have your phone." "You've reached Camille." "Leave me a message." "send a text like a normal person." "bye!" "this is Kirsten and Cameron." "Call us as soon as you get this." "We're worried about you. and who would actually be able to do it?" "Blair." "Ivy might even be involved." "you asked." "okay." "Just... just chill." "we just got to stay calm and work out this problem." "okay?" " Okay." "Right. so maybe it has something to do with the case we're working on? I just can't remember what that case is." "Let's find out." " This can't be right." " What?" "our last case was Jake Rowland." "Jake Row..." "The murdered gamer?" "so whoever came in and attacked us wiped the current case off the system?" "Wait." "Listen." "Listen?" "To what?" "I don't hear anything." " I..." " Shh!" "Who's there?" "I didn't..." "I didn't hear anybody." "if there's one thing it's that we're the only ones here." "Let's go back to my house." "Maybe Camille's there." "Maggie..." "Camille?" "Ow." "It's really hot." "maybe she left in a hurry." "Or somebody just grabbed her." "hey." "We're figure this out." "Okay?" "Please don't touch me." "Not right now. we could both use some comforting." "I'm gonna check out Camille's room." "Maybe she left a clue." "Can you try the NSA again?" "Camille?" "Did you get through to the NSA?" "more or less. they are aware of the situation." "are we in danger?" " That's where it gets weird." "They told us not to worry and to stay put because... "Mother" is looking out for us." "I have no idea what that means." "It could be code for Maggie or whoever picks our cases or..." " My mother." " There's still no way to be sure." "did you find anything in Camille's room?" "She has blackout curtains on her window there's a lot I can't remember today." "but... and I'm..." "I'm not sure I want to right now." "I understand." "That's... then it makes sense to stay put together." "You sure? your pantry is also a foodie's worst nightmare." "I know." "It was Camille's night to get groceries." "Has anything come back to you from before you woke up in the lab?" "Nothing." "Whatever gas they used really did a number on me." "Do you remember anything?" "I have no idea what could be so important as to make an entire lab full of people disappear." "I keep thinking about what the NSA said." "What if this is about my mother?" "Wouldn't we remember that?" "but that's that the thing." "I don't remember anything." "It's not even just a blur." "It's just not there. until we hear from "Mother." "You don't talk about your mother much." "Why is that?" "What do you wanna know?" "What was she like growing up?" "um..." "She was difficult to read. the strain. but I just wouldn't know what to say so I was frustrated a lot of the time." "how did you deal with it?" "I just worked through those frustrations in other ways." "thought experiments." "Any problem that I could figure out the solution to." "But that didn't last long. and they were crazy about each other." "Bill and I..." "we didn't get along. break up." "I had no idea." "it's totally fine." "it feels good to get that off my chest." "Thank you for listening." "Thanks for talking to me." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean it. the better." "Right." "I don't want to confuse things." "I should go to sleep." "use her room." "Wherever she is." "score." "Wake me if she gets home tonight?" "Ha." "If the sound of Camille kicking my ass out of her own bed" "I will." "Good night." "Night." "Cameron!" " What is it?" " Someone is watching us." "Ok." "I just checked the porch." "out back..." "I didn't see anyone." "I saw a woman standing right outside the window." "and she..." "Wait." "Do you think the NSA sent someone to watch us?" "Was that... "Mother"?" "I think this is the latest in a series of aftereffects from the knockout gas." "You just need some rest. and I just saw someone peeping on us from outside. and come at this with a clear head in the morning." "Okay?" "Okay." "Okay." "Wait." "could... could you sleep in my room tonight?" "Like on the floor?" " Are you awake?" " Hmm?" "Barely." "What's up?" "I can't stop thinking about us. it seems like we should know everything there is to know I'm not so sure about that." "Speak for yourself." "I think I know you pretty well." "yeah?" "What's my favorite movie?" "Mmm." "Trick question." "You don't have one." "good night." "what sport did I play?" "And why did I quit?" "Basketball." "Ed Clark wanted you to try out because he thought you didn't quit." "Until they kicked you off the team." "Which was ridiculous because I was the best player." "but if the best player on the team suffers from temporal dysplasia you tend to get a lot of shot clock violations." "I'm really goin' to sleep now. because I was too embarrassed to tell anyone how I did it." "Which bone did I break?" "please." "gosh." "This little piggy." "You got so excited when you heard you sprinted towards the door and stubbed it on a chair." "I never told you that." "How did you know that?" "Cameron?" "Cameron?" "Cameron?" " Oh!" " Ooh!" "sorry." "You okay?" "I just... and I..." "I thought maybe..." "You miss me?" "I take it Camille didn't come home?" "I haven't been able to get hold of anyone." " Nothing from the NSA?" " Nada." "but" "I can't sit on my hands much longer." "Hello?" "it doesn't look like anyone's been here since we left." "And whose is that?" "Is that the same coffee cup that was here yesterday?" "No." "It's still hot." "Someone made this recently." "we're being mucked with and I don't like being mucked." "This doesn't make any sense." "What was that?" "Hold on." "What the hell?" "What's "Euro"?" "I have no idea." " Wait." " What?" "There's something in the static." " What is that?" " It looks like a face?" "There's another one." "Is there any way to bring the image out of the static?" "yeah." "I think I have an idea." "I can rig something up." "Great." "How long will it take?" "I'll be done in 10." "I'll look around the lab and see if there's anything else that's... been moved around or changed." "Cameron?" "I found something!" "Cameron?" "Cameron?" "huh?" "For a Deadmau5 show." "Deadmau5 wishes he were this cool." "question for you." "Why couldn't we make out those images on the monitor? and there was a static blizzard over them?" "that's when they were under our boring old white lights." "If we hit them with the right color light we can make all those hidden images pop and send all that unwanted noise to the background." " Man of science." " Well..." " I don't see anything." " A moment." "Kirsten:" "Sad." "Happy." "Surprised." " Confused..." " These are for people with autism to understand emotions." "I used to have flash cards just like this when I was a little girl with temporal dysplasia." "Interesting." "And they would be on our monitors because...?" "Maybe "Mother" is trying to send a message to us." "What are you doing? but it's a different color." "And the mucking continues." "What is that doing in your hand?" "What was this doing in your locker?" "You think I had something to do with all of this?" "I don't know anything." "What is a key doing in a coffee cup?" "What is a face doing hidden in static on these monitors? but I've been by your side this whole time." "You know me!" "Hold this." "Where are you going?" "To finish the puzzle?" "Should I get your stitch suit?" "We're all adults here." "Puzzle piece?" "So what does it mean?" " Why you askin' me?" " You're the kid that grew up doing puzzles and thought experiments." "What does it mean?" "Challenge accepted." "You gotta see this." "Are you 12 years old?" "you perv." "Oh." "Goodkin." "too." " 5-9-1-5." " Gelson Street." "Maybe the answer to all of this is there." "But what if it's a trap?" "too." "No one cars outside." "No one inside the house." "what are we supposed to find?" "I know that everything today but I really can't see anything in here worth investigating." "I can think of one thing." "One seriously badass vintage thing." "Oh my gosh." "it's not a Hot Wheel." "sizes and prices. and I mean obsessed with this car when I was a kid." "But my mom always said it was too dangerous." "So..." "Hmm." "You're a car guy." "Another Cameron factoid I did not know. but I bet this thing still purrs like a Manx and roars like a lion. what I wouldn't give to have a night on the town with her." "to all of that." "it's too bad we don't have a key." "I think we do." "Hmm?" "it says "Ford." "It's so old the engraving's been rubbed down. and just keep embracing how seriously awesome this is." "thank you." "what are you doing?" " Safety first." "We're not taking this car out for a spin." "Huh? there must be a reason why." "and see if we can figure it out." "okay." "Huh." "that would be odd." "There's no registration or insurance." "Maybe it's inoperable." "So much for that theory." "Why won't it shut off?" "It's just got a faulty ignition switch." "Try again." "We need to get the garage door open." "Okay." "It's locked." "Front door." "Let's try this one." "let me try." "Let me try." "What the hell?" " It's locked from the outside." "Damn it! something that we can break down this door with!" "Right." "this box is just full of puzzles." "I'm getting nauseous." "let me try." "Let me try." "I got it." "I need your help." "Cameron?" "you all right?" "Cameron!" "I just wanna sleep." " No!" "You can do this." "You can do this." "you can do this." "I know you." "You can do this." "Okay?" "Come on." "Come on." "ready?" "Go!" "come on." " One." " Two." "That is not how I thought my first time in classic car" " would go." " How are you feeling?" "I'm a little better now that I've had some fresh air." "I feel kind of the same way as I did when I woke up in the lab." "That could be something." "What do you think?" "I think that our lungs are full of fumes from a car and it's been even longer since I showered." "Mm." "why don't you go shower." "I'll make us some food." "Any requests?" "Surprise me!" "Oh my gosh!" "Kirsten..." "Cameron!" "That is not what I meant by "Surprise me"! they haven't changed things between us." "What are you talkin' about?" "I'm still not ready for us to be together. can I tell you what I came here to tell you?" "You know how we thought the garage was a dead end?" "We were wrong. but not this one." " So you've lost your touch?" " Hardly. if you know what patterns to look for." "nine squares on each. is by deliberately switching one of the squares." "Which is exactly what's been done to this cube." "It's an unsolvable Rubik's cube." "yet another in a long stream of puzzles." "I really wish someone would just tell us what's going on." "honestly?" "Working out these clues with you over the last two days hasn't been the worst time of my life." "of course?" "but..." "I just feel like it's been a while that's all." "it has been." "I've missed it." "that's it." " What?" "What's it?" " What if somebody's deliberately just us? we'd have to get over our baggage and be a more effective team." "So you think this is some sort of Tony Robbins-meets-Jigsaw operation put on by the NSA?" "not the NSA." "Can we actually get dinner to go?" "Uh..." "Looks like we were paid another visit from the Clue Fairy." "Now he's just messing with us." "Or she." "No." "He. and who wants us to keep stitching?" "My father." "The NSA told us that "Mother" is looking out for us." "I really think that's our lead." "was "Mother" looking out for us when we got trapped and nearly died in the garage?" "We don't even know if she exists or if she's just some NSA stalling technique." "and this has his fingerprints all over it." "this is not about Stinger." "How can you be so sure?" "You were the only one left when I bounced." "Why weren't you taken?" "What are you talking about?" "Are you and Maggie and the NSA doing this to get me to trust you again?" "Work with you?" "Forgive you?" "you're being ridiculous!" "Why?" "Because you say so?" "Why should I trust you?" "Because you know me." "Do I?" "This was a mistake." "What? it just... it just never works out." "what are you talking about?" "You're one of the most outgoing people I know." "You've never had problems connecting with anyone." " Wait." " Huh? like..." "like they're clues or something?" "we can..." "I'll help." "Actually..." "I just think we'd do better working alone." "Sure." "Okay." "Another clue?" "Great." "Okay." "What is the last case we worked on?" "Jake Rowland." "Tell me something I don't know." "What is the current case we're working on?" " Tom Dewitt." " Tom De-who?" "Tom Dewitt." "found dead in his garage." "Suicide." "Car exhaust inhalation." "He was also an empath." "His brain was wired in a way that meant he could feel the depth of other people's emotional states." "I'm confused." "A new case came in?" "No." "Not a new case." "Tom is our current case. but I didn't have a chance to check for myself until now." "so now you're calling me a liar." "No." "I'm saying that..." "You're not real." "maybe it's time we call it?" "no." "You don't understand." "I'm stitched into Tom right now." "You're right." "I don't understand because that is metaphysically impossible. how have we spent the last two days traveling back and forth across the city?" "though?" "it feels like we talk about going somewhere we're just... there." "Like jumping between different memories in a stitch." "Do you remember actually traveling to the places we've been?" "of course I do." " Really?" "and what was on the radio in the car?" "because it didn't actually happen!" "How could Tom have this memory?" "of a secret NSA facility? we must've opened up a pathway into his empath abilities." "I'm experiencing them through a filter of... my emotional state." "Nothing that's happened in the past two days has been real." "Including me." "Including you." "You're a reflection of my feelings about us." "So I'm your imaginary friend." "no." "You're more like my projected friend." "Wait here." "Cameron?" " Now take this." " What?" "No!" "Take it!" " Cameron." " Now shoot me." "Cameron." "Stop it." "What are you so worried about?" "If I'm a figment of your imagination... but..." " Do it." "Pull the trigger." " No!" " Am I real or not?" " Stop!" " Am I real or not?" "You're not real!" "But that doesn't mean that I could watch something happen to even my projected version of you." "I care about you." "I can't stand the thought of losing you and it being my fault." "I guess that means you love me." "Cameron!" "God!" "Cameron?" "Talk to me." "no!" "Oh my God." "Oh." "oh my God!" "it's a stitch!" "I'm in a stitch!" "Cameron!" "I know I'm stitched into Tom Dewitt!" "Can you hear me?" "I don't know how I've been in here for so long." "But I..." "I..." "I think that something about." "Tom's autistic brain pattern so... because I..." "I can't hear you." "And I'm..." "And I'm... all alone in here." "Tom." "Cameron..." "I'm gonna make the bounce." "Jake." "Coco Soo?" "Jamie B? but I..." "I can't do it alone." "Kirsten." "Ed." "Tom needs you." "But I don't understand how his mind works." "his... empathy." "you can't give up." "Not now." "Tom is the most... silent of us all." "Nine squares." "Nine monitors." "Cameron..." "I'm not bouncing yet." "I think I've figured it out." "The images on each monitor are all part of one big puzzle. they might tell me something. then all the conversations we had weren't really between us." "Tom's memories are clearly mixing with my emotional state. must've been coming from Tom." "Which means that the story you told me about your mom and her boyfriend Bill... it happened to Tom. the way you didn't wanna be touched how you felt like you had trouble all of that was a part of the way" "that Tom experienced life as an autistic man." "And the puzzles. to feel like he had control." "Oh!" "Heat sensitivity... too." "So "Mother" must've been Tom's mother." "He knew that she would always look after him." "But who killed Tom?" "Let's see if I'm right." "Maybe I was wrong." "Is that an eye?" "Maybe it's a face." "Cameron?" "I think it's a face!" "I know that face." "I know that face!" "Cameron:" "Kirsten!" "Fisher:" "Is she okay?" "what happened?" "but I solved it!" "you did it." "What did I do?" "You finally broke Kirsten." "Okay." "Bill Kurland killed Tom Dewitt." "Tom's mother's boyfriend?" "That's the one." "LAPD already questioned Kurland." "He was at work at the time of death. and... and started the engine to his old car." "Are you sure Tom didn't start the car himself? so that nothing like this would ever happen." "And Tom had a heat sensitivity." "no matter what." "Why didn't he just leave the car or the garage?" "Because he was obsessed with puzzles." "Bill gave him a Rubik's cube that had been tampered with so that he'd be so focused he'd asphyxiate without screaming or calling out." "Bill locked the door from the outside." "but why?" "Because he was in love with Tom's mom." "But she was so devoted to Tom that it was destroying their relationship." "Bill thought that he was freeing his mother from the burden." "ma'am." "Tom." "together." "Thank you for talkin' to me." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "I..." "You must've been so worried about me that whole time." "I was in the stitch for days." "You weren't afraid I wasn't gonna bounce?" "you were only in there for three seconds." "I guess that was all the time I needed." "For what?" "For this."