"Previously on Stitchers..." "Why do you like me?" "Are you deliberately trying to sabotage this?" "I really think you are worth taking a shot on." "I don't want to be anyone's shot." "sometimes you can be a little bit of a bully." "sometimes you can be a little bit of a stupid. she started ghosting me." "Stay close to Linus." "Make him trust you." "Help us find out where Jacqueline is." "Do you know how hard it is for Kirsten to keep seeing her mother like that?" "does Kirsten see Jacqueline Stinger "cooped up"? the monitors... everything." "Stinger must have found her." "okay?" "It wasn't Stinger." " How could you betray me?" " I didn't mean to." "I just..." "Can be please talk?" "Where you going?" "To be with someone that I trust." "are you awake?" " Unfortunately." " Are you alone?" "Also unfortunately." "I'm really sorry about yesterday." "I shouldn't have jumped on you like that." "I was having a... real bad day." "Thanks." "Sorry I called you a bully." "That particular shoe fit." " Cameron screwed me." " It's about time." "I mean he betrayed me... with Maggie." "Now that's impressive." "She's completely out of his league." "I..." "He told her something that I'd shared with him in confidence." "My mother's location." "hold on." "What?" "You know where your mother is and didn't try to tell me about it?" "To protect you." "Anyone who knows where to find her is a target." "I guess. and she had her moved... so now I've lost her again." "I'd say the first thing you need to do is break your foot off in Cameron's ass." "I did that already." "It wasn't pretty. get her to tell you where she moved your mother." "you need to break your foot off in Cameron's ass." "I thought that was the first." "girl." " Mmm." "Where's Amanda?" "Maggie moved Kirsten's mother?" "It's not like I knew what she was going to do with that information." "She ordered me to tell her." "I had to." "she'd shoot you." "However... and that's big." "I've tried. - do nice things." "Just be..." " Nice?" "I don't know." "She's acting strange." "but I don't know what." "and men are from Mars." " We're back to not knocking?" " Where's my mother?" "the better." " I think that's up to me to decide." "It's not." "Our mission stays the same." "we keep mapping the brain until we have what we need to get to the other side." "I get to decide how my story ends." "wait." "Not for you." "just give her time." "You did the right thing. the Aero Velocity Research Institute." "He was found shot in the Mars simulation chamber." "AVR?" "That place is a fortress of awesome." "What does that even mean?" "It means they're doing some really ground-breaking stuff there." "They want to put people on Mars by 2025. and there is a concern" " that Jake Rowland's murder." " was an attempt to get classified information. but the ones in and around the Mars simulator so we don't have much to go on." "Not until Kirsten stitches in and tells us what Jake saw... because we know how awesome she is at doing that." "Cameron." "Seriously?" "this was fun." " What's everyone's problem?" " Millennials." "Hey." "You okay?" " Girl problems." " Me too." "we're twins." "We're all going through stuff. but clearly not." "Sorry." "hear back from Ivy yet?" "talk." "clarity's good." "Maybe she'll explain herself... finally." "Buzz?" "Is that an astronaut reference or a Toy Story reference?" "Let's just... do this." "Induce stitch neurosync on my mark." "one... blast off." "You really screwed me on this." "Come on." "You can fix this." "I don't know how." "Just tell me what you did." "You know I can't do that." "Jake's arguing with someone." "Sounds like he deliberately messed up something they were working on." "Any ID on the guy?" "I'm being pulled somewhere else." "People are cheering." "Some kind of... sports event or a game I think." "I can't tell." "noisy." "There's a sign hanging on the wall with a bee auto parts" written underneath." ""auto parts." Checking." "To think I used to love you." "where you going?" "He's having some problems with a girl named Zelda." "She's on the move again." "Looks like Jake got into a fight." "He's got a black eye." "Maybe you're just projecting your feelings about me onto Jake." "Impossible." "He only has one black eye. uber-nerd zero. and he's at a desk somewhere." "He gets to play games at work?" "No wonder it's taking us so long to get to Mars." "Jake was shot while leaving work." "The shooter just drove off." "He's dying." "Trying to get to a desk?" "Police report said a bullet hit Jake's cell phone." "Maybe he was trying to get to another phone?" "Was he trying to get to a phone?" "but he's writing something in the sand." "Can she see who it is?" "The name of the killer?" "What's he writing?" "Death moment in three seconds." "Make the bounce." "Did you see what Jake wrote in the sand?" " No." " Camille. but you're not gonna like this." "Blood and sand do not mix." "see what you can find out." "Take Cameron with you." "Fisher's an outer space buff." "Fish?" " I don't even like Mars bars." "Perfect." "I'll go get changed." "I guess I'll go get the car." " You don't like Mars bars?" " Nah." "Maggie." "I know Kirsten." "It won't." "She's at an emotional simmer right now." "she could boil over." "You have to tell her where her mother is." "No." "maybe I wasn't being clear." " Maybe I'm not being clear." "I will never knowingly put any of you in danger." "We good?" "I know I owe you an explanation." "I'm really not as flaky as I'm sure you think I am." "If you tell me that you think we're not good together" "I would get that." "even a simple "sorry. that would do." "but at least I'd know." "I pretty much had planned to say just that." "But now that I'm with you..." "I can't do it." "Linus... you are so awesome." "I really do see us happening. how can I tr..." "That's a good start." "how long is you and Cameron not talking going to be a thing?" "Detective Fishy." "Agent Clark." "You must be the agents from the NSA." "NSA." "LAPD." "We're very sorry to hear about Jake Rowland. but his death brought with it a very unanticipated consequence." "More unanticipated than his murder?" "he took our Mars communication satellite off-line." " That sounds bad." " Worse than you can imagine. it will come crashing down to Earth." "Is the government aware of this?" "but their solution is for us to trigger a self-destruct before the satellite hits its zero barrier in 48 hours." "That's how much time we have to figure this out." "maybe we can help." " NSA?" "How's that gonna happen?" " We're more than just a pretty face." "Sure." "Was Jake unhappy here?" "Why do you think he would sabotage the satellite?" "sabotage was what he was paid to do." "I'm sorry?" "Jake was our Mars project gremlin." "His job was to creatively and deliberately screw with our simulator so that the rest of our team could know how to deal with the unexpected." "I've heard of this." "Some companies hire both a gremlin and a fixer." "Right." "He would come in after hours and work up tests and challenges for our fixer to solve." "great. and both of them would work up a solution." " Who's your fixer?" " An engineer named Kenny Lee." "He and Jake had quite the rivalry going." "Things sometimes got pretty intense between them. you still can't figure out why he would mess with an actual satellite?" "but how he did it is the problem at hand." "Whatever Jake did to the satellite was brilliant." "software... we're at a loss." "Kenny Lee." "We're very sorry to hear about your colleague." "Thanks." "What was your relationship like with Jake?" " Professional." " You two never argued about work?" "we never argued." "We were a team." "I really gotta get AVR-SAT2 back online." "are you making any progress?" " Not at this moment." "hobbies?" "We believe he was involved in some type of competitive gaming?" "all right." " What kind of games did he play? or what the hell he did to our satellite. - but we're just trying to do our jobs." " You and me both. - he'd crawl back in here to die?" " No." "You said the NSA might be able to help?" "We have on our staff the most brilliant communication engineer in the entire NSA." "He has all the right security clearances." "He'd be happy to help." "I don't need help." "I need to not be distracted." "Send him by." "We'll take a look at him and see if he brings anything to the party." "Any leads at AVR? Buzzkill." "Jake took a satellite off-line before he died." "AVR has less than 48 hours to fix it before they're forced to have to self-destruct." "Have they looked at varying trace lengths based on impedance to insure there was no sync issues?" "That is exactly why they're expecting you." " You told them about me?" " Any other leads?" "Not unless any of you know something about competitive video gaming." "What are we looking at?" "That is Kiyoshi Otatsume presenting me with the 2010 single-player strategy category in the World Series of Online Gaming." "Ugh." "Do you do anything cool?" "See?" "where is that?" " The Staples Center." " That is a massive crowd." " Eight thousand people." "No one is getting killed over this." "though." "I found your lightning bolt and bee logo." "Belongs to an abandoned automotive warehouse." "I'll follow up on the gaming angle to be sure. since I know the world and all?" "mind if I go with you to AVR?" "you can drive." "This is very cool!" "Kenny Lee." "Agent Camille Engelson." "They're from the NSA." "They're here to give us a hand." "What do either of you know about satellites?" "I know they're less complicated than what we work with all day." "Really?" "So what do you think about the quantum tunneling effect at smaller process nodes?" "we've moved to 3D geometries such as tri-gate transistors." "Fourteen nanometers reduces leakage power." " Obviously." " 480 VDC through a 500 ohm resistor" " should equal how much voltage?" " None." "not volts... which I always am." "How about you?" "I don't speak pissing contest." "Work with them." "close the door." "What I'm about to show you stays between us." " Where'd you get these?" " I hired a PI off the books to follow Ivy for a few days." "I wanted to see what we could see while also keeping it off the NSA radar." "clearly we have a problem." "Or an opportunity." "Damn it." "Every time I think I've got the problem figured out." "You're using the wrong file extension." "You're gonna teach me how to run system diagnostics now?" "because you're not running anything." "you're barely crawling." "You're welcome." "what was that all about?" " I just needed some air." " Is that it?" " How'd your talk with Ivy go?" " We're back on track." "She's coming here later." "She wants to bring me dinner." "can't win 'em all." " I thought you were past that with Ivy." "You two seemed to get along." "Not as well as you and Amanda in the kitchen." " What did you say to her?" " I may have simply put her on notice about using you to get information back to Stinger Senior." "Why would you do that?" "Linus. so just stay out of mine!" "I'm sorry." "I know things between you and Amanda are..." " What?" " We need her." "Who?" "Amanda." "I want to take you ♪ yeah!" "Come on!" "Do it!" "Do it!" "just see me?" "♪" "Look at this." "we're home." "This game is a top-down battle arena." "I'm great at these." "from the stitch." "I also saw that guy." "Come on!" "Whoo!" "I'm gonna go poke around." "Whoa." "I'm in the wrong business." "Hey." "Found some interesting stuff on the backroom computer." "this place is generating winning most of his matches against Zelda." "I'm wondering if the competition between Jake and Zelda got a little heated and she killed him?" "okay." "Got it. so the entire gaming system is completely off the grid." "preserve the integrity of the game." "see what else is on these files." "see what I can learn." "okay." "You do that." "come on." " You can't stay mad at me forever." " Challenge accepted." "Another win for Zelda!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "♪ See I saw you sitting there on a sidewalk ♪" " Hi." "You're new here?" " Huh." "Yeah." " First time?" " Mm-hmm." "I can tell." "You've got that look." " I'm Zelda." " Apparently." "noob?" " Cameron." " So what's the game?" " War Zone." " Huh." "Never heard of it." " You wouldn't." " It's not available to the public." " Really? - but he or she is a genius." " Hmm." "That's Rick." "He's kind of a promoting machine." "He put together this whole underground digital fight club." "What?" "Do people bet on the matches?" "Yeah." "Money makes everything more intense." "A guy got his nose broken yesterday." "It was awesome." "All right!" "It's open competition time!" "Five hundred dollars to whoever can last two minutes against DK!" "One thousand dollars whoever wins their level!" "you with the hair." "you." "Come on up." "noob." "DK." "Line it up." "up there." "Let's get it on!" "Come on!" "Whoo!" "bro?" " Cameron." " Cameron!" " Yeah." " What the...?" "noob." " No way." "You cheated!" "I'm so sorry." "I'm so sorry." " You kicked ass out there." " Oh." "Thanks." "Does it always get this physical?" "People take War Zone very seriously." "I heard someone talking about some guy who died the other day." "Jake..." "Jake something." "Did you know him?" "yeah." "I didn't like him very much." "uh... we were good in the ring together." " You guys played each other?" " Yeah." "A lot. um... would you be interested in coming back?" "I think you're a natural." "You had this place going nuts tonight." "game on." " Great." "All right." "and I'll see you soon." "Cool." "find out what you can about him." "Zelda." " Hey." " Hey." "Just checking in if now's a good time." "just let me know and I'll meet you outside." "Security's nuts." " Sounds good." "Can't wait." " Me too." "your father once paid someone to kill me? we wouldn't be sitting here." "at least I wouldn't." " Ms. Brown." " You want to tell me why I'm here?" "How long have you been in contact with your father?" "I'm not." "We know as well as you do that you've been seeing Daniel Stinger." "Wherever you're getting your information from is... incorrect." "that's not really our thing." "He came to me." "Wanted me to help him." "I told him no." "End of story." "That sounds a lot like a story with only a beginning and a middle." "Not sure I trust the ending." "that all depends on you. huh?" "Ace." "She's with me." "Amanda." "It's good to see ya." "Is it?" "this is what we're working with." "that is definitely some bloody sand." "I see it." "What do you need?" "Space." "Mars is all yours." "Ah!" "Nice of you to show up." "Camille and Linus are on their way from AVR." "The refractory period is over." "What the hell happened?" "Underground video gaming." "It is unbelievable." "It's literally unlike anything I've ever experienced." "It's better than sex..." "Excuse me." "about last night... hobby." "Getting hit in the face?" "Did Zelda do that to you?" "not every girl I know wants to punch me in the face." "Just you." "did you find something out at least?" "but I'm going back there tonight to see what I can find." "I'm sure you can use your face to beat the information out of someone." "hey." "aren't you a little concerned about me?" "Of course." " Please be careful." " Mmm." "You're no good to me dead." "Close enough." "K." "Jake and Zelda are having an argument." "I am not feeling the love here." "You don't know what you're talking about." "Yeah." "I'm not seeing any oxytocin spikes with them." "Quel dommage." "you're cheating." "No one is that good." " You don't understand." " Zelda just accused Jake of cheating." "We're in AVR." "Jake's got a copy of the game up." "he was cheating. so how does Jake have it on his computer?" "Got another memory hotspot coming up." "K. Moving you to another level." "Jake." " Thanks." "Jake just won a boatload of money..." " Here." " But he's... really being quite awkward about it." "because he was cheating?" "He's putting up a satellite dish of some kind." "I'm not sure." "Rooftop somewhere?" "Eighteen seconds." "You're lying." "I'm tired of you being so secretive." "okay?" "I can't explain it to you right now." "Jake and Kenny are arguing." "that's it?" "You're just leaving?" "it will all make sense soon. - or Mark is gonna fire me." " He's not gonna fire you!" "I'm not gonna let that happen." "You can do this." "Stop overthinking everything." "okay?" " Time's up!" " Make the bounce!" "and they weren't just coworkers or friends." "why hide it?" "AVR has a strict dating policy." "They would've been fired." "Did Jake tell Kenny how he gremlined the rover? so I doubt he would've told him how he gremlined the satellite." "then who did?" "I've got Amanda working on that as we speak." "Good timing." "I was just about to run the simulation. reversed the shifting sand and digitally recreated whatever Mr. Rowland's final message was." "shall we?" "What is that?" "Looks like a pattern of some kind?" "me too." " Zelda." " Zelda didn't kill Jake." "And you know this because you know her so well?" "It's just... it's just not the vibe I got." "Vibe?" "We solve our cases by vibe now?" "I'm definitely getting a vibe here." "see what else I can find out." "wait." "Stretch." "it's..." "It's turning me into someone I'm not." "I don't like being this mad at you either." "I just..." "I don't..." "I don't know how to stop." "Not yet." "Just... okay?" "I'll try." "good." "The amateurs who are here to help fix nothing are leaving." "but we're all here to help." "hmm?" "Electronics?" "Astrophysics?" "Satellite communications?" "Engineering?" " What's your super power?" " Death." "Death is my super power." "Seems like you got this." "I'm gonna head out." "can I call you later?" "I don't think that's a good idea. but... as far as you and I go... we're just on totally different planets." "Is this because of what I said?" "I gotta go." "Take care of yourself." "Yeah." " What?" "Let's get back to work." " What's the point?" "We're gonna have to initiate self-destruct so this freak show is over anyway." "Wait." "didn't he?" "Someplace with a couch?" " How did you know that?" " Show us." "He would work down here sometimes when he didn't want Mark to pester him." "Nobody knew about it." " Except you." " Except me." "does it?" "we always lose the things we love." "it doesn't matter." "Because it's worth it." "How did you know Jake's password?" "there's nothing on here about Rick." "There it is." "There's the game." "War Zone." "Shove." "Let me see something." "Huh." "there are 41 iterations of the game." " What does that mean?" " It means Jake created it." " Shove." "Let me see something." " All right." "Someone has been working overtime." "Jake made a recent addition but... it's encrypted. and then made money off winning that game in a competitive underground gaming circuit?" "The computers at the warehouse weren't connected to the Internet." "How could Jake have altered the game in the warehouse from here?" "I know how." "I know why we couldn't figure out how Jake gremlined the satellite." " It's because he didn't." " Then why is it off-line?" "It's not." "It's just not pointed towards Mars." "where's it aimed then?" " There." " That's the warehouse." "Jake put a satellite dish on the roof next door." "Which would explain how he was able to download the game from here to the closed system at the warehouse." "not AVR." " Let's re-aim that satellite." " How long do we have?" "Two hours before self-destruct." "Jake focused it there for a reason." "We owe it to him to find out why." " You ready to take me on?" " Absolutely." " I'll see you out there." " All right." "what's up?" " He's NSA." "What did you do?" "I'm sure it's nothing." "Sneak that back to him." "Hey." "all right?" "noob... game on." "Cameron." "did you come to cheer me on or discourage me?" "Inspire you." "You have to win this match. but it's only accessible for the next 45 minutes until we have to reposition the satellite." "nothing you just said makes any sense to me." "and it will." "all right." "The match we've all been waiting for." "The noob versus our very own Zelda!" "He knows you're NSA." "Get out while you can." "Not until I win this match." " Noob." " It's your funeral." "Zelda." "Ready?" "And begin." "♪ Ain't gonna take it slowly ♪" "I think I know that." "How much time do we have before Kenny and Camille reposition the satellite?" " A couple minutes." " Okay." " Zelda." " You're going down this round." " Jake needs your help." " Don't you mean you need my help?" "Jake." "He's waiting for us at the end of this game." "and I think it has to lead to his killer." "Why should I believe you?" "Because you want to see how this ends as badly as I do." "War Zone was designed so that one player can't let another player win. the computer's gonna take over my game play." "Then we have to beat the computer... final round." "you ready?" "And begin." "noob." "what the hell are you guys doing?" "Play him right now!" "Zelda!" "He's not winning." "everybody." "What?" "What is that?" "That looks like a pattern of some sort." "It's a pattern from AVR." "It's a passcode." "What is this?" "Come on!" "What is this?" "then I'm already gone. and I created the game War Zone. he threatened everything that I cared about... this is some kind of a joke." "And turned War Zone and me no." "This is..." " I don't know what's going on!" " He forced me to play" "Rick..." " All right!" "My secret's out now." "So is yours." "stay back!" "Everybody get back!" "Game over!" "DK." "Mm-hmm." "Rick DeToro?" "You're under arrest for the murder of Jake Rowland." " Yeah." " Jake would've liked you." "I guess your vibe about Zelda was right." "Guess so." "I..." "I'm really sorry I betrayed your trust." " I know." " I don't want to lose you... but I don't know how to fix this." "Fix us." "Me neither." " Ivy?" " I need a friend." "Me too."