"Previously on Stitchers..." "I need to appoint someone to take all my responsibilities." "Please tell me I didn't lose a potentially career-changing promotion just so you could date the new brunette?" "We are not okay." "you're handling this stitch?" "He's got the yips." "He's worried about you. so that after stitching technology is perfected we can stitch into her living evolved brain and map it completely." " Good talk." " Hmm." "Her oxytocin levels are rising in response to what she's seeing in the stitch." "Things are heating up. the more it's going to mess with your ability to stitch." "We have to do this if we're gonna save my mother." "I know." "I'm with you." " How are those oxytocin levels?" " Holding steady." "Yours?" "Never lower." "You're doing it all wrong." " What?" " The walk of shame." "There's no walk." "There's no shame." "I give you and Cameron a lot of credit for holding out as long as you did before finally throwing oxytocin to the wind in favor of the other big "O." "and a cuddle." "We're keeping things very PG around here." " And your night?" " Unh." "Hard "R." "Cameron's really able to keep his hands off you?" "He's got incredible willpower." "He's fine." "98." "100." "how long you gonna keep this up for?" "As long as it takes for you to work up a damn oxytocin filter." " Feet." " Look at the bright side." "Look how much money you're gonna save on your gas bills with all those cold showers you take." "cold showers aren't a thing." "I have." "What I don't have is a functioning oxytocin filter." " Can we talk about your yips for a moment?" " No." "you're freaked out about Kirsten." " Not talking about it." " And you're afraid of her getting hurt." "And that fear has manifested itself into yips." " Still not talking about it." " I'm just saying." "I agree with you." "You should let Camille pilot stitches for a while." " I'm a good listener if you ever need one." " No." "but I'm good." "you do the filter." "boss." "So define "a cuddle." Was there spooning? can I interest you in a little trouble?" "Go on." "right?" "Go on!" "right?" "And now that Cameron has me piloting the stitches..." "Then we can spend a little more time in the regions that we need to map." "we do." "I hacked into the lab's mind map system." "mapping the brain." "Pulsing sections are everything we've already treaded." "And the static areas are regions that we haven't fully mapped yet." "They'll be our focus moving forward." "you want me to go behind the back of and flip a hearty bird the National Security Agency?" " Absolutely." " It's about damn time." " Cameron doesn't know you want to do this?" " No." "And he can't find out." "and lingering anywhere long enough to map it would just completely freak him out." "you don't go to your boss when you want to break protocol." "You come to someone like me." "Now what we need is a body." "mid-to-late 30s." "Shot once in the chest before being thrown or falling off the roof of the Windwood Hotel." "Tattoo on his right forearm is running through image recognition now." "Killer also shot off his left index finger." "we're out of baby carrots." "Finger's missing." "terracotta shards were in the wound." "So we dug out the bullet from a tile in the roof where we know his hand was held down." "We're running ballistics on it now." "Why shoot off his finger?" "Maybe the killer was trying to make a point." "No pun intended." "Maybe I should pilot this." "No." "You might still have a little performance anxiety." "She means in a stitch kind of way." "Of course." "It's the only frame of reference I have on you." "You can try naming all the state capitals." " I hear that helps." " I don't have performance... anx..." "Whatever." "You can pilot." "Here's my map." "This must be what Beyonce feels like when she drops a secret album." "watch out for Linus." "He'll be the first one to notice something's up." "you could always think of the starting lineup for the '69 Mets." "aren't you?" "I am." "please." "no-go for stitch neurosync." "Life-Sci?" "Go." " Sub-Bio?" " Go." " Engineering?" " Go." "You can also think of all the different kinds of pickles." "Works for me." " Communications?" " Go." " Medical?" " Go." "one-two." " Let's get into trouble." "All right." "Obligatory movie quote?" " "I see dead people."" " Too easy." "Induce stitch neurosync on my mark." "one... mark." "This is odd." "Describe "odd." "but it's deserted." "No people." " And I'm sensing something." " What?" "What are you sensing?" "I'm sensing that it's not a real art gallery." "I can't explain it." "John Doe isn't here." "do you need to bounce?" "No." "I must be here for a reason." "Let's stick around a while." "where is she?" "Part of the brain responsible for symbols and imagery." "It's an area we haven't mapped fully." " Might explain what she's feeling." " Move her somewhere else." "let her poke around." " Camille." "my rules." "my orders." "Mission clock's running." "Got a memory hotspot in another region that's mapped a little better." " Move her." " Linus... thanks." "Did I make a mistake trusting you?" "pressure's on to move." "I see something." "but on a display stand." "Just got a hit on John Doe's tattoo." "British Royal Marines." "He's a sailor?" "Apparently who plays with dolls." "There are weird things." "There's a swan and a sword." "And a patch of grass." "An apple tree." "around a golden snake." "Any of you geniuses know what any of this means?" "I don't speak bizarro." "There's a tile on another pedestal." "A cow standing on it." "And there's another golden snake wrapped around the cow." "Like a hug." "three tequilas." "John Doe encrypted his memories." "This is image-based encoding." "Move her to the language processing cortex." "I kinda feel like there's more to explore here." "Mission clock at two minutes and forty-three seconds." "There's no time." "John Doe created an image-based language for himself." "We need to be in the language processing cortex." "I just think..." " I don't care what you think." "please." " Death moment approaching." " Playtime's over." "Death moment is upon us." "You okay?" " I'm fine." " What were you two playing at?" " Nothing." " Reckless or stupid?" "Goodkin. so are you reckless or stupid?" "that depends." "Are you the lab director or a flustered boyfriend?" "I'm the guy who's wondering if he was wrong for trusting you." "let's just dial the temperature down here. to beef up mind mapping in areas we're weakest in." "It'll prepare us better to stitch into my mother." "Did you at least see who killed John Doe?" "whatever that means." "I'll tell you what it means. a memory technique for people who need to keep their secrets secret." " Royal Marines plus mind palace equals..." " John Doe was a spy." "More gold." "More like gold-gold." " That's it." " And save and swipe." " Cow." "Snake." " Cowsnake." "Here it is." "A harmless snake encouraged by farmers to live in barns." "John Doe's snake was far from harmless." " What about the soldiers?" " There were four of them." "Marching." "where you going?" " Rogue." "I'm going rogue." "A concept you're familiar with." "I'll follow up with Fisher on ballistics. see if there's anything there that ties into the images." "a field trip." "I'll go with you." "I could apologize again if it would make you happy." "you know I've accepted but then you go behind my back and make this secret plan for the stitch with Camille instead of coming to me?" "You would have said no." "did you not understand?" "Is this what it is to care about someone?" "That you're worried about them all the time?" "that just doesn't sound right to me." "I have a history of watching people I care about get into bad situations or worse." "Well..." " Then maybe we shouldn't be together." " This isn't was this is about. then I don't want anything to do with this." "You are not the only one who gets to worry about how the other person is doing." "Fine." "I'll work on not being such a helicopter boyfriend." "That's the last time you go rogue." "not without me." "Okay." "You got it." "I'll be Rogue One and you can be Rogue Two." "there will never be a Rogue Two." "I'll tell you the same thing I told you over the phone." "MI6 has nothing to tell the NSA." "none of your people are in Los Angeles right now?" " I didn't say that." " A man was murdered at the Windwood Hotel." "We think he's one of yours." " Do you have a name?" " No." "There was no identification on him." "there's no connection between your John Doe and MI6." "He has a Royal Marines tattoo." "And we have reason to believe he was familiar with spycraft." "I honor and respect his memory... but that still doesn't make him MI6." "What I don't respect is the NSA. but never offering any in return." "I've dealt with your organization in the past." "Don't care for it." "And see no reason to do it again." "hmm?" "You want cooperation?" "I'm willing to offer it." "Consider it a professional courtesy." "What... do you want?" "you don't have the authority to grant." "Try me." "Help me help you." "Why are you quoting Jerry Maguire?" "He does that." "So... what do you want?" "Her name's Chloe Marks." "LAPD picked her up last night on a drunk and disorderly." "not stirred?" "any chance Stephanie can pull some strings at the DA's office?" "Agent Stick-Up-His-Ass helps us with our John Doe." "Why doesn't he go through official channels?" "I dunno." "Didn't want to embarrass the agency." "Uh-huh." "but no promises." "Okay." "huh?" "What happened to "professional courtesy"?" "Huh." "You should hear what I really wanted to call him." "not get them out." " Why the sudden interest in Chloe Marks?" " It's a quid pro quo." "If Chloe's the "quid" who's the "quo"?" "I get it." " She punched a cop." " She's a foreign national." "Tell that to the cop's busted nose." "Well..." "Are you really going to make me do this without going through the proper channels?" "We both know no one can make Stephanie Fisher do anything she doesn't want to do." "I'll file the paperwork." "Thank you." "I owe you." "Dinner?" "my friend." "I can work with that." "She's so..." " Young." " Pretty." "Chloe Marks." "Which one of you is my savior?" "this is Agent Clark." "We're with the NSA." "Dexter Abbott sent us." "it's about bloody time." "Never mind. - and I'll forgive you both." " Or... and you can get your own amenities?" "about that." "Tiny problem. unfortunate conduct in their lounge." " So where are you staying now?" " It's a moving target." "we can take you back to Abbott's office." "Please." "Not looking like this." "I don't mind the occasional "walk of shame"..." "God knows I've done enough of them..." "But this one could be a career ender." "if you want to come back to my place and clean up." "car's right over here." "Professional courtesy." "Nothing here matches the images in stitch." "Apple tree." "Blossoms." "Roots underground." "It's for hidden." "Snake and apple." "It's like Adam and Eve." "Is it a relationship gone wrong or a relationship gone right?" "You're working too hard." "Pretty much the first time I've ever been accused of that." "Yeah." "I think... or a word fragment." "It's a language." "That only our John Doe knew." "I should loop Ivy in on this." "She's really good at this sort of thing." "Really?" "Ivy again?" "You'd like her if you got to know her." "I'm sure she's lovely or something." "I know... to use your words... you were paying attention." "But we gotta get past this." "Ivy is important to me." "I'm sorry supporting her before didn't work out." "It bit me in the ass." "But that's not my fault." "Or yours." "Can't we please just move on?" "I'm seeing Ivy today after work." "Why don't you join us?" "Drinks?" "uh..." "I already have plans tonight." "You have plans?" "You're seeing someone?" "Oh." "Who is he?" "so not a word." "I'm dating the medical examiner who works with the program." " Amanda?" "But she's..." " Uh-huh." "Stay woke." "that's all." "Ugh!" "Fine." "Screw drinks." "Bring Ivy to the house for dinner tonight." "Amanda and I will cook." " Are you sure?" " Yes." "nobody in the lab knows about Amanda. so... don't..." "Don't worry." "I got it." "Lips are sealed." "That's a language I understand." "Taxi!" "now what's the game plan?" "now MI6 has to hold up theirs." "We'll tell Abbot that we rescued his agent and hopefully he can find out who our John Doe is." "text me after you talk to him." " I figured you'd go." " And you'd stay here?" " It is my loft." " You made the deal with Abbott." "Agent Goodkin... do you happen to have something I can wear while my clothes dry? so I washed them in your sink." "Agent Clark can help you with that." "I... was just leaving." "John Harrington." "He was a mid-level agent with us." "I had no idea how serious this was." "I assume Harrington was here on a case." "not recently." "yes." "the NSA's gonna need to see the file for the case he was working on." "it's been scrubbed." "we need to cooperate with each other." "NSA is hard to cooperate with. with him as part of his cover." "She was unaware it was a business trip." "right from the hotel where she was going to meet John." "Kidnapped?" "payments dead-dropped." "She is presumed dead." "Body never found." "Harrington went balls-to-the-wall to find her killer." "but he'd have none of it." "came back here on his own dime." "to find him." "How do you know Belinda isn't still alive?" "Because the animal who took her shot off her index finger and mailed it to Harrington." "Are you and Agent Goodkin more than just professional acquaintances?" "Agent Marks." "I don't believe that's any of your business." "Kirsten." "Think of this as inter-agency cooperation." "female MI6 agents like you?" "I wish." "Imagine the fun." "Is that your mission?" "To bring fun to MI6?" "do you?" "neither did my family." "I had a very privileged upbringing." "What's the old saying?" "With great privilege comes stuffy parents." "I went for it." " To rebel?" " To make a difference." "Cameron just texted." "Abbott said the agent's name was John Harrington and that you were looking for him in the days before he was killed." "he was my first assignment." "Cocked that up good." "Please tell me you're close to finding his killer." "Ugh." "It's Abbott." "He's summoning me." "Talk of "stuffy." "did you know that?" "no." "Hmm." "It's interesting Abbott didn't tell you. but I'll pick Abbott's brain when I see him." "I'll let you know." "Harrington's wife's name is Belinda." "Try this on." "We know that Old High German for "bright serpent" is Betlinde." "The golden snake is Belinda." "That's... possible." "But that would mean Harrington's death memory is of him so..." "Let's try this." "Harrington "cut" from MI6 to search for his wife." " His wife's the swan?" " Swans mate for life." "new topic." "How long do you think it would take you to break a six-digit code on the credenza in Maggie's office?" "Think whatever's inside that credenza might have something to do with how our cases get picked." "I need to know everything." "Just ask her." "She might tell you." "she might not." "Never ask a question you don't want to hear the answer to." "Hours to weeks." "Long as it gets done before Maggie gets back." "How goes twisted Pictionary?" "I'm callin' it." "Everyone go home." "Get some rest." "huh?" "boss never sleeps." "I'm good." "You didn't let me finish." "Can I help you decide where we're gonna take-out from tonight? an Irish adventurer who was recruited to be a spy." "Art imitating life?" "Hope you don't mind." "I let myself in." "It's lovely." "Thank you." "Are you okay to talk about what happened?" "Abbott was miffed I lost Harrington..." " and got pinched by the cops." " Doesn't explain the violence." "Don't let Abbott's bearing fool you." "He's an animal." "Used to brag about waterboarding detainees." "something must've set him off." "I did ask him about his relationship with Harrington." "What'd he say?" "Nothing." "That's when he went balls-off on me." "You must've hit a nerve." "You think Abbott could've killed Harrington?" "Pushed him off a roof?" "he's far too clean." "maybe Abbott wanted it to look like someone-not-as-clean did it." "It's not my problem anymore." "I'm done with MI6." "I did not sign up for... this." "So I quit." "Have an early morning flight back to London." "Tomorrow." "you'll stay here until then." "It's safer." "You can have Cameron's room." "We'll take the couch." "Both of you?" "Together?" "Cozy." "are you sure your friends are cool with mezcal?" "not everyone's into the smoky taste." "don't worry about Linus." "Ivy might be more of a wild card." "You are so..." "I can't even describe it." " That's them." " I'm glad we're doing this." "hello and welcome." "it's great to see you again." " Mm-hmm." " Amanda?" "I'm Ivy." " Mm-hmm." "And this is a Mezcal Mule." "It's my grandma's recipe." "She drank like a pirate." "We brought wine." "perfect." "You guys just chill." "Amanda and I will finish making dinner." "Yeah." " Shiitake for a green pepper?" " Deal." "but Agent Marks cleaned me out pretty good." "Hmm." "She had a rough day." "Aah." "Rough two days." "it's Maggie." "All of Harrington's files were scrubbed except the one he was working on here." "because it never existed." "what are the odds?" "It's called a mind palace." "Could the sum of the letters of cow be the answer?" "it's a language." "Welcome to "Around Los Angeles in 80 Bites." "These are my favorite appetizers from my favorite restaurants." "Just please try my gnocchi before you decide who's Top Chef in this relationship." "I'll grab 'em." "you wanna be a dear and help Amanda?" "Oh." "I'm pretty sure I don't need any help." "It's on a high shelf." "You're my pocket bae." "Tall-ish Linus to the rescue." "listen." "Please don't hurt Camille." "Wow." "Where did that come from?" "From someone who really cares about her." "like me?" " I mean me." "what is my game?" "I don't trust you. but if you hurt Linus in any way..." "What makes you think I would hurt Linus?" "let me think." "Genetics?" "but..." "Hold up." "I'm warning you"?" "Do you have any idea what I do for a living?" "I know nine different ways to kill you and make it look like natural causes." "So why don't you get the frickin' crackers before I show you number eight?" "I'm not my father." "I like Linus for who he is." " There's no ulterior motives." " If you're using him I'd say that qualifies as an ulterior motive." "Trixy-bits for everyone." "Yummy!" "Quincy?" "I have to talk to you about something." "Good or bad?" "I'm not sure yet." "I got a call from a friend of mine at the DOJ." "My name has come up in some meetings and there might be an opening there..." " for me." " It's what you've always wanted." " It probably won't happen." " Hey." "here we are." "This is great." "Yes." "This is." "Mm." "Mm." "This is way better than sex." "maybe not better than sex." "right?" "We need to get everyone to the lab." " What's up?" " I think Abbott... is way more involved than he's letting on." "I'll shoot a text to the team." "what about Chloe?" "She shouldn't be alone." "no." "he'll be able to figure out my address." "This loft's in my name." "my house isn't." "It's in Ed Clark's name." "wake her up." "Tell her there's a change in venue." "Okay." "She sleeps naked." "You wake her up." "I'll text." " Camille?" " Yeah." "Got Cameron's text." "Let's go." "wait." "This is Chloe Marks from MI6." "I'm sure." " Likewise." "Cool if she stays here tonight?" "Mmm." "I'm... not sure tonight is the best..." "Why not?" "Because she's already got an overnight guest." "Of course she can stay." "meet Kirsten and Chloe." "Kirsten you know about." "Chloe is an MI6 agent in grave danger." "very exciting." "I work with the dead." "then you must know my family." "I like this one." "Why don't you guys run off and Chloe and I will swap horror stories." "We won't be long." "loads." "Take your time." " We won't be too long." "I hope." " Okay." "please don't make it a thing." "I was going to say that I'm happy for you." "Amanda seems great." "Yeah." "Look at this." " A cow." " And this?" "A cow." "Alex?" "you ruined my evening over this" for a thousand." "it's not a baby cow." "It's a miniature breed." "It's called a Dexter cow." "As in Dexter Abbott." "The cow on the mind palace was standing on a terracotta tile." "Dexter was on the roof of the hotel which has terracotta tiles. or killed him himself?" "Let's go with option number three." "Just got ballistics." "Bullet found on the roof was typed through Interpol." "It is from Abbott's weapon." "Let Maggie know what we found." "see if he's there." "Proceed with caution." "We'll go to the consulate and check his office." "boss." "my dear Fisher." "See." "Not here." "Okay." "Got it." "Everything okay?" "Um... your boss was attacked in his office." "He was shot." "Dexter?" "my God." "Is he dead?" "He lost a lot of blood and is heavily sedated. and just hunker down until she gets back." "Why?" "Am I in danger? drink some more vino... and it'll all be fine." "boss." "Prepare to kneel before me." "You worked up an oxytocin filter?" "Yeah... funny story about that." "No." "So why am I kneeling before Zod?" "Once we knew that the cow represented Dexter I was able to develop a codex." "We now have an interpretation protocol to help us unravel all of Harrington's mind palace images." "Very cool." "boys?" " Let's find out if Zod is right." "Zod is always right." "thanks to Dr. Ahluwalia we might have a filter that unravels Harrington's mind palace." "please." "no-go for... uh..." "I'll take it from here." "You sure? but it also made me realize that I need to be in control of my own mind so..." "I'm working on that." "I'm good." "dude. we're back on the air and playing all your favorite hits." "no-go for stitch neurosync." "Life-Sci?" "Go." " Sub-Bio?" " Go." "Big Bopper." " Excellent reference." "Communications?" " Communications are a go." " Medical?" " Go." "Easy Listening." "one... we'll be right back after this... mark." "Memories are still encrypted." "Just gimme a moment." "Any chance we can mind map more of this region while we're here?" "teamwork." " Okay." "Codex filter should be kicking in." " Kirsten?" "I see a door." "It's open." "It's filled with white." " More mind palace?" " No." "Viable memories are beyond that door." "how's the mapping?" " Dense." "It's all white because the memories are encrypted and the area isn't fully mapped." "Mapping takes time." "Your call." "Stay or move on?" "Let's move." " Think of the end game." " I am." "Catching whoever shot Harrington." "I'm going through." "and it's not encrypted." "Nice job." "we are gathered here today... he's the groom." "It's his wedding to Belinda." "Abbott's here too." "take you... just like in Harrington's memory." "And a family crest." "It's the swan and the sword." "Come to mama." "Okay." "Swan and the sword seal's a crest belonging to the Lindsay Family of Ireland. but they didn't touch Irish Marriage records." "Hello and how do you do?" "Harrington was married the fourth of March." " Four marching soldiers." " Bride was Belinda Lindsay." "A beautiful snake." "to be my husband." "I understand." "What?" "The snake coiled around the cow... and Harrington must have found out about it." "Until death do us part." "That means that Belinda was on the roof with Abbott." "They killed Harrington together." "Pull up what you can on her." "Until death... death... death... death." "She wanted her family ring back." "It was probably stuck." "That's why she shot his finger off." "we're burning daylight." "Death moment's upon us." "You got eyes on bridezilla?" "my God." "my God." " Camille!" " I'm bouncing." "and she's in my house right now!" "I'm definitely a Ravenclaw." " Oh." " Mm-hmm." "Yes." "hey." "I'd have saved you a plate." "Is that Camille?" "just finished work early." "Early?" "It's almost dawn." "Camille." "Thanks so much for letting me stay here." "Amanda are I are now good friends." "Oh." "I hope." "Is it hot outside?" "You're sweating." "It's a little... humid." "can I talk to you on the porch real quick?" "Hey." "Are you sure Amanda doesn't want her phone?" "go." "Hope you're hungry." "We saved you some plates." "I usually do this on dead people." "Yeah?" "How do I compare?" "Umm... sexier than some." "Aah!" "Thanks for saving my life. something snapped inside me." "I was just so afraid of losing you." "I don't let people in." "It's not who I am." "It's not who I... raised myself to be." "But I let you in." "It must be scary." "I'm so scared." "But I'm so excited." "My life makes sense with you in it." "aren't you?" "And why not?" "We got the bad guys." "A murderous MI6 agent who slept naked in my bed... pal." "both of whom are going to spend the rest of their lives in jail." "that's inter-agency cooperation." "why not just get a divorce?" "and it was way more fun and kill her husband when her first plan crashed and burned." "gotta give him credit." "He used the NSA to get her out of jail." "not the NSA." "eye-ther." "Poor Harrington." "All he had to do was forget about Belinda after she went missing." "he couldn't." "He loved her. not even her death." "for saving me in Abbott's office." "You're welcome." "uh..." " Yips." " Yeah." " Yeah?" "so the other day..." " Hmm?" " I'm sitting here..." " With your feet on the desk." " Absolutely." " Yes." "When I hear this buzzing sound..." " Mm-hmm." " Coming from inside that cabinet." "I got Harrington's stitch alert." " Related?" " I think so." "I think there's a device in there that's connected to how our cases get picked." " It's a six-digit unlock code." " Mm-hmm." "Randomized." "And the code changes every 15 minutes." "This will take forever." "Welcome to forever." "Linus." "If we can only find out where this gets its information from... and we can pick the ones that will help us the most." "Remember how I said I'd help you save your mother?" "Yes." "I meant it." "Hmm." "Promise me that if things don't work out between us..." "I'll let you keep your fingers."