Highlights from “Stitchers 2.0”

This week the second season of Freeform’s drama, “Stitchers”, premiered. It was a very emotional first couple of minutes as the medical team worked feverishly to bring Cameron back from the dead. Kirsten was beside herself…wha?! Kirsten showing emotions? What is happening?

• It’s Kirsten 2.0, that’s what’s happening. Apparently, when she ‘stitched’ into Cameron at the end of last season, it created some side effects. Because Cameron was only mostly dead, Kirsten’s stitch seemed to jump start her emotions. Now she’s flooded with feelings she’s never had to deal with before and she’s kind of on overload. She has no idea how to deal with all of this. Enter, Camille. She’s more than happy to help with “homemade baked ziti and a glass or three of red wine”.
• Cameron 2.0, since being resurrected, is more daring and aggressive. He’s taking risks that he never took before and Kirsten is not sure she likes this new Cameron. He scares her. But Cameron just beat death and he’s got a new perspective on his life. No more being careful and afraid to do anything. Of course, this does have a down side.
• Linus also has a change of heart when he apologizes to Camille for being such a jerk in the S1 finale. He’s tired of living in his parent’s house and decides it’s time to move on.
• The show takes on a whole new tone with the characters rebooting. It’s also lost its Stitchers Program director, Leslie Turner. He’s found shot to death in his home and Kirsten has to stitch into him. But his memories are fractured. How does that even happen? Hopefully we’ll get an answer to that soon. Anyway, on Camille’s suggestion, Kirsten goes back into Turner’s memory to a time before the Stitchers Project, and what she finds is disturbing. Apparently an accident happened and his team were frantically locking down their lab, but there appear to be people trapped inside a sealed room. I’d like to find out what that was all about.
• In the stitch, Kirsten also sees that it was Maggie who shot Turner. Chaos ensues until Linus takes control and they are able to pull together the fractured memory to see who really
  

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  RITESH RAJAN as “Linus”

  killed Turner. Kirsten can’t see the man who shot him, but there’s a strong scent, like incense.

• Cameron and Kirsten discover a panic room in Turner’s apartment, and inside is a demolished computer. Maybe one taken from that lab that Turner was locking down? Camille tracks down the serial number and that takes Cam and Kirsten to a warehouse that’s deserted. But, (you knew there was going to be a ‘but’) they also discover a room which is giving off static electricity, but only inside what used to be a circular something that once occupied the room. Then they get arrested for breaking in.
• Cameron and Kirsten now have Special Agent badges which will allow them more authority when they are in the field.
• As Kirsten and Camille leave to go home for the day, the numbers denoting the floors on the elevator trigger a memory from Turner and Kirsten stops the elevator at one of the floors. As the doors open, it’s freezing inside a room that looks like another lab. There’s a body on a table, covered up. Kirsten pulls back the covering to reveal Ed, her uncle, lying there.
• Kirsten stitches into Ed’s memories and though they are very difficult to see, there is that same smell of incense. She sees Ed and someone else fighting and a gunshot goes off, killing Ed. It was an accident. But they were fighting over doing something to some woman; they kept referring to ‘she’ and ‘her’. Kirsten concludes that the person Ed was fighting with also killed Turner.
• The episode closes with Kirsten in her home, dealing with emotions, and she walks into her kitchen to grab a coffee cup. A memory is triggered and it’s Kirsten as a little girl, watching her father shave. He dabs a little shaving cream on Little Kirsten’s nose and she asks him, “What’s that smell?” (Gasp!) It’s the same smell as from her stitches into Ed and Turner.

Hell yeah! What a way to open up a season, right? I don’t know about you, but I was a mess at the beginning, when Kirsten was crying over Cameron. And then again at the end when she drops that coffee cup with the realization that it might be her father that killed Ed and Turner. Guys, can you even wait for the next episode?!

You’ll have to wait until Tuesday, March 29th, at 9/8c, on Freeform.

Feature image: Freeform/Eric McCandless