'Stitchers' recap: 'Finally'

This is probably the best episode yet. While investigating the murder of a young experimental medical researcher, Kirsten ends up finding more clues to her own childhood and her guardian, Ed Clark.

The young woman died in a car crash, but it wasn’t an accident. Evidently, someone hacked the computer system of her car and caused it to accelerate into a concrete wall. It turned out that her colleagues committed the crime in an attempt to keep her from telling anyone that the results indicated the experimental procedure didn’t work.If she had, then they would have lost their funding. That was something her colleagues weren’t willing to risk.

The experimental procedure involved using a contraption that Cameron described as a dentist chair on steroids. Patients were treated by having their brains stimulated with waves emitted from the machine. The purpose was to help people regain their memories. When Kirsten pretended to be a patient to gather intel, she told them about her mom. She explained that when she was eight, she was in a car wreck with her mother. He mother died, and she can’t remember anything before that. It seems as though the crash was the cause of her temporal dysplasia.

When she broke into their lab later that evening, looking for evidence, she was caught. They put her back in the contraption, but this time turned it up, which could have been deadly. However, it sort of worked. While under it, Kirsten remembered being a child in water with electrodes connected to her head. Could she have been the initial test subject in the Stitcher’s program? Possibly. After all, her parents and Ed were involved in the creation of the program.

Speaking of her parents, Kirsten noticed some background noises on the tape that Ed left her for when he was away. The one where he read bedtime stories to her. She had Linus decipher the sounds and it turned out that they were coordinates. Next thing we see, she’s at her mom’s grave, which must have been location indicated by the coordinates. She remembers Ed taking her there as a child. Then, she remembers something a little odd. Ed told her she could touch the picture of her mother that adorned the grave. As a child, she just turned and walked away, but now, she touches it. It pops open, revealing a small alcove. She reached her hand inside and found a deposit key style envelope that did indeed have a key inside it. The key, however, was very ornate. We are now left with the question of what the key goes to. Share your theories with us in the comments section below.

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