In the new ABC Family series "Stitchers," to kind of put it into prospective, it's a crime solving teen drama that tracks down clues from memories of the victims or criminals. I was recommended of this series from a friend and after watching the pilot, I think it's a pretty good series.
The series follows Kirsten Clark (played by Emma Ishta), who has been recruited into a somewhat secret government agency to be "stitched" into the memories of people who have recently died and investigates the murders and the mysteries that are unsolved.
When she meets Cameron (played by Kyle Harris), a brilliant neuroscientist, assisting Kirsten in the secret program that's headed by a skilled covert operator, Maggie (played by Salli Richardson-Whitfield from "Eureka").
The series also adds Camille Engelson (played by Allison Scagliotti from "Warehouse 13" & Drake & Josh").
The pilot tells the story of Kristen, who surfers from a disorder that can't so any emotions. A college student who just got busted by her roommate and is suspended. Later on, she gets word that her "father" committed suicide, but she doesn't think that he killed himself.
She ask more questions to the detective than he ask her. Later when hacks into a professor's computer to look into the photos of the crime scene of her "fathers," a group of agents swat their way in and take her to a secret location at a Chinese restaurant.
That's where she meets with Maggie and they have this less than five minute chat. After their chat, Maggie shows Kirsten the "stitched" project that they want her help with.
There she meets with Cameron and have one hell of a meeting and discussion that I found interesting and amazed because of the chemistry that they show on screen.
When they brief her about she will be doing, she accepted. Going into a fish tank that has a chair, she sits in it and she travels into the dead victim's mind who happens to be a bomber, Peter, and they're trying to figure out why and find where the other bombs are at.
From what she sees at first is a bit freaky but when she follows the events, Peter having a girlfriend, Julie, having dinner and sleeping together. When Kirsten has been in there a bit too long, she had to pull out and just in the nick of time she does, but when she comes out she gets up walking towards Cameron and talks to him as if she was Julie.
Peter set the bomb not on accident but on purpose for the love that he had lost. Two executives, Jane and Fred, took the idea of Julie and that very much upset her. That upset her so much that she walked away from Peter and as she walked into the streets, she got hit.
Peter took it very hard and act on revenge. Kirsten and Cameron went out to search for Jane and Fred. They needed help so Kirsten went to Camille, who's still upset with her.
They located Jane just before the bomb in her home goes off and asked her where Fred is at. They found him in the basement with a bomb around him along with a motion detector remote. Kirsten tires to think of how to stop the bomb and when she remembers hearing phone numbers being pressed. She goes to the phone and looks and find the code that was "Julie."
After all this, Kirsten wanted out because for the first time she felt what emotions are like. She felt happy, sad, mad and all them other feelings all at once. But when Maggie comes in and give her a file of her dead "father" she wants back in and knows who killed him, her real father.
After watching pilot, I was pretty much amazed of the characters in the series. My friend who recommended the series to me, told me that Kirsten is a bit of between two characters of Abed from "Community" and Sheldon Copper from "The Big Bang Theory." I would agree but also add that the character has this Taylor Swift look as well.
Solving crime through the memories of a dead person's body does seem interesting. I'm looking forward watching more episodes to see where this series will go. ABC Family does take the teen drama and add along with cop drama and adding syfy as well. I believe that's the network's formula.
You can watch "Stitchers" Tuesday nights at 9/8c on ABC Family.
Coming this fall on CBS, a new medical drama, "Code Black."
