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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Given the potential of the tech towards providing intelligence for national security and the large investment of resources each stitch requires, you'd think they'd use it for something other than solving local crimes in L.A. They don't even apply it towards investigating the suspicious death of one of their own team members.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Given the potential of the tech towards providing intelligence for national security and the large investment of resources each stitch requires, you'd think they'd use it for something other than solving local crimes in L.A. They don't even apply it towards investigating the suspicious death of one of their own team members. [[spoiler:However, it is strongly hinted by the middle of the first season that in fact the program is a testbed for something much more involved.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: Cameron. The victim in "I See You" turns out to be the occupant of Cameron's previous apartment, which makes him believe that he was intended to be the target. [[spoiler:He wasn't... at least not by the killer. The end of the episode reveals that a mysterious person is spying on the Stitchers program, and is seen watching Cameron's apartment]].
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* ProperlyParanoid: ProperlyParanoid:
** Cameron. The victim in "I See You" turns out to be the occupant of Cameron's previous apartment, which makes him believe that he was intended to be the target. [[spoiler:He wasn't... at least not by the killer. The end of the episode reveals that a mysterious person is spying on the Stitchers program, and is seen watching Cameron'sapartment]].apartment]].
** Marta's warning to Kirsten that the Stitchers program is being used for something less benign than solving murders is initially waved off as little more than a conspiracy theory. [[spoiler: However, the end of that episode makes it clear that there is indeed something shady going on.]]
** Cameron. The victim in "I See You" turns out to be the occupant of Cameron's previous apartment, which makes him believe that he was intended to be the target. [[spoiler:He wasn't... at least not by the killer. The end of the episode reveals that a mysterious person is spying on the Stitchers program, and is seen watching Cameron's
** Marta's warning to Kirsten that the Stitchers program is being used for something less benign than solving murders is initially waved off as little more than a conspiracy theory. [[spoiler: However, the end of that episode makes it clear that there is indeed something shady going on.]]
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* InMediasRes: "Connections" starts with Kirsten and Cameron confronting the killer while being held at gunpoint.
* ProperlyParanoid: Cameron. The victim in "I See You" turns out to be the occupant of Cameron's previous apartment, which makes him believe that he was intended to be the target. [[spoiler:He wasn't... at least not by the killer. The end of the episode reveals that a mysterious person is spying on the Stitchers program, and is seen watching Cameron's apartment]].
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The frequent stitching is doing a number on how Kirsten is starting to see Cameron.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The frequent stitching is doing a number on how Kirsten is starting to see Cameron. On Cameron's part, it's still a bit ambiguous whether his constant worrying about Kirsten stitching too often is due to not wanting what happened with Marta to reoccur, or he's genuinely concerned for her well-being.
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* FemaleGaze: At the end of "I See You," Kirsten gets a glimpse of Cameron changing clothes after taking a bath. [[spoiler:Until she sees the scar in the middle of his chest]], she's visibly torn between apparent curiosity and EatingTheEyeCandy.
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* InsistentTerminology: The deceased subject of a stitch is "the sample." The window of opportunity to successfully perform a stitch is the "best by date."
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* InsistentTerminology: The deceased subject of a stitch is "the sample." The window of opportunity to successfully perform a stitch is the "best by "best-by date."
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* MissingMom: Kirsten barely remembers her mother and apparently she wasn't around when her dad took off. [[spoiler:However, like her dad and Ed, Kirsten's mom was a co-developer of the Stitcher tech.]]
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* MissingMom: Kirsten barely remembers her mother and apparently she wasn't around when her dad took off. [[spoiler:However, like her dad and Ed, Kirsten's mom was a co-developer of the Stitcher tech.]]tech]].
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* SpyCatsuit: What Kirsten is forced to wear to get into the "fish tank."
-->'''Linus:''' Originally, you're supposed to be completely naked, but there was some push-back.
-->'''Linus:''' Originally, you're supposed to be completely naked, but there was some push-back.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The frequent stitching is doing a number on how Kirsten is starting to see Cameron.
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* IdiotBall: In Episode 2, Maggie, the theoretically competent head of the Stitchers program, chews Camille out for revealing her participation in the Stitchers program...without bothering to determine whether she actually did first. This results in Camille's cover being blown to Kirsten.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Kirsten has a vaguely defined neurological condition called "temporal dysplasia", which presents with an odd combination of symptoms: She can't experience the passage of time, meaning she is to use a SherlockScan to deduce how much time has passed between events. Also, she suffers a reduced (but not completely absent) ability to experience emotion, making her TheSociopath, and she has trouble picking up on the emotions of others; in her youth, she had to use flash cards to learn the different facial expressions, similar to people with autism. The upside to her condition is that it makes her the ideal person to use the stitching technology.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Kirsten has a vaguely defined neurological condition called "temporal dysplasia", which presents with an odd combination of symptoms: She can't experience the passage of time, meaning she is has to use a SherlockScan to deduce how much time has passed between events. Also, she suffers a reduced (but not completely absent) ability to experience emotion, making her TheSociopath, and she has trouble picking up on the emotions of others; in her youth, she had to use flash cards to learn the different facial expressions, similar to people with autism. The upside to her condition is that it makes her the ideal person to use the stitching technology.
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It\'s more Ambiguous Disorder than Artistic License. Also, changed the wording to clarify some points.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Kirsten has some vaguely defined atypical neurological condition. She has no innate sense of the passage of time, which she says makes all her new experiences feel like they've always been part of her. She states that she had to learn to read people's emotions by studying flash cards, which implies an Autism Spectrum Disorder. However, she then goes on to say that she's never ''felt'' the emotions either, which doesn't make her autistic, it makes her TheSociopath. This in spite of the fact that she seems to emote and develop emotional attachments just fine (though her go-to seems to be anger). Basically, she has a fictional catch-all neurological disorder which lets the writers give her any character quirk they like and also lets her use the AppliedPhlebotinum.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: AmbiguousDisorder: Kirsten has some a vaguely defined atypical neurological condition. condition called "temporal dysplasia", which presents with an odd combination of symptoms: She has no innate sense of can't experience the passage of time, which meaning she says makes all is to use a SherlockScan to deduce how much time has passed between events. Also, she suffers a reduced (but not completely absent) ability to experience emotion, making her new experiences feel like they've always been part of her. She states that TheSociopath, and she had to learn to read people's emotions by studying flash cards, which implies an Autism Spectrum Disorder. However, she then goes has trouble picking up on to say that she's never ''felt'' the emotions either, which doesn't make of others; in her autistic, youth, she had to use flash cards to learn the different facial expressions, similar to people with autism. The upside to her condition is that it makes her TheSociopath. This in spite of the fact that she seems ideal person to emote and develop emotional attachments just fine (though her go-to seems to be anger). Basically, she has a fictional catch-all neurological disorder which lets the writers give her any character quirk they like and also lets her use the AppliedPhlebotinum.stitching technology.
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'''Camille:''' Holy... pepperoni.
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'''Camille:''' ''(watching camera feed on a monitor)'' Holy... pepperoni.
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* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Although the show does not actually visually reveal this, the dialog makes it clear:
--> '''Kirsten:''' ''(looking through telescope)'' The girl in 6C is tipping the pizza delivery guy, and she...\\
'''Camille:''' Holy... pepperoni.
--> '''Kirsten:''' ''(looking through telescope)'' The girl in 6C is tipping the pizza delivery guy, and she...\\
'''Camille:''' Holy... pepperoni.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Maggie is very vague about what agency or department of the government the Stitchers program operates under. Given that there's no Federal agency that would have the license to operate as the Stitchers program is shown to, it's probably for good reason. It's strongly implied to be an intelligence agency, though.
-->'''Maggie:''' We're NSA...ish.
-->'''Maggie:''' We're NSA...ish.
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Although Kirsten's neurological condition is vague, the stitcher tech itself has some clear-cut rules: The tech reads the information from the neurons of the sample's brain but needs another living mind to interpret it; thus the "stitching" together of stitcher and sample. Each stitch is five minutes long although subjective interpretation can make it seem longer (and Kirsten can't tell the difference anyway). The team can "bounce" the stitcher within the first two minutes but after that the stitcher has to implement it themselves or suffer shock. After each stitch there's a refractory period while the sample's neurons recover that lasts a variable number of hours. The equipment can only be configured for one sample at a time and reconfiguring it takes about 12 hours, much longer than the refractory period; this effectively limits the team to working one sample at a time. A properly preserved sample is good for about 3 days after death but once it decays it is completely unusable. And the stitcher will often retain residual emotions that the sample was feeling in the memory.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Another aspect of Kirsten's disorder is that it somehow causes her to have a 100% failure rate on polygraph exams.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: Kirsten's roommate Camille is revealed to be on the program's payroll in the second episode. She's integral to the team from then on.
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* SayingTooMuch: In the face of classified data being revealed all over the place, Maggie calls out Camille for revealing her involvement with the project. Only Camille never did.
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* InsistentTerminology: The deceased subject of a stitch is "the sample." The window of opportunity to successfully perform a stitch is the "best by date."
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Given the potential of the tech towards providing intelligence for national security and the large investment of resources each stitch requires, you'd think they'd use it for something other than solving local crimes in L.A. They don't even apply it towards investigating the suspicious death of one of their own team members.
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** The second episode involves investigating a rave, so naturally Kirsten and Maggie have to dress in club wear.
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* HeroBall: You would think that a government program involving top secret technology would make investigating the death of one of the co-developers of said technology a priority over anything, much less a local homicide case. Nope. Kirsten [[ProperlyParanoid suspects an ulterior motive on Maggie's part.]]
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* SherlockScan: How Kirsten compensates for her temporal dysplasia and autism. She has to deduce the passage of time and others' emotional states by analyzing external cues.
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* MissingMom: Kirsten barely remembers her mother and apparently she wasn't around when her dad took off. [[spoiler:However, like her dad and Ed, Kirsten's mom was a co-developer of the Stitcher tech.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Part of the stitching process requires the stitcher to wear a shiny black catsuit. Kirsten [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this but Linus says the alternative was going into the tank naked.
-->'''Kirsten:''' I have to dress like Catwoman?
** The second episode involves investigating a rave, so naturally Kirsten and Maggie have to dress in club wear.
-->'''Kirsten:''' I have to dress like Catwoman?
** The second episode involves investigating a rave, so naturally Kirsten and Maggie have to dress in club wear.
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* DisappearedDad: Kirsten's father left her with his friend Ed Clark for an unexplained reason and literally did not look back.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: When Kirsten is stitching she's vulnerable to anything that was influencing the subject in the recollection, even though it should just be a memory. When she comes out, she often retains residual thoughts and feelings from the subject. The previous stitcher, Marta, went into a coma because she couldn't deal with this.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Despite her claimed inability to feel or process emotion, Kirsten is the Red to Cameron's Blue.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Kirsten has some vaguely defined atypical neurological condition. She has no innate sense of the passage of time, which she says makes all her new experiences feel like they've always been part of her. She states that she had to learn to read people's emotions by studying flash cards, which implies an Autism Spectrum Disorder. However, she then goes on to say that she's never ''felt'' the emotions either, which doesn't make her autistic, it makes her TheSociopath. This in spite of the fact that she seems to emote and develop emotional attachments just fine (though her go-to seems to be anger). Basically, she has a fictional catch-all neurological disorder which lets the writers give her any character quirk they like and also lets her use the AppliedPhlebotinum.
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->'''Kirsten:''' She didn't OD, she was murdered.\\
'''Fisher:''' And how do you know this?\\
'''Kirsten:''' Because we hacked into her brain after she died, and read her memories. It's called "stitching."
'''Fisher:''' And how do you know this?\\
'''Kirsten:''' Because we hacked into her brain after she died, and read her memories. It's called "stitching."
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* CannotTellALie: Kirsten. And she seems to see no point in trying.
* InspectorJavert: Fisher. Kirsten just decides to let him in on the Stitchers program rather than let him continue hindering her fieldwork.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Kirsten. Linus's comment on Camille's getup is a more succinct "Woof."
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]'' Kirsten... cleans up... good!
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]'' Kirsten... cleans up... good!
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Kirsten. Linus's comment on Camille's getup is a more succinct "Woof."
"Woof," which is quickly reciprocated.
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]''Kirsten... Kirsten cleans up... good!
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]''
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'''Kirsten:''' Do you think he's right?
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'''Kirsten:''' Do you think he's right?right?\\
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Kirsten
** TheLancer: Cameron
** TheSmartGuy: Linus
** TheBigGuy: Maggie[=/=]Fisher
** TheChick: Camille
** TheHero: Kirsten
** TheLancer: Cameron
** TheSmartGuy: Linus
** TheBigGuy: Maggie[=/=]Fisher
** TheChick: Camille
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* TheReveal: Episode 2 has a big one: [[spoiler: Kirsten's roommate is part of the Stitchers program.]]
* TheStoic: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch.
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* TheReveal: Episode 2 has a big one: [[spoiler: Kirsten's roommate is part of the Stitchers program.]]
* TheStoic:MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch.Cameron.
--> '''Cameron:''' Hey. You did good today, Stretch.\\
'''Kirsten:''' You too, girlfriend.
* TheNicknamer: Cameron.
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--> '''Cameron:''' Hey. You did good today, Stretch.\\
'''Kirsten:''' You too, girlfriend.
* TheNicknamer: Cameron.
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* TheReveal: Almost reaching OnceAnEpisode levels.
** Episode 1: [[spoiler:Ed Clark, Kirsten's stepfather, and Daniel Stinger, her biological father, co-created the Stitchers program]].
** Episode 2 has a big one: [[spoiler: Kirsten's roommate is part of the Stitchers program]]. On a more emotional note: [[spoiler:Marta, the former occupant of Kirsten's position in the Stitchers program, is also Cameron's girlfriend, and is currently comatose]].
** Episode 3: [[spoiler:Maggie Baptiste was in a relationship with Ed Clark]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kirsten. Linus's comment on Camille's getup is a more succinct "Woof."
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]'' Kirsten... cleans up... good!
* SociopathicHero: Kirsten. The stitches are starting to sort of cure her sociopathy, however.
* TheStoic: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch. Later episodes explain that this is caused by residual emotions from the stitches, and it turns out that [[spoiler:Marta was rendered comatose due to being unable to deal with said residual emotions during a stitch]].
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: As Kirsten gets more exposure to emotions through the stitches, she begins to understand what love feels like, and often asks Cameron about it.
--> '''Kirsten:''' Is this what love is? Intense connection and then, heartbreaking loss?\\
'''Cameron:''' Maybe.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Is it worth it?\\
'''Cameron:''' "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all." Tennyson.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Do you think he's right?
'''Cameron:''' I don't know. But if you figure it out, tell me?
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** Episode 1: [[spoiler:Ed Clark, Kirsten's stepfather, and Daniel Stinger, her biological father, co-created the Stitchers program]].
** Episode 2 has a big one: [[spoiler: Kirsten's roommate is part of the Stitchers program]]. On a more emotional note: [[spoiler:Marta, the former occupant of Kirsten's position in the Stitchers program, is also Cameron's girlfriend, and is currently comatose]].
** Episode 3: [[spoiler:Maggie Baptiste was in a relationship with Ed Clark]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kirsten. Linus's comment on Camille's getup is a more succinct "Woof."
--> '''Cameron:''' ''[on seeing Kirsten's rave attire]'' Kirsten... cleans up... good!
* SociopathicHero: Kirsten. The stitches are starting to sort of cure her sociopathy, however.
* TheStoic: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch. Later episodes explain that this is caused by residual emotions from the stitches, and it turns out that [[spoiler:Marta was rendered comatose due to being unable to deal with said residual emotions during a stitch]].
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: As Kirsten gets more exposure to emotions through the stitches, she begins to understand what love feels like, and often asks Cameron about it.
--> '''Kirsten:''' Is this what love is? Intense connection and then, heartbreaking loss?\\
'''Cameron:''' Maybe.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Is it worth it?\\
'''Cameron:''' "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all." Tennyson.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Do you think he's right?
'''Cameron:''' I don't know. But if you figure it out, tell me?
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Kirsten wears shoes, but apparently when you are "stitching" into someone's memories, you have to be barefoot in the "fish tank".
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* TheReveal: Episode 2 has a big one: [[spoiler: Kirsten's roommate is part of the Stitchers program.]]
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* TimedMission: Due to the fact that consciousness is only stored in a deceased brain for a short time, all "stitches" are these.
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''Stitchers'' is a ScienceFiction series that began airing on Creator/ABCFamily in 2015. It stars Emma Ishta, Alison Scagliotti, and Kyle Harris.
The plot focuses on Kirsten Clark, a college student at Caltech who is recruited into the Stitchers program, a covert government agency that helps solve murders by "stitching" their agents into the consciousness of the deceased, allowing them to view the memories of the dead.
There is also a virtual reality game "Stichers: Hack the Case".
!!Tropes in this series include:
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirsten gets some moments:
-->'''Cameron:''' You're not supposed to be able to touch things. It's an intangible.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Oh I'm sorry, did I break your super-secret technology?
* DisabilitySuperpower: Kirsten's temporal dysplasia impairs her sense of time and seemingly reduces her capacity to experience emotions, but it also makes her a perfect candidate for the Stichers program.
* HeHadAName: Kirsten points this out regarding her deceased ParentalSubstitute:
-->'''Kirsten:''' The sample has a name: Ed Clark.
* TheStoic: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch.
* TimedMission: Due to the fact that consciousness is only stored in a deceased brain for a short time, all "stitches" are these.
The plot focuses on Kirsten Clark, a college student at Caltech who is recruited into the Stitchers program, a covert government agency that helps solve murders by "stitching" their agents into the consciousness of the deceased, allowing them to view the memories of the dead.
There is also a virtual reality game "Stichers: Hack the Case".
!!Tropes in this series include:
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirsten gets some moments:
-->'''Cameron:''' You're not supposed to be able to touch things. It's an intangible.\\
'''Kirsten:''' Oh I'm sorry, did I break your super-secret technology?
* DisabilitySuperpower: Kirsten's temporal dysplasia impairs her sense of time and seemingly reduces her capacity to experience emotions, but it also makes her a perfect candidate for the Stichers program.
* HeHadAName: Kirsten points this out regarding her deceased ParentalSubstitute:
-->'''Kirsten:''' The sample has a name: Ed Clark.
* TheStoic: Kirsten doesn't display a lot of emotion in the Pilot and explains that her condition has always prevented her from doing so. However, she becomes NotSoStoic after her first stitch.
* TimedMission: Due to the fact that consciousness is only stored in a deceased brain for a short time, all "stitches" are these.
