Cameron is haunted by the stitch that went wrong when Marta Rodriguez was the stitcher. Cameron relives that horrific stitch in his dreams. Marta went into cardiac arrest in the middle of a stitch. Cameron was worried that forcefully bouncing her out of the memory would fry her mind, but Maggie ordered him to bounce Marta.
Cameron’s Marta nightmare causes him to oversleep. He calls Kirsten to check how her physical went. The physical was fine and there was nothing to worry about.
Cameron is annoyed that his neighbor keeps taking his magazines. Cameron moved from the loft below his a few months ago, but the new neighbor isn’t putting his name on the mailbox. The mail gets mixed up and his neighbor is now hoarding Cameron’s magazines. Kirsten tells Cameron to man up and get the magazines back.
His neighbor’s door is open, so Cameron walks in and finds his magazines on the table. His neighbor had no intention of returning the magazines. He even dog-eared the pages that he was reading. Unfortunately, dog-eared magazine pages aren’t the only thing Cameron finds. He sees his neighbor, Robbie Peterson, dead on the floor.
Detective Fisher and Kirsten rush over to investigate the murder. It’s not a robbery, since the art and valuables weren’t taken. It looks like Robbie was executed. He was shot twice in the back at close range.
Detective Fisher and Kirsten wonder if Cameron was the intended target. Cameron and Robbie were the same age and have the same build. Plus, Cameron used to live in Robbie’s apartment. As for motive, Cameron is a neuroscientist that works on technology that could change the world as we know it.
There’s one way to know for sure. Kirsten decides to stitch into Robbie’s memories and find out who killed him.
Cameron starts getting paranoid that someone is trying to kill him. Maggie says Robbie didn’t really have friends or enemies and was a loner, which makes it hard to find a motive for the murder.
No one outside the Stitchers program knows about Cameron’s involvement, so he starts suspecting his coworkers. The guy from the engineering department never liked him.