Part 2 of 'Patience's Series Premiere Pushes Our Pair Together

The second episode of Patience, “Paper Mountain Girl, Part 2,” begins where we left off: in an interrogation room as detectives question why Patience was at Chopra’s crime scene. She is too distressed and overstimulated to speak. Baxter gets angry watching what he believes is an uncooperative suspect, and Metcalf follows him to his office, trying to tell him about Patience’s autism. Mr. Gilmour barges in, and in short order, we learn that he is Patience's godfather, is a former DCI, and that Patience is not under arrest, but there voluntarily. Gilmour points out that she’s probably more traumatized because her rights weren't read to her.

Metcalf calms Patience enough to speak. Patience explains she was at the crime scene looking for a cigar, like the one found near Jamieson, and notes there was a cigar at Dr. Clark’s crime scene as well. She insists Dr. Clark wasn’t a smoker. Metcalf studies the photos from Clark and Jamieson’s files, noticing both cigars are the same Cockscomb brand.

Hunter is upset he wasn’t told about Patience’s autism and claims it makes her “temperamentally unsuitable” for police work. Metcalf balks: “I don’t care if she’s autistic, I just care if she’s right.” And of course, she is – after a thorough search, Metcalf finds a Cockscomb cigar in the tailpipe of Chopra’s car. New footage from a neighboring building shows someone in a black hoodie placing the cigar, and in other footage, taking the envelope of money. This clears Patience and opens the investigation to treat the three crimes as connected.