'Patience's Finale Opens Up “Pandora's Box” & Tees Up Season 2
The sixth installment of Patience, which is the show's Season 1 finale, “Pandora’s Box,” is a story of eco-terrorism and double agents where Metcalf nearly dies. This has been a fun season of television, and I’ll admit my perspective softened after interviewing writer Matt Baker and seeing the series through his eyes. It makes sense that he chose this story for the finale rather than the serial killer plot that closes Astrid’s first season, a case which requires the two leads to be a lot more in sync than their relationship has yet become in this version.
A man dies on a commuter bus after vaping, coughing, and collapsing. We then see his shirt is immensely bloody. Once Metcalf arrives, she needs convincing to wear a mask on the scene, which is somewhat surprising in a post-COVID world*. Even though her initial suspicion is blunt force trauma, Dr. Parsons is not ruling out a possible infectious outbreak of tuberculosis.
(*Astrid, which started airing in France in 2019, is one of those shows that ignored the COVID-19 outbreak. Season 2 was already written, and the show just decided to go with it, since many shows at the time were taking the position that people at home did not want to be reminded of the pandemic when they tuned in.)
