Patience on Prime Video
Patience on Prime Video – Patience Evans’ quiet ordered world changes dramatically when she comes to the attention of Detective Bea Metcalf, an intuitive policewoman with an impressive track record but a chaotic private life.
Bea recognizes Patience’s unique powers of deduction and wants her on her team. Patience, who has always been fascinated by crime and mystery, finds herself drawn into a new and unpredictable world.
As the public’s knowledge of autism grows, there is an increasing number of neurodivergent characters on TV and in films that are not only portrayed by neurodivergent actors, but also don’t display the robotic, unfeeling characteristics that autistic characters have shown even in the recent past.
In a new British mystery series that originally aired on the UK’s Channel 4 in January (and already filmed a second season), a criminal records clerk becomes a civilian investigator for a Yorkshire police detective because of the special skills her autism brings to those investigations.
Storyline for Patience on Prime Video
The man, who seems to be in a trance, demands that the money be withdrawn.
He drives to the top of a parking garage, puts the envelope with the cash in a trash can, then sets himself on fire.
York police DI Bea Metcalf (Laura Fraser) is called in by her boss, Calvin Baxter (Mark Benton), to look into the case.
She and her team, including her investigative partner, DS Jake Hunter (Nathan Welsh), are told that it’s initially considered a suicide, but given the victim’s connections, Baxter wants to make doubly sure of it.
At the same time, Patience Evans (Ella Maisy Purvis) waits to get on the bus to go to her job at the York Police’s criminal records office, a part of a routine she never wavers from.
A man who sees her there every day tries to ask her out. She gives her number but says she never answers unknown calls because “I don’t like surprises.”
Episodes of Patience on Prime Video
S1.E1
Paper Mountain Girl: Part 1
When a man dies after setting himself on fire, eagle-eyed Patience spots an intriguing link to other cases.
Episodes of Patience on Prime Video S1.E2
Paper Mountain Girl: Part 2
A distressed Patience is questioned by the police after coming under suspicion. Bea takes Patience under her wing and learns more about her past. Together, they set to work on cracking the case.
S1.E3
The Missing Link
The team are baffled when a young woman is found dead among the dinosaur display at a museum. The investigation leads them into the shadowy world of fossil smuggling, and Patience makes a startling deduction.
Episodes of Patience on Prime Video S1.E4
The Locked Room
When a bestselling crime writer is found dead behind locked doors, Detective Bea asks Patience to help. The victim is one of Patience’s favorite writers, and intrigued by his death and reclusive life.
S1.E5
My Brother’s Keeper
A body disappears from the morgue: is it the work of body snatchers, or did the corpse walk? The victim is the brother of Patience’s friend Billy, and she knows she must help him.
Episodes of Patience on Prime Video S1.E6
Pandora’s Box
When a man dies on a bus having suffered a violent coughing fit, police discover he had multiple identities and a history of eco terrorism. Detective Bea and her team uncover a trail leading from an abattoir to an arson attack.
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