'Patience's Fourth Episode Faces the Mystery of “The Locked Room”
It’s the fourth installment of a six-episode first season, and Patience accelerates a couple of arcs while managing not to rush anything. We get the continuation of the adorable flirting between Patience and Elliot (Tom Lewis), the CSI manager. The enormous amount of plot in the previous episodes didn’t allow space to mention their cute crime scene interactions; however, if you’ve been watching, you surely noticed them making googly eyes at each other over the evidence. The chemistry is palpable.
This episode also sees Patience opening up about her mother, who we previously learned left her father when Patience was six years old. Metcalf asks about contacting her mother now, and Patience is perplexed as to why she’d want to do that. Patience also allows Metcalf into her inner sanctum: first at work, then later in Patience’s bedroom for tea. It’s a jump in their friendship, but it feels earned.
Our mystery this week concerns reclusive but successful crime novel writer Harry Franklin, who was found dead in his home from what turns out to be cyanide poisoning. Metcalf is sure it’s suicide since the apartment was locked from the inside, there’s no sign of forced entry, and the poison was in Franklin’s drink. But Patience is equally sure it’s a murder and one that mimics the plot of one of the victim’s books.
