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Patience
The Locked Room
Season 2025
Episode 4
A bestselling crime writer is found dead behind locked doors. Bea asks Patience to help with the investigation. The dead man, Harry Franklin, is one of Patience’s favorite writers and she is intrigued by his death and his reclusive life. Patience helps make an important breakthrough in the case which links back to a decades-past fire which left the writer terribly scarred and a woman dead.
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A man dies on a bus and Bea is warned off the case, but she refuses to stop investigating.

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50:02
A body disappears from the morgue. Patience has a connection to the case.

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50:16
A body in a museum exhibit leads the team into the shadowy world of fossil smuggling.

49:32
Bea learns more about Patience’s difficult past and together they uncover a trail.

49:35
Detective Bea Metcalf is intrigued when Patience connects a suicide to other cases.