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There’s also time with her husband, Seth Gabel, their kids, Theo, 18, and Bea, 13, and their beloved pets.

While Bea sees the merits of bringing Patience into the investigation, Jake rejects her, both as an outsider and as “temperamentally unsuitable for this kind of work,” though — spoiler alert — he will come around.

“I don’t care if she’s autistic,” says detective Bea, “I just care if she’s right.”

For her part, Patience tells Bea, “Your deductive leaps of logic can be haphazard and your notes are cursory,” but she admires her clearance rate, the best in the country.

Building up to approaching Bea, she writes out what she wants to say in a conversational flow chart.