The man, who appears to be in a trance, demands the money back. He drives to the rooftop of a parking garage, throws the envelope containing the money into a trash can, and sets himself on fire.
Inspector Bea Metcalf (Laura Fraser) is called in by her boss, Calvin Baxter (Mark Benton), to investigate the case. She and her team, including her partner in the investigation, Detective Jake Hunter (Nathan Welsh), are told it's initially considered suicide, but given the victim's connections, Baxter wants to be absolutely sure.
Creators: Laurent Burtin, Alexandre de Seguins
Stars: Ella Maisy Purvis, Laura Fraser, Mark Benton
At the same time, Patience Evans (Ella Maisy Purvis) is waiting to board the bus to go to her job at the York police criminal records office, a routine she hasn't abandoned. A man who sees her there every day tries to ask her out. She gives him her number, but says she never answers calls from strangers because "I don't like surprises."
Bea discovers that the deceased was a psychiatrist, and she and Hunter recall another suicide committed by someone in the same profession a few years earlier. When they call to obtain the records of the previous suicide, Patience retrieves them, as well as records of other suicides that she believes follow the same pattern.
When a curious Bea goes down to the Criminal Investigation Bureau to find Patience, she discovers that her particular "weirdness" doesn't please some, and it's not the first time she's gone too far when searching for records. But Bea, who sneaks into the archive to find Patience, is impressed by how she managed to establish links between the previous suicides and the ones before that.
Patience has found other connections, but she has to rehearse her call to Bea, and is surprised when Bea answers "Yes?" instead of "Hello?" But Patience ends up going to Bea's office to give her "probable links" between this case and others in which people were under the influence of scopolamine, a drug that, in the right dose, can put the victim's mind under the influence of another person.
As the connections Patience has been building work, Bea follows her to see what her life is like (Patience refuses to let Bea drive her because it's not part of her routine) and attends a meeting of a support group for autistic adults. When some of the members talk, Bea remembers some of the things she sees in her preteen son.
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