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You can watch Patience (2025) for free on PBS.

Patience Evans works in the Criminal Records Office in the city of York. She views the world in a unique way because she has a special gift – she is autistic. Patience has a special interest in solving puzzles and a secret fascination and talent for criminology—her unique perspective allows her to connect the dots through clues in a way others simply cannot. Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf recognizes her talents and takes her under her wing. Patience helps the police tackle a series of challenging cases by bringing her unique insight to crimefighting.

An autistic clerk transforms her mundane files into a sprawling map of criminal patterns. Her hyper-focused intellect turns routine paperwork into a razor-sharp tool for solving the unsolvable.

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