Patience Series 1 - Episode 6 -

“Prove it. Come in here. Unarmed. Sit across from me.”

(to Vance) “He needs a psych hold, not a cell. I’ll file the paperwork myself.”

“No. It was you. And then you came home. And the silence started. Not the quiet of peace. The silence of a world that doesn’t understand what you heard.” Patience Series 1 - Episode 6

(gruff, not looking at camera) “That was another man.”

He looks at the photograph—a woman and a young boy. “Prove it

Patience sits alone in her car. She pulls down the visor mirror. Beneath a photo of a younger woman with a badge (her former partner, deceased), she writes a new note: “Day 1,486 of staying.” She starts the engine.

“You served in Fallujah, 2006. Medic. You pulled seventeen wounded out of an ambush. You didn’t sleep for three days. Your hands never stopped moving.” Sit across from me

Patience notices a live feed from a hidden security camera inside. Thorne sits alone at a large oak table, a hunting rifle across his lap. He is not looking at the hostages (a group of terrified children and two librarians). He is staring at a single framed photograph.

“Because he’s not in this century right now. We have to meet him in his.” Act Two: The Echo Scene 2: Interior, Library Reference Room – Same Time Patience sits cross-legged outside the heavy oak door. An old rotary phone is next to her, connected to a single speaker inside the room. She doesn’t speak into a microphone; she speaks into the phone’s receiver.

“Why?”