The morning after her escapade at the jewelry store, Patience seems distressed to see the collection of jewels scattered across her bed (while she slept on the floor just like a cat), but once again her ethical standards are called into question as she decides to keep an enormous diamond ring and a one-of-a-kind diamond necklace for herself. In fact, a thief is a thief, and returning most of her spoils hardly makes up for her misconduct (and renders her scribbled "Sorry" that much more insulting).

In fact, it seems the missing diamond necklace will hardly go unnoticed, as Tom Lone receives a whole presentation about it from an unnamed woman we never see again, who concludes simply, "From Egypt!" As Tom discovers the missing jewelry in a paper bag, he demonstrates at least one thing he has in common with Patience: he is terrible at his job too. The word "Sorry" scrawled on the bag doesn't catch his eye, despite its distinct resemblance to the "Sorry" Patience wrote on his coffee the other day, but this brand of incompetence is dwarfed by the viewer's realization that Patience had time to:

• sleep in
• buy (steal?) cupcakes
• return to the scene of the crime
• leave unnoticed

...before the first law enforcement agent arrived at the jewelry store to investigate the most destructive burglary in the history of crime. Presumably, these cupcakes are worth the approximate amount of the priceless diamond necklace and ring she decided to keep for herself.

Patience returns to Ophelia Powers's house for answers, but immediately encounters evasive language, such as when she inquires about the pop-up book Ophelia is showing her:

Patience: You wrote this?
Ophelia: I was a professor for 20 years, until I was denied tenure. Male academia.

Although this answer in no way addresses Patience's question, as the conversation becomes more personal, it is Patience who resists Ophelia's remarkably direct words:

Ophelia: What happened the other night?
Patience: I don't remember.
Ophelia: Do you want me to tell you?
Patience: Yes.
Ophelia: You died.
Patience: What?
Ophelia: You died.

Ophelia's recap of Patience's interactions with Midnight is helpfully accompanied by flashbacks providing no further evidence that Midnight is anything but an ordinary cat who ventured onto a window ledge and likes sitting on motorcycles. Indeed, as Ophelia continues enlightening Patience with tales of Midnight's intelligence, the careful viewer will question whether anything remarkable has actually happened to Patience, or if Ophelia gives the same speech to the mailman every day and Patience's bold new confidence is a misguided result of staggering gullibility.

It certainly appears as though Ophelia has performed this routine before, luring Patience to the second floor before shoving her through an opening in the railing that seems designed for this specific purpose. As if that wasn't rude enough, there is the added flair of showering Patience with assorted photos and illustrations as she trills, "You're not alone, child. She's saved others before you! Look!" Fortunately, with the distraction of now having to collate these documents herself, Patience doesn't even notice that Ophelia has changed her mind about Midnight's gender since her last visit.

-- A police officer, proving that naming comic book characters is best left to professionals