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The answer: Yes (mostly), and her name is Patience. The episode wastes no time. Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are frantic, the ghosts are in a panic, and the basement is ominously quiet. We quickly learn that the hand belongs to Patience (a wonderfully unsettling Mary Holland), a Puritan ghost who has been living alone in the dirt for over 300 years.

The show has promised that Patience will “haunt the perimeter” and return when it snows. Here’s hoping she brings more hellfire (and fewer moles) in Episode 2. ghosts s04e01 amr

The question on every fan’s mind: Is Isaac okay? And who is the new spectre in the basement? The answer: Yes (mostly), and her name is Patience

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Ghosts airs Thursdays on CBS and streams next day on Paramount+. Were you satisfied with the Patience arc, or did you want her to stay longer? Drop a comment below. 👻 We quickly learn that the hand belongs to

The episode smartly uses her as a mirror for the Woodstone ghosts. For all their squabbling, Sass, Alberta, Flower, and Thor have become a found family. Patience represents their past—a time when they were less forgiving, more rigid, and frankly, cruel. The guilt is palpable, especially for Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), who delivers a surprisingly emotional monologue about the shame of being a coward.

Why? Because Hetty, Isaac, and the others left her behind . Back in the 1800s, the group was escaping a cholera outbreak and accidentally abandoned Patience in a collapsing root cellar. She has been waiting in the soil ever since, stewing in righteous, Old Testament fury. What makes “Patience” work so well is its tonal balance. This isn’t just “new ghost causes wacky house problems.” Patience is genuinely unnerving. She speaks in King James Bible verses, refuses to use the mansion’s interior (walls are “sinful separation from the earth”), and her idea of a prank is leaving a dead mole on Sam’s pillow .