On this unique first have a look at Tuesday night time’s episode of the FOX sequence, Patton performs Dr. Elizabeth Lewis, the psychiatrist of a assassin on the free whose headed to Gibsons. Racing towards the clock, Lewis will cease at nothing to inform Chief Alberg of the potential menace to his city after receiving a haunting textual content message from her shopper.

“Shane texted you?” Alberg asks. “The night time he killed that politician,” Lewis replies. “He used the sufferer’s personal telephone to ship me that textual content,” she provides, referring to the nefarious texts she obtained from her affected person.

“Physician,” Alberg pleads — weary of Lewis’ claims as he works to calm the folks of Gibsons’ fears amid this impending menace — earlier than including, “The texts you obtained are disturbing, however there is not any approach for me to show they really got here from him.”

“You are a methodical man, Chief Alberg, I can recognize that,” Lewis says earlier than making her case. “OK, in 2022, Shane Sloane pleaded madness to a breaking-and-entering cost.”

“Madness?” Alberg asks.

“The D.A. thought it was excessive to, which is why he introduced me in to evaluate Shane. I recognized him with borderline persona dysfunction. He obtained time served and courtroom ordered remedy,” she explains. “And I found he is the closest I’ve ever come to pure evil.”

“Now, that is the place our professions differ,” Alberg argues.

“Belief me, you have by no means come towards anybody like Shane Sloane,” Lewis maintains. “He is a sociopath. He is a grasp at manipulation.”

She pleads, “It’s a must to perceive, I am afraid for my life.”

See how the investigation takes an “surprising flip” on the brand new episode of Homicide In A Small City, airing Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.