"the Patient" Charlie(2022) 〈PROVEN〉

In the 2022 psychological thriller miniseries The Patient , (played by David Alan Grier ) is the former therapist and mentor of the protagonist, Dr. Alan Strauss . While Alan is held captive by a serial killer, Charlie appears throughout the series as a mental manifestation or "imaginary friend" that Alan uses to cope with his imprisonment and navigate his sessions with his captor. Role and Character Significance

: In these imagined sessions, Charlie often asks difficult, prodding questions that Alan uses to scrutinize his own past mistakes and his current clinical approach to his captor, Sam. "The Patient" Charlie(2022)

: Because Alan is physically isolated and chained in a basement, he "summons" Charlie in his mind to process his trauma and strategize his survival. In the 2022 psychological thriller miniseries The Patient