As the country's away specialists we should come to expect it, but you wouldn't have bet on it at the break.
The home side ran the first 15 minutes. Gary Wales lashed a shot narrowly over when he was cleverly set up by Colin Nish and Frazer Wright shot wide from a 25-yard free-kick, but Colin Nish put Killie ahead with a header from a David Fernandez corner on the right.
Thistle kept plugging away, and got a reward when a long throw by Grant Munro from the right eluded the home defence and poacher extraordinaire Craig Dargo was available at the back post to stab in the equaliser.
Despite three wonderful second-half chances for Graham Bayne, who headed wide, Dargo who headed over, and Dargo again who had a push into an open goal foiled when Graeme Smith got fingers to it an it came back off the post, there were no more goals.
Killie nearly stole it right at the death when Wright got powerful header to an Allan Johnston cross, but Mark Brown made a terrific diving save to keep the scores level.