A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh’s cold cases. Dept. Q drops on Netflix on 29 May. Created by Scott Frank, the new British crime drama series is based on the book series by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

DCI Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) is a brilliant detective but a nightmare to work with. His sharp tongue and biting sarcasm have won him no allies in the Edinburgh police. After a tragic shooting leaves a young PC dead and his partner paralysed, Carl is quietly pushed aside—banished to the basement as the lone member of Department Q, a cold case unit created more for PR than real police work. The force is crumbling under pressure and happy to see him go. But Carl unexpectedly begins to pull together a team of misfits, each with something to prove. And when the cold case of a missing high-ranking civil servant suddenly heats up, Carl finds himself back where he belongs—stirring trouble, shaking trees, and refusing to let the truth stay buried.

The series’ all-star cast includes:

• Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey, Stoker) as Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck
• Mark Bonnar (Shetland, Unforgotten) as Stephen Burns
• Chloe Pirrie (The Game, An Inspector Calls) as Merritt Lingard
• Jamie Sives (Annika, Guilt) as Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy
• Leah Byrne (Nightsleeper, The Last Bus) as Detective Constable Rose Dickson
• Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) as Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson

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