
DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in Edinburgh police. After a shooting that leaves a young PC dead, and his partner paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Department Q; a newly formed cold case unit. The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best - rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer.
Matthew Goode DCI Carl Morck
Chloe Pirrie Merritt Lingard
Alexej Manvelov Akram Salim
Leah Byrne DC Rose Dickson
Jamie Sives DCI James Hardy
Kelly Macdonald Rachel Irving
Mark Bonnar Stephen Burns
Alison Peebles Female Captor
Kate Dickie DCS Moira Jacobson
Shirley Henderson Claire Marsh
Aisling Franciosi Kimmie
Greg Wise Derek Powell