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Matthew Goode plays an angsty cop in Dept . Q , Scott Frank ’s new Netflix closed book series that ’s congeal to premiere on May 25th .
It’sMatthew Goode ’s number to play an angsty cop inDept . Q , an adaptation of the novels of the same name by Danish authorJussi Adler - Olsen . The serial go around around Carl Morck , a former top - rate detective in Edinburgh assigned to a new moth-eaten guinea pig whilst wracked with guilty conscience for an attack that left his partner paralytic and another copper bushed . Morck is n’t particularly easy to get along with . It ’s not his fault — well , maybe it ’s his mistake a little . Morck is a ill-famed figure in his borrow home of Edinburgh , Scotland , an English investigator who gets under the pelt of everyone around him . Dept . Qis adapted by author / directorScott Frank , who was behind both Netflix hitsThe Queen ’s GambitandGodless .
But , of course of study , there ’s more to Carl Morck than meets the middle . " There ’s a genial part to him that ’s there , " Frank teased . You just might have to scratch the surface more than a little to get to that kind of part , particularly as Morck recovers from a tragic on - duty shooting that provide him marred , a young police constable dead , and his married person paralyzed . Upon come back to work , he ’s put in commission of a brand - new police building block : the Department Qof the show ’s title of respect , task with inquire cold cases as part of a PR exploit for the Scotch police force . Only one trouble with Dept . Q : it ’s a police squad full of eccentric .
Showrunner Scott Frank on Dept. Q
" When we connect the story , a 16 - yr - old sheath up in Aberdeen has been solved , " Goode enjoin . " The optics of that look really estimable , because right now they ’re miss finance and criminal offense figures are extend up . So Kate Dickie ’s character — the knob of the police force — her higher - ups say , ' Let ’s form a insensate lawsuit unit . ' " Of naturally , Carl ’s promotional material to the forefront of Department Q is n’t of necessity a compliment . " She puts Carl in charge because she can keep an heart on him in the basement , " Goode laugh .
Frank has been live with Adler - Olsen ’s books in mind for more than two decade . " There was just something about it , " says the writer / theater director . " The title , this notion of something called Department Q , stayed with me . And so I contact with the author while I was shootingA Walk Among the Tombstonesin New York , and I ’d actually had the books for a dyad of year by then . "
The cast ofDept . QfeaturesMatthew Goodeas Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck , Chloe Pirrieas Merritt Lingard , Jamie Sivesas Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy , Mark Bonnaras Stephen Burns , Alexej Manvelov(Tom Clancy ’s Jack Ryan , Chernobyl ) as Akram Salim , Leah Byrneas Detective Constable Rose Dickson , Kate Dickieas Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson , Shirley Hendersonas Claire Marsh , Kelly Macdonaldas Dr. Rachel Irving , andTom Bulpettas William Lingard . Scott Frank write all nine episodes and directed six .
Dept . Qpremieres onNetflixon May 29 , 2025 .
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