Department Q In The Media

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DEPARTMENT Q

Category — Drama

Streamer — Netflix

Release Date — 2025 (TBA)

 

Synopsis:

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Department Q is an adaptation of the novels of the same name from Danish author, Jussi Adler-Olsen. Written by Scott Frank, Chandni Lakhani, Stephen Greenhorn and Colette Kane, the eight-part series revolves around Carl Morck, a former top-rated detective in Edinburgh assigned to a new cold case whilst wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralysed and another policeman dead.

 

Cast:

Matthew Goode | Chloe Pirrie | Alexej Manvelov | Kelly Macdonald | Leah Byrne

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♦️ MATTHEW GOODE as  DCI CARL MORCK ♦️

Detective, Carl Morck - brilliant but impossible - has his life turned upside down after a violent incident leaves his partner paralysed and an officer dead. Upon his return to work, he is tasked with setting up Department Q – a new cold case department, which is little more than a PR exercise. At first, being sidelined suits Carl; he’s happy to waste his days playing solitaire and skiving. Yet over the course of the series, Carl’s detective instincts are reawakened, and his new department down in the basement becomes an unlikely magnet for the misfits and mavericks of Chief Super, Moira’s police team. 

 

♦️ CHLOE PIRRIE as MERRITT LINGARD ♦️

Merritt, a ruthless and ambitious prosecutor, has quickly risen the ranks in the Crown Office.  Merritt had a troubled childhood, raised by her absent father on the Isle of Mull.  But after her brother William suffered a severe brain injury, she turned her life around and dedicated her life to him, whilst striving for justice in her role as prosecutor.  However, in the wake of the biggest case of her career, Merritt decides she needs to make a change.  As a result, Merritt and Carl’s paths collide.

 

♦️ ALEXEJ MANVELOV as AKRAM SALIM ♦️

Akram was an officer in the Syrian police force when civil war broke out. He decided to flee to Europe with his family. Unable to work as a cop in the UK, he petitions for work at Edinburgh’s police station, becoming Carl’s assistant. Akram keeps his past life in Syria private, but as the series goes on, Carl realises he’s underestimated his new partner.

 

♦️ KELLY MACDONALD as  DR RACHEL IRVING ♦️

Dr Rachel Irving is the therapist charged with getting officers back on the front line. She’s smart, and she soon gets the measure of Carl, his trauma and his superiority complex. Intrigued by one another, the two develop a deeper connection across the series.

 

♦️ LEAH BYRNE as ROSE ♦️

Rose was a top police cadet with a promising future in the force.  But a mental-health-related breakdown during her first year as a detective constable has left her on shaky ground.  Demoted to a desk job, the stigma has followed her ever since.  She appeals to Carl in his new department down in the basement for a chance to prove herself once again.

 

The cast also includes:

• Mark Bonnar (Napoleon, Guilt) as Stephen
• Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter, Bridget Jones) as Clare Marsh
• Jamie Sives (Guilt, Crime) as DS Hardy
• Kate Dickie (Inside Man, The Witch) as Moira

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Netflix’s Department Q is an adaptation of author Jussi Adler-Olsen‘s noir-thriller book series of the same name.

Here’s the synopsis for the first book in the Department Q series, The Keeper of Lost Causes:

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Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead.

But she isn’t dead … yet.

 

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The book series has already been adapted into a film series in Denmark.

Department Q Trilogy - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films