Netflix has shared first-look images for their upcoming crime drama Dept. Q, from writer and director Scott Frank.
Downton Abbey (2010-2015) star Matthew Goode appears as Carl, a brash detective leading a cold case unit in Edinburgh.
The official synopsis reads “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 Dept. Q; a newly formed cold case unit […] 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.”
Frank is best known as the writer, director, and creator of The Queen's Gambit (2020), also for Netflix.
The images show some of the key cast for the nine-part series, including Mark Bonnar, Leah Byrne, and fellow The Queen's Gambit alum Chloe Pirrie.
Line of Duty (2012-2021) star Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, and Jamie Sives also feature. Alexej Manvelov, Kate Dickie, and Tom Bulpett complete the main cast.
Dept. Q is an adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's novels of the same name. Frank will also act as executive producer alongside Rob Bullock and Andy Harries.
In a statement, Frank discussed how the adaptation has been two decades in the making. He told Tudum that “There was just something about it […] The title, this notion of something called Department Q, stayed with me. And so I met with the author while I was shooting A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) in New York, and I'd actually had the books for a couple of years by then.”
Dept. Q will be released on Netflix on 29th May 2025
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