Netflix has set a May premiere date for ‘Dept. Q‘, an adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q novel series, starring Matthew Goode, from the writer/director behind ‘The Queen’s Gambit’.
DCI Carl Morck (Goode) is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in the 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 (Downton Abbey, Stoker) takes the lead as Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck. He is joined by Chloe Pirrie (The Game, An Inspector Calls) as Merritt Lingard, Jamie Sives (Annika, Guilt) as Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy, Mark Bonnar (Operation Mincemeat, Unforgotten) as Stephen Burns, Alexej Manvelov (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Chernobyl) as Akram Salim, Leah Byrne (Nightsleeper, The Last Bus) as Detective Constable Rose Dickson, Kate Dickie (The Witch, Game of Thrones) as Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson, Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) as Claire Marsh, Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men, Gosford Park) as Dr. Rachel Irving, and Tom Bulpett (Father Brown, Casualty) as William Lingard.
Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless) is the writer/director of the series, and it is produced by Left Bank Pictures (The Crown, Outlander). Rob Bullock, Scott Frank, and Andy Harries are exec producers.
‘Dept. Q‘ premieres Thursday, 29th May 2025 on Netflix UK and worldwide.
