Dept. Q crime series set to start resolving those unsolvable cold cases

At the turn of this century, a crime series titled Cold Case was quite a rage among viewers. Starring Kathryn Morris, a Philadelphia detective with her problems, who went on solving a cold case after another, the series ran for seven years. Dept. Q, a new Netflix series with a similar concept that will open its cold case files on May 29, 2025, might repeat such a success.

The new series is based on the books by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, and stars Matthew Goode as Edinburgh, Scotland, detective Carl Morck, who has quite a few personal demons to resolve.

During an attack, an officer was left dead, and his partner was paralyzed, and the guilt was pressing on Morck's shoulders. To regain his confidence, Morck is tasked with opening a cold case department - Dept. Q.

Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless) wrote and directed the series, insisting that Goode be cast in the main role. Frank has been working on the series for a while, delving into Adler-Olsen books for over two decades, this time setting them in Edinburgh.

What is the Dept. Q plot

After the shooting incident that burdens Morck, he returns to work only to find out that he has been seemingly promoted to head of a new department that is supposed to investigate cold cases. While Morck is happy to take on the job, he soon realizes that his new department has two main goals.

One is to serve as a PR tool to cover overall police inefficiency in the city, and the other is to move him away from active cases. Yet, it turns out that by gathering similar police outcasts for his team, and with his investigative skills and perseverance, Morck has found a formula that just might be bound to make his Dept. Q work.

Who is in the Dept. Q cast?

• Mathew Goode, who plays detective Carl Morck, has quite a long list of series behind him, as he has appeared in The Good Wife, Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game, The King’s Man, The Discovery of Witches, The Duke, The Crown, and The Hatton Garden Job.
• Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit) plays prosecutor 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

Judging by the concept, plot, and main characters, Dept. Q seems like a series that will attract all the crime buffs among the viewers.

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