'You do your homework': Matthew Goode on playing a cop in major new Netflix series Dept. Q 

Dept. Q has the Goode taking on the role in a new Ediburgh-set crime series, writes Esther McCarthy

Matthew Goode at a screening of Dept. Q. Picture: StillMoving.

A cold-case mystery like no other is set to unfold in the binge-worthy crime series Dept. Q. The new show from The Queen’s Gambit writer-director Scott Frank sees cantankerous English detective Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) setting up a cold-case department in his adopted city of Edinburgh.

Shaken by a violent attack that has left one colleague dead and another with serious injuries, Morck wrestles with his own trauma as he unfurls a shocking missing person case.