Dept. Q is the higher rated show on Rotten Tomatoes with both fans (90% to Untamed ’s 70%) and critics (87% to Untamed ’s 80% ...

Netflix's Dept. Q wowed audiences, but while waiting to see if the crime show will earn a renewal, this British crime drama ...

It's really hard to exit. Dept. Q stars Chloe Pirrie as Merritt Lingard, a prosecutor who has been missing for four years and has been kept in a pressurised container all that time. (Netflix) ...

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With Dept. Q now out, “I’ve really started to understand how different a show I was in compared to everyone else,” admits Chloe Pirrie, who delivers an outstanding performance as Merritt ...

THE PERFORMANCES | Edinburgh Detective Carl Morck and cutthroat prosecutor Merritt Lingard are, for all intents and purposes, miserable human beings — a fact Dept. Q spends much of its gripping ...

Season 1 centers on their first investigation: the disappearance of prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie). That case ultimately reaches a resolution, but the trauma that brought Carl to Dept ...

There's also a possibility Chloe Pirrie could reprise her role as Merritt Lingard and Mark Bonnar as Stephen Burns, if Detective Morck sees his cases end up in court.

Indeed, even as we follow the team's investigation, we get flashbacks to Merritt's past. Ultimately the two tracks come together. In truth, it takes quite a while to get there.

However, Merritt said for Harry not to go through with it in the end, but he did it anyway. When Harry turned up that night, Merritt's brother William was actually there.

Carl and Akram begin looking into the disappearance five years earlier of Merritt Lingard, played by Chloe Pirrie, a prosecuting attorney whose spiky intelligence mirrors Carl's own.