Cary Warleggan

Cary Warleggan is the family's banker and its conscience-free engine — a thin, watchful uncle who counts every penny the Warleggans have clawed into gentility. He wants advancement, security, and leverage over anyone who owes him money, which in this corner of Cornwall is nearly everyone. Warmth is not part of his ledger.

Pip Torrens plays him with a stillness that's more frightening than any shouting rival could manage — a dry, precise voice delivering ruin as though reading out interest rates. The writing never asks you to like him; it just lets him be quietly, immovably right about how much money controls this world, which makes him impossible to dismiss.