Chief Superintendent Lorraine Craddock

Lorraine Craddock is a senior Metropolitan Police officer operating in the tense, turf-conscious world around counter-terrorism and close protection. She moves through briefings and corridors with the brisk authority of someone used to being obeyed, weighing risk and reputation in the same breath, and treating the people beneath her as instruments of the job at hand.

Haywood plays her with the flat, unshowy confidence of institutional power, letting small hesitations and clipped courtesies suggest the political calculations running underneath. In a thriller built on who can be trusted, Craddock's brisk competence becomes its own kind of tension, making every calm instruction feel worth a second look.