Daevisha 'Dave' Mahar

Dave Mahar is a senior prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, working under U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades. She is sharp, exacting, and unafraid to push back on her boss, more interested in building airtight cases than in the political theater that surrounds them. Her competence is obvious from the first scene she's in.

Sakina Jaffrey plays her as the office's conscience without ever softening into a scold — she can out-argue anyone in the room and clearly enjoys doing it. In a show full of people performing power, Dave just quietly wields it, which makes her scenes with Chuck feel like the real negotiation underneath all the posturing.