Dar Adal

Dar Adal moves through Washington's intelligence world like someone who has never once been surprised by it. A veteran operative and old friend to Saul Berenson, he trades in favors, black budgets, and quiet leverage, always positioned just outside the official chain of command — advising, needling, and rarely explaining himself fully.

F. Murray Abraham plays him with a stillness that reads as total control; he barely raises his voice and somehow still dominates every room he enters. The writing keeps his loyalties deliberately opaque, and Abraham uses that ambiguity beautifully, letting you feel the decades of tradecraft behind his calm without ever tipping his hand.