Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill

Hawk is Sheriff Truman's deputy in Twin Peaks, a Nez Perce tracker whose knowledge of the woods and their older stories runs deeper than anyone else on the force. Steady, watchful, and dryly patient with the strangeness swirling through town, he works the Laura Palmer case with quiet competence and an openness to things the FBI can't quite explain.

He's the show's rare figure of unshowy dignity, a Native character written with respect rather than mysticism-as-decoration, and Michael Horse plays him with a calm, dry intelligence that never tips into cliché. Hawk listens more than he talks, and when he does speak about the woods, people lean in — including us.'