Detective Mae Dunn

Detective Mae Dunn moves through Barry's Los Angeles as a figure of institutional authority, the kind of investigator whose questions quietly tighten around the show's tangle of half-buried crimes. She is measured and watchful, more interested in what people aren't saying than in what they are.

Sarah Burns plays her with a dry, unhurried precision that suits a show built on people badly overacting their own innocence. Dunn's calm becomes its own kind of tension, a reminder that somewhere outside Barry's chaos, someone is quietly doing the math.