Dr Martin Watson

Dr Martin Watson enters the world of Killing Eve as a quietly composed professional, a man whose calm bedside manner sits oddly close to the show's violence. He listens more than he speaks, weighing what people tell him, and seems to know more about the people around him than he lets on.

Adeel Akhtar plays him with a stillness that never quite settles into reassurance — you watch him and wonder what he's withholding. Killing Eve thrives on people who seem ordinary until they aren't, and Watson's watchful courtesy becomes its own kind of tension, low-key and unresolved.