Jim Conor

Jim Conor moves through Mindhunter's world of field offices and local police departments as one of the working law enforcement men Holden and Bill encounter on their travels — practical, procedural, unglamorous. He is not there to theorize about killers; he is there to handle the case in front of him, skeptical of outsiders with academic ideas.

Tommy Nohilly brings a lived-in, blue-collar solidity to a role that could be pure furniture. Mindhunter's genius is in its texture of ordinary bureaucratic men surrounding its extraordinary subject matter, and a performance like this — understated, procedural, quietly skeptical — is exactly the ballast the show needs to feel real.