Matt Eastwood

DS Eastwood is one of the Belfast detectives drafted onto the murder inquiry that brings Stella Gibson north. He works the case with the plain, unglamorous focus of a career copper — following leads, running the room's practical business — while the more senior officers around him jostle over control of the investigation.

Stuart Graham plays him as procedure made human: unshowy, competent, faintly weary of politics above his pay grade. In a series full of outsized performances from its leads, Eastwood's steadiness is its own kind of pleasure — the sense of an actual police force doing actual police work underneath the psychological drama.