Randy Ramseyer

Randy Ramseyer is a small-town federal prosecutor in rural Virginia, the kind of lawyer who still believes paperwork and patience can move mountains. As overdose deaths pile up around him, he starts pulling at loose threads in Purdue Pharma's marketing of OxyContin, methodical and unglamorous, unwilling to let the case go quiet.

Hoogenakker plays him without swagger, which is the point: Ramseyer is a working civil servant, not a crusader out of a legal thriller, and the show trusts that his stubbornness is more compelling than heroics. Against a national catastrophe, his careful, unglamorous diligence becomes the story's quiet argument that institutions are made of people willing to do the boring work.