Rob Singhal

Rob Singhal is one of the handful of loyal operatives working under Angela Burr on her unofficial investigation into arms dealer Richard Roper. Careful, watchful and quietly competent, he does the unglamorous groundwork of surveillance and analysis, trusting his boss's instincts even when the wider intelligence establishment does not.

Akhtar plays him without a trace of showiness, which is exactly the point: Singhal is the person who makes a conspiracy thriller feel plausible, patiently doing the paperwork of espionage while grander men chase glory. His steadiness becomes its own kind of tension, a reminder that the real work of catching Roper happens in quiet rooms, not glamorous ones.