Special Agent Maya Miller

Maya Miller is the FBI agent who steps into the investigation of Marty and Wendy Byrde with fresh eyes and none of her predecessors' baggage. Careful, sharp, and unwilling to be charmed, she starts pulling at the threads of the Byrdes' too-tidy story, convinced there's a much bigger case underneath it.

Dukes plays her with a flat, unimpressed patience that makes her immune to the Byrdes' usual tricks — she doesn't rattle, doesn't rush, and doesn't buy the performance. After seasons of federal agents getting outmaneuvered, watching someone methodical and clear-eyed finally close in is genuinely tense.