Superintendent Edward "Ted" Hastings

Ted Hastings runs AC-12, the police anti-corruption unit, with the stern discipline of a man who believes the job matters more than anyone's comfort, his own included. Northern Irish, devout, and immovably principled, he interrogates suspects with a mix of courtesy and menace, convinced that bent coppers are the rot at the heart of the force he loves.

Adrian Dunbar turns procedural dialogue into music, all clipped cadence and sudden warmth, so that phrases like 'fella' and 'mother of God' become instantly iconic. The writing keeps testing whether Hastings is as clean as he insists, and Dunbar plays that pressure beautifully, letting righteousness and doubt sit on the same face at once.