Veronica Newell

Veronica is one of Debra Newell's daughters, and from the moment her mother brings home a new man, she is the one asking questions nobody else wants to ask. Sharp, guarded, and quick to suspect what her mother refuses to see, she watches John Meehan with open wariness while trying to protect her family.

Juno Temple plays suspicion as exhausting rather than dramatic — Veronica isn't a detective, just a daughter who can't relax around a stranger everyone else has decided to trust. That mismatch, between how obvious the danger seems to her and how invisible it is to her mother, gives the character a nervy, frustrated energy that pulls the audience onto her side early.