Everything We're Expecting From 'Dept Q' Season Two
Currently, the TV circuit has been giving us back-to-back thrillers (The Better Sister, Nine Perfect Strangers and Code Of Silence), and on May 29, Netflix delivered its own offering: Dept. Q. A nine-part series which sees the grouchy Detective Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) assigned to a police department in Edinburgh, where he is tasked with the assignment of solving the cryptic disappearance of prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie) who has been missing for four years.
Created by American screenwriter, director and producer Scott Frank (Godless, The Queen's Gambit), the series is based on the book series by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen.
If like us, you've finished the series already and are keen to know more about the series' potential return for season two, keep on reading below.
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While season two of the series is still yet to be confirmed, a number of the show's cast members have expressed that they'd be more than on board for returning for another round of Dept. Q, which of course, is always a promising sign.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Goode revealed wasted no time sharing his thoughts, 'It's begging for it,' he said, of the series' potential return.
Elsewhere, he told Yahoo that there is hope of a second season. 'I was saying to Scott [Frank] the other day, what we really need to do is a season two, and we need to get Alexej into eight weeks of Krav Magar training so the fight scenes in season two can be amazing. It's going to be a sort of Syrian Bourne.'
Meanwhile, Frank told the BBC that while the previous seasons that he has worked on were 'meant to be one and done,' Dept. Q has the potential for more. 'There was no more to say but I'd love to do more with this and the next book in the series is even more interesting and relevant.'
At the beginning of the season, we see Carl and his former partner James involved in an on-duty shoot-out, which ends in a young police constable dying, his partner paralysed, and Carl scarred for the foreseeable.
We have not yet seen who shot Carl but is quite possible that it could be revealed in season two to give more context to his trauma.
After Carl saves Merritt's life, the two are unable to properly meet due to Merritt barely being conscious after the ordeal. When she wakes up, she asks to meet Carl to thank him, however, she is told that he is taking time off of work.
The two do end up meeting - but not realising who the other is - when they bump into one another by an elevator. Carl does not reveal his identity to Merritt, so she does not realise the significance of their brief encounter.
As the series has not been confirmed and Scott has provided little information it's hard to say. However, if he plans on following on with the sequence of the Adler-Olsen's books, the second season would be centred around the second book, The Absent One (the first being Mercy). This would see Carl go on to solve yet another case, whereby he is tasked with solving the double murder of a brother and sister, which occurred two decades ago. While one of the suspects is already in prison for the crime, Carl is not convinced that the case has been adequately settled.
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