Merritt Lingard was a successful lawyer who disappeared while on a ferry trip with her brother William. The incident happened four years before the events shown in Dept.

Matthew Goode stars as a misanthropic detective in the new mystery from the creator of 'The Queen's Gambit.' ...

Merritt Lingard's case is taken on by Morck and ... Carl Morck used the scandal to get Burns to support the new Department Q. He did this by quietly pressuring Burns to do so and getting resources ...

The truth about what happens to Merritt Lingard — and how Detective Carl Morck builds a team capable of saving her.

He assembles a ragtag team, and they eventually focus on the unsolved case of a local prosecutor, Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie), who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. "It’s a gripping story, it ...

Netflix's latest Scottish crime series, Dept. Q, based on a ten-book series by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, finally solved Merritt Lingard's case in the finale.

Department Q, a gripping British crime thriller series, premiered on Netflix on May 29, 2025, delivering a dark and ...

If the show were to return for a second season, we of course can't imagine it without Matthew Goode as Detective Carl Morck.

In Netflix's newest British crime thriller from creator of "The Queen's Gambit," Matthew Goode plays detective determined to solve a cold case.

Department Q was filmed where it was set in Edinburgh in Scotland, using a variety of real life locations and sound stages. The show kicks off with Carl's accident and the death of a fellow police ...

Q episode 1 that Merritt Lingard is actually alive and has been ... they spoke to him and learned of other suspicions in the department. Meanwhile, they realized that Sam Haig was looking into ...

In a beautiful full-circle way, Department Q comes to the salvation of Merritt Lingard. Morck and Akram then run into a problem: after finding Lyle's mother's address, they realise that they don't ...