Rainn Wilson
Det. Lt. Backstrom
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Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.
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13 episodes available
The supposed suicide of a senator's son ends up being a homicide.
The team help to investigate an serial arsonist.
Backstrom and his team are called in after a youth pastor is discovered murdered at a church.
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Det. Lt. Backstrom
Nadia Paquet
Det. Sgt. Almond
Det. Gravely
Sgt. Niedermayer
Officer Moto
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