Dirk Gently

Name: Dirk Gently
Released: 2010-12-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Richard Schiff, Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd

TV Show · Sci-Fi · Drama

Created by Howard Overman and starring Stephen Mangan as Dirk, and Darren Boyd as his put-upon business partner Richard MacDuff, these four all-new stories take in a missing cat, a stolen robot, horoscopes that actually predict the future and a Pentagon plot to destroy the Free World.

2010 · 58m

Starring Richard Schiff, Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd

EPISODE 1

Pilot

Struggling holistic detective Dirk Gently is hot on the trail of a missing cat when a chance encounter with MacDuff, an old college chum, leads to an even bigger case-the disappearance of billionaire Gordon Way. Dirk recruits the hapless MacDuff as his sidekick to solve the crime.

56 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 1

Mr. Edwards, a paranoid computer programmer, hires Dirk to investigate whether the Pentagon is tracking his every move. Dirk dismisses him as a quack, but when he discovers Edwards’s revolutionary software prototype, the detective realizes he’s stumbled onto something big.

56 min
EPISODE 3

Episode 2

Dirk and MacDuff are hired as security consultants at their old university. While Dirk is preoccupied trying to find out why he was expelled years ago, an immensely valuable robot is stolen. Later, Dirk’s old mentor is murdered, forcing the duo to investigate while evading the police.

56 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 3

Dirk’s former clients are turning up dead, and a police inspector with a grudge against the detective would like nothing more than to convict him. Dirk and MacDuff race to find the killer before he can strike their newest client-a beautiful woman with a mysterious stalker.

57 min