Dirk Gently - Series 1 - Episode 1

Villain: The villain was not seen until the end of the episode although the villain was not justified and was not imprisoned by the police. The criminal was found as he threatened Dirk Gently (the investigator) as he became paranoid of him accidentally following him using Zen navigation. He then threatened to kill the investigators and confessed to them about two murders by telling them the way he saw the story although he judged it wrong.

Hero:  The hero in this crime drama is definitely an anti hero as once he finds the dead body at the scene he takes money from the victim’s wallet and then doesn’t call the police. This also tells us about his company he works for which is a detective agency, so like Sherlock he also doesn’t work for the police. During the investigation he obtained a valuable piece of software which put him at risk during the episode and ended up with it being stolen by a secret agent. He also accidentally found the killer at the end of the episode by following a car in a idea he calls Zen navigation where you follow someone who looks like they know where they are going, during this trip he followed without realising the murderer of the crime.

Victim:  There were two victims in the end who were both killed by the same person. The first victim was killed also due to paranoia of the victim hiring the detective agency for another completely unrelated job that the killer did not know about.

Set Pieces:

Multiple suspects: There were multiple suspects in the investigation and there was also multiple investigations going on at the same times, which were strangely all linked in together.

Crime scene investigation: At the crime scene the investigators looked at things about the victims in order to learn more about the victim as a person to help lead them to who their killer was, rather than look for murder weapons and clues from the crime scene.

Eponymous: The show is eponymous as it is named after the main character.

Restrictive narrative: The villain was not revealed until the end of the episode and we only knew as much as the police did at the time.