6.253 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestAs the city's unhoused people are forced onto the street, Vincent meets the one with answers. An old friend helps Ledroit bring buried evidence to light.
A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.
Acting
Cumberbatch's physical deterioration is genuinely hard to watch—in the best way.
Production
1980s NYC so authentic you can smell the desperation and subway grease.
Practical Effects
Eric the puppet: unsettling, hilarious, heartbreaking. Full character arc.
Creator
Abi Morgan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Abi Morgan wrote this while processing her own father's dementia; Eric began as a way to explore how we construct monsters to avoid facing ourselves.
The real 1980s NYC missing children's crisis—six kids disappeared in one week in 1984—inspired the institutional indifference Ledroit fights.
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