Detective Youngs character profile: Youngs is by no means a mature officer and would be considered by many as a loose cannon, so to try to show this lack of sense and maturity we used ill timed jokes at the crime scene, mainly sarcasm, to show his true self. A good comparison for this would be Woody Harrelson's character 'Detective Martin Hart' in true detective season 1 (2014). This is a good representation because he too could be bold and compromising in his actions, shown in the series mainly when he was involved in an affair and eventually ruined his marriage. On top of this he was in constant disagreement with his partner which eventually ended with them temporarily separating their partnership to pursue other work. This shows the similarity in the sense that being close to Youngs puts you in a significant chance of harm and that mentally he can implode at a moments notice.

However others may just see him as a light hearted character and it can be argued that in the context, a line of work that involves so much depression that a sense of humour is desperately needed. A character similar to him in that satire and sarcastic sense is Q in the James Bond franchise , played by Ben Wishaw, and they are similar s they seem to always make good of a bad situation, or at least manage to show that to the audience as there is almost some pleasure when those two characters appear on screen.

In another view of his role it could be that the sense of humour is slowly going to fade and that this case is going to be a coming of age for this young eager detective and that the new detective Youngs is going to see some things that in turn change his way of thinking. This would be similar to the film Silence of the Lambs (1991) in which Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) goes from the FBI academy to then been taken to some pretty dark places, one being meeting Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins), to then coming out a complete confident woman by tracking down and eventually killing a notorious yet elusive serial killer. This is very similar to the position Detective Youngs is stuck in within our film, the main question in ours though, is he capable?