'The Cleaner' First Images Introduce Conleth Hill in Season 3

If there's one thing cozy crime shows and endless Agatha Christie adaptations have taught us, it's that anyone can solve crimes. From English professors to vicars, priests and nuns, antique dealers, and cab drivers, the list is endless. This bizarre insistence on having random people solve crimes for the cops inspired Greg Davies' series The Cleaner, which he conceived of, wrote for, and starred in as Wicky, the least likely man to ever solve crimes.

As most mystery thriller introductions would put it, Wicky is no ordinary cleaner. His job is cleaning up murder scenes. When the cops are done taking evidence, when the space needs to be returned to those who live in it, Wicky shows up, mop and bucket in hand. His profession is to scrub up all the bits of flesh, guts, brains, skull fragments, and bone while getting bloodstains out of the furniture and carpets. And because he's a nobody, a gossipy, sympathetic ear who doesn't seem all that bright, he finds himself, time and again, face to face with murderers who all but confess.

Davies' Wicky is a pitch-perfect satire of the cozy crime solver. Still, the show wouldn't be half as funny if it weren't for The Cleaner's other genius conceit of casting the U.K.'s biggest-name actors as the murderers of the week, each of whom seems bound and determined to out-wacky everyone else hired for the season by committing to the strangest of character performances. For Season 3, the show scored big with one of the U.K.'s most fearless character actors, Conleth Hill.