Director: Stacey Muhammad, Craig Siebels, Nzingha Stewart, Director X, Carl Seaton
A forensic psychologist who reads killers better than they read themselves anchors this crime thriller built from James Patterson's long-running Alex Cross novels.
What is Cross about?
Detective Alex Cross does not chase evidence the way most investigators do; he chases motive, working backward from a victim's final hours into the mind that put them there. Each case forces him to sit with disturbing patterns most people would rather look away from, piecing together fragments of behavior until a suspect's psychology becomes as legible as a fingerprint. The job costs him sleep and pulls at his family life, but Cross keeps returning to the same instinct: understand the killer completely, and the killer stops being able to hide. Washington D.C. supplies a restless backdrop of overlapping cases, department politics, and personal stakes that keep tightening around him as the season unfolds.
Cast & crew
Aldis Hodge plays Cross with a controlled intensity, letting the character's empathy and exhaustion sit side by side rather than treating one as a performance and the other as weakness. Ryan Eggold brings an unsettling calm to his role opposite him, while Isaiah Mustafa and Alona Tal fill out a supporting cast of colleagues and investigators whose own histories keep intruding on the central case work.
Context & significance
The character of Alex Cross has appeared across decades of Patterson's bestselling novels, and this adaptation leans into serialized, season-length mystery structure rather than compressing a single book into a handful of episodes. The tone favors psychological tension over graphic procedure, spending more time inside interrogation rooms and quiet conversations than at crime scenes themselves.
Where & how to watch
K-Time hosts the series with a Farsi interface built for viewers who want their crime dramas without a language barrier, and this page can be read freely with no account needed. Streaming the episodes themselves just requires a quick K-Time login, and the title is available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles.