A corpse that will not stay put sets The Deputy in motion. Matt Sukkar's 2026 crime thriller hands a young lawman the simplest job on the roster, guarding a body, and then takes the body away.
What is The Deputy about?
The assignment sounds like a formality. A young, part-time sheriff's deputy is told to keep watch over a dead man at a crime scene until the proper people arrive, the sort of task that gets handed to whoever is lowest on the ladder. Then the body vanishes. Nobody can explain how, nobody believes the deputy's account, and the disappearance makes him the one person who was supposedly present when it happened. From that moment he is caught between two kinds of trouble: the department that wants answers from him and the criminals who had reasons of their own for wanting that corpse gone. The film runs its hundred minutes as a sustained pursuit, with the deputy forced to work out who is hunting him and why while his own credibility drains away. Action sequences sit inside a story about a small-town officer discovering how little his badge protects him.
About the cast
Duke Nicholson carries the title role of Deputy Toby Sawyer, surrounded by a cast with unusual range for a thriller of this scale: William H. Macy, Tiffany Haddish, Stephen Dorff, Devon Ross, Billie Lourd, Julia Fox and Daniel Diemer. The mix of names gives the ensemble an unpredictable texture, with established character actors sharing scenes with newer faces. Matt Sukkar directs.
Context & significance
The Deputy is catalogued under Action, Drama, Thriller and Crime, a combination that places it in the American tradition of the small-town officer out of his depth. The premise of a missing body is a classic engine for suspense because it keeps the protagonist on the defensive: he cannot prove what he saw, and the people who moved the corpse know exactly what he knows. Produced in the United States and released in 2026, the film runs about a hundred minutes, which keeps the chase tight rather than sprawling. For viewers who enjoy crime stories built on one bad night spiralling outward, the setup is familiar in the best sense.
Watching The Deputy on Ktime
K-Time carries The Deputy with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose between dubbed Farsi audio and the original English track with Farsi text. Watching requires a K-Time account login; the page you are reading is free. The service is designed around a Farsi interface for Iranians living outside Iran, and the film sits in the catalogue's crime and thriller sections.