Acclaimed mystery and thriller author Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island, Mystic River) returned to screenwriting with Apple TV+’s Smoke, a nine-part crime drama inspired by the true story of arsonist John Leonard Orr. The series follows as a young detective and an experienced arson investigator team up to stop two serial arsonists in the Pacific Northwest.

The cast is led by Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett, joined by the likes of Greg Kinnear, Adina Porter, John Leguizamo, Anna Chlumsky and more, whose characters aid or impede the course of the investigation.
 
Leguizamo, who stars as an alcoholic former detective who used to work with the lead arson investigator, and Chlumsky, who plays a federal ATF agent, tell TV Drama Weekly about their characters and what it was like working from a Lehane script.