Stay Close is a wild ride. Three lives collide in strange, risky ways. Secrets spill. Old hurts come back. Characters twist through lies and betrayals to find truth. With great actors and an intense plot, Stay Close is a total must-see for suspense lovers. It’s got all the thrills, just watch out for those plot twists!

Meet the characters from Stay Close

Megan

Megan is one of those quietly explosive characters — calm on the surface but you can feel the tension like a hummingwire underneath. She’s secretive and fiercely protective (also terrible at small talk, which is kind of endearing). There’s a stubbornness to her that makes you root for her even when she makes maddeningly private choices. Oh and she collects novelty mugs for some reason, but claims she “never drinks coffee” — sure, Megan, sure.

Dave Shaw

Dave is the cop with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a dad-joke ready for any awkward silence. He’s by-the-book-ish but with cracks — intensely loyal, suspiciously stubborn, and oddly sentimental about old case files. He can be infuriatingly moralistic one minute and surprisingly pragmatic the next (like he’ll lecture you about rules and then quietly bend them if he thinks it’ll help someone). Also, he eats cereal for dinner when stressed and will defend that habit like it’s a personality trait.

Broome

Broome feels like the grizzled detective who’s been around the block and then some — part philosopher, part nagging uncle, part caffeine addict. He’s obsessive about details but will roll his eyes at paperwork (he keeps three immaculate notebooks and claims, loudly, to “hate admin”). He’s the kind of person who can sniff out a lie from across the street and then privately write poems about it, honestly. He’s rough around the edges but weirdly sentimental about birthdays, which he insists on celebrating with bad cake.

Ray

Ray is loud, a bit frantic, and maybe a little morally flexible — you sort of love him and also want to throttle him. He’s charming in an exhausted way, always juggling schemes and clutching onto fading ambitions (and somehow a small plastic dinosaur in his pocket — no idea why). He has this hustle energy that borders on self-sabotage but also keeps everything moving when others freeze. Flaky, charismatic, and occasionally heartbreakingly sincere; he’s chaos wrapped in a very sensible coat.

Harry

Harry comes off as the quietly steady one, the kind who remembers birthdays and that weird spice you like, but he’s also haunted by regrets you can almost see. He’s loyal to a fault and annoyingly good at sniffing out the right thing to say, even if he takes too long to say it. There’s an edge to him — he can surprise you with a ruthless clarity — and yet he still waters his plants on schedule (even the fake one, yes he has a fake plant). He has a soft laugh that makes him oddly disarming when he’s being terrifyingly pragmatic.

Kayleigh Shaw

Kayleigh is got this spark — fashionable, sharp-tongued, but resilient in a way that sneaks up on you. She’s smart, perceptive, and not as sheltered as people assume (also obsessed with true-crime podcasts, which is deliciously on-the-nose). She’d roast you for a stupid question and then secretly leave a calming tea on your doorstep, that kind of contradictory energy. Honestly, she’s the person you want on your team who’ll also make sure you don’t wear socks with sandals.

Erin Cartwright

Erin has this bright, nervous energy like someone who always has a story and sometimes overshares at 2 a.m. She’s creative and vulnerable, with a tendency to oscillate between giddiness and a sudden, inexplicable dread (which makes her fascinating). She’s the friend who’ll bake you a cake and then eat the frosting straight from the bowl when you’re not looking. Also, she’s inexplicably into collecting vintage postcards — insists it grounds her, though she can’t explain why.

Ken

Ken is the local know-it-all who claims he “just likes to help” and definitely reads too many message board theories. He’s nosy but in a gentle way, mostly motivated by boredom and a strange loyalty to his neighborhood. He’ll show up with cable ties and a thermos of tea, offering unsolicited but often useful advice (and a conspiracy theory or seven). He’s infuriatingly cheerful about everything — except paperwork, which he avoids like taxes.

Fester

Fester is the weird, slightly eerie wildcard who makes people uncomfortable and fascinated at once, like a magpie with poor social filters. Brilliant in a very narrow, unsettling kind of way — fixes things, notices patterns, hoards strange objects — but utterly baffled by basic human niceties. He’ll offer the right piece of info at the worst possible moment, and then awkwardly apologize with a biscuit. There’s something almost childlike about him (and also a darkness), which makes him unpredictable and oddly sympathetic.

Lorraine

Lorraine is the no-nonsense survivor type who runs on practicality and dry humor, but will dissolve into nostalgia if you mention old family recipes. She’s fierce, pragmatic, and somehow softer than her exterior suggests — like a steel kettle with a porcelain heart. She smokes when she’s stressed (or when she’s celebrating; she’s not picky) and has an encyclopedic knowledge of who used to live where in town. She’s the character who remembers everything and forgives selectively but generously.

Simona

Simona sparkles in an almost visible way — glamorous, ambitious, and a little slippery when it comes to her real feelings. She loves the spotlight but gets flustered at close quarters (phone selfies yes, actual eye contact sometimes no). She’s clever, resourceful, and uses charm like a tool — sometimes genuinely, sometimes like armor. Also, she collects tiny perfume bottles and swears one of them brings luck, which is both ridiculous and perfectly her.