Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently is the titular main character of the television series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, an adaptation of the novel's Dirk Gently. Dirk is a self-described holistic detective, who uses the interconnectedness of all things to solve cases. He is the founder and investigator of the titular Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Dirk's birth name is Svlad Cjelli. As a young child it was found that Dirk had odd "hunches" or intuation about things. this odd ability caught the attention of the new CIA project led by Col. Riggins and dirk was brought in and given the name Project Icarus. He underwent testing of his abilities, which yielded little useable results for his captors. During his time at Blackwing, Riggins allowed Dirk to see a few fellow subjects that were considered not too dangerous. Among them were the comatose Project Moloch, who Dirk talked to and considered to be his first assistant, and Mona Wilder.Dirk has reddish-brown, auburn hair. Dirk dresses neatly and colorful, with a tendency to a bold conspicuous, somewhat eccentric style. His standard mode of dress consists of a dress shirt, tie, and jacket, the latter in a variety of colors. Dirk is eccentric and confident in his mission in life. He doesn't believe in using traditional methods of solving cases such as finding fingerprints and analyzing scenes of the crime. He also seems oblivious to seemingly obvious clues such as when Patrick left him a map and he mistook it for a poor drawing of Farah Black. Unlike his book counterpart, he is driven by a genuine want to help people. He is an anomalous entity, described as a causality psychic, who is able to perceive the interconnectedness between things. This expresses itself through Dirk's intuition (psychic intuition): he gets vague hunches, impressions of tangential connections between people, things and events, about if they connect to and are important in relation to each other. They are confusing to interpret, and Dirk often misjudges and guesses wrong. Either way, he is pulled along by these hunches, getting involved in events, and eventually solving the case.