investigator

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Our everyman is Ben Reilly — played by the incomparable Nicolas Cage, making his live-action television debut — a private investigator who moonlights as the city’s only superhero, the Spider.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

A police procedural about Dutton family son Kayce Dutton, a character who now works as an investigator, “Marshals” premiered on CBS in March, having been produced by Sheridan but written by someone else.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

According to the military investigator, this was not to preach a radical form of Islam with the end of destabilising the country, but to act as a "spiritual 'prayer-warrior' for the operation".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

One contractor, a federal investigator, told the Journal that Mercor asks for “real-world scenarios” but doesn’t ask for prior work or proprietary data that might belong to other companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

He worked his way into a job as a road trooper, then a state investigator.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel