ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Plot Patrol is the ultimate ride-along for film fans who love a good cop story. Whether it’s gritty realism, pulpy thrills, or gloriously bad procedural nonsense. Host Duncan McCauley takes the badge and the popcorn in hand, breaking down famous detective dramas and crime thrillers with the help of real-life officers, legal experts, and the occasional smart-mouthed cinephile.
Each episode, we put a movie or TV show under investigative scrutiny, asking the big questions: Would this arrest hold up in court? How much paperwork would this take? And how does this loose cannon still have a job?
From Zodiac to Hot Fuzz, True Detective to The Wicker Man, Plot Patrol blends sharp analysis, wry humor, and behind-the-scenes insight to separate fact from fiction in the world of on-screen crime.
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Average audio length:
14 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
6 episodes
since Aug. 16, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
This week on Plot Patrol, host Duncan McCauley interrogates the TV cop procedurals that dominated the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s, miracle crime labs, rule-breaking “loose cannons,” and cases wrapped up before the final ad break.Joined by former LAPD Lieutenant Alvarez, Duncan breaks down what thes…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This week on Plot Patrol, Duncan McCauley heads into the dust and silence of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men, a film less concerned with catching the bad guy than with what happens when the law can’t keep up with the world it’s meant to protect.
Joining Duncan is former Texas Sheriff Earl…
In this festive episode of Plot Patrol, we put the cuffs on Die Hard—the Christmas action classic that somehow smuggled one of the tightest plots in cinema history into a skyscraper full of broken glass and machine guns. Host Duncan McCauley is joined by retired NYPD detective DelVecchio to assess …
On this episode of Plot Patrol, host Duncan McCauley is joined by Mick O’Connell, retired Senior Constable from the New South Wales Police, to chase down George Miller’s high-octane Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). With society reduced to dust and gasoline, what does policing even mean when there’s no la…
This week on Plot Patrol, host Duncan McCauley is joined by Tommy Ford, retired Detective Constable from the London Metropolitan Police, to dissect Edgar Wright’s action-comedy classic Hot Fuzz (2007). Together, they dig into the film’s overzealous hero cop Nicholas Angel, the sleepy village hiding…
In the debut episode of Season 2 of Plot Patrol, host Duncan McCauley teams up with retired island police sergeant Angus MacLeod to put the cult classic The Wicker Man (1973) under investigation. From missing girls and pagan rituals to the infamous fiery finale, they dig into what the film got righ…
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