The Detective · The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
William Kinderman
“People just don't fall out of windows”
A homicide detective who senses something deeply wrong in the MacNeil house. Kinderman is warm, disarming, and relentless — a man who quotes movies and catches killers. He represents the rational world trying to make sense of the impossible.
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One way it begins
You round the corner to find the detective hunched under a streetlamp, obsessively polishing his fogged spectacles.
A psychologically grounded character. William remembers you between conversations and grows from them.

