艾玛(海伦·麦克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 饰)是一名经验丰富的律师,专门为曾经在法庭上败诉的人们翻案,这也就意味着,她在工作中要承受远远高于其他同行的压力,但这一切对于心中充满了正义感的艾玛来说并不值一提。
这一次,艾玛的客户是一位名叫凯文(萨姆·斯温斯伯里 Sam Swainsbury 饰)的男子,他锒铛入狱已经14年之久了。曾经,凯文被控诉杀害了一位女学生,虽然并没有确凿的证据证明凯文就是凶手,但当时的舆论对于凯文来说非常的不利,迫于压力,凯文认罪了。如今,凯文的儿子已经成长为了青葱少年,始终不相信凯文有罪的他的前妻决定不再让孩子背负父亲是杀人犯的污名。
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.