《The Victim》由Rob Williams编剧,将透过一起刑事案件讲故事。本剧将背景设置在爱丁堡,讲述了一个辛勤工作的居家好男人Carl,在网络上被曝出其实是一个臭名昭著的儿童杀人犯,现在的身份只不过是一个伪造的新身份,他因此受到了不少攻击。随着他原本的生活因为这个事情而坍塌,Carl应该忍气吞声等着风声过去吗?还是去证明自己的清白?他到底是被污蔑误解还是真的是让人怀疑的危险杀手?另一方面,Anna的儿子在20岁的时候被一个14岁的男孩杀害,在被告知杀手的新身份和新的下落之后,她在网上指控揭露他的新身份,密谋谋杀他。一位悲怨母亲的愤怒会将她推上杀人犯的道路吗?她又有什么罪?她又能为她的儿子做些什么?
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.