帕特里克(本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰)出生于一个富裕的家庭之中,他的父亲大卫(雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving 饰)是没落的贵族,母亲爱莲娜(詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh 饰)是暴发户之女,然而,帕特里克的童年生活却并不快乐,大卫个性暴躁又强势,爱莲娜常年生活在他的暴力相向和精神控制之下,早已经失去了正常生活的能力,在摧残过妻子之后,大卫亦将毒手伸向了年幼的帕特里克。
成年后的帕特里克无法摆脱童年带给他的创伤,只能依靠酒精和毒品躲避绝望,通过自毁的方式发泄内心里的愤怒。当一通来电告诉了他大卫去世的消息后,帕特里克能否重新找到人生的方向呢?
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.