少女玛丽·阿德勒(凯特琳·德弗饰演)报警说自己在家中被一名闯入者强奸,但调查人 员以及她身边的人都怀疑这件事的真实性。与此同时,在数百里外,侦探格雷丝·拉斯马森 和卡伦·杜瓦尔(分别由艾美奖获得者托妮·科莱特和梅里特·韦弗饰演)在调查两起非常 相似的强奸案时相遇,她们合力追捕这名潜藏的连环强奸犯。
《难以置信》改编自 The Marshall Project 和 ProPublica 出版的普利策奖获奖文章《令人难以置信的强奸事件(An Unbelievable Story of Rape)》(作者是 T·克里斯琴·米勒和肯·阿姆斯特朗),以及美国生活(This American Life)广播剧集《Anatomy of Doubt》。本剧由荣获奥斯卡提名的苏珊娜·格兰特 和丽莎·查罗登科执导,讲述了难以言表的创伤、坚定的决心和惊人的适应能力。
本剧集由 CBS Television Studios 打造,剧集主管苏珊娜·格兰特与萨拉·缇波曼、卡尔 ·比沃利、丽莎·查罗登科、阿耶莱·沃尔德曼、迈克尔·夏邦、凯蒂·柯丽克、理查德· 托弗尔、尼尔·巴尔斯基、罗宾·斯米、玛丽共同担任监制。
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.