继收视和口碑均表现喜人的《白屋农场谋杀案》《丹斯》后,ITV预定了下一部真实罪案类剧集《约克郡开膛手 The Yorkshire Ripper》(暂定名)。
《杀死伊芙》《审讯室:英国》编剧George Kay负责剧本,《白屋农场谋杀案》导演执导。
本剧共6集,基于Michael Bilton的书籍《Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper》创作,将讲述世界上最臭名昭著、令人震惊的连环杀手案件之一,即对被称为"约克郡开膛手"的Peter Sutcliffe的追捕。
在1975年10月至1981年1月期间,警方进行了英国犯罪史上最大规模的搜捕行动。对Sutcliffe的搜寻持续了五年,有超过一千名警员参与,彻底改变了英国警方的工作方式。
该剧不会仅仅着墨于警方的工作,还会聚焦受害者和他们的家属,以及那些被袭击却不被他人相信、生活被永久改变的人们。编剧George Kay表示:"这不是一个讲述约克郡开膛手的故事,而是约克郡如何被撕裂的故事。"
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.