在成为了孤儿之后,艾瑟(安娜·麦克西维尔·马丁 Anna Maxwell Martin 饰)和被卷入同一宗财产分割案件的理查德(帕特里克·肯尼迪 Patrick Kennedy 饰)以及艾达(凯瑞·穆丽根 Carey Mulligan 饰)一起受邀来到了荒凉山庄,在那里等待着他们的,是热情好客的主人约翰(丹尼斯·劳森 Denis Lawson 饰)和他的好友哈罗德(内森奈尔·帕克 Nathaniel Parker 饰)。
男爵夫人艾瑟(吉莲·安德森 Gillian Anderson 饰)有着一段不为人知的过去,而律师图金霍恩(查里斯·丹斯 Charles Dance 饰)则一心想要将它们给弄个清楚。艾瑟和理查德相爱了,但两人的爱情却遭到了约翰的反对,在约翰看来,理查德的首要任务是先拥有自己的事业。
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.