《无痛杀手》是一部有脚本的限定剧集,故事情节虚构,探讨了美国阿片类药物危机的起源和后果,重点讲述了肇事者、受害者和寻求真相者的故事,他们的生活因奥施康定的发明彻底改变了。《无痛杀手》对犯罪、问责制和屡屡令数十万美国人失败的制度进行了审视,改编自巴里·迈耶的《PAINKILLER》一书和帕特里克·拉登·基夫在《纽约客》杂志上发表的文章《The Family That Built an Empire of Pain》。监制阵容包括埃里克·纽曼、彼得·博格和亚历克斯·吉布尼,以及剧集主管/创剧人迈卡·费兹曼-布卢和诺亚·哈普斯特。主演阵容包括乌佐·阿杜巴、马修·布罗德里克、泰勒·克奇、迪纳·什瓦比和韦斯特·杜乔夫尼。
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.