莱蒂(米歇尔·道克瑞 Michelle Dockery 饰)吸毒、酗酒,将自己的生活糟践的一塌糊涂,不仅如此,她还生下了一个注定不会得到父爱的孩子,交由她的妈妈埃斯特尔(卢西亚·斯杜斯 Lusia Strus 饰)照顾。尽管成为了母亲,但莱蒂的作风依旧不改,并最终惹出了一大堆的麻烦将自己送入了班房。
获得假释之后,莱蒂的假释官克里斯汀(特里·金尼 Terry Kinney 饰)帮莱蒂找到了一份服务员的工作,希望她能够改过自新,靠双手和劳动养活孩子,哪知道这根本就不是莱蒂的生活风格,很快,莱蒂就丢掉了工作,重新走上了犯罪的道路。一次偶然中,莱蒂意外得知了杀手贾维尔(胡安·迭戈·波托 Juan Diego Botto 饰)的暗杀计划,一善之差中,莱蒂希望能够阻止贾维尔的行动,却令自己被卷入了万劫不复的深渊里。
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.