女巫莫甘娜(爱娃·格林 Eva Green 饰)谋害了身为国王的父亲乌瑟(赛巴斯汀‧柯赫 Sebastian Koch 饰)企图谋权篡位满足自己登上王位的野心。在这个节骨眼上,法师梅林(约瑟夫·费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰)出走寻找乌瑟国王的私生子亚瑟(杰米·坎贝尔·鲍尔 Jamie Campbell Bower 饰),并赶在莫甘娜登基之前顺利将亚瑟带回王宫。
亚瑟拔出了罗马军队留在石缝中的宝剑,证明了自己的身份获得了臣民的认可,与此同时,他亦与初恋情人格温娜维尔(塔姆欣·伊格顿 Tamsin Egerton 饰)重逢,对其旧情不改,谁知此时的格温娜维尔即将嫁给名为莱昂特斯(菲利普·温彻斯特 Philip Winchester 饰)的男子,同时,阴谋尚未得逞的莫甘娜自然不会善罢甘休,将矛头直指亚瑟。
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.