在学校里,凯瑟琳(劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰)是一位受人尊敬的历史老师,在家中,她又摇身一变成为了支撑家庭的顶梁柱,波澜不惊的生活逐渐成为了压在凯瑟琳心中的一份负担,但她如此迫切的想要改变生活的原因还并不在于此,而在于她发现自己竟然患上了癌症,而凯瑟琳决定将此作为自己的秘密,一直保守下去。
无论是凯瑟琳那游手好闲的兄弟西恩(约翰·本杰明·海基 John Benjamin Hickey 饰)还是永远都长不大的丈夫保罗(奥利弗·普莱特 Oliver Platt 饰),他们对于凯瑟琳的“宏图大志”都表达了怀疑的态度,幸运的是,凯瑟琳的主治医生托德(瑞德·斯科特 Reid Scott 饰)一直都坚定地支持和鼓励着凯瑟琳。癌症当前,如果还有明天,明天真的会更好吗?
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.