故事背景为80年代的美国,底特律郊外一所私立高中里,有这么两种学生:怪胎和书呆。怪胎游手好闲、惹是生非,书呆懦弱无能,只会读书。Lindsay(琳达·卡德里尼 Linda Cardellini 饰)学习成绩拔尖,因为不想被划入“书呆”行列,她主动结识了几个“怪胎”,成为他们的朋友。她的弟弟Sam(约翰·弗朗西斯·达利 John Francis Daley 饰)是个不折不扣的书呆,不仅本人软弱无能,还交了一群同样怯懦的书呆朋友。
学校里形形色色的学生都要面对他们各自的成长烦恼,Lindsay每日要面对家庭和学校的双重管教,Sam每日要忍受学校小流氓的滋扰。这是一个真实的故事,一个关于成长的故事,叛逆的怪胎和怪异的书呆,他们的生活在每一个高中校园里上演,折射出每一个人的青春。
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.