诺亚(多米尼克·威斯特 Dominic West 饰)和妻子海伦(毛拉·蒂尔内 Maura Tierney 饰)结婚多年,两人育有四个可爱活泼的孩子,长久以来婚姻十分幸福美满,诺亚自认为是一位称职的丈夫和负责任的父亲,他和海伦都以为,平静的生活会持续的永远。某日,一位名叫艾莉森(露丝·威尔森 Ruth Wilson 饰)的美丽女子出现在了诺亚的身边,她的美丽和聪慧让诺亚陷入了一段背德的恋情中无法自拔。
艾莉森亦是有夫之妇,她的丈夫科尔(乔舒亚·杰克逊 Joshua Jackson 饰)是一名牛仔,经营着一座农场。艾莉森和科尔之间的关系本来就问题多多,再加上她和诺亚之间的意外之恋,将两个家庭推入了万劫不复的境地。
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.