本剧集为《美国怪谈》(American Horror Story)的第二季。
这一季的故事发生在20世纪60年代新英格兰地区的Briarcliff疗养院。故事由生活在现代的新婚夫妇Leo(亚当·莱文 Adam Levine 饰)和Teresa(珍娜·迪万 Jenna Dewan 饰)疗养院的旧址探险拍照引发。当年住在这里的只有三类人:医生护士、牧师修女、精神病罪犯。这所疗养院由Jude修女(杰西卡·兰格 Jessica Lange 饰)和高级神职教士Timothy O’Hara (约瑟夫·费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰)共同管理。演精神病医生Thredson(扎克瑞·昆图 Zachary Quinto 饰)拥有他的超前思维,但是经常与Jude修女的管理方式产生矛盾。Arden医生(詹姆斯·克伦威尔 James Cromwell 饰)看起来很温和,但绝非好人。这群人都不像表面看起来那般,而鬼魅的疗养院中也隐藏着可怕而神秘的事物......
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.