公元前52年,罗马共和国正值鼎盛时期,执政官庞贝(里克•沃登 Rick Warden 饰)坐守都城,盟友凯撒(塞伦•希德 Ciarán Hinds 饰)征战高卢。期间,第13军团屡立战功,主将乌里纳斯(凯文•马克德 Kevin McKidd 饰)有勇有谋,手下波罗(雷•史蒂文森 Ray Stevenson 饰)虽嗜酒如命,却忠肝义胆。适逢凯撒得胜,屋大维遵母命赴前线慰问,不想途中遭劫,被经过的乌里纳斯和波罗救下。13军团凯旋,乌里纳斯与阔别8年的妻子相见,却各怀心事。波罗偶然间发现了乌里纳斯妻子红杏出墙的事实,为了保护长官的名誉,波罗在屋大维的帮助下,逼出了真相。凯撒准备独揽大权,一直等待时机。庞贝看出了他的野心,与元老院众人商议,其中以西塞罗为首的贵族势力,坚持认为凯撒为共和国叛徒,应诛杀之。而此时,凯撒的大将安东尼(杰姆斯•鲍弗 James Purefoy 饰)接任了护民官,与庞贝一伙展开周旋……
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.