在经历了上一次的恐怖袭击之后,由于政府对CTU应对恐怖事件的解决方式不太满意,还是最终决定解散CTU。杰克·鲍尔(基弗·萨瑟兰 Kiefer Sutherland 饰)也因使用酷刑等非法手段来防止恐怖袭击,而受到审查。原本以为自己终将在监狱里度过余生,却因死而复生的前同事托尼(卡洛斯·博纳德 Carlos Bernard 饰)的出现,彻底打乱了杰克现有的生活。托尼希望杰克能与他一起,共同调查又一次在美国大路上展开的恐怖袭击。而随着调查的不断深入,杰克觉得身边的托尼越来越琢磨不透。杰克一直觉得托尼有什么事情没有对他说明白。由于新总统对杰克的信任,所以他们的调查之路虽然危机重重,但是开展得还算顺利。不过,最后杰克终于发现这次恐怖袭击的幕后策划者,原来是一直与他并肩作战的朋友托尼……
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.