在芸芸众生之中,有一类人被称为“阿尔法人”,由于大脑结构产生了变异,这些阿尔法人因而获得了常人无法拥有的超能力,却也因此成为了政府的“眼中钉”,于是,一个专门针对阿尔法人存在的秘密组织成立了。
格雷(瑞安·卡怀特 Ryan Cartwright 饰)性格自闭但拥有远远超越了电脑的信息处理能力,比尔(马利克·约巴 Malik Yoba 饰)能够在短时间内强化身体肌肉获得过人的力量,妮娜(劳拉·门内尔 Laura Mennell 饰)外表美艳,善于操纵人心,瑞秋(阿齐塔·贾尼札达 Azita Ghanizada 饰)善于将声波化为利刃,威力无比。就是这样四位“阿尔法人”,他们和秘密组织的领头人罗森(大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰)相遇了。
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.