在大家纷纷质疑,将这位充满大不列颠绅士之味,疯狂又前卫的侦探搬到美国是不是合理时,CBS却宣布,已经与英国著名演员约翰·李·米勒(Jonny Lee Miller)签约,这位曾经出演了《神奇律师》(Eli Stone),并客串了Showtime热门剧集《嗜血法医》(Dexter)的英国男演员,将在《Elementary》中饰演居住在纽约城中大侦探福尔摩斯。鉴于这部剧将来自CBS,那么它的风格也许无法像盖·里奇的电影版和BBC三集片一样偏幽默,沉重的故事是可以预见的。尽管如此,CBS在这样两个“前辈”的重压下,依旧敢预定导航集,可见其十足信心,很有可能这部剧将会成为明年的大热。而巧合的是,约翰·李·米勒和电影版及BBC版的演员们都有不小的交集:他和电影版的“华生医生”裘德·洛是同学,两人一同创办了Natral Nylon制片公司,还是公认的BFF。而米勒在去年,还曾经和BBC版的“夏洛克”本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇一同出演了英国著名导演丹尼·鲍尔的话剧《弗兰肯斯坦》(Frankenstein)
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.