汽车经理谢利(威廉姆·H·梅西 William H. Macy 饰)有一个完美的兴建停车场的计划,他多次找他的有钱岳父威利借钱,可是一毛不拔的威利始终没答应。无奈之下,谢利只有找到卡奥(史蒂夫·布西密 Steve Buscemi 饰)和基亚(彼得·斯特曼 Peter Stormare 饰),请他们绑架自己的妻子以勒索威利100万,事成后给他两4万酬金。3人一拍即合。
当谢利回到家时,威利告诉他可以考虑一下他的计划了。喜出望外的谢利马上找到了威利,然而威利并不是要借钱,而是想自己投资。失望的谢利回到家时发现妻子已经被绑架了。卡奥和基亚在绑票得手后逃跑时,又意外打死了一名警察和两名路人,事情开始闹得越来越大…
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.