法国青年瑞斯(乔纳森•莱斯•梅耶斯 Jonathan Rhys Meyers 饰)在大使馆中工作,同时他还是美国情报部门的见习人员,精明强干的瑞斯对“换车牌”,加窃听器之类的任务自然是驾轻就熟,但是他很快迎来了真正的挑战——配合探员瓦克斯(约翰•特拉沃塔 John Travolta 饰)在巴黎的行动。
瓦克斯作风强硬,举止粗暴。恍如漫画中走出的美国英雄,甫一下飞机,便咬住了毒品的线索一路大开杀戒,先后与华人、巴基斯坦和黑人帮派连番激战……瑞斯对神奇的瓦克斯目瞪口呆之余,也渐渐跟上了他的节奏。任务接近尾声之时,两人意外发现瑞斯居然也是恐怖分子的目标人物之一,原来恐怖分子们以瑞斯为突破口,试图刺杀赴法访问的美国高官,于是这对临时搭档,迅速整备出发……
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.