尼尔森(大卫·弗利 Dave Foley 饰)一直都因为和老板的女儿(詹妮弗·提莉 Jennifer Tilly 饰)谈恋爱而沾沾自喜,因为不出意外的话,尼尔森将成为老板的女婿,这也就意味着他可以顺理成章的成为公司的继承人。可是,让尼尔森没有想到的是,某一天,老板宣布了下一任总经理的人选,而这个人竟然不是他,被愤怒冲昏了头脑的尼尔森对老板发出了死亡的威胁。
最终,尼尔森还是冷静了下来,当他想要找到老板向他道歉时,却震惊的发现老板已经死了。而曾经扬言要杀死他的自己成为了最大的嫌疑人。为了证明自己的清白,尼尔森不得不踏上了逃亡的旅途。
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.