一名男子在他的公寓里被杀害了,警方在调查中发现死者乃是运动中心的富豪,现场唯一的线索是AB型男子的毛发。在调查中,怀疑的第一个对象是酒吧女,因为她曾在案发前给死者拨过电话。警员赵京尹(金康宇 Kang-woo Kim 饰)前去调查取样。然而,京尹却从同事口中得知,情况另有变化。大家开始怀疑死者与游泳中心教练是同性恋。不过随后,这个犯罪嫌疑人也惨遭杀害。警员们开始怀疑是连环杀人案与死者服兵役的经历有关。与京尹一同调查的警员朴恩珠(金敏善 Min-sun Kim 饰)是他的警校同学,虽有假小子作风,内心却渴望被呵护,而且暗恋的对象便是京尹。不过,京尹却面临更复杂的感情选择,他有固定的女友,也有藕断丝连的情人。随着抽丝剥茧,京尹发现此案隐藏着一段童年的往事……
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.