杰克·格林(杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰)是一个整日游走于各种赌局的职业赌徒,然而却因为在一次大意的赌局中,被赌界黑势力巨头多西·马查(雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta 饰)下套,最终锒铛入狱。然而七年的牢狱之灾对杰克来说却并不无裨益,当他发现他的两个狱友分别是国际象棋大师和骗术高手时,便开始了学习深造的道路。刑满出狱的杰克已经身怀绝技,雄心勃勃地决定重返江湖,并报当年一箭之仇。 今时不同往日的杰克很快在赌场上如鱼得水所向披靡,还狠狠地羞辱了多西·马查一回。然而马查也不是好惹的角色,恼羞成怒的他下决心要除掉杰克。然而祸不单行,就在杰克在忙着躲避多西的围堵之时,命运竟告知他患上了罕见的血液病,生命只剩下三天期限……
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.