保罗(理查德·帕斯科 Richard Pasco 饰)的父亲和哥哥客死他乡,想要揭开其中真相的保罗来到了他们生前所生活的小镇进行调查。这个小镇上的所有居民都给保罗一种非常诡异的感觉,他们唯唯诺诺抖抖霍霍,仿佛有什么恐怖的东西隐藏在暗夜里,随时都会跑出来要他们的性命一样。 纳马洛博士(彼得·库欣 Peter Cushing 饰)曾经是父亲的助手,这个男人和一位神秘的美女卡拉(芭芭拉·谢莉 Barbara Shelley 饰)的诡异行踪吸引了保罗的注意。卡拉似乎患有一种奇怪的病,经常会昏倒并且失去记忆,而纳马洛博士显然对卡拉情有独钟,担负着她的保护者的身份。那么,父亲和哥哥的死,和这两个人究竟有没有关系呢?
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.