Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged political campaign. Her investigation is hampered by the hostility of the local populace, and the clumsy methods of some of her subordinates and irresponsible journalists make things worse. Can she solve the case before a race riot breaks out? Her job is complicated when a former lover is assigned to her command as a subordinate.

技术高超的侦探督察简·坦尼森在一个男性主导的世界里努力证明自己。

故事发生在上世纪七十年代，当时人们尚不能很好地接受女人当警察的新现象，因此女警很难真正融入男同事的团队。年仅22岁的Jane Tennison是个实习警官，她所面对的高阶男性警官全都是臭名昭著的沙文主义者。她真诚、专注、有抱负，从一开始就注定要成就一番大事业。但是很快陷入了麻烦——在她职业生涯中调查的第一起暴力谋杀案中，她将面对伦敦最凶残的黑帮罪犯并亲眼见证这些穷凶极恶的坏蛋给受害人家庭带来的严重影响，更何况一场悲剧也将彻底改变她自己的人生。Jane和侦缉总督察Len Bradfield、侦缉警长Spencer Gibbs密切合作，他们或许是她当时唯一的依靠。

在五十年代的冷战期，非美活动调查委员会，用各种方法追查美国电影圈的共党同路人，并逼迫电影人出卖别人的姓名，不合作者就不断阻挠他的工作机会，最后发生了著名的十君子事件。本片就是根据这个历史事件拍摄而成。罗伯特·德尼洛饰演好莱坞名导演大卫·梅瑞尔，他在强大压力下仍不肯背叛朋友提供名单，呼应他的是名导演马丁·斯科塞斯饰演的另一位导演乔，他因不肯向非美委员会屈服而选择了流浪生活。

1983年夏，北方某省城。十年动乱中因杀人嫌疑而被送往新疆劳改的原省委书记高长河的警卫员丁鹏刑满释放回来，他在市医院找到与他离婚多年的前妻刘小娣，但刘小娣不久将出国探亲，拒绝见他。丁鹏来到高长河夫人黄群家，忽然发现电视屏幕上省委秘书长欧阳智正发表讲话。他不等与黄群见面，便悄然离去。侦察员小张奉欧阳智之命对丁鹏进行监视。丁鹏为了找回他存放在刘小娣那里的一个笔记本，来到刘小娣家，可笔记本已不翼而飞。当刘小娣的丈夫陈风医生下班回家时，发现刘小娣已死在床上。公安人员的视线立刻集中到丁鹏身上，一个神秘人物也在暗中跟踪丁鹏……

Three professional women have disappeared from a small New England town in a period of just 18 months. Sheriff Nickie Welles, who has learned that state budget cutbacks will soon eliminate her job, is determined to find out who's behind these terrible crimes. In an act of desperation, Nickie asks James Hart, a local psychic, to help solve this tragic mystery before her tenure comes to an end. However, Detective Sandra Franks, Nickie's lover, believes James is a fake and that her girlfriend is in over her head. James has problems of his own. Troubled by a sleep disorder, he checks himself into a hospital where he meets an oversexed nurse who will become the next victim of these mysterious crimes. James suspects someone is out to frame him. Could it be Sandra? Ultimately their investigation will uncover a terrible secret that will bring Nickie, James and Sandra to the brink. From award winning documentary filmmaker Christopher Ward.

The murder of a mundane country club manager has been staged to look like a sexually perverse accidental suicide, but the evidence soon points to murder. The local police blame a gang of youths; however, Jane believes it is club member. As she tries to carry out her investigation Jane finds herself up against a a community who refuse to help her discover the truth.

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reynolds, a female impersonator. Soon Jane is on the trail of the boy's brutal young pimp (played by David Thewlis). But her investigation is complicated by the Old Boy's Network, which is spying on her and is more concerned with preventing scandal than bringing the villain to justice. 　　from imdb, written by Reid Gagle

DS Jane Tennison is relocated from the Met to the Greater Manchester Police where she finds herself in conflict with her new superior, Det Chief Supt Martin Ballinger, over how to deal with the city's drugs and guns menace. Encountering a corrupt reprobate who rules over the local crime scene and believing him to be her prime suspect, Tennison finds her every move in the investigation anticipated -- but how?

一天傍晚，中学语文老师林文在回家路上搭载了班上四名女生，但当晚其中一名女生在荒郊被害遇难。林文被认定为头号嫌疑犯，随即被抓捕，但之后由于证据不足便被释放。然而，整个社会对他的审判才刚刚开始，他的家庭也遭遇着前所未有的危机，而唯一解决问题的办法，就是亲自抓到凶手。