Sarah Braverman是一个饱受经济困扰的单身母亲,从加利福尼亚Fresno的租赁公寓打包,与两个孩子Amber和Drew 回到Berkeley,她的娘家。而她的父母,任性的老爸Zeek和强硬派老妈Camille的婚姻也出现了一系列问题。与此同时,Sarah的老姐,和她迥然不同的Julia如今已经成为一名非常成功的律师,却还是要为工作、母职、呆在家里的老公 Joel烦恼。而她的大哥Adam、小弟Crosby也都有各自的问题和烦恼。
在上季中Braverman家喜气洋洋:Kristina战胜了乳腺癌;Julia和Joel正式收养了Victor;Jasmine怀上了Crosby的孩子;Amber和Ryan重新走到一起;Drew被伯克利大学接纳。唯一有点郁闷的是Sarah……她决定与Mark彻底分手并投入Hank的怀抱,却发现Hank决定去明尼苏达州陪伴女儿。
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.