都市的夜里,永远藏着你无法想象的秘密。德克斯特·摩根(迈克尔·C·豪尔 Michael C. Hall)是一位工作勤奋的法医,他为人和善幽默,广受欢迎,有个行事洒脱,一身男孩子气的妹妹黛布拉(珍妮弗·卡彭特 Jennifer Carpenter 饰),还有个温柔美丽的女友瑞塔(朱莉·本茨 Julie Benz 饰)。身在警务系统,德克斯特得以充分隐藏自己的秘密身份——冷血杀手,并利用职务之便,专门去找得以逃脱法律制裁的罪大恶极人士下手。在法律之外,令真正的恶人罪有应得,德克斯特选择如此危险身份,本身也因他三岁时痛苦经历——母亲在他面前被人肢解,恶人扬长而去,他和哥哥被丢在血泊中整整三天才被人发现。德克斯特心思缜密,手法老练地执行秘密杀人,直到他早被送进精神病院的哥哥布莱蒂突然出现在他的生活中……
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper(丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰),因为坏运气和坏脾气,他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院,里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由,就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生,甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方,任何事情都不是表面那样,Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在,但这样可能会证明:最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。