故事发生在全洛杉矶最有名的律师事务所之中。每年,这间事务所都要从茫茫的法律学院毕业生中挑选最出色的四位,将他们培养成为能够真正独当一面的大律师。
迪伦(马特·朗 Matt Long 饰)没有显赫的出身,却凭借着自己聪慧的头脑和不懈的努力跻身进入了四人名单之中。艾迪(蒂娜·米乔里诺 Tina Majorino 饰)样貌甜美,却有着和外貌极不相称的咄咄逼人的口才。贝斯(丽亚·派普斯 Leah Pipes 饰)从小到大都是优等生和乖乖女,而连姆(本·洛森 Ben Lawson 饰)拥有着和他的故乡截然相反的一丝不苟的个性。四个初出茅庐的新人律师,要面对的是他们的顶头上司,业内知名的“黑暗王子”克里夫(比利·赞恩 Billy Zane 饰)。
“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。