故事发生在十九世纪的伦敦，故事中所出现的人物均为著名作家狄更斯笔下的角色。亚瑟（约瑟夫·奎恩 Joseph Quinn）和艾米莉亚（塔彭丝·米德尔顿 Tuppence Middleton 饰）悲痛的埋葬了父亲的遗体，让亚瑟感到震惊的是，父亲竟然没有将一分一毫的遗产留给他，这让他在内心里偷偷买下了复仇的种子。
皮条客费金（安东·莱瑟 Anton Lesser 饰）打算将女孩南希（Bethany Muir 饰）送往雅各布（彼得·弗斯 Peter Firth 饰）所主持的晚宴助兴，为了确保南希的安全，小偷比尔（马克·斯坦利 Mark Stanley 饰）决定全程跟随南希，一步也不离开。就在晚宴即将拉开序幕之际，众人却在雪地之中发现了雅各布的尸体，这一宗谋杀案改变了所有人的命运。
“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。
