吉米（杰米·李·柯蒂斯 Jamie Lee Curtis 饰）是一名刚刚从警校毕业的女警官，全身上下充满了正义感的她怀揣这一刻火热的心加入了警局的队伍之中，希望能为维护城市的和平尽到自己的一己之力。在一场抢劫案中，吉米成功的击倒了匪徒，救下了超市里的诸多人质，可是在事后的调查之中，本应该存在于现场的武器不翼而飞，吉米一下子从女英雄的座位上跌落了下来，遭到了停职检查的处分。
不仅如此，城市里接连发生的凶杀案现场，散落着可有吉米名字的子弹，很显然吉米成为了众矢之的。与此同时，吉米邂逅了名为朗西佛（罗恩·西维尔 Ron Silver 饰）的富商，后者对她展开了热烈的追求。

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.