A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.

Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

ITV根据英国小说家Jake Arnott的同名小说He Kills Coppers改编的罪案剧集。故事源自英国恶名昭彰的凶犯Harry Roberts的真实事件，当人们忘乎所以地庆祝着世界杯的胜利的时候，被沸腾的喜悦湮灭的是黑暗与罪恶，三名伦敦警察在光天化日之下被谋杀 ，而与之相关的三个男人的命运也彻底被改变。
Frank Taylor (Rafe Spall饰)
Frank沾染了所有旧体制下的伦敦警察坏毛病(如果大家看过life on mars，应该了解那时的办案作风)，但同样他也野心勃勃希望能有所作为，他曾一度和同事也是朋友的Jon Young (by Liam Garrigan)为了一个谜一样的女人Jeannie而争风吃醋，明枪暗箭，但Young的遇害将一切都改变了。
Billy Porter (Mel Raido饰)
Billy，他本应该是一名凶险罪犯，一个反面典型，他抢劫杀人，他被俘监禁，一切的一切反令他成就为了一名无政府主义者的英雄。"Billy Porter is our friend,is our friend, is our friend;Billy Porter is our friend,he kills coppers."人们将他写入了歌谣。
Tony Meehan (Steven Robertson饰)
和两个主角比起来小记者Tony的故事没有那么惊心动魄，而他却同样怀揣野心，一心想抓个头版出人头地。他是三个人中最为矛盾的一个个体，当他在gaybar被老板介绍给一位“客人”的时候，Tony做出激烈地拒绝，苍狂逃窜，而内心深处，比起受到的骚扰令他更恐惧的其实是自己的真实感受。
整部作品被浓浓的怀旧情节包围，采用大量Dusty Springfield作品作为配乐(就连女主角也是Dusty Springfield造型)，将故事氛围烘托得愈加凝重悲切。