Five months after the events season 1, DS Marcella Backland is called to a house where a body has been found. She is shocked to discover that she knew the victim a 9-year-old boy, Leo Priestley, who disappeared four years ago after agreeing to walk home with her son.

A convicted paedophile; an aging Rockstar and his agent; a self-made millionaire and his wife, the founder of a successful children's charity; and a veteran of Afghanistan struggling to support his sister and her baby are soon all on the investigating team's radar. Even relatives and colleagues fall under suspicion.

Meanwhile Marcella is finding it harder and harder to keep her violent fugues under control and her therapist suggests that the only way she can be rid of them is to revisit their source - the painful loss of her baby by submitting herself to hypnosis.

James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this thriller directed by Henrik Ruben Genz. American couple Tom and Anna Wright (Franco and Hudson) are in the process of renovating their London townhouse but are struggling to make ends meet as they frequently spend more money than they make. When their tenant Ben (Francis Magee) fails to turn down his music after multiple requests, Tom and Anna let themselves into his flat to check if anything is wrong. When they discover Ben's dead body they panic and call the police, but not before Tom finds a bag containing more than two hundred thousand pounds. As the cash-strapped couple decide to take the money to pay off their debts, they soon discover that the money did not belong to Ben and the real owner wants it back...

All thirteen episodes of the drama series starring Derek Jacobi as the medieval sleuth. In the opening episode 'One Corpse Too Many', Cadfael, once a man of the world, has become a man of the cloth. However, this by no means qualifies him as a saint. He discovers a murder, and sets out in pursuit of the perpertrator, assisted by a lovely young fugitive. 'The Sanctuary Sparrow' sees Brother Cadfael investigating the murder of the local goldsmith. In 'The Leper of St Giles' a great wedding is to take place in the Abbey of Shrewsbury between Baron Huon (Norman Eshley) and Iveta De Massard (Tara Fitzgerald). Iveta is a beautiful, kind soul and on the day she and her betrothed ride into the town she throws money to the lepers, but her brutish Baron beats them. On the eve of the wedding he rides off into the night never to return. Cadfael sets out to find out what is going on. In 'Monk's Hood', a landowner cuts his son-in-law out of his will, leaving his inheritance to the church. However, before the transaction is finished, Gervase Gurney (Bernard Gallagher) is poisoned whilst staying at the Abbey of Shrewsbury. Cadfael finds someone from his past as he looks into the poisoning. In 'The Virgin in the Ice' Cadfael has to prove the innocence of his novice, Oswin (Mark Charnock), who is accused of murdering a nun after he is found wandering deliriously. In 'The Devil's Novice', Cadfael is suspicious when a young man, Meriet (Christien Anholt), arrives at Shrewsbury Abbey wishing to become a Novice. Canon Eluard (Ian McNeice) shares Cadfael's doubts as to Meriet's intentions, and when the half-burned body of a colleague is discovered, Meriet is accused of murder. In 'A Morbid Taste For Bones', Cadfael reluctantly accompanies an expedition to dig up the grave of St Winifred, after one of the Shrewsbury monks has a vision. He soon finds himself investigating a murder, when Lord Rhysart (John Hallam) is found dead on a forest track with an arrow in his chest. Robert (Michael Culver) believes the culprit to be Godwin, who was having an affair with Rhysart's daughter, Sioned (Anna Friel). However, Cadfael has other ideas. In 'The Rose Rent', the recently-widowed of a rich merchant becomes an attraction for the men of Shrewsbury, until one of her suitors and a monk are murdered. In 'St Peter's Fair', conflict arises between the townspeople of Shrewsbury and visitors to the annual fair. In 'The Raven in the Foregate', Cadfael has a double murder to solve when a pregnant girl and a priest who refused to hear her confession are both killed. In 'The Holy Thief', Cadfael is on the hunt for a beautiful slave girl and the bones of St Winifred, both of which have mysteriously disappeared from the Abbey. In 'The Potter's Field', Cadfael uncovers a terrible web of jealousy, adultery and suicide pacts when he examines the past of a potter who has entered the monastery under suspicious circumstances. Finally, in 'The Pilgrim of Hate', an old man's corpse is found in a sack in the Abbey, and Cadfael must find his killer.

After leaving the force for the sake of her family, detective Marcella Backland is devastated when her husband Jason leaves her. Hurt and angry, Marcella is convinced to return to her former role in the murder squad when an unsolved serial killer case becomes active again.

While following fresh leads, Marcella discovers her husband has been having an affair with Grace Gibson, one of the directors of the company she is investigating. Things become complicated when Grace is murdered, with Marcella the last to see her alive.

After experiencing memory blackouts caused by a potential personality disorder, a desperate and confused Marcella is left to piece together a series of broken memories and complex leads to solve a case she is becoming increasingly involved in.