It’s 2011 and we’re in Rome. The government is on the verge of collapse, the Vatican is at crisis point and the city’s squares are quite literally on fire. In the middle world, Cinaglia (Filippo Nigro) has tried to pick up where Samurai left off and, together with Badali (Emmanuele Aita), he is still managing the city’s criminal affairs, with the help of Adelaide (Paola Sotgiu) and Angelica (Carlotta Antonelli), who still head up the Anacletis, and Nadia (Federica Sabatini), who helps them to manage Ostia’s town squares.
As Leo's replacement Thomas Chamberlain arrives Nikki investigates the murders of Rachel Freedman, shot in the head, and her little autistic son Nathan, who was poisoned. Nikki rejects policewoman Anne Burchett's theory that Rachel killed them both but is perturbed when an impostor, claiming to be Rachel's sister, visits the morgue. At the same time the disfigured corpse of Eva Liron is discovered, killed with the same poison as Nathan. She had been the nanny to French hot shot footballer Isaac Dreyfus and was planning to blackmail him over a sex tape of them both. Jewish Isaac is a controversial figure due to his anti-Muslim sentiments but he denies ant part in the murders. Then another victim, Isaac's agent Mousa, is discovered dead.
古时的戏子，被视为下等人，所以一般红船组织及戏班，给人的感觉，是由一班没出色的人所组成的聚脚点，奔走四处靠卖艺为生。但随着社会的转变，戏子给人的印象及声誉，不但提高很多，而且出色的更被冠以「明星」美誉，故常时一般青年男女，均希望能置身于「明星」的行列。 其中一间天山影片公司招考新人，同期有两位较为突出，梅妹（李司祺）是天山公司在广州招考，性格率直，精灵乖巧；梅剑仙（黄韵诗）则在澳门招考的，但因出身寒微，养成敏感性格。 梅妹与梅剑仙同姓梅，彼此投缘，故被影圈人士称为「双妹唛」，梅妹比梅剑仙大一岁，故人称「大梅姐」与「细梅姐」，两人的电影事业如日方中，成为电影界红人，然而名利之争，使他俩面和心不和，更因二人同时爱上一风度翩翩的纨姱子弟靳玉褛（黄锦燊），怨从此更深。 二人不断在事业上，爱情上明争暗斗，而今这两位走红影坛廿多年的天皇巨星，终于销声匿迹。
【洗冤录】是根据一本宋朝（公元1247年）期间所写的书《洗冤录》改编而成，这本法医史上的惊世巨著记载着中国法医学的先驱──宋慈的一生，及怎样抽丝剥茧地破解当时哄动朝野的奇案。 宋慈（欧阳震华饰演）诞生于棺材中，被取笑为“棺材仔”，饱受歧视。然而乐观积极的他从不受影响，是一个快乐的打更人。直到他与侠义江湖女唐思（宣萱饰演）被卷进谋杀村长的案件中被判死刑，在案件侦破过程中得到了新知县宋翊的帮助，沉冤得雪之余还被聘请为仵工。其后二人联手，屡破奇案。唐思与捕快聂枫（陈妙瑛饰演同样暗恋宋翊，然而宋翊迎娶的，却是富家千金蓝彩蝶。宋翊的聪明和憨厚慢慢让唐思与聂枫刮目相看，这时却传来了唐思乃是公主的消息，同时，宋翊的行为引起了父母的怀疑，他……不是真的宋翊吗？
