被冠以弑父罪名流放荒原的公主凤漓，七年后以妖君之名重归墨城。她在姨母孟妩操控的雀楼盛宴中，选中了身份成谜的东篱遗孤云湛。一场表面荒淫的选奴戏码，实则是凤漓对各方势力的血腥清洗。云湛以雀奴身份步步逼近，既是刺杀目标，亦是故人重逢，两人竟是幼时在荒原相依为命的患难之交。凤漓借疯批人设暗中追查弑父真相，云湛假意臣服伺机报仇复国，却在虚情假意的耳鬓厮磨间深陷情网。当凤漓发现云湛腰间烙印认出故人，当云湛目睹她呕血仍含笑饮毒，伪装尽碎。姨母孟妩的傀儡阴谋，西岐少主的和亲棋局，东篱旧部的复仇烈焰，皆在女君大婚之日引爆。终凤漓手持虎符踏碎阴谋，云湛为她背离复国大业，两个从地狱爬出的灵魂，在血色王座上相拥。
八年抗战时期，日寇的铁蹄无处不至，地处偏远的雁山老林也未能独享太平。在鬼子的一次扫荡过后，县大队除掉内部的汉奸，并制定了夺回被掠军粮的行动。行动虽然顺利完成，却半路杀出个程咬金，占山为王的林振海（于荣光 饰）带领手下截去军粮，指令县大队以及负责军粮押运的二队长李双枪大为光火。他们认定与林振海的结拜兄弟三队队长李彪（杜淳 饰）走漏了消息。为讨回清白，李彪决计讨回军粮。而在这一过程中，他和大哥振海却要面对极其复杂的情感纠葛。另一方面，为了壮大反动势力，日寇积极网罗林振海一帮。国仇家恨，每个人都面临着重大的抉择…… 本片根据著名作家石钟山的同名小说改编。
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.
