清末民初的南国祥城，民智未开，恶势力横行。捕头孔雪笠和仵作方栋，不畏邪恶，用自己掌握的现代科学知识和装神弄鬼的黑暗势力展开了一次又一次的斗争，揭穿了他们丑恶的嘴脸。老百姓也在正邪势力的对抗中，逐渐觉醒起来。孔雪笠与方栋虽性格迥异，但都有一颗赤诚的正义之心，两人在破解江湖秘术、扫除封建迷信的过程中，成为了一对生死与共的好兄弟。此间，孔雪笠和酒楼老板娘一见钟情，却 因黑暗势力从中作梗险些劳燕纷飞。最终老板娘冲破迷信的束缚，有情人终成眷属。
五百年前小锦鲤菱儿误入紫竹林，红鲤出手相救，从此她们成为了生死相依的姐妹，琼魔降世，为祸人间。青云宗主青芽子用尽毕生修为化结界封印琼魔，哪知琼魔冲破结界再次危害人间。
半年间，SNK剧变，总监余英飞离职、门外汉古肇华空降。张家妍虽掌权却难服众。刘艳的公开平台崛起，动摇传统媒体地位，连已入官场的许诗晴亦被卷入新旧媒体的角力。文慧心于此时复出，昭告世人：新闻女王的地位永远不可撼动！
他们在一次意外事件中相识，本以为只是彼此生命中的过客，却在不断逼近的危险与真相中，被迫站到同一阵线。当爱与责任、真相与救赎交织，他们必须在“刀刃之上”寻找各自的答案。
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.
