云汐市命案频出，每个案件背后似乎都隐藏着不为人知的人性纠葛。市刑警支队重案大队侦查员叶谦在队长冷启明的带领下，与刑事技术科的司元龙、焦磊、张子芜等骨干，运用现代刑侦手段，从蛛丝马迹中抽丝剥茧，层层推进，屡破奇案。他们不仅破解了死亡密码，更在责任与情感之间坚守正义，在一桩桩匪夷所思的案件中，见心见性、匡扶正义。
肉身之眼晦暗不明，见近不见远，见前不见后，见明不见暗，看到的并非确凿无误存在。外表看起来丝毫没有任何存在感的夏冬青（刘智扬饰），有一个不为人知的秘密，他可以看到另一个世界的众生。自幼在孤儿院长大的他大学刚刚毕业，正准备考研，此时他正四处求职打工。在此期间，冬青被444号便利店录取。据说这家便利店半夜12点后会闹鬼，原来这里正是两个不同纬度空间上的连接点。在冥界担任公务员的赵吏（于毅饰）直接管理着便利店，他自称“灵魂摆渡人”，每天迎来送往，指引鬼魂们去往应该去的世界。冬青和性格直爽的女孩王小亚（肖茵饰）则成为一个个灵异事件的见证者。
剧根据英国同名剧集改编。 本剧主演 William H. Macy 曾获得艾美奖。 拥有有六个孩子的单身父亲 Frank（威廉姆·H·梅西 William H. Macy 饰）和孩子们生活在周围到处是酒鬼、乞丐和罪犯的最底层社区。他收入不高，整天酗酒，根本不管儿女们的死活，不到20岁的大女儿 Fiona（埃米·罗森 Emmy Rossum 饰）不得不承担起照顾五个弟妹以及养家糊口的责任。跨过宿醉的父亲的身体争抢着偷来的早餐；凌晨4点大开着摇滚乐狂欢；纵容邻居在他们的楼梯上做爱；这个热闹非凡的家庭忙碌、自由、无法无天、充满冒险。他们拥有的不多，但他们懂得生活中最重要的是什么……
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
