警官约翰·荷伯斯（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）新近逮捕了一名杀人犯里斯，此人除了在电刑前说了几句奇怪的语言跟留下了一则暗语，并无特别之处。然而荷伯斯很快发现里斯的暗语指向一名三十年前自杀的警察罗伯·米拉诺。与此同时，几起连锁杀人案接连发生，凶手的手段如出一辙，更令人惊异的是每次的受害者即是上一桩凶案的嫌凶。荷伯斯拜访了罗伯之女格瑞坦，对方劝诫荷伯斯放弃调查。里斯的留言终被破译，原来他用叙利亚的古语言向荷伯斯发出威胁，而荷伯斯的坚持有了进一步的收获，他发现罗伯与近期几宗凶案的死者可能皆出自名为“阿萨索”的恶灵之手，阿萨索可以随意依附人体作恶，荷伯斯的缉凶之路因此而困难重重。这场人与恶灵之战，究竟如何收场？

该剧根据大门刚明的同名小说改编，由搭档饰演因父亲去世而离散的兄弟两。一个是充满热血的刑警哥哥川上佑介，一个是冷静沉着的精英检察官弟弟唐泽真佐人。两人一边互相碰撞一边逼近某个疑难案件的真相的故事。

二战结束，时间流逝，伊莎找到了新雇主，受命于一个主人喜欢进口少女当作性奴的阿拉伯家族。一位美国百万富翁的女儿，一位电影明星和一位妩媚动人的马术教练都是他的最新牺牲品。

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.