In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, we embed ourselves inside criminal enterprises to see how contraband moves across borders, and explore the politics behind a hidden economy nearly as big as the one you know.
When 15-year-old Jennifer Pandos went missing in 1987, her parents told everyone she ran away. Decades later, her brother Stephen begins a relentless odyssey in search of the truth. His investigation into the case threatens to destroy his family as he becomes strongly convinced that his parents are both implicated in the crime. As time passes, more threads unravel and new evidence comes to light, Stephen starts to question everything he has come to believe.
A police detective investigating the kidnapping of elementary school students becomes involved in the intricate network of the underworld. Beijing policeman Li Hui Yan has gone alone to a small town in Dongbei due to a kidnapping case. By chance, he meets Zhou You, a mortician who is searching for the truth about his father's death. The two are pulled into grudges and entanglements that span three decades. In twelve days and nights, a secret about human nature is revealed.
The Scales of Justice is a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine were made in black and white, and the last four in colour. The finale, Payment in Kind, was Merton Park's final production.
Episodes were based on criminal cases, and each film was introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. The opening narration describes her as having "in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice".
Ex-don Murshid is forced out of exile when his former accomplice turned rival, Farid, traps his son in a gang war. Can Murshid reclaim his rule over the city as he saves his son?
Undercover officers Qin Chuan and Ning Zhi infiltrate a drug cartel in the Golden Triangle, facing ruthless drug lords, deadly trials, and the lure of corruption. As they navigate the dangerous world of narcotics trafficking, they fight to complete their mission and take down the cartel.
Trapped in a toxic marriage, Nagla dreams that her husband died—only to later find his corpse at her doorstep. With the mystery engulfing her, she turns to her three sisters for a way out.
Efemini, a down-on-his-luck everyman whose life changes forever after a chance meeting with an old friend. Forced by circumstance to suppress his principles and explore a life of cybercrime, he finds himself making ever-greater moral compromises to stay ahead of the consequences of his new choices and broadening tastes.
A former traditionalist cop reforms to become a model officer of New China, balancing family life with solving complex criminal cases using his insight and experience.
Private forensic researcher Nagareda Enishi (Katori Shingo) is usually very sluggish as well as sloppy, and always aloof. However, his entire demeanour changes once he is at a scene and his skills as a forensic researcher are topnotch. He stands up for the disadvantaged by using science and technology to uncover conclusive evidence and solve trivial civil cases which the police will not handle such as adultery, molest and stalking. Enishi used to be a member of the Research Institute of Forensic Science and was called an ace, but he now belongs to Chiyoda Forensic Science Institute due to some incident.