Lindsay gets suspicious when Rebecca seems to be secretly awaiting an important letter and realizes just how much she was right when the letter finally arrives Ellenor gets a hysterical call from a client, who ran over a man in the street while drunk, and is shocked to discover exactly who he hit Hellen prosecutes two boys accused of rape and murder, each accusing the other, and ends up making a deal with the wrong one
南高县一把手的位置空半年了上上下下都以为这把交椅非副县长刘超莫属刘超自己也做好了大展宏图的思想准备可忽然间从上边派来一个吴书田人们都觉得此人来头不小其实硕士研究生吴书田没什么背景不过是在面对社会公开选拨公务员时考入省委机关因不谙机关世事同领导意见相左被贬了下来 这个书生气十足的吴书田却是个认真的人尤其对本县已经司空见惯而熟视无睹的制假贩假活动毫不妥协这样一来便触动了以刘超为首的地方势力他们以维持地方财政为名凭借其经营多年的人事网络给吴书田制造了一个又一个困难他们为了掩盖罪行撵走吴书田夺回权利不惜在吴书田与妻子虞雅之间挑拨事端编造绯闻甚至利用车祸杀人灭口但改革开放毕竟是大势所趋吴书田在农行女行长王宁县委办公室主任赵亮等人的帮助下终于战胜了盘根错节的地方势力使南高县的工作走上了改革开放健康发展的轨道本剧生动细腻的塑造了一位新时代的县委书记的形象
