该剧改编自真实事件。1988年12月21日，伦敦飞往纽约的泛美航空103号班机遭遇恐怖袭击，造成259名乘客和机组人员丧生，另有11名洛克比当地居民死亡。Jim Swire博士（科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）的女儿也在洛克比空难中遇难，他被提名为英国受害者家属的发言人，竭尽全力调查空难真相。
Five months later. Sydney quits the CIA and joins a Black Ops unit called "Authorized Personnel Only" alongside Dixon, Jack, Vaughn and... Sloane whom for limited immunity is co-operating with the APO. Meanwhile, the truth Sydney found o
Having woken up in Hong Kong, with no memory for the last two years (!), Sydney returns to Los Angeles to try to piece together the last two years of her life and discovers the fates of her friends and family: Vaughn has married thinking that Sydney was l
Sydney finds herself face-to-face with her long-lost mother, Irina Derevko, whose intentions for her daughter are made chillingly clear. However, Sydney manages to escape and rejoin Jack and Will in their escape from Taiwan. After arriving back in Los Ang
表面上，雪莉（珍妮弗·加纳 Jennifer Garner 饰）是一名普通的大学研究生，实际上，她已为名为SD6的秘密情报组织工作多年。在同男友结婚之际，雪莉决定向其公开自己的真实身份，没想到男友却因此被组织的安全人员暗杀。愤怒中，雪莉选择了“罢工”，之后亦遭到了抹杀。危机之中，雪莉知道了自己的父亲杰克（维克托·加柏 Victor Garber 饰）也是和自己一样的秘密特工，并且，在背后扶持SD6的并非国家组织，而是拥有强大武力的反动分子。于私于公，雪莉和SD6都有着不共戴天之仇，她回到了SD6，但此时，
