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本剧改编自播客《Slow Burn》第一季，聚焦水门事件丑闻背后不为人知的故事和被遗忘的人物——从尼克松总统笨手笨脚、投机取巧的下属，到帮助、教唆他们犯下罪行的狂热派，以及最终导致整个腐败团体下台的吹哨人。 故事围绕Martha Mitchell展开。Martha惹人注目、口无遮拦，是阿肯色州的社交名流，也是尼克松忠诚的司法部长John Mitchell的妻子。尽管她有党派背景，却是第一个公开就尼克松参与水门事件发出警告的人，这导致了总统任期的崩塌，和她的个人生活的破裂。作为司法部长，Mitchell是尼克松最信任的顾问和最好的朋友。他脾气暴躁、出口成脏、冷酷无情，但也无可救药地爱着自己以直言不讳而闻名的妻子。Mitchell将被迫在Martha和总统之间做出选择。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
