剧情介绍
女作家和警长坐长途车，遇大雨滞留。一名乘客死亡，而他刚刚被刑满释放。其他乘客竟与他有千丝万缕的关系，到底是谁想让他再次为过去的罪恶买单呢？
Jessica and Sheriff Amos Tupper go to a Portland Sheriff's convention by bus. After picking up two unknown passengers, the stormy weather and damage force the party to take an indefinite rest at a diner. When she goes back to the bus to look for a book, she finds Gilbert Stoner, one of the extra passengers, a just released ex-convict dead, stabbed with a screw-driver. While everybody is stuck at least till the local police arrives, Amos with help from Jessica conduct an informal investigation. Seeing Stoner's name on his release papers, they recall that he was one of three criminals who pulled off the bloody Danvers bank robbery years ago. The obvious first suspect is the driver, whose daughter died in the heist, but Stoner was strangled to death before the stabbing, to which Gibbons confesses, and Jessica finds other links, such as Steve Pascal whose father was an accomplice but died in the robbery. Then Carey Drayson is wounded with his own stolen gun when the power goes out and he ...
迷你版东方快车谋杀案。
也算是暴风雪山庄模式了，结局两次反转很精彩。
第一季中最精彩的一个故事，用到了某个非常经典的凶手设置。