爱与谋杀的配方第一季

　　“施虐狂”变身“市委书记”。他不按官场牌理出牌，不畏黑势力，追踪千万巨款海外洗钱，前书记被杀事件……
　　那个人是一手提拔自己的人，可那个人卷进了一个黑暗的漩涡，那个人最终成了一切罪恶的幕后……
　　省级机关的外长司马田，作为后备干部对象下派到某市，担任“签约书记”。他不按官场牌理出牌，引起了市机关、社会各界的震荡，尤其是他不畏上面，不畏地方黑势力，触犯了当地乃至更大一些的头面人物的利益后，他的仕途便走进了一条狭窄的胡同。
　　他追踪千万巨款海外洗钱，追查前书记被杀事件。承受了地方势力张麟山与“高老师”设计的拉拢、棒杀、绑架、杀戮……等等险恶怪招。
　　他发现，提拔他的老领导庞副书记是洗巨款、造罪恶[1]、杀戮的幕后，他几乎陷入绝境。当庞副书记提出让他放一马时说，你是我的人，你把我交等了，你也完蛋，司马田真的犹豫了，最终，他流着泪做出了艰难的抉择。

　　Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

　　名门望族巨星家族会长具日中（金光烈饰）白手起家创办了巨城面包集团。然而事业如日中天的他却与妻子徐仁淑（钱忍和饰）维持着一段没有爱情的婚姻。具日中与家庭护士金美顺（全美善饰）互生情愫，产下一子金卓求。得知此事的徐仁淑要求秘书长韩胜载（郑成模饰）处理此事，从此两母子被赶出门过上了逃亡流浪的生活。而徐仁淑更与韩胜载私通产下一子具马俊，并谎称是与具日中所生。
　　长大成人的金卓求（尹施允饰）一直过着颠沛流离的生活，但他却天生有着超强的嗅觉，拥有烘烤蛋糕的惊人天分。与金卓求两小无猜的申幼京（柳真饰）是他的初恋女友，却因为多层压力两人自小便分开了。由于金卓求的才华，他被八峰老师赏识并收为弟子，并得到老师家孙女梁美顺（李英雅饰）的默默暗恋。然而此时申幼京突然现身，她为了报复曾受过的羞辱而嫁给了自己并不爱的具马俊（朱元饰）。

　　袁家二女袁苇（海清 饰）和崔大林（张含 饰）属新潮白领，相爱几年到了结婚年龄，不料领证当天袁苇甩给他一纸结后不生孩子的合同，大林当时目瞪口呆。三妹袁菲（赵婉亦 饰）心里只有学问和学位，相恋七年的男友实在经不起如此漫长的爱情长跑离她而去，而真心爱袁菲的马群则因爱走向不归路。大姐袁蓉（王姬 饰）是民政局办事员，丈夫田健（李幼斌 饰）是出版社编辑，她常因丈夫跟美女作家过往甚密乱猜疑，一气之下在离婚协义上签了字。婚后不久的袁苇意外怀孕，因大意造成流产，大林心灰意冷，决定与其离婚。袁家三女的婚事愁坏了母亲（张少华 饰），她无法完成“放飞”袁父的承诺，就在这时，田健出车祸了......