- 新任都昌县捕快戴宗抓获了黑帮头目孟粱。孟粱的弟弟孟灵隐出现,他计划谗谄戴宗等人,并抓走戴宗母亲和妃耦,威胁戴宗救出孟粱。戴宗将计就计,以孟粱互换母亲和小七,并抓获了窃取州府珠宝的祸首祸首灵隐。
- In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitioni…