Now, Amsterdam is a homicide detective in the Big Apple where he shares his secret with Omar, a blues club owner with a dew secrets of his own. John is partnered up with Eva Marquez and gets into a chase with a suspect. When he suffers what appears to be a heart attack and is revived by ER doctor Sara Dillane, he realizes that mortality may be closer then he though.
在这个异想天开变成现实之前,先来瞧瞧已获永生的John Amsterdam。被印第安女巫赐予永生能力的他,不遇到真爱便不会变老,不会死去。从1642到2007,将近400年的阅历换来了609位女友,不同职的业和35只宠物狗。他看着纽约长大,熟悉这座城的寸金寸土。特殊的经历与本身的聪慧,使他成为纽约市与众不同的命案神探。在热情活泼、意志坚定的女搭档Eva Marquez的协助下,成功破获了一起又一起离奇命案。
浮华褪去,声明与威望掩盖之下的是神探略感孤独的度日如年。单调重复的生活使永生不再是上天的赐礼,已沦为了难担的重负。身边的人从苍老到死去,一次又一次将他丢进丧失亲友的哀痛之中......