Ned (Lee Pace )开了家派店，通过接触死尸，使他的聪明有了用武之地。但是他的聪明才智却害得他与别人越发疏远，正如女服务员Olive Snook 所发现的。当私人侦探Emerson Cod 发现他的秘密后，他的生活就变得越发复杂、难以捉摸了。Emerson 说服爱财如命的Ned 帮他从死人口里套出杀死他们的凶手的名字以破谋杀案。
　　接着，Ned 接手处理一个永远改变他生活的案子。他童年的梦中情人 Charlotte在一艘船上 被杀害了。她的死迫使他重新回到他的家乡去侦破此案。但一旦和Chuck 重圆，Ned 却不能将她遣返。他帮她从她死去的阿姨Lily 和 Vivian 那逃了出来。
　　Chuck 成为Ned 和Emerson 的PI 公司的第三个合作伙伴，但她激励他们俩要用他们的聪明才智为善，而不只是为了盈利。Ned 能与他曾经深爱过的惟一女生重圆感到欣喜过望。除了一个可怕的事情外，生活将是美满非常——如果他将碰她一次，她就会再次死去，这次就永不复生了。

　　Almost a year has passed since Ellen Parsons left Hewes and Associates. She is now working in the District Attorney's office and is dealing with a fairly important drug case, trying to get a dealer to reveal the identity of his supplier. Patty Hewes is now acting on behalf of a group of investors trying to recover money they had entrusted to Louis Tobin and who, it turns out, was running a Ponzi scheme. With billions of dollars unaccounted for, Patty is trying to find any funds that may have been hidden by the Tobin family. Patty and Ellen have had no contact since her departure but Patty has been reluctant to re-assign her office, convinced that Ellen will return. She even sends her an expensive handbag. Ellen wants nothing to do with her however and when she thinks Patty may be interfering with her drug case, tells her she doesn't need any help. She also tells her that any secrets she may have are perfectly safe. In a flash-forward 6 months into the future, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection. The occupant of the other vehicle has fled but it is registered to someone she knows.

　　这一季的故事依然围绕着泰德等五人展开。时间流转到2009年，相恋多年的马修（杰森·席格尔 Jason Segel 饰）和莉莉（艾丽森·汉妮根 Alyson Hannigan 饰）结婚后搬进了新的公寓，过着幸福甜蜜的小日子。他们最好的朋友泰德（乔什·拉德诺 Josh Radnor 饰），在上一季屡次碰壁之后，他决定放弃继续当建筑师，而改行做一名大学教授，同时，他也在努力地找寻自己的真爱之女。
　　而另一方面，他们共同的好友巴尼（尼尔·帕特里克·哈里斯 Neil Patrick Harris 饰）和罗宾（寇碧·史莫德斯 Cobie Smulders饰），在经过了一年的情感挣扎与斗争，他们终于搞在一起了。莉莉对此感到相当开心，但是巴尼、罗宾二人却难以定位彼此之间的关系。在三个好友的帮助下，他们能不能确定男女朋友关系？

　　纽约意大利黑帮头目弗兰克（Steven Van Zandt饰）因与新的家族老大不和，转做FBI的证人。在证人保护计划在移民到了挪威小镇利勒哈默尔（Lilyhammer，1994年冬奥会举办地）。此地风景秀美，堪称人间天堂。不过很快，富有"生意头脑"的弗兰克就重操旧业，干起 了黑帮的老买卖

　　Already on opposite sides of Michael Hewes's custody suit against his mother, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) prepare to face off in court after a cyber-hacker's revelations about insider trading expose damaging personal information that push an informant over the edge.

　　《俏妈新上路 The New Adventures of Old Christine》主创Kari Lizer负责的多镜头喜剧《老妈驾到 Call Your Mother》讲述女主（Kyra Sedgwick饰）是个空巢母亲，孩子们还都在数千里外过着自己的生活，于是她下定 决心要重新插入到孩子们的生活里，成为他们日常的重要部份。

　　The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.

　　《联邦调查局：通缉要犯部 FBI: Most Wanted》是《联邦调查局 FBI》的衍生剧后门试映集，然后被正式预订。《联邦调查局：通缉要犯部》讲述FBI一个分部门，他们任 务是专门追捕联邦调查局最高通缉名单里的犯人；这部衍生剧由Dick Wolf及Rene Balc er执笔，Fred Berner负责执导。

　　Three months after the Frobisher settlement, Patty is concentrating on establishing a charitable foundation when an old boyfriend, named Daniel Purcell, contacts her and entangles her in a new case involving corporate fraud and greed. Meanwhile, Ellen continues working with the FBI to destroy Patty, but she becomes more rash and impatient as she continues to set up her appearances to hide her rage behind fabricated grief in the wake of David's murder. Elsewhere, Arthur Frobisher is revealed to have survived the assassination attempt and is recovering in seclusion as he plots his next move against all the people whom he felt wronged him.