The expanded third season picks up six months after the events of season two and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake. Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home with the Border Patrol, but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching implications.
湯姆瓊斯（阿爾伯特·芬尼 Albert Finney 飾）本為私生子，后被一紳士收養，他天性熱情奔放，模樣又生得風流俊朗，莊園主的女兒索菲亞（蘇珊娜·約克 Susannah York 飾）同他墜入情網，后遭到表弟比菲爾（大衛·沃納 David Warner 飾）的插足干涉，一番糾葛之后，聲名狼藉的湯姆瓊斯決定離開家鄉，去外面的世界尋找屬于自己的天地?！ 冯x開后沒多久，傷心的索菲亞便也踏上了旅途，兩人在緣分的驅使之下在一名女商販的家中重逢了。之后，比菲爾亦來到了倫敦，想要報復湯姆。在比菲爾的陰謀籌劃之下，湯姆被送上了絞刑架，就在即將行刑的生死攸關的時刻，索菲亞的父親及時趕到，破解了比菲爾的陰謀，挽救了湯姆的性命。