该剧基于公共记录和Egil “Bud” Krogh、Matthew Krogh合著的《Integrity》一书创作。 故事讲述总统Richard Nixon自己的政治打手、“水门事件”主谋E. Howard Hunt(伍迪·哈里森 饰)和G. Gordon Liddy(贾斯汀·塞洛克斯 饰)如何意外推翻了他们本想竭力保护的总统职位。 Nixon有一支团队“水管工/ White House Plumbers”,专门为他收集政敌情报、抹黑对手、阻止内部人士爆料等,E. Howard Hunt和G. Gordon Liddy就是该团队的指挥人。A five-part series that tells the true story of how Nixon's own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.