詹姆士（詹姆斯·艾伦·麦克卡尼 James Allen McCune 饰）的姐姐失踪已有二十年之久，而她正是曾经闹得沸沸扬扬的黑森林布莱尔女巫传说中的主角，詹姆士一直坚信，姐姐依然生活在黑森林的某个角落。某日，詹姆士在网上看到了一段诡异的视频，而录下这段视频的人正是自己的姐姐，为了寻找姐姐的下落，詹姆士和好友皮特（布兰登·斯考特 Brandon Scott 饰）、丽莎（考莉·赫尔南德斯 Callie Hernandez 饰）和艾什莉（科宾·瑞德 Corbin Reid 饰）一起，决定故地重游。 詹姆士找到了上传视频的兄妹两人，在他们的引导下，一行人渐渐深入黑森林。黑森林秀美的景色令皮特和艾什莉放松了戒心，然而入夜后，接连发生的怪响和无端出现的女巫图腾令他们陷入了恐慌。詹姆士认为是兄妹两人捣的鬼，于是将他们赶走，但事态却并没有因为他们的离开而有所好转。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
