2001年，昔日叱咤华尔街的戈登（迈克尔•道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰）出狱了，无人来接，8年未见的女儿维妮（凯瑞•穆里根 Carey Mulligan 饰）与他势同水火。不过，她的男友——股票交易员杰克（希亚•拉博夫 Shia LaBeouf 饰）却对他有些崇拜。杰克热衷清洁能源项目，但他的老板兼导师路易斯都劝他早日收手，并给了他一笔钱。没想到，公司因负面新闻债台高筑，投资银行的詹姆斯趁机收购。被逼无奈的路易斯卧轨自杀。杰克决心为导师复仇。他向戈登毛遂自荐，希望得到他的指点。戈登了解到他与维妮的关系，便提出了一个交易：杰克给他创造接近女儿的机会，他教杰克如何操作资本。为了复仇，杰克决定铤而走险，然而感情的翻转却让他始料不及……
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.
