道格·里曼将参与制作纪录片《踩踏》(Tread),保罗·索雷特(《火星时代》《万圣节传说》)执导,Glen Zipper和Sean Stuart担任制片人, Great Point Media将在戛纳宣传此项目。讲述2004年,美国焊工Marvin John Heemeyer因为分区纠纷而异常愤怒,将一台小松D355A推土机用钢筋混凝土进行改造,装载大功率武器, 包括有穿甲弹的50口径狙击步枪,用这台“自造坦克”拆毁了市政厅、前市长的房子和科罗拉多州格兰比的其他建筑。当推土机被困在一家赌博商店的地下室时,Heemeyer用手枪结束了自己的生命。
当地警方、科罗拉多州巡逻队、林业部门和特种部队花了8个小时才拆除这台推土机,把Heemeyer的尸体抬出来。
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.