凯瑟琳上校（海伦·米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）率英国情报单位追捕一名女性恐怖分子长达六年，经由美军加入高空监视行动，好不容易在秘密基地找到疑似她的身影，特种部队准备活捉她时，高空侦查人员却意外发现该名恐怖分子正与其他人密谋自杀炸弹攻击，为了防止伤害，凯瑟琳下令轰炸秘密基地将敌人歼灭。当无人战斗机的驾驶员史蒂夫（亚伦·保尔 Aaron Paul 饰）瞄准目标后，却发现这个“秘密基地”竟然是普通的民居，而一名女孩更是跑进他的攻击范围玩耍，原本单纯的跨国逮捕行动瞬间变成复杂难解的反恐任务……
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.
