Episode #4.2
- Episode aired Dec 17, 2015
- TV-MA
- 58m
Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.
- Stacey Bell
- (as Seline Hizli)
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first season finale not to end with the line "Now what?".
- GoofsWhen Benny tries to restore data from the hard drives, you can see the rotating platters in the opened drives. First, it is not necessary to do that to restore data from a physically undamaged drive. Second, the data on the platters would be damaged/destroyed because the dust in the air would come in contact with the platters (that is why professionals open hard drives only in clean rooms). The only time that disc recovery would involve opening a drive would be in the event that there was internal damage that did not involved the platters, an example being a damaged logic board. In such an instance, they would find a precisely identical hard drive, remove the platter stack, and replace it with the stack from the damaged drive, then seal the drive up before beginning recovery.
- Quotes
[last lines]
DCI John Luther: They'll do her for intent to supply and then they'll upgrade to murder when they connect the toy to Jonathan.
Megan Cantor: Do you feel better putting it right?
DCI John Luther: Did you hurt her?
Megan Cantor: Who?
DCI John Luther: Alice. Did you?
Megan Cantor: Why would I?
DCI John Luther: Because you wanted me to keep my promise. You had to stop me from leaving.
Megan Cantor: Hmm. It could be that. Or perhaps it could be that Alice Morgan... was your blind spot. You didn't love her, not really. She frightened you and she excited you... and you mistook that for love. But you would have killed her, eventually. If she didn't kill you first. Perhaps that's why I did it.
[laughs]
Megan Cantor: But I didn't.
DCI John Luther: Megan... are you scared of me?
Megan Cantor: Clearly not.
DCI John Luther: Well, you should be. Because I'm coming for you.
- ConnectionsReferences Dirty Harry (1971)
This two-part story gave us the usual deranged, serial-killer for Luther to chase, intertwined with the mysterious death of Luther's evil guardian angel Alice Morgan but who still manages to get a message to him conveying a vital clue about a long-past cold case he's never quite got over.
By the end of the two episodes, pretty much all is satisfactorily wound up with on the face of it a whole new different Alice-type female character ready to strike up another unusual relationship with him and which might lead to another series in time.
The problem with the previous series is that a good proportion of the strongest and most familiar characters got taken out, mostly physically (this happens quite a lot around Luther), with only his chief and tech-wizard Barney still around from before. This time around a new young female cop becomes his assistant, toughened up by the death of her previous partner at the hands of the new baddie. As usual, the killer gets an unusual M.O. Besides coming on like a combination of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter, he is able to creepily observe his prey from the computers he's previously installed for them. Also as usual, the murders themselves are suitably grisly and blood-spattered with Luther racing against the clock to stop him escalating his spree to kill the family of an ex-girlfriend who dropped him years ago.
There's one other complication for our hero as he severely ticks off a criminal overlord who then proceeds to order a hit on Luther out of spite. While I did miss the characters of Justin, Alice etc, I also liked the new girl helping out here, well played by Rose Leslie. Elba effortlessly dominates proceedings as ever combining a steely resolve to an emotional vulnerability. There's no new romantic interest, perhaps due to the shortened storyline but it wasn't missed.
All in all this was a fine production, well up to the standards of previous series. What next after this, another one-off special or even the talked-of movie? Either way, let's hope the big guy returns again, he'll be missed if he doesn't.
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- Filming locations
- Great Eastern Street Car Park, Hackney, London, England, UK(Emma talks on the phone)
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- Runtime58 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD