1 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,840 TOYS RATTLE 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,560 Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing. 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:09,920 You like that one, don't you. 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,080 DOORBELL RINGS 5 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,240 Ms Ross? Er, Kirsten, Ross? 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,800 Yes? 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,400 I'm Detective Inspector Phillip Hamilton... 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,920 My God, is Carl all right? BABY GURGLES 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,840 Is Carl OK? 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,400 Perhaps if I...? 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,720 Of course. I'm sorry. Please... 12 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:50,760 Before I go on, I might ask if there's anyone else at home? 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,280 Anyone who might, um, be able to help? 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,000 No. No. I'm waiting for... Oh, God, is he all right? 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,760 Now that's not what we answer. 16 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,360 Either he opens the door to find his wife and baby spread all over the carpet... 17 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,480 or he comes home to find the baby safely asleep in its cot 18 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,720 but his wife gone. 19 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,280 So Kirsten... 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:35,800 Which is it to be? 21 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,200 LIQUID DRIPPING 22 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:12,280 My love 23 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:18,560 24 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,680 With her eyes like a flame 25 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:31,640 Like a fly will never love you 26 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:34,720 27 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,120 Why all the secrecy? 28 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,000 I want your unadulterated impressions. 29 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,560 Unadulterated by what? 30 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,520 Rumours. Just go in. 31 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,520 It's blood. 32 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,760 The victim? 33 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,840 Kirsten Ross. Thirty-two. Missing, presumed abducted. 34 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,000 She got a young child? Leo Ross, yeah three months old. Is the baby all right? 35 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,680 Untouched. Father comes home, sees all this, imagines the worst. 36 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,720 What you think he did this? The father? 37 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,880 No, I'm not thinking that. 38 00:03:53,240 --> 00:04:00,240 "Do not fear the Abyss, for I am the abyss and thou shalt weep with the fervour and bliss of my love." 39 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,720 Blimey. Satanism? 40 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,800 Are you superstitious about that sort of thing? 41 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,640 Not so much. No, not as a rule. 42 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,360 But, this is pretty weird. 43 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,440 The writing? 44 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,080 Same hand. Same writer. What hand? What writer? 45 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,520 Ten years ago Grace Allen was abducted from her home. 46 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,600 Her baby was asleep upstairs. Unhurt. No sign of struggle. 47 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,360 Her husband comes home, finds his hallway looking like this. 48 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,040 Same writing. Same words. 49 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:42,320 Three months later, the investigation received an anonymous tip, some bloke... 50 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,200 who claims to be an accomplice of this man... 51 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,960 Lucien Burgess. Burgess is a rich kid. 52 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,320 But he's born with bad blood. 53 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,200 Aged 30, he's got his own little black magic cult derived on the writings of Aleister Crowley. 54 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,600 Who called himself, "the Great Beast". 55 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,720 The blood on the walls? Human and fresh. 56 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,480 Tapped from a living source. 57 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,640 Human body's got six litres of it. 58 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,920 Tap a little bit at a time, over a few weeks... 59 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,440 you've got a whole body's worth of blood to splash around. 60 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,680 But no corpse. And the handwriting? 61 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,400 Burgess favours the right. 62 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,680 Whoever wrote on the walls favours the left. 63 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,080 They were confident they had their man, but they had nothing on him. 64 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,360 So an undercover operation was authorised. 65 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,800 It went wrong. While he was supposed to be undercover 66 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,080 DS Richard Henley attempted to make an arrest. 67 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,560 He did this... 68 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,800 all-but killed him. Henley does three and a half years for GBH. 69 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,360 Burgess gets rich on government compensation. 70 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:42,160 Then sells his story to the tabloids which are still published as a 'memoir' which is still a year after 71 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,360 all this, Grace Allen's body turns up right next to a railway siding. 72 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,040 She'd been frozen post mortem. 73 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,400 When they found her, she'd been completely exsanguinated. 74 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,080 Burgess had drained her blood. 75 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Forensics confirm. 76 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,880 The writing on the wall tonight was in Grace Allen's blood. 77 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,440 Still fresh, ten years later. That must be enough to pick him up? 78 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,200 Well, yeah. Ordinarily. 79 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,280 But the last time the police went after him, we caused a full-blown media and political shit-storm. 80 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,280 Kirsten Ross is probably still alive out there right now. 81 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,400 Finding her is our highest priority... 82 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,960 but not our sole priority. It's imperative we stay clear of Burgess. 83 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,680 We don't so much as cast a glance in his direction until we've got something bulletproof. 84 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,840 TRAIN RUMBLES 85 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,840 BANGING AND MUFFLED CRIES 86 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,880 POUNDING 87 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,280 WOMAN CRYING 88 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,960 WHIMPERING AND POUNDING 89 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,680 MUFFLED TERRIFIED WOMAN'S VOICE 90 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,600 CRYING AND POUNDING 91 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,360 POUNDING CONTINUES 92 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,280 WOMAN SCREAMS 93 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,960 CRACKLING OF AUDIO 94 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,240 Are you Mark North? Yeah? 95 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,200 Hi! 96 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,120 Oh, my God... What happened? 97 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,160 They were waiting for me. Who? 98 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,920 Whoever did this. What do you mean? 99 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,920 He sent girls. 100 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,960 He sent girls to do it. That man is a genius. 101 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,760 He wouldn't. You think? 102 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,760 Let me have a look. 103 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,040 Let me have a look. 104 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,160 according to the literature, if the Left-Handed Man actually existed, 105 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,960 he'd be an acolyte, follower; a submissive personality. 106 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:37,320 What? An apostle that betrays his master to the police and then still works with him, ten years later? 107 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,840 That doesn't sound right to me. 108 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,160 So what, what are we saying then? 109 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,120 Well, Burgess wants fame, doesn't he? He wants infamy. 110 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,880 He wants to humiliate the police. 111 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,640 We had his handwriting analysed. 112 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,880 Tried to make him write with his left hand and he couldn't do it. 113 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,560 Yeah, but it's still not right, though, is it? 114 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:59,600 Grace Allen's ten year old blood shows up at Kirsten Ross's house tonight. 115 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,360 And the blood on the walls at Grace Allen's house was human too. 116 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,720 The source was never identified. Never. 117 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,040 Maybe they weren't looking in the right place. 118 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,720 You know, maybe they were thinking it was as fresh as it looked. 119 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:20,440 So it could have come from another victim, an even earlier victim? Yeah, maybe a lot earlier. 120 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:26,960 Do me a favour, dig around Cold Cases, unsolved with similar indications. 121 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,520 PHONE RINGS 122 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,520 John. DCI Luther's phone, DS Ripley. 123 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,120 Oh, brilliant yeah, cheers. 124 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,480 Boss... boss. Yeah? 125 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,480 I lost you for a minute there. 126 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,840 Yes, sorry I do that, what? Your undercover guy's here. 127 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,120 Oh, God he looks like shit. 128 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,680 DCI John Luther, Richard Henley. I really appreciate you coming in. 129 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:56,480 Well, they didn't give me much choice. 130 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,640 Why don't you, er, use the interview room? 131 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,400 Yeah. 132 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,640 Benny... Sorry about the hour, mate. I need a favour, can you get over here? 133 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,840 Oh, Alice. 134 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,880 So I'm returning home, I'm parking, same place, same time as usual. 135 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,440 And they walk up the street, but it's the, it's the 136 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,320 stiff arm by the side, you know what is that about, why do they do that? 137 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,360 "They?" Who exactly are, "they"? 138 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,720 These, these hoodies, these kids. These girls. 139 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,200 Girls? Girls, and so I'm surrounded. 140 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,280 And one of them says, "Are you Mark North?" 141 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,160 I say, "yeah". Bang, I'm on the floor having the shit kicked out of me. 142 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,240 And then, the same girl 143 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,840 says, "John says hello". 144 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,000 John says hello? Word for word. 145 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,040 Please. 146 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,360 The truth is Richard, we're nowhere. 147 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,960 All right, we've got SOCOS at the house, bodies on the street. 148 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,680 He won't have left you anything. 149 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:36,400 Not at all. 150 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,960 And the clock is ticking on Kirsten Ross. 151 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,520 I'm not a copper any more. Yes, you are. 152 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,600 There was a... 153 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,400 ..a lot of sex stuff. 154 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,520 Did he use blood? In your presence? 155 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,200 He said all bodily fluids were powerful. 156 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:12,040 Semen, vaginal secretions, blood. Menstrual blood was best. 157 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,520 I mean what did he do with it? 158 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,920 Well, all that stuff had to be taken into the body. In various ways. 159 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,520 And you had to... 160 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,200 I let him do anything he wanted. 161 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,240 Richard... 162 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,960 whatever happened, whatever you 163 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,640 allowed to happen to you. 164 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,800 All right, you did something valiant. 165 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:43,600 And every copper in this shop knows that. It didn't help though, did it? 166 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,120 How did you end up, beating him? 167 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,880 I'd been undercover for 15 months. 168 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,200 Thought I'd won his trust. 169 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,120 This one night, we're at his flat 170 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,280 and he gives me a glass of wine. 171 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,760 I drink it... 172 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,680 wake up tied to a chair. 173 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:18,600 It turns out, he'd known I was police from day one. 174 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,240 He showed me a picture of Grace Allen. She was alive. 175 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,160 And the picture right next to her face, that day's paper. 176 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,640 And he said, 177 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,960 "this is the closest you'll ever come." 178 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,240 And he set light to the picture and burnt it right in front of me. 179 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,320 Then he cut me loose. And that's when you did that? 180 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,080 Yeah. Yeah. 181 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:48,600 That's what I did. 182 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,480 POUNDING 183 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,720 SHE WHIMPERS 184 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,880 You are radiant. 185 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,800 Ssh! 186 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,920 Are you ready? 187 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,080 SHE SCREAMS 188 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,080 Who's that, in there? Oh, that's, er, Richard Henley. 189 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,760 Ex-copper Richard Henley? 190 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,360 Yeah, well what's left of him. 191 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,080 Who's in there with the Duchess? 192 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,280 Er, oh, that's, Mark North. 193 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,360 Right. Hmm. 194 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,240 Busy night, then. 195 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,000 Sir. 196 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,160 She was naked, 197 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,280 and, er, 198 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,840 in some kind of box, 199 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,760 er, rectangular, not coffin-shaped. 200 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,640 It was, er, shorter deeper. 201 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,120 She was tied at the wrists and ankles with a... 202 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,440 It was too dark to see properly. 203 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,760 Er, her eyes were... 204 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,240 ..er, like a horse's eyes, when it's terrified. 205 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,760 How could you erm, 206 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,960 how could you read the paper? 207 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,040 Sorry? You said the box, it was too dark 208 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,920 to see details of the straps. 209 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,400 But you read the headline, you could see her eyes, how? 210 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,840 There was a light across her face. 211 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,840 A reflection of the flash or something. A light? 212 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,680 Like a crescent of light. 213 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,320 It was her eyes that did it. 214 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,840 I wanted to kill him. 215 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,160 I knew it would cost me. But I didn't care. 216 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,680 And to this day, 217 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,440 the biggest regret of my life is not killing the... 218 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,840 Any idea what 219 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:08,640 it's like to feel like that? 220 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,160 Yes, I do. 221 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,520 I know exactly what that feels like. 222 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,320 WHIMPERING AND SPRAYING 223 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:26,000 Leave me alone, leave me alone... 224 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,400 SHE SCREAMS 225 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,640 Three guesses why Zoe's gentleman caller was here? 226 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,720 To confess he's a dick? 227 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,720 He's been assaulted. 228 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,840 Good. He blames you. Oh, come on. 229 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,720 You've already come close to one suspension for assaulting him. 230 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,760 So I'm pretty much obliged to take this seriously. 231 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,400 The man is a fantasist. 232 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,560 The marks on his face aren't fantasies. 233 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,120 Guv, all due respect, Kirsten Ross is out there alive right now. 234 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,000 And you bother me with this? 235 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,920 Seriously? OK. 236 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,600 I'll take my time entering the paperwork. 237 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,520 But I will be entering it, first thing tomorrow... 238 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,800 unless Mark North withdraws his complaint before then. 239 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,480 If he does, no-one need know this ever happened. 240 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,280 Thank you. 241 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,520 Yeah, so go! Sod off! Speak to him. 242 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,280 Be nice. Beg, if you have to. 243 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,840 I ran the blood from the Grace Allen Cold Case through every available database. 244 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,160 We got a match; Precious Akingbade was found on the banks of a canal in Birmingham. 245 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,200 Exsanguinated, genitally mutilated. 246 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,200 I remember this. This was years ago. 247 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,440 Yeah, 20 years. 1990. 248 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,520 Two different murders; completely different MOs. 249 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,000 Separated by a decade and half a country. 250 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,080 You know, Burgess must've been... 251 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,080 20 years old and done this? 252 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,120 Benny, I appreciate you coming in. 253 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:14,880 That's OK. I was just immersed in the world of, er, King Crimson and The World of War-craft. 254 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,400 Er, as much as I love you, I can't pretend to know what that is. 255 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,720 What I'm trying to say is; do I smell like someone who's been smoking marijuana? 256 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,880 A little bit. D'you think anybody's going to notice? 257 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,120 See if you can ID these girls. 258 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:34,120 Quietly as you can. 259 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:38,280 You OK? I will be, once you tell me who they are. 260 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,720 Give me an hour or two. Or three. 261 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,240 Boss? 262 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,120 Burgess runs a little occult bookshop. They sell on-line. 263 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,440 Do you think Burgess will be at work today? 264 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,200 He's got to make it look like a normal day. 265 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,880 Pay him a little visit. 266 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,280 John? You come here today? 267 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:27,800 Seriously? Mark! Mark... 268 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,040 Oh, dear. 269 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,520 Look, I had nothing to do with this. 270 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,120 Look, what you did, John, I understand it. 271 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,840 All right, it was subtle, in a brutal way... 272 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,800 which kind of sums you up, I suppose. But look at my face. 273 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,880 All right, look, if you do this, all right, there's an innocent woman out there that's going to get hurt. 274 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,440 It's got nothing to do with this... 275 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:55,920 you, me, all the rest of it. 276 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:02,000 John, you can't keep saying to Zoe that you love her and then putting her through this. You have to stop. 277 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,160 Stop for her. Stop for you. Stop. 278 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,560 Listen to me, Mark, I'm asking you as nicely as I can. 279 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,760 Don't do this to me. 280 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,720 And what exactly are you saying? 281 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,440 If you're going to threaten me, 282 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,760 why don't you make a proper job of it. Say it out loud, so we all know where we stand. 283 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:38,480 Zoe, there are lots of things I wish I had told you. 284 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:44,320 Things that I did that I was ashamed of, afraid of. 285 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,360 I didn't talk to you. 286 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,440 But at least I didn't lie. 287 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,760 OK, like I'm not lying now. 288 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,960 Mark, I didn't do this to you, I really need you to trust me on this. 289 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,720 Alice, what are you playing at? 290 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,760 I thought you wanted Zoe back. 291 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,800 And you do it by getting me blamed for beating up Mark North? 292 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,720 Getting me fired? I'm in serious trouble, more trouble than you think! 293 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,000 You won't lose your job. 294 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,480 Or your wife. Alice, do me a favour. 295 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,480 Stop interfering! 296 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,040 All right, please, no more helping, can you do that? 297 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:06,640 John? 298 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,680 Yeah... how'd you know that? 299 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,360 We do most of our trade on-line... 300 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,040 or by appointment. 301 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,120 So... 302 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,640 I'm all yours. 303 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,160 What's your pleasure? 304 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,040 Five hundred quid... 305 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,800 ..for a poem hand illustrated by the Yorkshire Ripper. 306 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:36,960 Seven hundred and fifty quid for a letter from the Ripper to a female correspondent, wow. 307 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:43,640 Well, that includes a small self-portrait. Sutcliffe snuggling up to a woman. 308 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,240 Large breasted. Hmm. 309 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,360 But you know there's nothing new under the sun. 310 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:56,880 There used to be quite a trade in handkerchiefs dipped in the blood of hanged men. 311 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:03,040 Hair clippings, snuff boxes, garters, cravat pins. 312 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,960 Who would buy them? 313 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,480 Young women, mostly. 314 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,720 Wow, young women? 315 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,040 Even stuff like this? 316 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,960 Peter Kurten... 317 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,120 the vampire of Dusseldorf. 318 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:21,800 Richard Trenton Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento. Women buy this stuff? 319 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,080 It's a kink. A sex thing. 320 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:33,120 Many, many women fantasise about being tied up, strangled, 321 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,760 raped, eaten. 322 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,520 You think so? Oh, yeah. 323 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,520 The more depraved the killer, the more women fawn on him. 324 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,520 It's called Hybristophilia. 325 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,040 Sexual arousal from thoughts of violence. 326 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,240 It's his willingness to murder that attracts her. 327 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,720 His murder becomes hers. 328 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,640 Hmm. 329 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,480 Well, I have a confession. Really? 330 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,000 Yeah. 331 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,040 My auto-biography. You're a fan? You got me. 332 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:18,400 Course you know, if I sign this, its resale value increases hugely. I'll be putting money in your pocket. 333 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,560 I know. You're a dealer? 334 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,280 Collector. And I'm paying. 335 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,160 Well, it's two hundred and fifty. 336 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,560 You serious? Oh, yes. 337 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,080 I've quite the following. 338 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,800 Well, you've got yourself a deal. 339 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,040 There you go. 340 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,560 Good catch. 341 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:01,840 There you are. 342 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,280 Sacrificial Lamb. Yeah. 343 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,720 Yeah, well... 344 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,560 HISSING AND WHIMPERING 345 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:35,720 I learned with terrible horror this morning of the disappearance of Kirsten Ross. 346 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,800 My heart goes out to her and to her family, especially her husband and her little daughter. 347 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,040 Having already received a visit this morning from a man who I believe 348 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:50,800 to have been a police officer I've called this press conference in anticipation of my arrest. 349 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,960 I want to say publicly, 350 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,640 while I'm still able, that I had nothing to do with this crime, 351 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:03,080 nor the crime, nor the crime 352 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,720 against poor Grace Allen. 353 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:12,560 I pray that, this time, the Police Service can see past its own prejudice 354 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,800 and its own desire to seek a sacrificial lamb. 355 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,240 Thank you. Mr Burgess will now take questions. 356 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,960 Burgess has taken absolute control of this investigation. We can't go near him. 357 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,080 He can't let Kirsten Ross live now. 358 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,760 Well, not for too long and he can't afford to. 359 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,680 Now he knows we're on his back like this. 360 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,600 The order was stay away from him! 361 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,160 Boss, he prepared the whole thing, 362 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,400 the abduction, the press conference, everything. 363 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,320 So Kirsten Ross dies a lonely death 364 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,360 while the media ensure we can't go near our only suspect? 365 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,200 Right, I submitted Mark North's statement this morning. 366 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,480 Oh, God. Don't take me off this. 367 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,760 Not because of him. I can find Kirsten! I can find her! 368 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,840 I fought your corner and I fought it hard, nobody wants you off this. 369 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,640 All right. But... But what? 370 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,120 There are caveats. 371 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,960 What caveats? 372 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,480 Mr Schenk. 373 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,200 Martin Schenk. 374 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,480 Complaints. 375 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,240 I know this isn't a good day, so all I ask is five minutes. 376 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,560 You and I sit down, have a chat, put this silliness to bed. 377 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,800 Absolutely. It's just that I have an abduction on at the moment 378 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,760 and time's running out for my victim. 379 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,800 Do you mind if I just brief Sergeant Ripley about something? 380 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,600 Absolutely. 381 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,360 Keep the train moving. 382 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,920 That man is about to suspend me. 383 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,920 He can't do that, can he? 384 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,320 Can, has to and will. So we got to work real quick. 385 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,760 Still nothing solid. No forensics, eyewitnesses, CCTV. Nothing. 386 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,080 So revisit the Cold Cases. What did Burgess leave behind? 387 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,400 Nothing. The man's a ghost. We know that about him. 388 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,000 All we're looking for is where he kept Precious and Grace 389 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,440 between abduction and dumping the bodies. Hmmm. 390 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,720 Precious Akingbade lived and died in Birmingham. 391 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,120 I can't see anything that links Burgess to the Midlands. 392 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,080 No, forget the distance between them. 393 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,920 What do the dumpsites have in common? 394 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,640 Precious Akingbade was dumped by the side of a canal. 395 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,200 Yeah and Grace Allen was dumped here. Easy access to the road way. 396 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,040 But less than a hundred metres from a waterway. 397 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,920 Henley said there was a crescent of light 398 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,640 across the Grace Allen picture. 399 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,120 Bright enough to read the headlines. A reflection, a flash. 400 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,080 So that's what he said it LOOKED like. What if it wasn't that? 401 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,840 What if it was daylight coming in, through a round window? 402 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,360 He's got a boat. 403 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,840 I've got to get out of here. Cover me. 404 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,920 I was waiting for DCI Luther. 405 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,920 Erm, last time I saw him, Sir, he was headed that way. Which way? 406 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,440 That way? Er...absolutely, yeah. 407 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,720 So what do you want? 408 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,800 I need you to help me catch someone. 409 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,440 I was under the impression you wanted me to stop helping. 410 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,120 Don't push it. 411 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,160 How do I know you're not playing a double game? 412 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,520 One stone, multiple birds. 413 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,600 Trying to make me speak carelessly in order to entrap me. 414 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,280 That would be illegal. Plus I really need to catch this man. 415 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,200 More than you want to catch me? 416 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,760 At the moment, yeah. 417 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,040 I'm running out of time. 418 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,160 Because if I thought you were about to lose interest in me... 419 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,360 ..I'd be inconsolable. 420 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,800 I just need a way in, 421 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,600 to know what it's like to be him. 422 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,280 To not feel anything. 423 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,440 I feel things. 424 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,240 Not mercy. Not sentiment. 425 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,120 I can't empathise for this man's state of being 426 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,600 any more than you can. 427 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,840 Because, disregarding a single, alleged act, 428 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,600 carried out for different alleged reasons, 429 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,600 he and I might just as well be from different species. 430 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,760 See, I disagree. 431 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:26,080 Murder's murder. But it isn't, is it? Not even to you. 432 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,320 This man Burgess, 433 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:33,240 he's just a naughty child showing off. 434 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,240 You already know his flaw - 435 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,920 his compulsion to dominate, to be in control. 436 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,120 And you already know 437 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,280 how to exploit that. 438 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,560 How? Oh, come on. 439 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,720 Change the state of play. 440 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:59,200 Yeah, well, I tried that with you... 441 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,920 ..and it failed. 442 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,120 Only just. 443 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,720 PANICKED, FRANTIC BREATHING 444 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,960 PHONE RINGS Ripley. 445 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,800 (Is that Luther?) 446 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,360 Erm, will do. 447 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,280 OK, yeah, right away. 448 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,480 Erm, DCI Luther's waiting for me outside. 449 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,840 I am very much obliged to you, Detective Sergeant Ripley. 450 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,280 No problem, Sir. 451 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,200 Go on. 452 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,000 So I went through every record of stolen boats from 1988 to 1991. And? 453 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,880 First, there's way many. Turns out boats get stolen a lot. 454 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,360 So I'm thinking, he needs a vessel that can navigate canals in Birmingham. That cuts the list. 455 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,440 All these were reported stolen in '89, 456 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,240 just before the last recession, so lots of bogus insurance claims. Six stolen boats, six owners. 457 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:13,360 I cross referenced the names against Burgess's known history. 458 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,680 What d'you find? Louis Gallant. Claimed for a stolen narrowboat, the Julia, in July 1989. 459 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,960 Suspected fraudulent claim, never proven. 460 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,320 Connection to Burgess? Friends at Cambridge. 461 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,200 They were arrested together 462 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,240 on a charge of possession with intent to supply crack cocaine. 463 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,480 That's a pretty big charge for two middle-class white boys in '89. 464 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,200 Burgess takes the rap, does a bit of time, Gallant walks. 465 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,120 So he was in debt to Burgess. All we got to do is... 466 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,920 Already done it. Gallant is a family man with a serious job, 467 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,280 credit crunched, and mortgaged up the wazoo. 468 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,280 I got everything for a promise not to drag him through court. 469 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,080 So he sold the boat to Burgess? No he gave it to him. 470 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,120 Even helped forge a new registration number - easily done, apparently. 471 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,040 Burgess renames the boat The Isis. 472 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,440 I've got a copy of the agreement to berth, housing boat certificate, 473 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,200 British Waterways certificate, Council Tax, insurance, 474 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,520 Boat Safety Certificate. They show he's moored at St Katharine's Dock. 475 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:02,680 Now the bad news. 476 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,840 All these documents are in the name of this guy, Brian Summers. 477 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,880 Oh, bollocks! 478 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,400 So what are you saying? Burgess used a proxy to get the licenses? 479 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,040 A friend, out of work actor, junkie, con-artist from prison, Who knows? 480 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,560 I tell you what, if we want to search this boat, 481 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,000 we have to make it part of the investigation. 482 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,160 The only way to do that is to prove that Brian Summers didn't exist. 483 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,560 We could spend weeks of due diligence, just chasing our tails around. 484 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,760 Insufficient evidence, search warrant denied. 485 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,120 We go upstairs with that, 486 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,760 they'll say, "Go away, you haven't done enough, do your homework". 487 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,640 Kirsten Ross dies, Burgess dumps the body and walks. Again. 488 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,720 All right, so what do we do? Forget the rule book. 489 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,680 Change the state of play. 490 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,120 All right? 491 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,160 Kirsten? 492 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,440 Kirsten Ross? If you can hear me, 493 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,680 I'm John Luther, a police officer. 494 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,320 We're here to get you back to your family. 495 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,600 Oi! 496 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,320 Don't. 497 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,360 Don't what? 498 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,240 Just don't. 499 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,520 What are you saying? 500 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,760 We weren't here. 501 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,520 That isn't what we said. 502 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,800 We said if she was here, we'd call it in. 503 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,520 Claim exigent circumstances. 504 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,080 If she was alive! 505 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,680 She's not alive is she? 506 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,400 Boss, this is a crime scene. 507 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,560 A murder scene. 508 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,120 You don't walk away, pretend you never saw it. 509 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,480 Do you want to take down the man who did this? More than anything. 510 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,240 All right, well then trust me! 511 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,720 OK? There'll be nothing we can use, no forensics, nothing! 512 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:05,960 And he'll wriggle out of this. Again! 513 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,480 You're a police officer. This is a murdered woman. 514 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:13,280 Her family are waiting, going out of their minds, and you want to lock her back up and walk away? 515 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,400 This is about the law, not retribution. 516 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,400 I'm not asking for your approval, son. 517 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,080 Just your silence. 518 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,120 I won't volunteer any information, 519 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,880 but I won't lie for you, either. 520 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,960 What you're doing is wrong. 521 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,760 Yeah, I know. Why do it then? 522 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,320 Cos it's right. 523 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,760 Ian? I need you. 524 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,120 CLEARS THROAT 525 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,120 Detective Sergeant Ripley. 526 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,680 How nice to see you. 527 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,440 No, no, no broken bones. 528 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,760 Yeah, we think it was the husband. 529 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,640 He's got some issues he needs to work through. 530 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,040 I'll call you back. You off? 531 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:47,000 Just for a bit, I've got to. Was it me? Did I do something? 532 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,880 No. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 533 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:57,440 It's just, er, it's John. He makes me so angry I don't know what to do. 534 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,960 Look I've got to get out, just walk it off or something. 535 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,880 DOOR SLAMS 536 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,040 He's coming your way. 537 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,040 All right. Got it. 538 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,240 I wonder, does John Luther discuss his private life with you? 539 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,640 No. Not his wife? 540 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,680 Her lover? No. 541 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,680 You are aware of his history of instability. 542 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,000 I'm aware of it, yes, although I'm not sure of its relevance. 543 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,880 Well, it may be relevant if it ever gives you pause 544 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,040 to question his decision. 545 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,080 Erm, my dad taught me to question all judgments, Sir. 546 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,920 I do apologise. 547 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,880 Let me rephrase, for clarity. 548 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,880 How do you judge the quality 549 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,600 of John Luther's current operational decisions? 550 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,160 Yeah. 551 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,280 Well, it could be said that the merit of any operational decision 552 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,320 can only be judged on its outcome. 553 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,960 As long as that decision was taken within the boundaries of the law. 554 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,960 It could be said, yes. 555 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,720 But are you saying it? 556 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,560 I'm just saying, it could be said. 557 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,640 Do you know where Luther is, right this minute? 558 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,240 I do not, Sir. 559 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:14,560 Guv. 560 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,360 Ah. You've found him? Yes, Sir. 561 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,280 Aah, Detective Chief Inspector Luther. 562 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,840 You pass like night, from land to land. 563 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,400 I do. I really do. 564 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,840 There's a coffee shop not far away, shall we? 565 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,920 Yeah, let's. 566 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,080 MOBILE VIBRATES 567 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,080 Who's this? 568 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,760 So how's it going, Lucien? 569 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,440 I'm sorry. Who exactly is this? 570 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:11,040 Listen. They've planted evidence, at the crime scene. 571 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,520 They tried to frame me once before. 572 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,440 They couldn't do it then and they won't be able to do it now. 573 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,840 All right, well, I'll be off then. 574 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,960 Wait! Look, I can make this go away. 575 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,080 'Two hundred thousand, in cash. I know you've got it.' 576 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,120 I can't get hold of that. Not in time. Not in cash. 577 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,160 Well, you see, I think you can. 578 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,080 'My mate, the big one who smacked you,' 579 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,640 he's waiting on warrants as we speak. 580 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,600 'The crime scene is clear of surveillance until then.' 581 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,320 That gives me a window of less than an hour to make this work for you. 582 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,160 'Now if you don't want to pay for it, that's your call.' 583 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,440 I'll give you 125, cash. 584 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,560 That'll have to do. Where will we meet? 585 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,760 'Finsbury Park Station.' 586 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,280 Platform 2, north bound, half an hour. 587 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,320 DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES 588 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,960 John Luther didn't do that to you, I'm afraid. 589 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,120 I did. 590 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,160 Why? 591 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,200 Why? I couldn't help myself. 592 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,200 I don't believe that. 593 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,560 See, I don't think you, of all people, 594 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,440 ever do anything unless you decide to do it. 595 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,920 No, it's true. I'm a bit like that. 596 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,440 A bit random. Slightly kooky. 597 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,080 Kooky? 598 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:52,880 Absolutely. 599 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,560 OK. Mark, I did this because I don't like you. 600 00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,960 And because I wanted to toy with John. 601 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,160 It's a bit like, pulling legs off flies. 602 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:05,720 Why are you here, now? 603 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,120 Because I'm sorry. 604 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,720 No you're not. No, no I'm not. 605 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:14,440 I was just trying to empathise. 606 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:19,560 I'm here because, this has gone just far enough 607 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,480 and what I need you to do now is pick up that phone 608 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,080 and withdraw the complaint. 609 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,440 And if I refuse? 610 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,680 What if somebody actually stood up to you and refused? 611 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,760 Well, then. I'd have to leave. 612 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,640 And then one night, 613 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,760 I'd have to come back. 614 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,040 I'm not building a legal case against you, John. 615 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,360 This is about moral codes. 616 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,280 And my standard of proof 617 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,200 is much lower than yours. 618 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,840 And if you breach that code in any way, 619 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,240 then we let you go. 620 00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:16,760 Quietly and without fuss. 621 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,200 And you'd recommend that, would you? Oh, it's not what I want. 622 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,400 My recommendation will be that you are suspended, 623 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,360 immediately and indefinitely. 624 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,120 And meanwhile, 625 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,480 Kirsten Ross, hmmm? 626 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,840 Many fine officers are working on the case. 627 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,760 For what it's worth, I, erm... 628 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,600 wouldn't want it to end like this for you. 629 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:43,120 But there's no place in the service for dirty coppers. 630 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,400 No matter how well-intentioned. 631 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,000 MOBILE RINGS 632 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,120 Schenk. 633 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:51,920 When? 634 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,200 All right. Yes, I will. 635 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:01,560 Mark North put in a call 636 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,400 to Detective Chief Superintendent Teller. 637 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,680 Apparently, Mr North no longer seems to believe 638 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,720 that the street robbers knew his name, 639 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,560 or yours, indeed. 640 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,480 Witness memory, 641 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,560 funny old thing. 642 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,400 He's withdrawn the allegation. 643 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,480 So, er, well, what now? 644 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,520 You return to your case, 645 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,960 without prejudice. 646 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,880 I didn't want to come for you, John. 647 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,160 But they sent me to do a job. 648 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,400 And if they send for me again, I will come again. 649 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,360 And I will take you down, even if it means that I won't be able 650 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,400 to look myself in the eye afterwards. 651 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,200 Well, I know that feeling. 652 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,800 I've got you. 653 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,000 I have got you now. 654 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,560 OK, that's enough of that. 655 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:55,320 Lucien Burgess. 656 00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,840 Don't think I can watch any more. 657 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,920 Did you seriously think that you could entrap me? 658 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,080 Not really, no. 659 00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:25,520 No that blood there was from a nice piece of steak, sirloin, 660 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,560 I was going to have for my tea tonight 661 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,560 in celebration of meeting you here. 662 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,120 At the crime scene. 663 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:40,680 You came of your own free will. 664 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,720 You brought Luminol. 665 00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:44,840 To look for blood traces. 666 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,200 Hmmm. 667 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,720 That's not enough. 668 00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,280 Oh, I think that it is. 669 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,600 Do you? Yes. 670 00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:00,360 Well, DCI Luther. 671 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:06,920 First you, erm... 672 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,160 you assault me. 673 00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:15,400 YOU PUBLICLY ASSAULT ME! 674 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,600 Why can't you show me some respect?! 675 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,560 Then a police officer phones me. 676 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,000 He tells me you've been trying to frame me. 677 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,320 He tells me where the crime scene is. 678 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,600 Is that your defence? 679 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,960 Because that call, that was my mate, 680 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:48,200 we set you up, Lucien, you've been outplayed. 681 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,440 I look forward to seeing you prove any of that. 682 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,960 Oh, Luther. 683 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,920 Shall we? 684 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,840 Turn around. 685 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,200 Good day's work? 686 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,840 Goodish. Anyway. This is her. 687 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,120 Alice Morgan meeting up with the wee girl 688 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,040 who beat up your wife's boyfriend. 689 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,160 Don't know whether she's giving her money, drugs. Either way, you've got her. 690 00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,720 Cheers. You take care, now. 691 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:42,640 Beware of geeks bearing gifts. 692 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,320 Justin. 693 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:06,400 Look... I said nothing. 694 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,840 And I won't say anything. 695 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,280 But you can't go on like this. 696 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:14,600 You just can't. 697 00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,520 Hmmm, what's this? 698 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,840 Blackmail now? 699 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,200 No. 700 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:39,480 This thing, this weird thing between us. It has to end. 701 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,640 Why? 702 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,880 It's not right, Alice. 703 00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,240 It started off because I was scared of you and I thought, 704 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:51,040 if I could be your friend, I could control you. 705 00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,400 And I can't control you. 706 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,880 I'm still scared of you. 707 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,320 Well, I'm scared of you, too. 708 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,200 You want to send me to prison. 709 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:12,480 What you did to Mark nearly cost me. 710 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,160 I wouldn't have let it. 711 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,560 I know, I know you really think that. 712 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:23,800 And I think, in your own way, your intentions were good. 713 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,200 But hurting Mark doesn't bring Zoe back to me. 714 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,760 That's not how people work. That's not how they think. 715 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,000 I'll see you soon. 716 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,320 Zoe, are you all...? 717 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,600 What are you doing here? 718 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,160 Saying sorry. Sorry for what? 719 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,000 For not believing you. 720 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,520 What they said you did it's... it's not in your nature. 721 00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,440 I should've known that of all the people in the world... 722 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,160 I should've known. 723 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,640 And I should have said something. Been there. 724 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,960 You're obsessive, you're... 725 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,080 driven. 726 00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,560 God knows you're misguided. 727 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,600 But what you never are is a liar. 728 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,520 Not to me. 729 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,080 Nor a coward. 730 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:05,840 731 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,080 732 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,280 733 00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,880 734 00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,960 735 00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,160 736 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,520 737 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,120 738 00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,440 739 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,800 740 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,480 741 00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:44,720 Oh, he's escalating fast. 742 00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,560 This man's on a murder spree. 743 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,600 He's going to kill again, very soon. 744 00:57:58,280 --> 00:57:59,920 I can't see you any more. 745 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,280 No! 746 00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,160 He's awake. 747 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:09,360 Who? 748 00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,160 Luther! 749 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,400 LUTHER! 750 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,920 Stay away from me! 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