DS Justin Ripley quotes from Luther

DS Justin Ripley

The media don't care if it's lies, as long as there's a good story.

DS Ripley

What's all this?

DCI Luther

Découpage, a cut-up technique. Take a bit of text, cut it up, randomise it, make new text, see new patterns.

DS Ripley

Where'd you learn this?

DCI Luther

David Bowie — it's how he wrote his lyrics.

DS Ripley

Are you a fan?

DCI Luther

Don't I look like a fan?

DS Ripley

What, of songs about, like, aliens and that?

DCI Luther

Well, there's a bit more to him than aliens. I'll make you a tape.

DS Ripley

A-a what, sorry?

DCI Luther

Do you have any sexual fantasies?

DS Ripley

What? Yeah, not that I'm gonna tell you about.

DCI Luther

Does the reality ever live up to the fantasy?

DS Ripley

Well, I, um— well, no, no, not really.

DCI Luther

Yeah, it can't, can it?

[about Evangeline Nixon] Anything?

DS Ripley

Not a word, no prints on record, no nothing.

DCI Luther

You know, she may not have been our problem up until now, but she's been someone's. You don't start off at kidnapping, you work your way up to it. Why don't you send her details to Detective Munch in New York. He's Special Victims Unit there.

[yelling to John holding a knife] You know what I can do! You know what I can do, you know who I am!

DS Justin Ripley

Cameron. No one's listening.

DCI John Luther

[observing a dead body] Look, it's a very specific look - the wig, the makeup. There's a bit of a Siouxsie and the Banshees thing going on here.

DS Justin Ripley

Who and the what?

DCI John Luther

'80s. Post-punk.

DS Justin Ripley

Oh, uh, goths.

DCI John Luther

Post-punk.

DSU George Stark

DCI Luther will be taking on a case of a waste of semen called Jared Cass.

DS Justin Ripley

It was you. You had him assigned to the Jared Cass murder.

DSU George Stark

I want to know exactly how he handles that investigation. And I mean every move by move, breath by breath. If he breaks the law, I want his head on a stick.

Tom Marwood

[aiming his shotgun at Ripley] Let me go.

DS Justin Ripley

Say I did that. Yeah, and all this carries on. Someone innocent gets hurt. How am I supposed to live with that?

Tom Marwood

It won't happen.

DS Justin Ripley

It'll happen.

DCI John Luther

So, what's up with the website?

DS Justin Ripley

Goes live in two hours.

DCI John Luther

Well, can't we just pull it down or trace it to the source or whatever you do with websites?

DSU Martin Schenk

Apparently now it's been posted from Uzbekistan, or Kasakhstan... one of the 'Stans.

DCI John Luther

You ever have that dream where you're falling?

DS Justin Ripley

Yeah.

DCI John Luther

Do you ever wake up in it?