The media don't care if it's lies, as long as there's a good story.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[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.
Who and the what?
'80s. Post-punk.
Oh, uh, goths.
Post-punk.
There was a park ranger. In America, that is. He was struck seven times by lightning. Seven times. Actually made the Guinness Book of Records for being the unluckiest guy in the world. Or maybe the luckiest guy in the world, depends on how you look at it.
DCI Luther will be taking on a case of a waste of semen called Jared Cass.
It was you. You had him assigned to the Jared Cass murder.
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.
[opening a book in Luther's flat] He underlines.
DEDCI Erin Gray
So?
We tend to underline observations that confirm our view of the world. Give me a day with those books, and I'll serve him to you on a plate.
[after barging in on Stark's operation, observing photos on the wall] Do you remember that show This Is Your Life? It's like the big red book. Except for all these people are dead. Well, most of them.
Don't make it any worse for yourself.
And who are you, exactly?
Me? DSU George Stark.
[scoffs] I'll tell you what, George. You're a big man, and I'm tired. But if we are gonna take lumps out of each other, it won't be the first one I've had tonight. And someone's gonna have to find out. Your boss, my boss. And they'll ask why, how I just walked in on your... operation. And how I walked out of here with all the evidence you've got against me. What's that gonna do to your reputation, eh? Now, you can continue if you want. Chase me down. [gets up and looms over Stark] But if you take me down, I'll take you down even faster and even harder.
[Paul enters Ayesha's room and sees Luther beside her]
Hope you don't mind, Paul, but I gave Ayesha a call. Asked if I could sneak up here with her. Hmm? Well, go on, say something.
PEPaul Ellis
Ahh! [lunges at Luther with a knife]
George, if you sow these seeds...
And what? I reap the whirlwind? Is that right? You know your problem? You've spent your life thinking you're the whirlwind. Well, you're not because I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.
We'll see.
[aiming his shotgun at Ripley] Let me go.
Say I did that. Yeah, and all this carries on. Someone innocent gets hurt. How am I supposed to live with that?
It won't happen.
It'll happen.
So, what's up with the website?
Goes live in two hours.
Well, can't we just pull it down or trace it to the source or whatever you do with websites?
Apparently now it's been posted from Uzbekistan, or Kasakhstan... one of the 'Stans.
The criminal justice system was created to protect us from people who would do us harm. But time and again, it fails in that purpose. For all the Caitlins, and for all their families, it's time for that failure to end.
Some little girls grow up wanting ponies; I always wanted to be a widow.
You assert a fabulous moral conscience, John. This adherence to unwritten law, yet, time and again, it devastates the people you claim to hold dear but you don't stop. Seems to me your conscience has killed more people than I have.
So, I've got bullets but no gun. That's quite Zen.
If you're going to go on the run, you're going to have to, er, lose the coat.
It's my lucky coat.
Lucky? Right. Well, I'd take it back to the shop if I were you. Get your money back. It's obviously defective.
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