Luther · Season 1
[aiming his shotgun at Luther, realizes Alice is filming] Give me that camera, or I will shoot him!
No, you won't, Thomas. Not on camera. Because people do hate a cop killer, and you so very much want to be admired. Which is a defect, really, in a multiple murderer...
Come with me, please.
Sorry, mate, who are you again?
Police.
Which police?
The police.
I don't care if you're fucking Sting.
You ever have that dream where you're falling?
Yeah.
Do you ever wake up in it?
[on phone] Hello?
Hello. Is this Alastair's mum?
Who is this?
I was with him... when he died.
Who are you?
He was asking for you at the end. When he couldn't fight anymore. "Mum... Mum..." He was so scared of dying.
Got to go. Vivid misdeeds in Hackney Wick.
Can I help?
Are you DCI Luther?
Yeah.
I have a message for you.
Message from who?
Alice Morgan.
Well, there's this thing. Cotard's syndrome, okay? It's a delusional mental illness and the patient thinks that he's dead and decomposing.
And the cannibalism? That's a symptom?
No, not usually. I mean, I'm making a... a leap. Well, it's a small leap... it's more of a hop, really.
I think he's this clever, little lonely man, slowly falling apart, spending his days watching the lives of others. And you know what that's like... other people's lives seem so much better than ours. More interesting, more attractive, more alive. The way he sees it, they got something that he needs, so he's just going to take it from them. No, he's never going to stop, he's just going to keep doing it and doing it, because he'll never get back whatever he's lost. None of us ever do.
They'll do her for intent to supply and then they'll upgrade to murder when they connect the toy to Jonathan.
Do you feel better putting it right?
Did you hurt her?
Who?
Alice. Did you?
Why would I?
Because you wanted me to keep my promise. You had to stop me from leaving.
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] But I didn't.
Megan... are you scared of me?
Clearly not.
Well, you should be. Because I'm coming for you.
Can you breathe?
Yeah.
Shame, that.
[into phone, from police headquarters] Benny, I need you here.
[playing video game with Errol at home] I'm sorry Boss, I think I've caught that norovirus. I've basically been up all night turning myself inside out.
I don't care if you've shit out your own liver on Oxford Street - I need you here now.
I'm not apologizing for what's happened, I'm regretting what's to come.
What did you do?
Nothing I can't fix. I just need time.
Can I stop you from leaving?
No.
Then I won't try.
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