Luther

Cheers. See you later, mate.

How you doing in there?

I'll be fine. Did they go?

Mm-hm, all gone.

You sure you've got the passports?

I've got the passports.

Show me the passports.

LORRY HORN TOOTS

I don't believe it.

Did you give them a tip? Yeah, I gave them a tip.

This is a different lot.

BUZZER SOUNDS

Sure...

On the floor! Floor now!

Shut up! I said shut up. Don't move.

James Carrodus.

Dealer in fine art.

Quite the reputation,

but not above the odd privately brokered deal,

selling fakes to Russian billionaires who don't know any better.

And this cash, James, was liquefied in the form of 18 cut diamonds of outstanding quality.

That's the best way to carry serious wealth, am I right?

Now you're off to start a new life in Rio with your beautiful bride Jessica.

The limousine arrives in, what, James? 15 minutes?

Ten.

Ten. In ten minutes, you could both be in that limo.

All I need you to do is give me those diamonds.

I don't have them.

OK.

OK...

There's nothing.

You go get me those diamonds, James.

In two hours, let's call it 10.15.

I've got those 18 diamonds in my hand,

or we start cutting the lovely Jessica here.

All right. All right.

At this point, I'm sure you're asking yourself, "Is he bluffing?"

I know you'll appreciate, that it's in my best interest to prove that I'm not.

Apologies in advance, Jessica.

You don't... You don't have to do this.

No, no, no please no.

Look you don't have to... I'll get you the...

# Love is like a sin, my love

# For the ones that feel it the most

# Look at her with her eyes like a flame

# She will love you like a fly

# Will never love you again. #

Guv.

Guv.

Justin.

Hello, sir, can I help?

Ian Reed?

I need to see Ian Reed.

Er, I'm afraid DCI Reed is elsewhere. I'm DCI John Luther,

I share an office with Mr Reed, this is DS Ripley. Can I help you? Come on.

It's her tongue.

You sure you want to play it this way, Dan? It's pretty hardcore.

The police, they get involved. Kidnap, it's going to be.

Did you just use my name in front of the victim, Tom?

James, the fact of it is most kidnappings don't come to our attention

because when it comes to family members, people pay up pretty fast.

You think I don't want to do that?

You think I don't want to give them what they asked for and get my wife back?

Do you think that?

James, I just need to understand what's happening.

I came to see you because I haven't got what they want...

..and I've no way of getting it.

What are you saying?

Jessica swallowed them.

The diamonds are inside her right now.

If I'd have told them that, they'd have cut her open on the spot.

Sorry. Oh, yeah, well, that's, er, Bill Winingham.

He sent Carrodus directly to you.

Oh, yeah? How well do you know him?

Yeah, pretty well. He's a money launderer, basically. Bit of a gent, as it goes.

Never involved in any bloodshed, not to my knowledge.

Right, thing is, he was the one that procured the diamonds for Carrodus in the first place

and he's the only third party to know that they even exist.

So if anyone set this up, I think he's our man.

Turns out, no-one's seen Winingham for three of four days.

So we can't find our sole lead?

No. And the kidnappers want their ransom in just over an hour.

You think they'll make good on their threat? Absolutely.

Um, listen, Bill knows me, so do his friends and family.

Do you want me to go out there,

see if I can round him up, find out what the hell's going on? Yeah, see if you can do that.

So. They won't give us what we want.

We can't give them what they want.

No, can't give it to them, but we can lend it to them. Meaning?

Let's visit the evidence safe.

Don't want to hear it. Boss, these are very special circumstances. Same rules do not apply.

Chain of evidence is like the Ten Commandments.

It applies unto time and all eternal. Anything in the evidence safe is sacrosanct.

We tamper, we risk voiding active cases.

Only if we get found out.

Am I actually having this conversation?

Are you actually saying this to me? Boss, listen,

listen to me carefully, if we do not have any security to play with, then Jessica dies.

If I start stealing evidence... Borrowing.

If I start borrowing evidence to use for my own purposes...

It won't be out of my sight for a second.

Of course I understand. He's your husband. No. No, he's not. Let me say it, let me get it out,

then it's said and done. I don't want to ever have this conversation again.

I'll go away for a couple of days and give you time to think.

There's nothing to think about. There is.

And if you decide to stay with me, there'll be no recrimination, no blame, no nothing.

We pick up where we left off, and we carry on. But?

But...you can never see him again.

Not ever. That means no phone calls.

No emails. No nothing. It's necessary for me.

I can't let you do this to me again.

I can't.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Babe?

John, can I see you?

'Absolutely, um, I've just got a lot of stuff going on here.'

Can I call you later?

'OK. But I really need to see you. It needs to be today.'

Ah, me, too. All right, um, I'll call you the moment I get a chance.

All right.

How much are these worth?

About 3.5 million.

I appreciate the effort, but these people want something very specific,

they want 18 diamonds of a particular size, quality and value.

That's the best we can do. It's not what they want.

James, unless we find a way to open up lines of communication

with the kidnappers, they'll kill Jessica.

Not tomorrow, or the next day, but before this hand gets here.

So you will deliver these diamonds.

But you'll attach a note that says, "Give me Jessica and you'll get the rest".

They won't go for it.

No, they won't go for it. But we'll have given them

a good enough reason to keep Jessica alive a little longer

and we'll have made our first contact.

Once we can achieved that, then we can think about the next stage.

Ian. It's not my fault!

It's not my fault.

Look, we all know the rules, all right?

You rob a thief of stolen money, he thinks of that as cost of business.

He's not going to the police, nobody gets hurt, no innocents are involved.

And that's the way these things have worked since I was a woodentop.

But this is kidnapping, Bill!

They took his wife! They cut out her tongue!

Oh, sweet Mary.

So what happened? I don't know.

All I know is that they're supposed to call with the all-clear,

but I've heard nothing.

Where are they now?

I don't know.

No, that's not good enough.

OK, you need to listen to me,

you need to forget about the money. The money's gone.

The money doesn't matter. You need to tell me what you know.

Who did your nephew recruit for the job?

Some...some American he hooked up with over there.

When he was at school.

He's a bright boy, he's a clever boy. Some American?! That's it?!

I don't know where they are!

Bill, they are going to kill her.

Oh, Jesus.

OK. And I can't be responsible for her death,

not because the chance to make a few easy quid went wrong.

So I have to make sure she gets through this. Do you understand me?

Whatever it takes, I have to get her through this. Of course.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Do you have it?

'Yes.'

All right, Westfield Shopping Centre. Central Hall. 20 minutes.

20 minutes?

Er, I don't think I can make it. I need...

LINE GOES DEAD

Entrances and exits covered.

'Received.'

'Echo one in position? Echo two in position?' 'Affirmed.'

Carrodus coming into position. Eyeball on Carrodus.

OK. Here we go, people. What's this?

A couple of hoodies.

Subject has been handed something. 'It's a note, instructions.

'Pick them up, Ripley.'

'Yeah, I'm there.'

Right. John, stay on Carrodus.

'I'm on the move, yeah.' Visual on the coffee bar? No, no visual.

'Diamonds are in the bag.' Received.

Benny, track the hoodies. Tracking.

You getting this, Benny? Like a wasp in a wheelie bin.

'Have uniform pick them up. They're no kidnappers.'

Just kids that'll have been given some money to give Carrodus that note. Wilco.

'Eyeball on Carrodus, level two.'

'What's he waiting for?'

I'm watching. Benny, what's he doing?

I don't know. But we don't like it.

He's made his drop. Yeah.

Cover all second floor stairs and escalators.

OK, I've got an eyeball, two live ones. One male, one female.

Here we go, here we go.

Subjects approaching drop point.

They have the bag.

Son of a bitch!

What's wrong?

She's not happy. Something's wrong.