Luther

Alice Morgan...

Has something happened?

I'm afraid she's dead, john.

I didn't put her down or have her put down.

Why'd you steal the phone I used to call Alice Morgan?

What did he do with the heart?

He ate it.

Animal like that, he 3 always moving forward.

All the computers were fixed by one man. A Steven Rose.

That's him.

Benny. Stop this.

Steven.

Can we salvage anything from this?

Too soon to tell, boss.

Sorry, guv, she's asked for you by name.

Can I help?

Are you DCI Luther?

Yeah.

I have a message for you.

Message from whom?

Alice Morgan.

What kind of message?

She said to telljohn that Stacey has the owl.

When did she give you this message?

Last night.

So that's not true, is it? 'Cause Alice is dead.

I know.

I'm sorry, who are you?

Look, I'm just here to help.

And how did you know Alice?

I don't.

So, what, she just appears to you?

Yes.

And did she say anything else?

Not really.

There was one thing.

Something I don't really understand, I'm sorry.

Something like what?

Meep meep.

Put this woman in the car and cuff her. Down there. Thank you.

What's all this?

Uh, don't ask. What's going on?

We've got another one.

How much of the brain did he eat?

Roberta Wise.

She was a professor of economics, University of London.

A government advisor and...

And then this.

Look at her life. Look at what he took from her.

This wasn't murder, this was theft.

Come again?

Oh, he'sjust a 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've got something that he needs,

so he'sjust gonna take it from them.

All right, he's never gonna stop, he's just gonna keep doing it and doing it.

'Cause he'll never get back whatever he's lost.

None of us ever do.

# My, my, my Delilah

# Why, why, why Delilah #

Don't stop, love. Drive on.

I can't. Look at him.

Then let's call the police, they'll deal with it.

What if it was Declan?

Are you all right, mate?

Are you all right, love? What's happened?

What have you done to yourself?

I'm so sorry. Thank you for stopping.

I'm so sorry.

- I'm so sorry. -(jUNE SCREAMING)

-jlMMY: No! (SCREAMING) -(ENGINE REVVING)

# Love is like a sin, my love

# For the ones that feel it the most

# Look at her with her eyes like a flame

#$he will love you like a fly

# Will never love you again #

DCI Luther.

Back on the beat, Pete?

When needs must, isn't it?

Thanks for the hospitality.

Look, George, I just had to figure out who killed Alice Morgan, all right?

I'm sorry it ended up the way it did, but I'll put it right.

To tell you the truth I am tempted to let it lie.

I mean, you're obviously a decent chap.

But you did what you did in front of my son.

Once I've shown weakness to him, well, it's nature's way, isn't it?

The Lion King. Hakuna Matata-

Uh, I think you're thinking about the wrong song.

Well, what one am I thinking oi then?

O h , Hakuna Ma ta ta, that's a happy one, right?

"No more worries," that one.

That's the one.

Then I'm definitely thinking of the wrong song.

I've put a price on your head, john.

How much?

Out of interest', how much do you think you're worth?

Well, probably not enough for a good night out and a cab ride home.

Well, I'm honestly down in the dumps about it,

but you did bring it down on yourself.

$0, you're a dead man walking.

Toodle-pip.

Hey.

We've got Steven Rose leaving the building at 21 :32 p.m.

We follow him down here, down here and then...

Well, he's gone. Off camera.

Yeah, how many bodies have we got looking for him?

Oh, all of them, I think.

Aerial units, ground units, dog units.

Good.

They won't find him, but, uh, keep looking.

"Cut the chatter, Red 2. Accelerate to attack speed."

What? What was that?

Sorry. Um...

Theo and me... DCI Bloom, um...

He quite liked the odd Star Wars reference.

"Not this ship, sister." (CHUCKLES)

Do you know any David Bowie?

Yeah. Um...

Yeah, I liked him in that film...

The one in the maze, with the baby and the puppets.

We Are The Dead.

- I'm sorry? - Well, there's this thing.

Cota rd'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.

So how do we get ahead of him?

See, I think he's like a feral dog right now,

trying to find a place to hide.

I think we lean into that, I think we go public.

Put his name and face in the media,

force him into one place, keep him still, and then...

Figure out what he does next.

And you think he's rational enough for us to be able to do that?

He's delusional, but not deranged.

I mean, the way he sees it, he's just gonna do what's necessary to...

To get what he needs. just to keep going.

You know?

How are we doing, Ben?

Like an anxiety dream.

I have to keep checking if I'm still wearing trousers.

Well, we can't move without knowing what's on them hard drives.

Guv, you got a minute?

Sure.

Jonathan Black, March 1999, is lured into a park, suffocated.

All right. SIO had the killer down as Brian Elda, local sex offender.

Next day, Brian Elda drowns himself in the canal.

Jonathan Black's underpants in his pocket. Slam dunk.

Is she in the file?

No, she's not, but I am.

See, I didn't think Brian Elda killed himself, all right?

I don't think he did it. I actually think this girl did it.

Stacey Bell.

Back then, no one was paying attention to me,

I was still wet behind the ears, but I was right.

When she was 17, she got dumped for manslaughter.

She pushed her nan down the stairs and let her die.

She just got out two and a half months ago.

You know there's nothing to it, this psychic drivel, right?

She knows something about Alice Morgan.

So you're a partner in a corporate PR firm.

Yes, that's rig/n'.

$0 what are you doing here?

You're educated, financially stable. I just don't get it.

I'm not sure what you're implying.

Well, clairvoya nts are confidence tricksters, aren't they?

Grave robbers preying on the lonely and bereaved.

That's not what I do.

- No? - No.

I don't broadcast this, let alone profit from it.

In fact, most of my life

I've pretended it wasn't happening to me.

Why?

Because it's horrible.

I don't want to be here doing this.

I don't want to be humiliated and frightened.

I don't want this to be happening.

I woke up in the middle of the night and she was standing there.

"T ell john that Stacey Bell has the owl. "

Who's Stacey?

I don't know.

What owl are we talking about?

I'm not sure.

Thing is, it does actually make sense.

Jonathan Black had a... A favourite toy,

and, uh, it disappeared when he disappeared.

Of course, all of that was kept from the press.

I mean, no one actually... No one knew that.

So how do you know it?

She's here.

She's standing behind you.

Who?

Her mouth is moving but I can't hear her words.

I can make out what she's saying, though.