Episode #4.2
- Episode aired Dec 17, 2015
- TV-MA
- 58m
Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.Will a cold case unlock the mystery from Luther's past that is haunting him? The detective is forced to put himself and Emma in danger to stop the serial killer's end game.
- Stacey Bell
- (as Seline Hizli)
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first season finale not to end with the line "Now what?".
- GoofsWhen Benny tries to restore data from the hard drives, you can see the rotating platters in the opened drives. First, it is not necessary to do that to restore data from a physically undamaged drive. Second, the data on the platters would be damaged/destroyed because the dust in the air would come in contact with the platters (that is why professionals open hard drives only in clean rooms). The only time that disc recovery would involve opening a drive would be in the event that there was internal damage that did not involved the platters, an example being a damaged logic board. In such an instance, they would find a precisely identical hard drive, remove the platter stack, and replace it with the stack from the damaged drive, then seal the drive up before beginning recovery.
- Quotes
[last lines]
DCI John Luther: They'll do her for intent to supply and then they'll upgrade to murder when they connect the toy to Jonathan.
Megan Cantor: Do you feel better putting it right?
DCI John Luther: Did you hurt her?
Megan Cantor: Who?
DCI John Luther: Alice. Did you?
Megan Cantor: Why would I?
DCI John Luther: Because you wanted me to keep my promise. You had to stop me from leaving.
Megan Cantor: 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]
Megan Cantor: But I didn't.
DCI John Luther: Megan... are you scared of me?
Megan Cantor: Clearly not.
DCI John Luther: Well, you should be. Because I'm coming for you.
- ConnectionsReferences Dirty Harry (1971)
As a show it continues to play to the strengths that it had in the last few seasons, but it has less time to really bed it in and make it work. So we have the usual serial killer, we have the usual threats to Luther, and the usual 'off the books' approach; all of it here though feels squeezed and processed. It does still work reasonably well, but the sense of the narrative drawing you into the world is not as good – so I didn't get that sense of desperation, tension, and the grime of the world Luther moves in. Of course the show retains its two man strengths, and uses them well even in this short season.
London is one of these, and it looks great and makes the most of the new and old in the skyline and locations. Of course Elba is the main thing which drives this show, and he really does add a lot to it. He makes the dialogue work, he sells his character, and his sheer physicality (both in violence, and in weighed-down body language) is good. The shorter run may be partly due to his busy schedule, but at least he gives a lot to make up for it. Despite this though, the fourth season is not what it needed to be. It feels unsatisfying, undeveloped, and surprisingly ordinary. It does enough to be a decent watch, but that's about all.
- bob the moo
- Dec 26, 2015
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- Filming locations
- Great Eastern Street Car Park, Hackney, London, England, UK(Emma talks on the phone)
- Production companies
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- Runtime58 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD