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Luther- Amazing episode, with a whole lot of unexpected. Heh, when Stark and Erin showed up all, "You're under arrest for the murder of DCU Justin Ripley and the attempted murder of Mary Day" I was incredulous! I was, "How the eff are they pinning that on Luther?!" Mary saw it was not Luther shooting at him. But they claimed he let Marwood go in exchange for him killing Justin and Mary. What the shit, its like yeah, Luther seems to be an albatross to everyone he cares about, but the guy cannot catch a break! Its like wow, people really think the worst of him if they keep coming up with these insane theories about how everything bad that happens to people he knows were orchestrated by him.
Anyways, Alice (finally!) comes to break him out, making quick work of Stark and Erin, and takes him into hiding. Stark thinks its a break out (which it was!), but Schenk has Luther's back all, "For all he know, he was kidnapped by Marwood!" and unceremoniously shuts Stark down. So Stark and Erin move Mary to a safehouse, and Alice shows up at the police station. She tells Schenk and Benny she can turn herself in, or they can help Luther catch Marwood and get out of this mess he's in.
And what's Marwood been up to? He kidnaps the pregnant wife of the doctor of the prison holding the guy who raped and murdered his wife. The guy had gotten sent to the infirmary, and he wants to use the doctor to get at him. In the meantime, he kidnaps a meth head who ended up running over a kid and hardly served any time at all for such a heinous crime. Luther meanwhile calls Mary, dropping a line about how Erin is a good egg over speakerphone, and gets Benny to trace the location. Stark figures out Luther traced their location immediately, and Erin thinks Stark wants to force a confrontation.
Alice and Luther catch up to Marwood, and film him threatening Luther, which they seem to think will trash Marwood's reputation as this champion of the innocent. He shoots Luther in the leg, while Alice gets away. He finds Mary's location of Luther's phone and decides to go after her. Luther tries to warn Stark, but Stark thinks its a ploy to get them to move Mary so they can get ambushed en route. Alice also makes her way to the location, setting up a distraction to draw Stark and Erin out, then sneaks in to dump the Marwood evidence on their computers to exonerate Luther.
Unfortunately, Marwood has gotten there. He blasts and kills Stark (which was totally unexpected! I figured he'd have some showdown with Luther, not that he would just randomly get killed!) and traps Erin, who heroically tries to pass herself off as Mary. But Marwood realizes they she doesn't sound like Mary, and we're to think he executes her. But since it was off screen, and I didn't think they'd just kill her off like that, I figured she survived, and I was right.
Anyhoo, Alice tries to get out of there with Mary, managing to wound Stark with a neat trick involving a bullet, door, and nail. But, he eventually catches up as does Luther, and holds Luther's two women hostage. He tells Luther to choose which one to kill or lose them both. Which, he was using a pump action shotgun, he could at most kill one of them before Luther or the other tried to wrestle the gun away from him. He chooses Alice to get shot, but right before Marwood does it, Mary pushes the gun away, giving Alice enough time to stab Marwood in the throat.
Luther holds the wound close to find out where the doctor's wife is, claiming he'll let him die if he tells her. So he does, but Luther can't trust him (and doesn't want him to get off so easy anyways!) and keeps him alive long enough for the paramedics to save him.
When he makes it downstairs, Benny tells him Alice is in custody and Mary went home. Only, the two girls switched places so Alice could get away. Mary has one final talk with Luther, telling him to go with Alice. And he does, with the ep ending with Luther and Alice apparently running off together.
Which is totally weird. I mean, the Luther/Alice shippers are prolly ecstatic. I don't know how I feel about it- I mean, the thing between Luther and Alice, it was always the whole flirting with danger thing. Like, "What if Luther succumbed and did get with her?" So to have him actually finally do it? Its kinda weird. Like those noir films where the protagonist flirts like crazy with the femme fatale, you like seeing the flirtation, but you don't expect him to actually get with her in the end. I mean, she's hot, but she's a psychopath!
If they are ending it like this though, I don't actually want them to do a new series after this. I mean, how could you end it like this and then continue on next season. Like where do you go from here that wouldn't just negate this?
Luther- Amazing episode, with a whole lot of unexpected. Heh, when Stark and Erin showed up all, "You're under arrest for the murder of DCU Justin Ripley and the attempted murder of Mary Day" I was incredulous! I was, "How the eff are they pinning that on Luther?!" Mary saw it was not Luther shooting at him. But they claimed he let Marwood go in exchange for him killing Justin and Mary. What the shit, its like yeah, Luther seems to be an albatross to everyone he cares about, but the guy cannot catch a break! Its like wow, people really think the worst of him if they keep coming up with these insane theories about how everything bad that happens to people he knows were orchestrated by him.
Anyways, Alice (finally!) comes to break him out, making quick work of Stark and Erin, and takes him into hiding. Stark thinks its a break out (which it was!), but Schenk has Luther's back all, "For all he know, he was kidnapped by Marwood!" and unceremoniously shuts Stark down. So Stark and Erin move Mary to a safehouse, and Alice shows up at the police station. She tells Schenk and Benny she can turn herself in, or they can help Luther catch Marwood and get out of this mess he's in.
And what's Marwood been up to? He kidnaps the pregnant wife of the doctor of the prison holding the guy who raped and murdered his wife. The guy had gotten sent to the infirmary, and he wants to use the doctor to get at him. In the meantime, he kidnaps a meth head who ended up running over a kid and hardly served any time at all for such a heinous crime. Luther meanwhile calls Mary, dropping a line about how Erin is a good egg over speakerphone, and gets Benny to trace the location. Stark figures out Luther traced their location immediately, and Erin thinks Stark wants to force a confrontation.
Alice and Luther catch up to Marwood, and film him threatening Luther, which they seem to think will trash Marwood's reputation as this champion of the innocent. He shoots Luther in the leg, while Alice gets away. He finds Mary's location of Luther's phone and decides to go after her. Luther tries to warn Stark, but Stark thinks its a ploy to get them to move Mary so they can get ambushed en route. Alice also makes her way to the location, setting up a distraction to draw Stark and Erin out, then sneaks in to dump the Marwood evidence on their computers to exonerate Luther.
Unfortunately, Marwood has gotten there. He blasts and kills Stark (which was totally unexpected! I figured he'd have some showdown with Luther, not that he would just randomly get killed!) and traps Erin, who heroically tries to pass herself off as Mary. But Marwood realizes they she doesn't sound like Mary, and we're to think he executes her. But since it was off screen, and I didn't think they'd just kill her off like that, I figured she survived, and I was right.
Anyhoo, Alice tries to get out of there with Mary, managing to wound Stark with a neat trick involving a bullet, door, and nail. But, he eventually catches up as does Luther, and holds Luther's two women hostage. He tells Luther to choose which one to kill or lose them both. Which, he was using a pump action shotgun, he could at most kill one of them before Luther or the other tried to wrestle the gun away from him. He chooses Alice to get shot, but right before Marwood does it, Mary pushes the gun away, giving Alice enough time to stab Marwood in the throat.
Luther holds the wound close to find out where the doctor's wife is, claiming he'll let him die if he tells her. So he does, but Luther can't trust him (and doesn't want him to get off so easy anyways!) and keeps him alive long enough for the paramedics to save him.
When he makes it downstairs, Benny tells him Alice is in custody and Mary went home. Only, the two girls switched places so Alice could get away. Mary has one final talk with Luther, telling him to go with Alice. And he does, with the ep ending with Luther and Alice apparently running off together.
Which is totally weird. I mean, the Luther/Alice shippers are prolly ecstatic. I don't know how I feel about it- I mean, the thing between Luther and Alice, it was always the whole flirting with danger thing. Like, "What if Luther succumbed and did get with her?" So to have him actually finally do it? Its kinda weird. Like those noir films where the protagonist flirts like crazy with the femme fatale, you like seeing the flirtation, but you don't expect him to actually get with her in the end. I mean, she's hot, but she's a psychopath!
If they are ending it like this though, I don't actually want them to do a new series after this. I mean, how could you end it like this and then continue on next season. Like where do you go from here that wouldn't just negate this?