Luther, Series 3

DCI John Luther:
[observing a dead body] Look, it's a very specific look - the wig, the makeup. There's a bit of a Siouxsie and the Banshees thing going on here.

DS Justin Ripley:
Who and the what?

DCI John Luther:
'80s. Post-punk.

DS Justin Ripley:
Oh, uh, goths.

DCI John Luther:
Post-punk.

DSU George Stark:
There was a park ranger. In America, that is. He was struck seven times by lightning. Seven times. Actually made the Guinness Book of Records for being the unluckiest guy in the world. Or maybe the luckiest guy in the world, depends on how you look at it.

DSU George Stark:
DCI Luther will be taking on a case of a waste of semen called Jared Cass.

DS Justin Ripley:
It was you. You had him assigned to the Jared Cass murder.

DSU George Stark:
I want to know exactly how he handles that investigation. And I mean every move by move, breath by breath. If he breaks the law, I want his head on a stick.

DSU George Stark:
[opening a book in Luther's flat] He underlines.

DCI Erin Gray:
So?

DSU George Stark:
We tend to underline observations that confirm our view of the world. Give me a day with those books, and I'll serve him to you on a plate.

DCI John Luther:
[after barging in on Stark's operation, observing photos on the wall] Do you remember that show This Is Your Life? It's like the big red book. Except for all these people are dead. Well, most of them.

DSU George Stark:
Don't make it any worse for yourself.

DCI John Luther:
And who are you, exactly?

DSU George Stark:
Me? DSU George Stark.

DCI John Luther:
[scoffs] I'll tell you what, George. You're a big man, and I'm tired. But if we are gonna take lumps out of each other, it won't be the first one I've had tonight. And someone's gonna have to find out. Your boss, my boss. And they'll ask why, how I just walked in on your... operation. And how I walked out of here with all the evidence you've got against me. What's that gonna do to your reputation, eh? Now, you can continue if you want. Chase me down. [gets up and looms over Stark] But if you take me down, I'll take you down even faster and even harder.

[Paul enters Ayesha's room and sees Luther beside her]

DCI John Luther:
Hope you don't mind, Paul, but I gave Ayesha a call. Asked if I could sneak up here with her. Hmm? Well, go on, say something.

Paul Ellis:
Ahh! [lunges at Luther with a knife]

DCI John Luther:
George, if you sow these seeds...

DSU George Stark:
And what? I reap the whirlwind? Is that right? You know your problem? You've spent your life thinking you're the whirlwind. Well, you're not because I'm the whirlwind, John. I'm the whirlwind.

DCI John Luther:
We'll see.

Tom Marwood:
[aiming his shotgun at Ripley] Let me go.

DS Justin Ripley:
Say I did that. Yeah, and all this carries on. Someone innocent gets hurt. How am I supposed to live with that?

Tom Marwood:
It won't happen.

DS Justin Ripley:
It'll happen.

DCI John Luther:
So, what's up with the website?

DS Justin Ripley:
Goes live in two hours.

DCI John Luther:
Well, can't we just pull it down or trace it to the source or whatever you do with websites?

DSU Martin Schenk:
Apparently now it's been posted from Uzbekistan, or Kasakhstan... one of the 'Stans.

Tom Marwood:
The criminal justice system was created to protect us from people who would do us harm. But time and again, it fails in that purpose. For all the Caitlins, and for all their families, it's time for that failure to end.

Alice Morgan:
Some little girls grow up wanting ponies; I always wanted to be a widow.

Alice Morgan:
You assert a fabulous moral conscience, John. This adherence to unwritten law, yet, time and again, it devastates the people you claim to hold dear but you don't stop. Seems to me your conscience has killed more people than I have.

Alice Morgan:
So, I've got bullets but no gun. That's quite Zen.

Alice Morgan:
If you're going to go on the run, you're going to have to, er, lose the coat.

DCI John Luther:
It's my lucky coat.

Alice Morgan:
Lucky? Right. Well, I'd take it back to the shop if I were you. Get your money back. It's obviously defective.

Tom Marwood:
[aiming his shotgun at Luther, realizes Alice is filming] Give me that camera, or I will shoot him!

Alice Morgan:
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...