LUTHER by NEIL CROSS Episode 1
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Luther exits. Zoe picks up her mobile phone and dials. ZOE Ian, it’s Zoe. EXT. LUTHER HOME - NIGHT 3 - CONTINUOUS 57 Luther crosses to his car. He gets in. Sits. Lost. SCENE 58 - 59 INCLUSIVE OMITTED INT. BAR - NIGHT 3 - 23.48 60
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60 A late night bar. Almost deserted. Luther drinks in silence, toying with his wedding ring. Finally he removes the ring and pockets it. Reed enters, signals the barman for a drink and sits down beside Luther in companionable silence. A beat. LUTHER Are you going to say anything? REED Anything you’d like me to say? LUTHER Nope. REED Then why say it? Luther nods. Drinks. SCENE 60A OMITTED 60A 60A INT. ALICE’S PLACE, LIVING ROOM - DAY 4 - 06.55 60B 60B Alice drinks coffee, watches 24 HOUR NEWS. Bored, she turns off the TV. Goes to her laptop. ANGLE ON THE SCREEN: A RAPID-FIRE COLLAGE AS - She Googles JOHN LUTHER + POLICE. Flicks through MULTIPLE HEADLINES about Luther’s arrest of HENRY MADSEN: SERIAL KILLER MADSEN “MAY HAVE KILLED MORE” - MADSEN “MAY NEVER WAKE” FROM ARREST COMA...MADSEN DETECTIVE SUSPENDED IN “TORTURE” INQUIRY...MADSEN INQUIRY CLEARS DETECTIVE... She focuses on a TEXT FRAGMENT reading “DETECTIVE JOHN LUTHER, 38”. Googles WWW.GRO.GOV.UK. Pulls up LUTHER’S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. On which is listed HIS WIFE - ZOE GILLIAN LUTHER, NEE CORNELL. SHE GOOGLES ZOE GILLIAN CORNELL . FINDS A LEEDS UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS WEBSITE - ZOE CORNELL, HUMANITARIAN LAW. She Googles ZOE LUTHER + HUMAN RIGHTS + LONDON. Arrives at the website of FORD AND VARGAS.
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