LUTHER by NEIL CROSS Episode 1
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REED Then what are you thinking? LUTHER She’s compelled to impress - people in general, but right now me in particular. She needs to show me how brilliant she is. She needs to be admired. REED And -? LUTHER I give her what she needs. Then take it away. Make her angry. See how careless it makes her.
He walks off.
REED
John -
LUTHER
What?
REED
Slow down. Luther just gives him a look. Shrugs. Walks off. INT. PET CREMATORIUM - DAY 4 - 07.55 61A The Morgans’ dog being wheeled on a gurney. INT. PET CREMATORIUM, INCINERATOR - DAY 4 - 07.55 61B
61A
61B TWO VETS manhandle the dog into the incinerator...Where the dog is consumed in jets of bright blue flame. EXT. ALICE’S PLACE, WALKWAY BRIDGE - DAY 4 - 08.44 62 62 Luther is waiting, lost in grim introspection, as Alice Morgan approaches on the walkway. Alice holds open her bag - an urn inside. ALICE They burned my dog. LUTHER It’s protocol. It’s what happens. ALICE He was only a dog. It seems unduly pitiless to me, to burn someone’s dog.
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