Luther – Series 1 Episode 5

The episode begins with a couple moving into their new home, the door bell rings and the man opens the door and he gets taken down by two kidnappers; one male and one female. They are both armed and a man walks in and orders the man to give him the diamonds but the man doesn’t have them so the kidnappers begin to search the bags and find nothing. The boss then says that he has 2 hours to bring him the diamonds of Jessica his wife will start to get cut; he then cuts her tongue off.  They then take Jessica and lock her away, James then goes down to the police station and speaks to Luther asking for Ian and shows them Jessica’s tongue. Meanwhile Mark tells Zoe that he’s going to move out for a while. James calls the man that wants the diamonds and they arrange to meet up, they meet up at a shopping centre and all the entrances are covered with cameras everywhere so that Luther and Ripley can try and catch the men to track down Jessica. James puts the bag in the bin and a man and women who kidnapped Jessica at the beginning go and get it but there are no diamonds inside, the women reaches out into her bag to get her phone to call Dan to say there are no diamonds but then Luther and Ripley take action and begin to chase them, they manage to catch the female but Luther loses the man. Later on Zoe comes to the office to talk to Luther, she tells him that things are no over and he lashes out and yells her to get out and starts throwing things around and ends up smashing the window. Ripley manages to talk to one of the kidnappers and he goes to get Jessica, on the way Dan catches them and cuts one of their ears off and their hands and fingers. Ian goes to his friend to tell him that his nephew is dead, he feels sick. Ian then takes off his tie and goes and strangles him. Later on Luther realizes that Ripley is not himself and figures out what he’s done and tells him not to go and kill him but it was too late. Luther then goes to the hotel where Dan is staying at and breaks in and they start fighting, Luther tells him that there is someone coming for him and wants to hurt him. Ripley then storms in with gun and they start talking. Luther just wants to help him, Ian then pulls the trigger and shoots Daniel in the head and runs off. Luther runs after him but loses him. Ripley then puts the gun to his head but doesn’t pull the trigger.... he then goes to Zoe’s house and tells her to call Luther and tell him to come round, but she wasn’t allowed to say that she was with him, she starts panicking and refusing to do it. Ripley gets the gun out and forces her to ring him, she makes the phone call panicking and tells him that Ripley is here with a gun. Ripley then shoots Zoe in the stomach and frames Luther for the murder.