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Luther:
Luther is set up in London, everything looks realistic. It's more gritty than Sherlock and CSI. The setting is realistic as it looks like somewhere we would live, making the audience

Luther As A Flawed Anti-Hero

Luther is an anti hero because:

• He is single minded and doesnt do what a police would do. For example he went to see the criminal without any back up.
• He goes against the law
• He creates his own rules
• Left man to die, instead of  helping him
• Breaks into Alice's apartment
• He got into a fight with his wife's new boyfriend
• He blackmails people into getting a confesion.
• He goes against procedures
• He has a relationship with Alice

Kidnap And Ransom - Episode 2

Anwar Razdan is about to kill the first hostage before Dominic shows him proof that his family have been temporarily released. He showed him his father’s funeral and his family there. Dominic now has to try and negotiate the release of the hostages before anybody works out that the British Foreign Secretary’s daughter, Flo Holland is on board the bus. An Indian police sniper ends up taking a shot at Anwar as the hostages are being released and he panics and starts to drive the bus away. The bus travels through the streets of Kashmir and the police give chase. Anwar and Leela are missing with Flo and another hostage, Shaun Cooper when the police manage to catch up with the vehicle. When the police catch up with the bus they find the old man panicking and trying to start the bus as Anwar had ordered him to drive them all away. Anwar takes photos of Flo and puts them up on the internet as she is worth a lot and he tries to get the highest bid whilst Shaun is tied up in the boot of the car. Flo then talks to Leela and tells her that her dad can help her if she lets her go. Leela wanted to go to the UK and live a normal life, for this to happen she needed to let Flo go so that her father could help her. At the end of the episode Leela tells Dominic where they were and he goes to look for them and finds out that there gone and hurry’s back to the hotel to see his female partner that was helping him dead on the floor. 

Set Pieces

Interrogations: This is where people who are involved in the crime are interviewed to see if the police/detective can gather up more information in order to solve the crime. This is so it is easier for the police/detective to find out who the criminal is. Interrogations play a big part of this scene as it helps us to find out who committed the crime. Having an interrogation scene makes the audience think and wonder who committed the crime. 

• One Way Mirrors
• Tape
• 2-3 Detectives
• Table And Chairs
• Glass Of Water

Initial Crime Scene: This is the scene where the crime has been committed. Investigators go to the crime scene to see if they can find out what has happened and collect evidence. The evidence found gets taken a picture of with an evidence cone beside it and the evidence is then taken to the lab to get analysed to find out who has done the crime. This scene is important as we get to see how the police handle the situation and what they do in order to solve the crime.

• Police Tape
• Evidence Cones
• Body
• Detectives

The Chase: This is the scene of where the police/detectives are chasing the suspect. This adds tension in the crime drama as it engages the audience to carry on watching and they are hoping that the suspect is going to get caught.

• Cars
• Alleyways/Pathways
• Back Streets
• Street Lights

 Informing Next Of Kin: This is where the family of the victim are informed of the death. This is an important scene as the family may know of some sort of information linking back to the death in where the victim was or what she was doing and who she was with at the time of the murder.

• Lab
• Family Member
• Body

The Confession: This is when the criminal/s confess that they committed the crime and get taken away. The confession plays a big part of the crime drama as it sums up the whole crime and the audience finds out who committed the crime.

• Criminals
• Detectives

The Autopsy: This is where the body of the victim in investigated to see if there is any evidence to help solve the crime.

• Body Bag
• Tweasers
• Lab

The Eureka Moment: This is when the police/investigator/detective figures out who committed the crime and has a moment of intelligence.








The Laboratory: This is where all the collected evidence is analysed in order to solve the crime. This is a very important scene in the investigation as this helps us to know what and who committed the crime. 

• Lab Coats
• Gloves
• Test Tubes
• Computers

Kidnap And Ransom – Episode 1

Summary:

At the beginning of this episode you see Dominic King in a small boat throwing something that looks very much as a body into a lake. There then is a flashback of 2 weeks earlier to Kashmir in India to negotiate the hostage release of a British family. Kidnappers in Kashmir take some passengers on a tourist bus hostage, King then has to convince the police to not shot them. The innocent passengers do everything the kidnappers say, they all lined up against the window of the bus, one of the passengers wrote on the window saying ‘Don’t kill us’. The UK government initially is unwilling to interfere in Indian hostage negotiations. However during negotiations King unearths that one of the tourists is the daughter of a UK politician, which of course changes the stance of the UK government. The kidnapper took everyone’s phone and was contacting Dominic every so often, he also asks for everyone’s passports. One passenger tried to escape by kicking down the window and jumping out hoping he would be safe but as the police thought he was part of the kidnappers they shot him dead, the bullet went into his neck and he died instantly. At the end of the episode Dominic King managed to convince the kidnapper to let some of the hostages go, he ended up letting go the pregnant lady.

CSI: New York
Season 8 –  Episode 3: Cavallino Rampante

After a beautiful young woman is found dead in the boot of a stolen Ferrari, Danny and the team find a connection to a family of car thieves who have taken something precious from a very dangerous man.

Evidence:

·         Montages of photos

·         Fingerprints

·         White powder (this caused light sensitivity, bright light caused one of the men being interviewed to look away from the bright light)

·         RF cloning device (Unlock doors and start the ignition)

Suspects:

·         All the people that got their Ferrari’s stolen

·         Nicole (Michelle’s sister)

·         Dominic Yanos

Conventions:

·         Press conference with police department

·         Professionals - Police, Investigators and Detectives

·         Crimes - Murder, Theft, Kidnap

·         Evidence

·         Montages

·         Restrictive Narrative

·         Flashbacks - To crime, To kidnap

·         Motives – Revenge

·         Crime Solving Techniques – Technology

·         Settings – Urban and labs

·         Tone – Glamorous

·         Pace – Fast

The NYPD is on the lookout for a pair of car thieves who have stolen 16 Ferraris in the past two months. Danny rides around with one of his rookie officers, and they check parking garages for stolen cars. They find a red Ferrari with the engine still running; they then find that there is a dead girl in the boot. This was Michelle. A red light camera captured an image of this woman behind the wheel—she’s one of the elusive car thieves. She was killed because her and her sister didn’t give back his car as they had already sold the parts. Yanos killed Arthur and took Audrey(the other sister), and Nicole has been stealing cars out in the open. She fled to Brooklyn, and the team locates the garage where she and Michelle chopped Yanos’ Ferrari and distributed the parts. He didn’t just want a Ferrari, he wanted his stolen car back. Unfortunately, the girls didn’t know where the parts were, so they tried to trick him by stealing another red Ferrari and switching out the VIN. Yanos killed Michelle when he realized what they’d done, and Nicole has to get all of the parts back if she ever wanted to see Audrey alive again. The team sets Yanos up and arrests him when he comes for the car, and they find Audrey nearby, tied up but alive. When they reassemble Yanos’ car back at the lab, they discover a hidden compartment containing passports and other identification needed for Yanos to take a new identity.

CSI: New York
Season 8 - Episode 2: Keep It Real


The boyfriend of a punk rock singer is shot dead in his apartment.


Evidence:
•Broken window
•Money on the floor around dead body
•Ripped t-shirt
•Black nail varnish


Suspects:
•Miranda
•Shop guy


Conventions:
•Police tape on apartment door
•Montages of photos – when the boy (Michael) was killed
•Flashbacks of killing
•Interviewing Miranda as to what she was doing at the time when Josh was murdered… Shows flashbacks
•Towards the end Miranda starts singing a song dedicated to Michael. Flashbacks where then used for when he was giving her the guitar.


Miranda was sleeping in Michael's room when she heard a gunshot. The noise woke her, and she found Michael on the floor when she ran out into the living room. They’ve only known each other for a few weeks, since he and his roommate Josh came into the music store where she worked. Michael struggled with the killer first. Robbery doesn’t seem to be a motive because the body is surrounded by $300 worth of $20 bills. Miranda says Michael didn’t owe anyone money. He bought her an expensive guitar recently, after she admired it the day they met in the music store. He was a sweet guy, she says, and she can’t imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. Meanwhile, Josh is nowhere to be found, and the team tries to track him down.
A smudge on Michael’s cheek contains a combination of ink, mineral oil, glass cleaner and auto degreaser. This leads Lindsay to figure out that the money next to Michael’s body is counterfeit. Josh was using a combination of auto degreaser, mineral oil and glass cleaner to remove the ink on $5 bills, and he reprinted them as $20 bills with his inkjet printer. A piece of reptile skin belonging to a boa constrictor is found on Michael’s clothes, and it has been discolored by fingernail polish. The team realizes the owner of the music store, Randy, is the killer.

Here's a link where you can watch this episode: 

http://www.channel5.com/shows/csi-new-york/episodes/episode-2-400