Luther (TV Series)
Episode #1.1 (2010)
Idris Elba: DCI John Luther
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Quotes
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DCI John Luther : So do we need to have the chat?
DS Justin Ripley : What chat?
DCI John Luther : I was sick, I got better, I'm back, etc.
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DCI John Luther : I'm coming for you.
Alice Morgan : Not if I come for you first.
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DCI John Luther : Well, there was no evidence of an intruder.
Alice Morgan : But absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
DCI John Luther : I know, I'm making a leap. It's a little leap, though. It's more of a hop.
Alice Morgan : Is this where you ask me if I hated my parents?
DCI John Luther : It is about that time, yeah.
Alice Morgan : Did they make me a freak? Yes. Did I hate them? Absolutely. Did I kill them? No.
DCI John Luther : Can you prove that?
Alice Morgan : I can't prove a negative. Can't be done.
DCI John Luther : Innocence is a negative. It's the absence of guilt.
Alice Morgan : Meaning the burden of proof is entirely yours.
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DCI John Luther : I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
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DSU Rose Teller : You and Zoe: You spoken?
DCI John Luther : No, not for a while.
DSU Rose Teller : And?
DCI John Luther : It was a trial separation. I tried it, didn't like it.
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DCI John Luther : Alice, you may be very, very clever, but you're wrong. There is love in the world, so you lose.
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DSU Rose Teller : So where's the gun? It's got to be somewhere. Everything's somewhere.
DCI John Luther : I don't know
DSU Rose Teller : Play that again. That was special
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DCI John Luther : See, keeping that gun wasn't a rational decision. It was a compulsion. You did it 'cause you needed to do it. And it's that compulsion that makes you weak in ways that you can't see or understand. And it's that compulsion that's going to get you caught. And it will bring you down, Alice, it always does, just like clockwork.
Alice Morgan : Are you threatening me? Because honestly, I wouldn't.
DCI John Luther : And why's that?
Alice Morgan : Oh come now, really. Because I'd be hurt and angry.
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DCI John Luther : [after Teller tells him here's-how-it's-going-to-be] Is that the speech?
DSU Rose Teller : That's the speech
DCI John Luther : It's a good speech
DSU Rose Teller : Thank you. It's one I prepared earlier
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DCI John Luther : [looking at dead woman in bed] Sleeping pills, separate bedrooms, what does that tell you?
DS Justin Ripley : Husband snored?
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DCI Ian Reed : So they welcomed you back with a weird one?
DCI John Luther : Yeah, they did welcome me back with a weird one.
[sighs]
DCI John Luther : You?
DCI Ian Reed : Honour killing.
DCI John Luther : Ouch.
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DCI John Luther : You don't understand love, Alice. It's not your fault. You can mimic it and I guess you can recognise it in other people, but you will never be able to understand love.