Luther Series 1 Episode 4

Episode began with a man standing over a dead woman in a field. He was laying out all her belongings, that were currently with her, around her head. He stole the necklace that she was wearing which was a crescent. This was the 3rd murder in 5 weeks from the same man, Graham Shand. It was his wifes birthday and as he presents her with the necklace that he stole from his victim you can see a certain amount of maybe terror or guilt in her eyes. They are down the pub with their two friends when Graham suddenly gets a "phonecall from work" and has to leave straight away. He is a cab driver so it's an easy way to endure people in. But this "easy trap" is soon shattered as all three murders are not close to eachother but in weird obscure places, places that only residents OR taxi drivers would know! Luther was unable to go out and help catch Graham as the man that he supposidly "killed" in Episode 1 finally woke up from his coma. He was kept inside the office so had to try and do as much as he could form there but figured out that the murder must be a taxi driver. He got DS Justin Ripley to go through and find all the taxi drivers in the area that had been involved with the police before or any incident. They finally come to the conclusion that it's Graham and decide to pay his wife a visit to see if she knows anything about his disgusting habit. His wife, Linda, is cheating on him with on of his friends and she explains to Luther that Graham had said to her that if she ever leaves him he will take his life. And this was demonstrated when she tried to leave him but he slashed his wrists to stop her. Linda explained that he checks her phone whenever she isnt with it and she accidentley forgot to delete a text message off her phone from the man she was cheating with. During this time, Alice wants to help Luther with the "Henry Madsen" problem and let Luther go out and investigate which is what he does best. She poses as one of the nurses and goes into Henry Madsens room, she then silently kills him but Luther didn't want this to happen and lashes out on the phone to her. She then decides to go and tell Mark about Luther and Zoe. Luther quickly catches on that the man Linda is cheating with is in serious danger as Graham ordered a prositute to his house. He turns up before she does and kills the man that has been sleeping with his wife. The prostitute then turns up and it is clear that she is going to be his next victim. Layla, the escort, gets a phonecall who she thinks is her friend but to her suprise is Luther. He tells her to say in character on the phone as if it were her friend and find a safe place to hide as this man is very dangerous. Her attitude and body language completely changes after the phonecall and turns stiff and blank. She asks Graham if she could go to the toliet and he refuses and starts to touch her. She sprints to the bathroom and manages to lock the door. He started to rapidly knock on the door and starts to slightly break through. Layla turns around only to see the man that Graham had just killed in a body bag behind her. Graham goes downstairs and gets a hammer which he then starts hammering the door down. Linda is asked to go inside to get Graham instead of the police which could trigger him off and he goes down stairs with the hammer in hand. Policemen then surround him and he is taken away. Linda goes upstairs to fetch Layla and see's the man that she loves in the body bag. She picks up the hammer from downstairs and runs after Graham who is being taken away. She hits him on the back of the head with the hammer and kills him. This was soooooooo unexpected as I just thought he was going to get locked up but i thought it was a good suprise as it was completely what he deserved!!
Basic TV Crime Drama conventions used in this Episode:
- Montages
- Interviews/Interrogation
- Crime Scene
- Murder
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Luther Series 1 Episode 3

This episode started with an odd looking man knocking on a front door. A woman opened the door, Kirsten Ross, and started to talk about her husband and whether this man knew anything about him. The man walked into the house and started to threaten the woman. He said that she can either get her and her child killed or she can keep her child safe and be kidnapped. She chose the kidnapping option obviously. We then saw the police office where John Luther and his other police friends work and solve investigations. We were then shown images from the house after Kirsten had been taken. There was writing covering ALL the walls, appearing to be blood. Rose Teller then explains how this exact incident happen 10 years ago to a young girl names Grace Allen but the murderer, Lucien Burgess, had no evidence on him so couldn't be convicted. He is a psychopath who drains people of their blood and then dumps their body somewhere to be found years after the abduction. Luther pieces the puzzle together and works out that Kirsten must be in a boat as the angle of daylight that was visible on a picture that Lucien took of her in the box where he drained her. Luther is an anti-hero here as he bends with the law slightly in order to catch his killer. As him and his assistant go down to the boat and find Kirsten dead, they have no evidence to put it on Lucien so they don't want the same thing to happen again. They pretended that they were never at the crime scene and look into framing Lucien in the act. They succeed and charge him. Meanwhile, Mark North - Zoe's boyfriend gets beaten up by a group of teenage girls in a gang. He claims that one of them said "Luther says hello" so immediately puts the blame onto Luther. Luther knows nothing of the matter but Mark still goes through with the complaint and Luther is being stopped with getting on with the case that at that time was not resolved. We then find out that it was in fact Alice who set the gang girls on Mark to try and help Luther get back together with Zoe, Alice confesses up to Mark so that he withdraws his complaint. Zoe turns up at Luther's place and they share a moment and she then cheats on Mark with Luther. Basic TV Crime Drama conventions used in this Episode:
- Montages
- Crime Scene
- Evidence
- We were, at some points, able to know more than a policeman did.

CSI:Miami

Horatio and Natalia began left dead by a man who claimed to be an “ex-con” Horatio and Tripp thought they had caught the final escapee of the Miami prison break but ‘Jack Toller’ managed to escape them in a massive plane crash! Horatio tracked down Jacks cellmate, Randy North. The CSI team discovered Randy’s plans to sell these U.S currency printing things. With the help of an unseen undercover secret agent, they found the man Jack was planning to sell the printing things to. Jack kidnapped a teenage girl and luckily Horatio saved the day and saved the girl from Jack! But unfortunately Horatio was unable to catch Jack, this was really gripping me as I just wanted Horatio to be the amazing hero like he always is but it was taking very long in this episode!!  

They forgot Jack as Randy decided to change character and began blaming Horatio and Natalia for losing custody over his children. Randy went crazy and SHOT, yes SHOT Horatio and I basically cried. He took Natalia to an unknown place and we were offered a restricted narrative and didn’t know what was going on! AND THEN…to make matter even worse…IT FINISHED!!!!!!

So basically, Horatio was shot and we don’t know whether anyone will save him. Natalia has been held hostage. And Jack is still on the run! One of CSI’s unusual cliff hangers which is highly dislike L

Conventions used: Montages, Crime Scene, Restrictive Narrative, Pace, Forensics and Evidence.