Luther Series 1 Episode 5

The episode began with a couple talking about going away and just packing their apartment. It was Jame and Jessica Carrodus, they stole diamonds and Daniele Sugarman who originally committed a robbery to get them, is on to them and wants his diamonds back. He suddenly bursts into the apartment and demand for the diamonds, which Jessica had swallowed. He offers James a chance to go and get the diamonds otherwise he would kill his wife. She was held kidnapped and Daniel cut her tongue out and gave it to James as confirmation that he would kill her if he didn't return with the diamonds. James goes straight to the police and Luther is on the case and suggests that he give James some diamonds from the evidence cupboard from a different case. This displays his anti-hero behaviour as these diamonds could be a vital piece of evidence to that case and he has just taken them and covered them in his and James' DNA. It then gets revealed that one of Luther's colleagues Ian Reed was in on the original robbery and tries to resolve what had been caused, he finds out that one of the men in on the kidnapping is his a fellow mates nephew, Tom. Ian persuades Tom to go and save Jessica and tells him that she has the diamonds inside of her. Tom agrees and goes to where Jessica is being kept, he manages to get her in the car but then Daniel returns and kills them both, taking the diamonds out of Jessica. Ian and Luther arrive at the scene and find the two bodies, Ian feels massively guilty as he could have stopped this. Meanwhile, Mark tells Zoe to choose between him and Luther and she picks him. He tells her that she should never speak to Luther again, she rings Luther and tells her that they need to meet. Luther is suspicious about Ian and his suspicions are answered when Luther turns up at Daniel's hotel room to arrest him, Ian turns up with a gun pointing at him, Luther tells Ian not to shoot but Daniel winds him up so Ian shoots Daniel and steals the diamonds. Luther is shocked (SO WAS I) and not sure what to think. Now Ian has gone a bit crazy and thinks Luther is against him, when he isn't. Luther runs after Ian but Ian turns up at Zoe's house and tells her to ring Luther and tell him to come round but not mention that he was there. Zoe refuses so Ian holds her at gun point until she does and when on the phone she shouts to Luther that Ian Reed was there with a gun. Ian shoots Zoe and Luther heard it all. Luther informed DC Teller immediately and goes straight to the house where he finds that Ian had smashed it up as if it had been a burglary. Luther cradles Zoe in his arms covered in her blood and he picks he gun up that Ian had dropped on the floor, which now had Luther's fingerprints all over it. He hears police sirens and realises that Ian had made it look as if Luther had done it. Luther kisses Zoe and leaves the house straight away. He was now blamed for the death of his wife due to his mental state so is on the run to get away from the police..
I think this episode was great and showed lots of parts when several police detectives turned against the law to achieve something they wanted. Although Luther usually does it for good turn outs it should be done in the correct way and legally. Ian Reed was an unexpected criminal and killer so surprised the viewers a lot! It included the usual crime drama conventions of Flashbacks, Interrogation Scene, Montages and Crime Scenes. I can't wait to watch the next episode!!