BBC has released a couple of images from the upcoming cannibalistic
one-night, three-hour special, which will air Thursday, December 17 on BBC.
Idris Elba returns to his award-winning role, and "this
time we find Luther on a leave of absence from the police force, laying low in
a rundown cottage. A visit from colleagues, Detective Chief Inspector Theo
Bloom played by Darren Boyd (Veep, The World’s End) and Detective Sergeant Emma Lane played by
Rose Leslie (The Last Witch Hunter, Game of Thrones)
brings a shocking piece of news that draws him back to London in search of the
truth. At the same time, a gruesome cannibalistic serial killer has struck the
city, eating body parts as he goes. With a trail of clues leading from one
crime scene to the next, Detective Superintendent Unit Martin Schenk played by Dermot
Crowley (Babel, Bleak House) and his
team must work out the twisted logic that connects each victim. But this
murdering mastermind is more than a match for Schenk’s police, outsmarting them
at every step. It’s not long before Luther makes his triumphant return to the
Bullpen, determined to capture the killer before another mutilated body joins
the mounting pile. But he’s dogged at every turn by ghosts from his past.
Isolated and volatile, it will take every fiber of Luther’s being to keep it
together."
Luther creator Neil Cross wrote the special, which Sam
Miller (No Good Deed) directed. In addition to Elba, Boyd, Leslie, and Crowley,
the special also stars Laura Haddock as Megan Cantor, John Heffernan as Steven
Rose, Patrick Malahide as George Cornelius, and Michael Smiley as good old Benny
Silver.
For those of you that don't mind spoilers, Haddock plays
a mysterious woman from Luther's past, Heffernan is the clever cannibal, and Malahide
is an "old school gangster".
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