‘Luther’ Returns For A One-Night Special Event

Programme Name: Luther – TX: n/a – Episode: Luther S4 (No. Generics) – Picture Shows: DCI John Luther (IDRIS ELBA) – (C) BBC – Photographer: Steffan Hill

“There are some things that you might’ve heard about me that quite possibly could be true.” – John Luther

BBC America have announced that the fourth series of ‘Luther’ will air as a one-night, three-hour special event, instead of a miniseries. Along with the announcement, the BBC also released new photos and a brand new synopsis.

Picture Shows: DCI John Luther (IDRIS ELBA) – (C) BBC – Photographer: Steffan Hill

Elba on Luther’s challenges:

“I think there were bigger challenges when he lost his wife and his best friend…. That was a huge pinnacle and something that it took him a long time to get over. And in this [special] there is something similar that happens to him that is definitely traumatic.”

Elba on Luther’s return to the Bullpen:

“I think Luther goes back just because he can’t stay away from it for too long. Ultimately, because he’s a protector, [he] just wants to be able to fix what he can see other people won’t be able to …”

Picture shows: DCI Theo Bloom (Darren Boyd) and DS Emma Jones (Rose Leslie).

Official Synopsis:

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 (Darren Boyd, Veep, The World’s End) and Detective Sergeant Emma Lane (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 (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.

Written and created by Emmy^®-nominated Neil Cross and directed by Sam Miller (No Good Deed, Fortitude) the Luther special also stars Laura Haddock (Guardians of the Galaxy, Ripper Street, Da Vinci’s Demons)as Megan Cantor, a mysterious woman from Luther’s past, John Heffernan (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Ripper Street) as the sadistic cannibal Steven Rose, Patrick Malahide (Indian Summers, Game of Thrones) as George Cornelius, an old school gangster, and Michael Smiley (Doctor Who, Ripper Street) returning as computer whiz Benny Silver.