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Luther fans left shocked after deadly finale sees multiple characters killed off

Spoilers for series five of the BBC show below

Jack Shepherd
Saturday 05 January 2019 17:23 GMT
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Trailer for Luther Series 5 starring Idris Elba

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The fifth series of Luther has come to an end, but not without a few casualties.

*Spoilers for the finale below*

While fans thought Benny (Michael Smiley) being killed by a mobster during the penultimate episode was bad enough, the finale had a lot worse in store.

The series climaxed with the psychopathic murderer Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson) falling from a lethal height to her death and John Luther (Idris Elba) being arrested.

However, before Morgan’s death, she managed to unceremoniously kill another main character: John Luther’s latest partner, Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku).

Contract killer Mr Palmer was also killed during the final episode of series five, by George Cornelius (Patrick Malahide).

With so much death during the episode, fans were rightly left feeling shocked by events, expressing as much on Twitter.

Although his character has now been jailed, Elba has recently spoken about a film adaptation of Luther looking ever more likely, stating: “We are really advancing on getting a movie version [of the show] up on the screen.

“[Creator] Neil Cross is beavering away on writing this thing, and I think the remit for the film is to scale it up.”

Read our review of the first two episodes of Luther here and here.

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