'Luther' Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: Benny & The Jets
Luther takes down one of its few remaining longstanding characters, as DCI Luther's problems mount.
Mark: I see you brought the devil 'round for breakfast.
The things about Luther as a series is that, by this point, it's kind shocking its titular lead isn't dead or in jail by this point. The man never follows the rules, he's always trying to hide his connections to killers (Alice Morgan, George Cornelius), and he makes terrible, stupid mistakes by trusting people he has no business believing. Episode 3 opens with Alice having killed Cornelius' kid, which is going to go very badly for everyone when he finds out. Especially because Cornelius has Benny. As I noted back at the top of the season, Benny is literally only one of two characters besides Luther himself, who has lasted through all five seasons. Even Alice sat out the truncated two-part Season 4, in what we can admit was a (failed) attempt to kill the character off and see if the show could survive without Ruth Wilson.
