Arkady Kachimov is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 crime thriller Luther: The Fallen Sun.
He is David Robey’s main Henchman, He assists Robey with his many crimes.
Biography[]
One day while at Robey’s unground lair, Arkady calls his boss and they discuss that anything is ready to go and that the cargo, which was several kidnapped people is on its way to Robey’s base. Robey says he wishes Arkady could be with him for the launch party.
A few days later Arkady set up a website called the red bunker, He then received a phone call from Robey asking him to set anything up. Robey says he’s running late, Arkady asks if anything is wrong Robey says that nothing is wrong and that he has to stop off and get something.
Sometime later Robey arrives with a Anya Raine who he kidnapped to lure her mother,Odette and former DCI John Luther to his lair,Robey and Arkady change some of Anya clothes and put it on a body hanging from the ceiling who closely resembles Anya to trick Odette into thinking it’s her daughter.
Later on Luther and Odette arrive,Luther is captured by Robey,Arkady find Odette in the room with the bodies and successfully captures her and takes her to the torture room.
Sometime later Arkady brings Odette into the torture room,Where Robey had been torturing Luther.Odette sees her daughter who is in a smaller room with a large window and attempts to get her out but can’t.Robey sends Arkady into the small room,He instantly begins to strangle Anya with some sort of plastic bag,Odette eventually asks Robey to stop,He then gets Arkady to do so.
Robey then asks Odette to stab Luther but she refuses leading Arkady to start strangling Anya again but stops when Robey signals him to do so. Odette eventually is able to stab Luther with encouragement from him.Arkady emerges from the smaller room and unchains Luther from the chair and throws him on the floor,He then chains Odette to the chain.
Robey then asks Luther to shatter one of Odette’s knees with a hammer,Luther refuses Anya is suffocated again.Luther then makes a speech leading to the audience leaving and he insults Robey.Robey gets annoyed and sends Nilsson another henchman to fight Luther but Luther kills him with a hammer,Robey escapes and locks the door behind him but Luther frees Odette and is able to give chase.
Odette then frees Anya and tries to leave however Arkady having attempted to leave himself and failed,Standing in front of them with an ice axe in hand prepares to attack them.Suddenly the room begins pouring with fuel, Odette picks up a baseball bat and starts to fights Arkady but he blocks the valve and says he’d rather burn.The two of them fight meanwhile Anya attempts to shut off the valve for the fuel.Arkady attempts to strangle Odette but stops when he sees Anya trying the valve,Odette then tackles him.
The two then fight on the floor eventually Odette gains the upper hand and knocks Arkady down,This allows her and Anya to both turn the valve.Arkady then gets up,Odette and Anya get a hose ready to put out the flames. The fire then ignites and engulfs most of the room,Arkady attempts to attack Odette and Anya but Odette pushes him into the flames burning him alive,Killing him.
Abilities[]
Arkady is shown to be good with technology having been able to set up the red bunker.Also he is shown to be good at fighting when battling Odette but fails to kill her ultimately leading to his death.
Relationships[]
David Robey:[]
Arkady and his boss are shown to have a good relationship and respect for each other,Even with Robey wishing Arkady to be with him for his launch party.At the end Robey is shown to abandon him and leave him to die.
Odette Raine:[]
Arkady and Odette had never met before prior to their fight but the two are shown to fight viciously.The two are shown to hate each other.
Personally[]
Arkady is shown to be nothing more than a thug and is loyal to Robey.He is shown to to anything his boss says,He has no issue with attacking Odette and Anya or with Luther being tortured but becomes visibly annoyed when the audience begins to leaves while watching the red bunker, due to Luther’s speech.