DCI Odette Raine is the main character of the 2023 crime thriller Luther: The Fallen Sun.
At first, she is hostile to Luther and attempts to arrest him but reluctantly teams up with him to take down serial killer David Robey.
Biography[]
Whilst at home DCI Odette Raine receives a phone call informing her about a fire in a mansion. She arrives at the mansion with DS Archie Woodward and the both of them discuss what has happened several bodies have been recovered, and they are all people that have gone missing including Callum Aldrich. Back at the police station, Raine briefs her team explaining if they find the link between the victims they will find the killer.
Sometime later Raine gets a phone call from former DCI John Luther who is currently in prison informing her that the killer sent him a recording of himself murdering and torturing Callum via a radio frequency. Raine tells Luther that it isn’t his investigation any more and that if he phones her again she’ll have him put in confinement, Raine then informs the prison about Luther's phone which they confiscated.
A few hours later she brings in retired DSU Martin Schenk as a consultant. Thinking that he’ll know about Luther and how to arrest him.Some time later Raine whilst at the police station can track Luther down when he interrogates Derek Standish however the unit they send fails to arrest him.
Luther can trace Robey to Piccadilly Circus, where Luther informs Raine and her team she then deploys an armed police unit. Raine and the unit attempt to arrest Luther and the killer, but Robey having blackmailed several people allows them to cause a distraction by killing themselves jumping from buildings and crashing cars, This distracts Raine and her team who fail to capture either of them. Both Luther and Robey successfully escape from the Raine and the armed police unit.
Following the Piccadilly Circus incident, Raine returns to the police station, and whilst there Schenk receives a call from Luther. Luther says to put Raine on, who comes on the phone and says that the armed police officer died from his injuries she insults Luther, and Schenk then snatches the phone. Woodward can get Luther's location but Luther escapes before the police arrive.
Shortly after Raine phones her daughter, Anya annoyed that she had been in bed and she would get “salty” if the kitchen was left in a mess which it was.
Raine gets information on the killer from Callum’s mother, who met him via a support group she searches on her computer and finds the killer’s name, David Robey. She then gets a phone call from her daughter, Robey, She hears Anya screaming instantly realising that Robey has her daughter, she then threatens him and stating if he did anything to her she would kill him, Robey just laughs this off Robey sends a picture to Raine of her daughter in his jeep who his unconscious, he also asks Raine to deal with Luther so she can get her daughter back, Robey says he is having fun with Anya. Raine agrees to deal with Luther.
DS Woodward convinces Raine that the killer meeting some of his victim's families via a support group is a dead end, after Raine talks to Robey she agrees then she says to Schenk that he is no longer needed.
Raine talks to Luther and asks him to surrender but says he wants to meet. Raine and Luther meet in a bar, where they both agree to help each other. They head to Raine’s car and Raine reveals that Robey has her daughter, she blames Luther for her kidnapping but Luther says he would have done it anyway. Luther refuses to get in the car boot but Raine forces him at gunpoint, a few minutes later Raine gets him out and they wonder what to do next.
The both of them then visit Robey’s wife, she says she wants to be left alone but Raine convinces her to tell them Robey’s location. She whispers to Raine where his location is. Raine briefly goes home to pack her stuff.
Raine and Luther then head to Dover and board a ferry to Norway, they travel to Robey’s location via Luther’s car whilst on their way there they stop due to the road being blocked with snow, and they head to Robey’s lair foot.
The two of them stumble across a frozen lake where Robey stores his victim's bodies, they enter Robey’s mansion which looks abandoned they hear a recording of Anya screaming and come across a room with bodies in it, one of which they believe is Anya, Luther turns off the recording. Raine blames Luther stating it should be him. She tells Luther to leave which he does and he explores the mansion. Eventually, Raine notices that the body has a tattoo which she did not, she then realises it’s not her daughter however she is captured by Robey’s henchman, Arkady meanwhile Luther is captured by Robey.
Sometime later Raine is brought into Robey’s torture chamber by Arkady, Robey has already got Luther chained up and is broadcasting to his audience. Raine sees her daughter in another room but she is restrained by another henchman before she can do anything, Robey has Arkady put a bag on Anya's head suffocating her but Raine with help from Robey gets him to stop. Robey then gets Raine to stab Luther however she refuses but reluctantly accepts when her daughter is tortured, She stabs him and Luther is thrown on the floor and Raine is tied up.
Robey then asks Luther to get a hammer and shatter one of Raine’s kneecaps, he refuses but Raine asks him to do it. Luther then begins to talk to Robey’s audience and tells them the police know who they are, Instantly all of them begin to switch off. Robey attempts to reassure them but fails. Luther then tells Robey that his wife and the police know where they are.
Luther begins to insult Robey and remembers their previous encounter, suddenly Nilsson. Robey's henchman attempts to attack Luther but Raine kicks him and Luther beats him with a hammer, killing him. Robey escapes and uses his phone to control the door but Raine urges Luther to after him, Luther can get through the door before it closes.
With Luther gone Raine goes to her daughter meanwhile Arkady attempts to leave but fails and this causes fuel to sprinkle from the ceiling, which causes the run to slowly fill with fuel. Arkady then starts attacking Raine and her daughter with an ice axe, Raine defends herself with a baseball bat.
Raine engages with Arkady meanwhile Anya tries to turn off the fuel but struggles eventually Raine defeats Arkady by knocking him to the floor but the timer runs out and ignites the fuel causing the room to burn Arkady for a final time try to attack Raine but falls into the fire burning him to death. Both mother and daughter use a hose to try and put the flame out, but fails due to the fire being out of control.
Luther can catch Robey and get the controls, using them to open the door and stop more fuel from spraying into the room. Raine and her daughter are able to get out of the room safely. Sometime later the authorities arrive and Raine’s daughter gets medical help but Raine approaches Luther and reluctantly arrests him however he is recruited to MI5. Following the events Raine presumably continues her career as a DCI.
Abilities[]
Raine is shown to be fairly good at fighting whilst battling Arkady and to be a good mother.
Relationships[]
Anya Raine[]
Anya and her mum are shown to have a good relationship but when Robey kidnaps Anya Odette instantly threatens him and she becomes increasingly angry with Luther blaming him. During the torture scene, they are drawn closer and can work together.
John Luther[]
At first, she is hostile to Luther due to Robey’s exposure to him but eventually trusts him to take down the serial killer. In the end, they seem to be good allies and almost friends.
Personally[]
She is shown to be a good leader however in pressuring situations she is shown to make mistakes for example during the Piccadilly Circus incident she focuses on Luther who isn’t a threat rather than Robey who is, Ultimately leads to an armed police officer’s death. Also during the torture scene rather than using the knife to stab Robey or his henchmen she just simply hands the knife to Robey.