Slow Horses
Spoilers are ahead for Slow Horses season 4, episode 1, “Identity Theft.
One night, an apparent terrorist drives a car bomb into a crowded shopping center.
Elsewhere, a paranoid David, who was a Cold War-era operative, thinks he’s being followed.
When someone who gives the impression of River turns up,David shoots and kills the intruder before vanishing.
The scene a blood-spattered bathroom is incredibly gruesome.
Lamb even makes a poor-taste joke about not being able to really identify a faceless man.
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When he takes a look at the victim’s body, Lamb has a subtle yet strange reaction.
However, Lamb’s intuition leads him to Standish’s house.
When her former colleague arrives, Standish is scanning newspaper articles about the car bombing.
Slow Horses is an adaptation of CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s first novel in the “Slow Horses” series, which follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House. Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes.
Despite everything, she can’t quite leave her MI5 life behind.
Eventually, Standish admits that David is lying low in her house.
Despite being Slough House’s office administrator,Standish was always capable in the field.
In some ways,Standish’s season 4 role will be defined by what sheisn’tdoing.
Standish’s absence from Slough House is yet another blow to the already-shaky team inSlow Horsesseason 4.
New episodes ofSlow Horsesseason 4 drop on Apple TV+ on Wednesdays through October 9, 2024.
