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Warning: contains spoilers forSlow Horses4.1 Identity Theft
Of course it wasnt him.
The episode being called Identity Theft was probably our first clue.
A third indication was that surelyLambwould have been atinybit more upset, no?
After all, Rivers one of his Joes.
(A Jackson Lamb kidney.
The smell alone would knock you sideways.
The cheekiness continued when First Desk was called for and Taverner pulled up to the bombsite.
Theyve hired aTim-Nice-But-Dim(Claude-Nice-But-Flawed?)
key in to replace Tearney instead.
The niceness of James Callis character is still tbc in fact, but his dimness is incontestable.
What foot, we wonder, did she put wrong to go from Regents Park to Slough House?
And the same question to series fours other new recruit JK Chatty Coe (Tom Brooke).
Not that Standish is gonegone.
Still, any Jackson Lamb is better than no Jackson Lamb.
This spook, this show, and this series, excel in the everyday.
Slow Horsesseason 4 episode 2 streams on Apple TV+ on Wednesday September 11.
