Rivers in trouble: another ordinary day at Slough House.
Warning: contains spoilers for SLOW HORSES 4.2 A StrangeR Comes to Town.
River Cartwright is out of the fire and into the frying pan.
Ami, or foe?
Might the kidnapper be a contact of Lambs?
The bigger question we were left with by episode two: is Lamb the would-be assassins second target?
Over the phone, they described their next mark as being anuzzer old man (GaryOld Man?
Ed) who may have forgotten why he has to die.
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If Lamb is next on the killers wipeout list, then, splendid.
During Lambs eventful but patchily memorialised time in the field, whom did he unwittingly piss off?
What inadvertent f**k-up landed her at Slough House, dusting Lambs mantlepiece?
Or is she just there as a plant for Claude what glass ceiling?
This episode, Mr Transparency showed his hand and it was… empty.
The mans practically an import from screenwriter Will Smiths old showThe Thick of It.
Whelans a blank space, like one of those fake books hollowed out to hide your valuables in.
Whomever Robert Winters is working with will have presumably chosen that ID advisedly to send someone a message.
Still, it beats shredding Giti Rahman, which I feared was Taverners original plan.
Lamb learned that the hard way in Berlin.
Finally: some words of praise for Jonathan Pryce and Jack Lowden.
Well, now I think I know how that intruder felt.
Slow Horsesseason 4 continues on Wednesday September 11 onApple TV+.
