The Slow Horses series does not demand great emotional involvement or present us with challenging plots, but it makes up for all of this with a well-tuned cast and intelligent, fun content. Which includes surprising us with some casualties of violent disputes. Each season, we have casualties of characters we know little or nothing about, but who fall victim to the literal and political crossfire of MI5. The main clash of the third season pitted two queens vying for the crown – Ingrid Tearney (Sophie Okonedo) and Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) – forcing Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) to align himself with his detestable Lady Di to save his team. Well, just when we thought we had seen it all!

The ruthless, cold, and dangerous Tearney sentenced to death all agents who accidentally or on purpose could reveal MI5 secrets that would put her in a delicate situation. It is surprising to realize that this is a line that Lady Di apparently does not consider crossing, but it may have been circumstantial. Unfortunately, some innocents are sacrificed along the way and once again the scoundrels of Slough House prove to be useful, intelligent, and agile, reversing an impossible scenario into survival and victory.

Sean Donovan (Sope Dirisu), who lost his girlfriend, managed to convince Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves), Louisa (Rosalind Eleazar), and River (Jack Lowden) who was only looking to prove that MI5 killed someone he loved for leaking confidential information. Lamb, as Standish fished, made it clear that he has a sentimental connection with her (not at all romantic) and that he hides behind the mask of cynicism. And finally, he practically confesses his involvement in the death of the traitorous former director general of MI5, Charles Partner (James Faulkner). For those who forgot, Standish doesn’t know Lamb’s secret (revealed in the first season): he killed Partner on David Cartwright’s orders and made it look like a suicide. In fact, seeing Lamb in action again is scary because he is still fast, lethal, and practical.

The main twist of the episode, which leads into the next season, involves River’s personal dilemma with her grandfather and mentor, David (Jonathan Pryce). With every day more advanced stage of dementia, David is more in line with Tearney than Diana, much to her grandson’s disappointment. Upon reading documents that would destroy the reputation of MI5’s security services, he chooses to burn the papers, claiming it is the right thing to do to protect River. The agent’s calmness in confirming his grandfather’s cruel profile is no surprise, idealistic, he has a copy of the file in his car and uses it to take down Tearney. The disappointment, however, is clear.

In an interview, actor Jack Lowden explained that River did not expect her grandfather to be the person to decide to cover up the crime, but had a copy just in case and experience. This discovery of who David Cartwright was as an agent, not as ‘idealistic’ as Jackson Lamb, will bring changes to the character in the next stage of the series. This even means “admiring” the irritating and disgusting boss of Slough House, realizing the reason why Lamb wants distance from the top of MI5. But, as he also points out, River’s problem is that he still sees himself as better than the rest.

Season 4 features Hugo Weaving in the cast ( from the trailer he will be the antagonist, Frank Harkness, and has a connection with the Cartwrights) and dealing with the immediate consequences of River’s leak of the Footprint document, which causes an international incident.

Although the recordings are already completed and the teaser shows a lot of drama (who will die?), we don’t have a release date yet. The hope is that it will be at some point in the first semester!

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