Not even when arrested and handcuffed can River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) escape trouble. In the penultimate episode of an ultra-intense and complex season, he ends up being taken prisoner and taken hostage in the trunk of a stolen car.

The agent’s last 48 hours have led him to fake his own death, go to the French countryside with a false identity, flee from men who preferred him dead, after escaping a burning house and a man beating him just to get to London, being chased and arrested by MI5 and being taken by terrorists. If he’s lost, we’re together.

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With Frank Harkness (Hugo Weaving) showing up, we know a little more about this bizarre terrorist. First, he takes our heroine, Molly Doran, the keeper of records at MI5 headquarters, hostage in her own home. Molly is unable to stop him from breaking in and has to give in to the very real threats he makes against her life.

Then we begin to learn more about him: a former CIA agent who managed to trick her online using the name of Mitch Philpott, an MI5 agent she didn’t know was dead. That’s how Frank tricked her and got the private addresses of David Cartwright (Jonathan Pryce) and Sam Chapman. Now he wants her to use her fingerprint and security codes to break into MI5’s surveillance system, as he needs to track the car that is taking River to Central, driven by Emma Flyte. Under threat of violence, she gives in. Frank finds what he wants and leaves five letters for important people, including Claude Wheelan.

We also know, from David Cartwright telling Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and Standish (Saskia Reeves) that in the past he sent his former bodyguard, Sam Chapman, to drive to the Les Arbes mansion near Lavande in France, so that he could rescue someone from there: his daughter.

She got involved with Frank Harkness, who was fired from the CIA for various charges, including embezzlement, torture, theft, and disobedience. He planned to create a squad of assassins all by himself, with his own children, training them as ruthless killers from a very young age. To this end, he brought one woman after another to his mansion and after he got them pregnant and they had children, he would kick them out and keep the children.

River’s mother was one of these women, so not only is Frank her father, but all the young terrorists (alive and dead) are her half-siblings. To add to the drama, David explains that she was actually in love with the villain and that is why as the director of MI5 he was ready to do anything to save her. Frank took advantage of his desperation and exchanged his girlfriend for several MI5 bodies, money, and weapons. The tragic thing is that David Cartwright’s daughter never forgave him and even after returning to England, she did not stay with her parents, abandoning her son to be raised by his grandparents.

With this confession and Chapman’s lack of contact, Lamb realizes that Harkness wants revenge against the Cartwrights and asks Standish to stay with David at Slough House while he tries to find the former security guard (who we know is dead).

To increase the general tension, now the current head of MI5, Claude Whelan (James Callis) agrees with Diana Tavener (Kristin Scott-Thomas) that it is better to find a scapegoat and cover up the fact that Frank Harkness leads a terrorist squad using MI5 bodies to hide their real identities. This means that River and David are at risk no matter which side.

That is why River desperately tries to convince Emma Flyte (Ruth Bradley) to help him. He realizes once again that Flyte ignores Diana and passes information directly to Wheelan, but as he makes progress the convoy is attacked and he is forcibly taken away.

The season finale will feature River’s confrontation with his biological father, and the Slough House team has already begun tracking down the terrorist who took their colleague, so River must be rescued. But how will he deal with the truth?

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