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Slow Horses Incompetence Index: The Dogs Have Their Day


River making it this far without getting captured might be this season’s most shocking twist so far.

Jackson(he couldn’t save Sam but he did keep everyone alive long enough to start unraveling the plot); Giti Rahman(good for her); the prince who hired Frank Harkness(surely nothing will go wrong after threatening to dismember a man who fathers many assassins then choosing to let him go); various hotel employees(spy business aside, one would hope a hotel concierge could keep an eye on a lost grandpa better than that); Moira the Office Manager(kind of cute that she thinks she’s getting her old job back); David Cartwright(I know he looks complicit in this but I still want someone to give him a bowl of soup); Coe(gonna need someone to figure out this man’s deal soon); the lady who was traded for the car stuffed with contraband(I suspect we’ll hear from her again before this is all done). It is very funny to me that the building is under surveillance by MI5, and River is cut off from the team and running for his life in France, and Roddy is still dedicating one of his screens to a CCTV loop of Marcus getting heaved through a window during the chase from last week’s episode. Look, if you get murdered by an assassin who was just hit by a car and you gave him an advantage by stopping in your hideaway to slug some whiskey and the whole thing is related to a deal with shady mercenaries that went sideways many years ago that involved you losing the female asset you traded in exchange for Terrorism for Dummies, I mean …

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