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Slow Horses Recap: Moving Target
The mad scramble to secure David Cartwright turns this episode into a tense action-thriller.
So it’s extremely funny to see poor Harkness reduced from a Lee Van Cleef type to Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross, desperate to sell a disappointed client on a renegotiated contract. “I will fulfill the contract at a discount,” Harkness assures his client, who is big and important enough to be called “Your Highness.” (The on-site butchering squad evokes the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018, but that connection may be inadvertent.) After the egregious ineptitude on display in the past couple episodes, the show doesn’t find much time for comic screwups in “Returns,” which probably speaks to the urgency of needing to wrap up this intrigue in short order.
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