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Slow Horses Recap: Tourist Season
River goes rushing into a situation utterly unprepared and without a plan, as he’s wont to do.
He wouldn’t even be at Slough House if he hadn’t been sabotaged during a field test, and his résumé is boosted further by his grandfather David, whose time as a senior intelligence officer paved the nepotistic path that River was supposed to follow. In the opening scenes to another terrific episode — nitpicks about investigative strategy aside, the show is hitting on all cylinders so far — we get clarification on what actually happened at David’s house and which River lookalike was shot in the face in his bathroom. When the actual River turns up to assess the situation, he’s pleased to find a bundle of clues to the intruder’s identity and previous whereabouts, including a passport and the receipt to a café in Lavande, France.
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