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Slow Horses Season-Premiere Recap: Identifying Marks


Not even the supposed death of one of his agents can keep Lamb from being his usual caustic self.

The familiar yet still oh-so-satisfying Slow Horses formula dictates that Jackson Lamb, the greasy old fartsmith who runs Slough House, treats his underlings with an outward callousness that masks a kinship with them that he’s never allowed anyone to see. And so while we’re reeling — or perhaps not, given the likelihood that the show didn’t kick off the fourth season by killing a major character — Lamb arrives on the scene as his usual dyspeptic self, as if he isn’t about to walk in on the gruesome spectacle of David Cartwright having blown his grandson to bits with a shotgun. A car bomb has detonated inside the Westacres shopping center, allegedly driven by a 28-year-old freelance IT consultant named Robert Winters, who doesn’t profile as a suicide attacker but who left behind a video that has the requisite “lone wolf” terrorist language in it.

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