# Slow Horses (careful about spoilers, please) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 7, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207 "2023-12-07T00:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/81 "2025-10-23T11:59:39Z")
In the fourth episode, Shirley and Catherine prevent Jaffrey’s assassination but no one seems to acknowledge this, almost as if they were not believed. But if anyone had investigated after, they would have found the sniper rifle in that room overlooking the stage, along with that window removed. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/82 "2025-10-23T12:20:01Z")
Well to be fair this is all squeezed within a few hours of that. Yes teleportation has to be involved but that is standard. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/83 "2025-10-23T13:15:04Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > In the fourth episode, Shirley and Catherine prevent Jaffrey’s assassination but no one seems to acknowledge this, almost as if they were not believed. Lamb openly said that he didn’t believe them until he started talking to River and the hoodie turtle. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/84 "2025-10-23T13:26:12Z")
Thanks. FYI, the guy in the hoodie is Coe. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/85 "2025-10-23T17:59:12Z")
He’ll always be DeBlanc or Fiore to me. And it’s interesting that River’s grandfather remembered something that even Lamb didn’t - they do the honeytrap again. He probably wrote the destabilization strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/86 "2025-10-23T22:09:43Z")
Perhaps they already did the honeytrap again? That might be the prostitute Claude Whelan gave money to. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/87 "2025-10-23T22:11:26Z")
I thought it was when she tricked them into running her malicious code. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/88 "2025-10-23T22:17:09Z")
I think that was the “blind the enemy” step. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/89 "2025-10-23T22:50:52Z")
That was my read too. She honey trapped again to accomplish the blinding. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/90 "2025-10-23T23:13:17Z")
One more episode to go, so in a week, we should see the resolution. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/91 "2025-10-23T23:30:33Z")
There is a new Slow Horses book out, Sept 4 2025 “Clown Town” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/92 "2025-10-23T23:47:12Z")
Exactly. She ran the code on Ho’s laptop the first time to get Whelan’s file, so she could figure out what character to play to get his sympathy - we saw from the earlier prostitute scenes that he’s into “rescuing” young women. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/93 "2025-10-24T03:02:22Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > If Lamb is MI5, what was he doing in Berlin back in the day? That’s why he’s at Slough House. He showed up for work in the wrong city. Wrong country, even. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/94 "2025-10-24T05:08:15Z")
Lamb was never in Berlin. The whole story was bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/95 "2025-10-24T06:25:40Z")
The story may be bullshit, but it’s been alluded to that he was in Berlin on business at some point in the past. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/96 "2025-10-24T09:33:34Z")
It was a large part of season one with Standish’s former boss etc. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/97 "2025-10-24T09:41:03Z")
That’s part of being assigned to the purgatory that is Slough House. Even if you do something right, it doesn’t matter, because you are never, ever going back to The Park. Giving credit would be antithetical to this policy. Lamb doesn’t want to pat anyone on the back, either. It might encourage them. In episode five, I got a little tee-hee from the Batman joke to Commisioner Gordon. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/98 "2025-10-24T09:41:43Z")
And Season 2 with the Russians ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/99 "2025-10-24T11:09:08Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > In episode five, I got a little tee-hee from the Batman joke to Commisioner Gordon. Damn, I didn’t even notice that. Gary Oldman is such a chameleon. I’m sure I can’t be the first to say this, but Lamb kind of is the logical end for James Bond’s career - a disillusioned alcoholic who’s been put into semi-retirement but is still better at his job than anyone else in the agency. His Berlin story this season is practically from a Bond movie. And aside, am I the only one annoyed by the need to spoiler everything until the season is done? It’s an episodic show released weekly. Maybe the people who wait until the season is over and then binge could, I don’t know, avoid reading the thread until they do? I’m sure they’re not clicking on “Slow Horses Episode 5 Huge Twist!” articles that pop up in their feed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207/100 "2025-10-29T11:57:50Z")
I think Coe and Vigilante would get along great. Stab! Stab! Stabstabstab! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-horses-careful-about-spoilers-please/994207.md?page=6)