Episode 6 of Slow Horses season 2 starts this finale with big scores to settle, which makes sense given the title of this chapter. Lamb rings Nikolai at his own office, knowing he's been looking around Slough House. With the façade shattered, knowing that Nikolai wants to kill him, Jackson Lamb learns the extent of this man's diabolical plan. Jackson Lamb calls Nikolai's bluff and brings up Catherine and how she's working with him now. To avoid any unpleasantness, Jackson Lamb suggests they meet. Before that, Jackson phones Catherine for an update on Glasshouse.
It's chaos outside and both Louisa and Marcus are still in the building, held up at gunpoint by Pashkin and his cronies. Of course, all of this is made that much more tense by the inclusion of Alex, who's en-route in that plane loaded with the bomb. Inside Glasshouse, Webb is bleeding but he's passed out in the corner. It seems he's going to be okay... much better than Pashkin's goon, who's interrogated (see: tortured) by Louisa, who opens up his wound and gets some answers. It turns out Glasshouse has been shut down because Pashkin intends to upload a virus onto Nevsky's computers. They managed to get his password through some less-than-favourable terms and a quick death was his "reward." As a result, Louisa removes the tourniquet and leaves him to bleed out. So the finale for Slow Horses sees everything bow out with a decent conclusion, wrapping up all the big plot points whilst simultaneously showing how everything is slot together. While the ending is a bit anticlimactic, especially given we never see a reunion between Duncan and Alex following the sleeper agent situation, it's a minor point in what's otherwise been a good watch.
The show is certainly not without its flaws but the humour has been much sharper and the in-jokes with Lamb eating in almost all of his scenes is definitely noticeable.
Gary Oldman really stands out and shines in this role and he's on fire right the way through this chapter. His stand-off with Nikolai was certainly tense and in the end Nikolai ends up taking his own life to avoid doing time behind bars.
It's chaos outside and both Louisa and Marcus are still in the building, held up at gunpoint by Pashkin and his cronies. Of course, all of this is made that much more tense by the inclusion of Alex, who's en-route in that plane loaded with the bomb. Inside Glasshouse, Webb is bleeding but he's passed out in the corner. It seems he's going to be okay... much better than Pashkin's goon, who's interrogated (see: tortured) by Louisa, who opens up his wound and gets some answers. It turns out Glasshouse has been shut down because Pashkin intends to upload a virus onto Nevsky's computers. They managed to get his password through some less-than-favourable terms and a quick death was his "reward." As a result, Louisa removes the tourniquet and leaves him to bleed out. So the finale for Slow Horses sees everything bow out with a decent conclusion, wrapping up all the big plot points whilst simultaneously showing how everything is slot together. While the ending is a bit anticlimactic, especially given we never see a reunion between Duncan and Alex following the sleeper agent situation, it's a minor point in what's otherwise been a good watch.
The show is certainly not without its flaws but the humour has been much sharper and the in-jokes with Lamb eating in almost all of his scenes is definitely noticeable.
Gary Oldman really stands out and shines in this role and he's on fire right the way through this chapter. His stand-off with Nikolai was certainly tense and in the end Nikolai ends up taking his own life to avoid doing time behind bars.
