Slow Horses is a spy thriller television series based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Mick Herron. The first two episodes of the series premiered on Apple TV+ on April 1, 2022.After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 agent River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as slow horses, Cartwright and his fellow employees must endure dull, paper pushing tasks and their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom and frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery until the slow horses become entangled in a dangerous gambit by Regent’s Park.Slow Horses Season 1 Download
After making a serious mistake during a live training exercise at Stansted Airport, MI5 agent River Cartwright is demoted to dead end work at Slough House in lieu of being fired. He is assigned by his superior Jackson Lamb to carry out surveillance on Robert Hobden, a journalist associated with far-right politicians Peter Judd MP and Roger Simmonds. His colleague Sidonie ‘Sid’ Baker has also been assigned to Hobden, discreetly copying the contents of his USB flash drive in a cafe. River is then instructed to deliver it to the services Regents Park Headquarters, much to his surprise.Hobden makes a series of calls to journalist colleagues alleging he has information an “attack is imminent”. Cartwright visits his grandfather, who reveals Hobden was blacklisted when his name appeared on a leaked donor list of the British Patriotic Party, and always blamed MI5 for it.
He warns Cartwright that if MI5 are using Slough House to look into Hobden, it is because there is risk and they want plausible deniability. Standish attends an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. British-Pakistani student Hassan Ahmed is kidnapped by a far right group Sons of Albion, who announce they will behead him on livestream at sunrise the following day. River breaks rank and leaves Slough House to further investigate.