[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Slow Horses Season 5 Episode 3 “Tall Tales.”]
With Slough House in lockdown, Jackson Lamb ( Gary Oldman ) shockingly opens up about a heartbreaking moment from his past … or lies about the whole thing to send a message to his team so they can stage their escape in the Wednesday, October 8, episode of Slow Horses.
Lamb tells the story of someone who was tortured, the skin on the soles of his feet burned off, then had to watch the woman he’d been involved with — as close to love as he could get — be put through the same agony and killed, all for a name he couldn’t give them because he didn’t know it. Worse: She was pregnant. The team then uses details from that story to escape from their MI5 guards. After, Standish ( Saskia Reeves ) ask