Slow Horses episode 5, "Circus", is aptly named as the penultimate episode of season 5 continues to dazzle, surprise, and amuse like no other series on TV right now. We pick up only a few hours after far-right mayoral candidate Dennis Gimball (Christopher Villiers) was slain by the oldest murder weapon in MI5's great book of "Ways to Kill Your Enemy": a paint can dropped from a great height. While there is no such book, there is a manual which is likely titled something like "How to Destabilize a Country".

It's a favorite manual of MI5, as Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) explains to a disbelieving Whelan (James Callis) and a properly alarmed Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), and it appears that the Libyan terrorists whom we've been following all season are giving the English a taste of the

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