‘Slow Horses’ Season 6, Episode 3: A Petri Dish of Intrigue

19:27Joanna Robinson:And I just love that moment where it's just like there's no reason for Jane to circle Jim the way she does. She just like gives him just like one little feline circle around as she's they're like prowling around. They really are. I love it. They're here to prowl. They're here to power walk around the countryside. and I guess they're also here to run through slow horses and they're running through them. What did Jim do in the kitchen? That's my question. So it looked to me like he was taking out the implements to stage yet another one of these plausibly accidental deaths. And it was like, so it was like a sore throat medication, sore throat spray, some kind of like pipe application.

20:08I wasn't quite sure what that instrument was. If you do know, proceed to be at Spotify.com or rstimethepopeatgmail.com. And then gloves, I just assumed for them.

20:17Joanna Robinson:To hide their fingerprints. Yeah, exactly. Did you have any other theories on what that stuff was? No, but I just thought it was like weird the way you looked at the crowbar. I thought the crowbar was the reveal of like, oh, someone has been here. Oh, okay. Well, I thought that was the kettle test. She touches the kettle and it's hot. So they know that they were just there. This is the problem with the kettle. And maybe this is why we don't drink tea. It's just, it's too much of a tell. When you need to run. It always gives you away, the kettle. I see, I was waiting. I was waiting for it to really pop off.

20:44because I feel like that's usually the move in these types of stories. It's like you need that auditory response so you get the jump scare of the kettle and the reveal of the kettle. But instead, she's just checking it in.

20:53Joanna Robinson:The heat test. They outed themselves, you know, via chamomile. I don't think they're drinking chamomile. At night? No. No? What are they drinking? That's a great point. That's a great point. But I don't think they have any plans to go to sleep. I mean, also very fair. I feel like they're drinking like builder's tea. I don't know what that is. I'm going to be honest with you. What is builder's tea? Is it like a standard black tea? sort of thing, I think. A nice Earl Grey, but you wouldn't drink it at nighttime. Okay. I mean, yeah, they do have a long night ahead of them. Did you feel at all seen?

21:23You and I have gone back and forth on various food safety issues lately. Did you feel seen at all by the like, is this milk still good? Should be. And if so, do you feel more seen by River or by Sid? How do you identify in this kind of great expired milk or cream debate?

21:40Joanna Robinson:I'm Sid. like you're by the date on the box well she's kind of smell testing she's doing a smell test and River's not even bothering he's just like should be should be fine what if he just bought it like absolutely not okay but also I don't keep I only drink oat milk so I don't keep dairy free not a problem for you yeah yeah yeah but like definitely a fear I mean you should do the smell test yeah that's a safe assumption the episode opens with just the sound of tea being made over a black screen which I just think is the most English way you can possibly open an episode. And yeah, we get the smell test on the milk.

22:16Joanna Robinson:We get this back and forth in the kitchen. But mostly we get Jack Loudon as a Rick Cartwright just looking at Sid, who he has thought was dead for three years. And this could have been like a tremendously emotional scene, but guess what? This is slow horses. And so instead they have this conversation where she's like, are you making my trauma about you? And he was like, it was really, really, really, really hard for you, obviously. How did this play for you? Wonderfully. I think it was such a great way to reintroduce these characters to each other and their dynamic to us. You know, the kind of like to be continued at the end of last week is a nice way to tease it.

22:53But I just found myself like feeling like, God, I missed this. Like I missed this dynamic. And some of it is the nature of the slow horses and who is in Slough House has been changing a lot over the last couple of series. And from the moment that Louisa leaves, River doesn't have this kind of like counterpart in quite the way that he's been looking for.

23:12Joanna Robinson:No, he should have made friends with Shirley. I really would. They kind of tried last season and she's just like, you suck. They didn't try that hard. No, I'm saying like, River was kind of like, hey, I'm with Shirley. And Shirley's like, you suck, man. I wish they would have more time together because yeah, like, Roddy is such a different energy. Lamb does or doesn't have the time of day for anyone at any given point. Catherine Standish is not this sort of like repartee counterpart. And so getting Sid back in here, I think gets to not just because she's in series one, but like some of the roots of the dialogue and the banter of the show that is so charming and is such a key part of like the Slow Horse's DNA.

23:48Joanna Robinson:It's interesting because I think that, and we talked about this last week, they still haven't, I don't believe they've made this explicit, but we talked last week about the possibility that if they couldn't have convinced Olivia Cooke to come back to Slow Horses, that they had set it up to be able to do this plot line with someone else. And we were like, it seems like Louisa is a good example of that. And so in order to, you know, if they were laying track from that from several series ago, in order to do that, they would need to create a sort of like romantic tension-y, you know, because that's what Sid and River have.

24:21Joanna Robinson:It's like, will they, won't they sort of energy, right? Like, Anne's like, look at you, a couple. Like, you're so cute, you know? And so I think they sort of made that Louisa River dynamic a bit more after the death of the great man Harper. Like a little bit more of a, they're awfully close. They're close, but also like in a river also misreading some signs kind of way. Usually. Yeah. That's his thing. And frankly, maybe this was Sid too. Again, this is what's so hard to read about Sid and what's so fun about her as a character. It's like how much of that flirtation is Sid and how much of it is the job she was doing.

24:56Joanna Robinson:Tough. Tough to contemplate. And what I will say, and maybe she's still doing the job, you know, maybe she's still on the case. But, like, inside of this episode, you know, when she's like, whose funeral was it? He's like, it doesn't matter. She's like, it does. You know, it's like they're trekking their way through cow shit actively. And she's like, open up to me, man. Tell me what's going on, you know. What I thought was interesting is I felt like she had a very, a much more low-key reaction to finding out everyone thought she was dead for three years than I would expect. I think that's a good reason to sort of suspect that there's something else going on with her.

25:29Because if it were me, I'd be like, what do you mean you thought I was dead for three years? I thought you just didn't text me for three years.

25:35Joanna Robinson:You just ghosted me? You thought I was dead? Interesting.

25:42Joanna Robinson:What did you make of this sneaking through the cow situation? It was delightful. Okay. I mean, I would say it worked on the Cyclops. You know, the sneaking among livestock. Jane is not going to be so easily fooled. No. She's like, is that cow? She's got two eyes. She's got two eyes. That helps. Yeah. But also like, is that cow wearing Oxfords? It seems so. Therefore, maybe not a cow. RIP that cow, man. Yet another random animal death in one of these cold opens of this show. Oh my God. Are we tracking this? I mean, I think we have to at this point. There are a lot of casualties out there. Why are you dressed like a Mormon?

26:18Joanna Robinson:Pretty good. Pretty good line for this episode. Okay. Okay, so if I'm buying the premise of this season, they've stayed multiple times. This is the same day. Catherine's like, I was out of funeral. I don't normally dress like this, right? Same day. He's in his grandfather's suit. Same day. What time is Louisa's meeting, business meeting? You know, it's a great point. It's quite dark. That's a night meeting. It's a night meeting. Okay. R &D is very excited about predictive AI at Louisa's job. I mean, maybe it is. Maybe it's in response to some kind of crisis. You know, they're talking a lot about like compliance, about a data leak.

26:58Maybe like they have called everyone back in. But I really like you're right. This is where it's probably straining the timeline of the show just a little bit.

27:06Joanna Robinson:Like Moira had already made her what like it could have plausibly made that sad soup dinner. Yes. So she's off of work. Off of work, at home, in her sweats. Dying slowly. Dying slowly. and Louisa's in a meeting. I gotta say, she doesn't seem like she wants to be in that meeting. Seems like she's ready to drift off into another plane of existence until she sees Shirley and Catherine. And then she's like, I'm all about R &D's predictive AI thoughts. Okay, Louisa, and we saw this in the trailers, looks great. And Shirley says so. It really suits her. I mean, corporate Louisa looking quite posh. I mean, the boots, the skirt, the hair, everything looks fantastic.

27:45Joanna Robinson:She's driving an Audi. She's been to Bali. Shirley's got some thoughts on it. anything you want to say about that. I'm thrilled she's here. I'm thrilled she's here, thrilled she's back. I get her resistance to wanting to be dragged into this world yet again, especially when you see all of the, all of the, you know, the consumer goods that her corporate life has done for her. I don't think every slow horse could go this path. You know, like they're not all quite so employable. River probably could get a corporate, like a push corporate job. Emphatically, almost all of them aren't as we saw what was going on with Drew and Loy and with the K.

28:19Joanna Robinson:White living on her longboat. I mean, it's one thing to be like disgraced and exited, you know, from even the slow horses. But like Jackson Lamb is not going to be one for this kind of meeting. But at least River could have followed her down this path if he had wanted to. And it seems like she's doing well, does not appreciate being jumped at work with even this kind of surprising news and is fine with being potentially assassinated. And also very much does not appreciate people going through the stuff in her car. Do you think Louisa's posh life is simply a result of her high paying gig or does it have anything to do with the diamond that she stole?

28:53I actually forgot about the diamond. How easily are we caching that diamond?

28:59Joanna Robinson:Like, can you just can you go to the airport with the diamond and say one ticket to Bali, please? And just slide the diamond across the counter. It's a great take. I mean, my maybe this is me being like a little lanterns inclined. but I think if you just show up with a big ass diamond granted that was more of like a you know an M &M sized diamond it does tend to raise some questions I feel like it puts you on a list somewhere well we should say this Louisa knows her way around I mean like she knows to go to Marcus's gun guy so like she knows her way around like a back alley deal so I feel like Louisa could find a diamond guy if she needed one of all the people we need a diamond guy yeah we really do why aren't we just doing all of our transactions in diamonds just like uncut gems time you know you know we're talking about like, oh, do we need like the British tea kind of tradition?

29:45What we need is like not even just like a wallet in our pocket or in our purse, but like the big bag of coins. You know, we just need like real physical legal tender that is, you know, kind of impossible to replicate, but also impossible to place where the hell is this actually from?

29:59Joanna Robinson:You want to enter your like Scrooge McDuck era? I think so. I mean, always, but especially now. Let's just follow the like sort of Louisa, Moira, Catherine, Shirley. Yeah. This is, this is one of our, our girls night, girls trip. What do you make of this grouping together? Moira's alive. Yeah. Moira lives. Uh, I'm glad I, you know, gave her a little eulogy last week, but she also sucks in this episode. But her sucking is part of what makes Moira great. When Shirley's like, Oh man, we have to go rescue Moira. And I've actually been like kind of on Moira's team in her little, like sort of Dolores, Umbridge-esque like demeanor and stuff like that.

30:38Well, that is your land. I mean, you're a huge Umbridge head. I love Dolores, my girl.

30:46Joanna Robinson:But when she goes into the bodega and is just sort of like yelling to Catherine about... Are the assassins here? What if they come back? I was quite exasperated. I was quite exasperated, but I mean, it did a couple of things. For one, having a character like Moira shows us how far Catherine has come, right? Like she used to be a Moira-esque figure, maybe not quite harping on people in quite the same way, but she's had so much time in the field now where she seems like a pro compared to someone like Moira. And so having that counterpoint is nice. And we should also say Moira is alive, but by the grace of Catherine Standish, who remembered because of her previous interaction with her in this series and also her printer that she should go check on Moira.

31:29Also, if it had just been, let's say, Shirley who shows up at Moira's house.

31:32Joanna Robinson:She would knock twice and left. I'm going to say 10 seconds tops. We're not staying to smell any gas. We're not busting down any doors. Like Catherine straight up saved her life. And I'm here for any standish heroic moments we can get. Absolutely. I'm a huge Catherine fan. Okay. So smell your milk. And also if your friend is missing, make sure you smell through their mail slot to see if there's gas. I just smell through everyone's mail slots. It just seems like good policy. And you're so tall soon. Yeah, it's quite a scene. bend over sort of situation. Really tough. Anything else you want to say about Louisa and Shirley and Catherine and Moira?

32:07Well, I mean, if we're not going to be saying rest in peace to Moira herself, I think we have to say rest in peace to Catherine's bag, which fell in the line of duty, deserves its own park funeral. Yeah. But like, there's no coming back.

32:20Joanna Robinson:It's over. From poison vomit in your purse? That's really dumb. From one poison car to another, the other grouping that we get tremendously great is Roddy, Jackson, and Reese. This is a really fun combo of people. Absolutely. Really, really fun. And actually, I know that Roddy had his big season previously, but I actually think this is my favorite Roddy season. I'm just really enjoying his energy. I just think he's really finely calibrated. I agree. The annoying but believably human. He's just more believably human than we've seen before. and maybe it's that you know tattoo that he got to remind him of his pain and trauma but I'm big into the Roddy energy this season the pain is strength speech I'm with you that there is something a little less cartoonish about him going from like neon sword on the wall Roddy to again just this kind of like more competent than we've seen him be like he is staked out by the back door he's doing his job as normal he's just like taking some hits here and there especially from Reese who just like already has him dead to rights as far as how unimportant he is in this entire mission but also like I think the he was PA his PA is wonderful the trio is great but this episode is a reminder to me of like Soul Horses and part of what makes it such a wonderful and replicable show is like all the pairings can be really fun there's so many ways you can mix and match these characters and Lamb and Roddy is one we don't get as often but when we do it just like really sings and that's without Roddy even having to do all that much.

34:00Joanna Robinson:Yeah. The addition of Reese is so good inside the arcade scene. That's where kids go. Yeah. Nighttime arcades. But when Roddy is like sent off to get the money, you know, like to get the box for him to get the money. And then when that, the button on that scene being like Reese putting his arms out to be like, put me down. this is so funny it's really good I really hope they keep going to that well like he could just stick his arms up at any point in this season it would be a great returning gag yeah but also the game that he's about to play Zombie Huntdown is the least real video game I've ever seen in my life okay I think for for a wonderful show that we delight in so much did you check?

34:47of course I checked okay Joe this is not a real game it looks in no way like a real game I think we could have done a little bit better

34:53Joanna Robinson:I don't know what the English are playing in their arcades. I mean, that's honestly fair. And apparently the fact that English kids and teenagers are in arcades to begin with, which does not seem to be happening in this country, a minor miracle. Oh, do kids not go to arcades anymore? I don't think so. The way that people don't go to like bookstores and movie theaters? Have you not read 15 think pieces about the death of third places? Yes, but like... You don't think that's affecting our teens? Sure. I mean, maybe they're... I think they're getting out in the world slightly more than they were five years ago, certainly.

35:20Joanna Robinson:I just hadn't thought about arcades in that context. I think, I mean, arcades are under fire from many, many fronts. I mean, for one, it's just like, are you really going there to play a video game when you can play Fortnite at home? What about your Dave's and or Buster's? I think Dave and Buster are both doing quite well somehow. Yeah, it's the ampersand. I think it's the ampersand that's shielding them. And also like, if you're just slinging like beers and onion rings, I think you just have a little more going on. Okay, so let the teenagers drink is your pitch. I mean, that's certainly the British's pitch, is it not?

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37:29The triple crown of it's danger mouse. You are Gollum looking for his precious into I see why he put you in a home. Come on.

37:40Joanna Robinson:Was Gollum looking for his precious is definitely my lamb shank of the week. And it's very good. I think whatever you're picking, it has to come from this scene with all due respect to the woman working at the children's home who Lamb also shanks a little bit. He does. But they aren't like tremendously creative shanks because she's just like an easy, like some binge was on the phone or like you can't walk these stairs. It's true. They're not very clever. The line is good, but it's more the way her face falls. Yeah. That really works for me. That's true. It's not a lamb shank, but I do think with the greatest lack of respect, ma 'am, fuck you, fuck your job.

38:15Joanna Robinson:Let's talk about it. Or mom, fuck you, fuck your job. Like, M flight gets fired, gets bumped down to Slough House. Something that we've been wondering if it was going to happen. I don't know if you had been wondering, but I had sort of, she just had so much interaction with Slough House. It's true. That it sort of seems like a place, a thing that would happen. My only question is, is she going to be at Slough House? I think the fuck you, fuck your job. Oh, she just quit. She's like, you can't bump me down to Slough House. Fuck you, I quit. I mean, that's kind of what Taverner is suggesting, right?

38:42He's like, I'm moving you, quote unquote, parallel or not parallel, laterally over to Slough House. I could see Emma Flight being like, no, fuck that. I'm going to go be a PI, like something more in the private sector, go work for some other agency. I don't know. But for the purposes of this season, I could see her getting looped in with the horses, trying to uncover whatever needs to be uncovered.

39:02Joanna Robinson:I don't think there's any reason for Diana Taverner to tell Jackson Lamb that Emma Flight has been bumped off her service. Of course not. but for Jackson Lamb to go find Emma Flight and use her this season and the reason he should frankly Emma Flight at long last is on top of her shit yeah she is seeing exactly what is happening with Taverner gets fired for it yeah and not just for it but the way in which she calls it out dead to rights like if you are being coerced if you are being leveraged if you or anyone you know is being threatened clearly Taverner is like in such a cover your ass even by like London rule standards mode that she's just like I got to get Emma out of here.

39:40That said, my predecessor had a quick up down. Great admiration for you. He may have allowed himself a little bias.

39:48Joanna Robinson:Yeah. Oof. Claude Whelan deserved that. Emma didn't necessarily. She did. But this is the thing is like up until this point. Yeah. Diana's not wrong. Like Emma Flay had not done a lot to prove that she was great at her job. I mean, this is something we talked about. And some of our listeners who are book readers wrote in about this. Again, I think the actress who plays Emma Flight is absolutely beautiful. I think the description of that character in the book is like, this is like Denise Richards, nuclear physicist sort of thing. You know, where you're like this person is too hot for this occupation.

40:21Joanna Robinson:Yes. You know, and I don't know that that's quite what I'm getting from this character design. But I think if it had been Dr. Christmas Jones and you were like, you're only here because you look great in a tank top. I don't know if that's the show that Slow Horses wants to be. But I think that's the story of Emma Fletcher in the book, you know, so. So I get from that perspective why you're dishing out these particular insults and how Claude gets kind of looped back into it. But I mean, the irony of Emma actually does her job quite well and gets fired for it after everything that's happened. It's rich, to say the least.

40:54Joanna Robinson:That's classic Diana Taverner. It's true. Don't let her know that you've got anything on her because then you're cut and then she'll probably get screwed by that later. And this might be the reason more than any other we've seen so far as to why Taverner must be involved in some kind of more insidious way than what she's letting on. It's like she's just so unfussed by the fact that slow horses are dying. A dog is getting picked off. Like she's so unbothered even with everything else going on. That it's like this just can't be even for someone who is so politically minded. Can't like she can't be that disinterested in this stuff.

41:27Joanna Robinson:Right. Time to talk about my friend Anne. I'm surprised it took us this long. She's wonderful. Barbara Martin, who is a legend of stage and screen. Unfortunately, I know her best from a terrible show, Dude Prophecy, but I really like this actress a lot. Who does she? Is she a... She's a sister. Yeah. You can see it. You can see the vision. Absolutely. You put her behind a veil. She's fantastic. The way she just like chucks the phone at River's head, among other things, everything that she says in the kitchen. I think the kitchen scene with Sid and River is my favorite scene of the season so far.

42:02I completely agree.

42:03Joanna Robinson:What was your favorite part of it? Let me count the ways. For one, I think we already alluded to this earlier, but anytime you get the, are you a couple, no, God, no, simultaneous reaction. It works for me every time, any context. But I think it has to be what will double as my most British moment of this episode, which is the arrival of Frey Bentos. A tinned meat situation. A real, is it tinned or is it frozen? I think this has, no, it's tinned. I don't know if this one was frozen, but in general, Frey Bento says tinned meats. That's very alarming, I gotta say. So the fact that the tinned from 2006 is worse than frozen from 2006?

42:40They're both quite bad. Yeah. But the rabbit hole, it set me down.

42:45Joanna Robinson:He's eating like a steak and kidney pie sort of situation. So they do tinned meats that's more like straightforward like sort of spam situation but they also do pies I think the pies are also tid but maybe it's frozen either way how is that crust maintaining its integrity and it can it's a great question I mean I will show like there here's a do you want to see a photo of I saw this same photo and I assumed that must be going into a freezer but you're I think you're absolutely right yeah doesn't stop river from kind of continuing to peck at it throughout the scene in a way that was very funny but also I think the rabbit hole it sent me down of looking up for a bentos and finding not only does it exist in the form you just showed me in that image, but like there's something called gentle minced beef and onion pie, which is just in case you thought the standard version was too flavorful.

43:35We got to we got to tone this down.

43:38Joanna Robinson:Water down the gravy. I mean, what could be more British than that? I did think that like the physical comedy of him sort of slowly putting and then as you say, he keeps eating it. But when he's like, and when did he pass? in 2006. Slowly put down the fork. Sid saying that she calls a little bit of bullets still in her head, Poirot. Yeah. And then, yeah, all those girls making a fuss about a little bottom pitching. How are you to meet a nice boy if you can't go out with your boss? Anna's really something. She's the best. Just phenomenal. And you're right, like Barbara Martin is just terrific in this episode.

44:12And I think starting from the stand your ground, throwing the cordless phone while faking a phone call is just like every second she's on the screen is thrilling to me.

44:20Joanna Robinson:She's like Castle Doctrine. This is true Castle Doctrine stuff. She's got to protect her home. Were you surprised that River didn't try to recruit her to the dogs? You know, not so much. I will say because the one time they tried to convince her not to open the door for the assassins. She's like, I got this, guys. Don't worry. I'm on it. I mean, it's like negotiating with a canned meat pie. Like she was not hearing it. She was going straight to the door. Politeness overall. Best use of spycraft. River blowing up the car, you don't think? Quite good. I think that's very good. And he's so pleased with himself.

44:57Joanna Robinson:And like for once, he's allowed to be. He's so pleased with himself in part because the light literally and metaphorically in Sid's eyes as she clocks what is happening. I mean, she has never been more delighted and proud of him and therefore he can never be more proud of himself. Yeah, it was really good. I think the only other one is if you take Sid at her word as to what has been happening here, maybe that's the case. Maybe everything she's saying is like more or less truthful. She's the first target of these assassins yet to clock that she is in fact a target. And so that would be great stuff to go.

45:27Great spy craft, too.

45:28Joanna Robinson:I think that like when Jane and Jim show up and we see her hair first, like Jane's hair first backlit, even I think maybe even like just a fraction of a second before Sid is like, they're here for me. we see her hair we're like oh no like it's not Frank Harkness which would be bad enough it's Jim and Jane what if it was Frank in that wig and we have yet to see Jim and Jane fail so like when they roll up I was not worried necessarily about River and Sid dying in this episode no I was a little worried about Anne Ko at the end like there's just moments where some of these other characters I will say as far as Anne goes River and Sid not terribly concerned about the fact that Anne now has two assassins in her house or around her house and an exploded car in her driveway.

46:13Joanna Robinson:Who's to say her house is not burning down as we speak? You know, Price is doing business, I suppose. Can we do worse spycraft in conjunction with this? Please. I don't know if assassins qualify, but Jane falling for the throw the rock over there routine. Really tough. The throw the rock over there and then run really fast. Not even that fast. Reasonably fast. Like run noisily away. Yes. I can't believe that was the plan. and you're right, I can't believe it worked. That was the plan later in this episode. River and Sid, in ways that are just like, you do this because it's on TV and it looks better in camera, but walking down the dead center of the road.

46:51Joanna Robinson:But what I will say is the point earlier when they're running down the road and then they veer off the road into the woods, which is like, go left, serpentine. Like, this is just something so many characters don't manage to do. So I was proud of them for that. I also really loved the moment when like, Ko is running them down. like we're inside the POV of Ko's car and like River just sort of slowly slows down as he realizes who's behind him. I thought that was really funny. Well, this, I mean, we've talked about and we've talked about like the Roddy Lamb dynamic, the River and Sid stuff, which is all great.

47:23This is an incredible co-episode. It's very good. Honestly, one of my favorite co-episodes yet. I think the slow build as he's like working his way into the River Sid dynamic is so fun. And then just like his attempt to finally connect with another human being at the end that fails miserably.

47:41Joanna Robinson:The more people I kill, the more human I feel. Is that what he says? Do you feel that way? Oh, yeah, usually. Yeah. The way this episode ends with the bisexual lighting and the sort of like synth wave music. Are we going into like drive? Like what is next episode? We had better. At least like John Wick in a club. The vibe was so different at the end of this episode. It's true. It was wild to me. But I kind of like that show. Oh, yeah. You know, I'm interested in that show. I love the slow horses that we get week to week. But, you know, let's put these people in a club and see what they can do.

48:13Joanna Robinson:One thing I will say is when River and Sid are sort of spitballing the assassination in Kazan. And maybe they sent an operative and called them Sid Baker because she's presumed dead and all this other stuff like that. Sid mentions the GRU, which is the sort of Russian. It's not quite the KGB. It's like the military version of the KGB. But like if Jim and Jane are GRU assassins, I'd be scared personally. I'm already scared. I don't care who they're working for. I'd be even more scared personally. They seem quite competent. And I'll say as far as their pursuit of River and Sid go, I mean, they're kind of on top of it.

48:54Like, yes, they get fooled by the occasional thrown rock, but they keep showing up at every place where River and Sid show up.

49:00Joanna Robinson:How do they find them at the end of this episode? I really don't know to the point that I had to consider, like, is there a tracking device in place somewhere? But there's no, like, they've never been in the same spot with River, at least that we've seen, to be able to plant it. And Sid's whole story is she heard these people were asking about her and ducked out and ran. So they would never have been able to plant something on her. So, but like, how would they know where Ko's car is at the end of this episode? That's, I have the same question. Something that I don't know if this can be related, but something that Jackson says, you have a leak that Julian Assange would be proud of to Diana, right?

49:36Joanna Robinson:So is there someone inside of the park? Sure. I don't know why the park would know where Coe's car is, especially when like allegedly they've gone dark and they're off the grid. Well, if anyone, Coe actually has. You know, this is not, I have my phone on my pocket secretly. Like that dude torched his phone, you know? He's so happy to go off the grid. I guess, but he's the one who's like always earbudded into a device or something like that. So you think when he picks up River and Sid and is still listening to hip hop, that's the tell that he's on Spotify. I don't know. And guess what? You could be tracked through your Spotify account.

50:10Joanna Robinson:You certainly can. I wager. If you're listening to us, we are tracking you right at this second. We are tracking you right now. We will find you. Anything else you want to mention? I think there's one other beat that is hit twice in a way that makes me take note of it, which is Moira and Sid both noting that they are not actually slow horses. and so it's like the idea that whoever is responsible for wanting to kill the slow horses wanting to wipe them out wanting to cover up whatever it is that needs covering up oh it's not being very specific it's like they're clearly working off the document and not with the context of who actually does things or matters it's like if you're on the list you're gonna die there's not a lot of room for like debate or negotiation or qualification as far as like who is doing what it's like if you are related at all to the slow horses you are on the kill list.

50:58Joanna Robinson:Interesting. And I still don't feel like I really understand why. Nope. Okay. Let's be real. The Slow Horses, look, they've helped avert the occasional terrorist attack, helped recover the occasional hostage, but like, they're not doing that much stuff that's really in need of retribution. Do we do all of our bits? We did Lambshank, we did Best Use of Spycraft, Worst Use of Spycraft, Best Dressed Louisa Guy, obviously. I mean, gotta be. Especially, everyone else is still in their same clothes. So by default, but also by matter of fact, Louisa Guy. Did you have a most British moment? I think it's Petri dish of intrigue.

51:35Joanna Robinson:I think Petri dish of intrigue is my most British moment. Petri dish, wonderful. Also honorable mention to Jobsworth, a word that I was not familiar with until this episode. And I will be trying to incorporate into future podcasts. And the Freybentos information. I think the Freybentos is the number one for me. It seems disgusting. Would you eat tinned like steak and kidney pie if it were not from 2006? I would try it. Okay. I just am not optimistic. Should we get some fray bentos? Why are you bringing this up? Why are you doing this to us? Social only content? We'll consider it. Okay. You know, I need to see the expiration date.

52:10Yeah. I need to know for sure this is safe.

52:12Joanna Robinson:A freshie fray bentos. I just, I don't think it's going to be great even in the best of times. Well, I think River's like, I didn't even know they made these anymore. So maybe we won't be able to find a freshie and maybe it will be spared. Would you consider a non-Frey Bentos branded canned meat pie? It's got to be Frey Bentos. I need the genuine article. Okay, Frey Bentos or get the fuck out of here. Exactly. Let's get a proper import. Okay, great. Stay tuned. That has been the Prestige TV podcast, allegedly. Somehow. Thanks to Devin Aldo. Thanks to Kai Grady. Thanks to Jacob Cornett. Thanks to you, Rob Mahoney.

52:45Thank you, Joe. Thank you to canned pies.

52:47Joanna Robinson:Thanks to Anne. Thanks for certain, Anne. To zombie hunt down? Yeah. Anything else? Any other thanks? I think we did it. Oh, and RIP that cow. See you soon. Bye.

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