Who dies in “Slow Horses” season 6, episode 4? Summary of lost and found items

The death of JK Coe

I spoke with Tom Brooke about his time on Slow Horses as JK Coe, what helped him better understand his character, and what motivates Coe. You can watch our full conversation below:

I also spoke with Kyle Soller who plays Jim in Slow Horses and who played Syril in the excellent Star Wars series, Andor. Watch this interview below:

Of course, the biggest, most shocking, and by far most devastating moment of the episode comes near the end, when Coe confronts Jim in the men’s room of a shopping mall in which the Slow Horses are hiding. I still don’t know how Jim and Jane find them so easily, but they find them there and after waiting in the parking lot, they decide to go hunting.

Coe is playing a race car simulation in the arcade when he spots the assassins. He follows Jim into the men’s room, where Jim finds him sitting casually by the sinks.

The conversation that follows is surprisingly friendly. When Coe realizes that Jim is a Russian soldier, he says, “Good pension.”

“If you live long enough,” Jim replies. He spots Coe’s push knife. “Push the knife?” he asks, and Coe smiles. “Good.”

They’re soulmates, these two mortal men, and it’s a shame they’re on different sides. Too bad there are sides to begin with. “I think you got the list wrong,” Coe says, and that seems likely, too. There’s no reason for the Russians to kill the Slow Horses – or rather, the reason is one we haven’t quite figured out yet. More on this below.

We don’t see the entire fight, but after River and Sid argue about his calling Taverner – River tells him it’s been so long since she’s seen the Prime Bureau that she’s forgotten what she’s capable of, words that turn out to be right about money – River remarks that he doesn’t see any of his companions. He looks around and heads towards the bathroom.

He finds Coe’s lifeless body leaning against the wall. He rushes outside where he sees Coe’s car rushing out of the parking lot and immediately knows that Sid has been captured by the enemy.

Diana Taverner is compromised

Sid taken, Coe dead, River with no backup, no vehicle, no phone or gun – things are looking pretty hopeless right now.

It doesn’t help that Taverner is even worse than River thought. She is completely compromised. She showed up to do the interview at Cantor’s news station because she took money from the man, through Judd, and now finds herself at his mercy. Worse yet, Cantor (Harry Lloyd) has been working with the Russians, clearly after some sort of deal, although we don’t know exactly what yet. This means that Taverner is compromised not only by a British media mogul, but also by the government of a hostile nation.

By piecing together the clues, we can come up with a pretty good idea of ​​what’s going on, even if some details remain obscure. Here’s what appears to have happened.

The Taverner conspiracy

Oliver Nash (Lucian Msamati) tells us that an unofficial assassination actually took place in Kazan, Russia. We know that Taverner’s MI5 did not have the resources for this type of operation (nor the authorization to carry it out). We know this was retaliation for Russian aggression, thanks to Taverner’s mistake in the interview. We also know that the perpetrator used the name Sid Baker. It is not yet known whether Sid was used or if someone else used his name.

Someone, probably Taverner, deleted Sid Baker from the MI5 database after the investigation failed. She scrubbed so hard that she wiped out the slow horses entirely, which is why they no longer show up in the system and don’t get paid. The Russians therefore asked Cantor to recover the missing files via the Park. Harkness (Hugo Weaving) used the dog Nesmith to pass the files to Cantor who then handed them over to the Russians. The hard copy that Nesmith recovered turns out to be from Slough House, and the Russian death squad has no idea that they are actually eliminating MI5 rejects. They think they’re taking out the team Sid Baker was working with – a special ops team responsible for a hit on Russian soil.

We don’t know if Sid Baker was actually involved, but we do know that Taverner answered his Russian counterpart’s call after Cantor asked him to (after meeting a mysterious Russian woman in an empty theater). And we know that she agreed to turn Sid over to the Russians on the condition that they stop killing other agents. She’s doing all of this without informing Lamb, Nash, or anyone in power, and she’s clearly making huge mistakes now that she’s finally First Desk. It’s disappointing. Taverner has always been ruthless, but she was at least competent before. Now she’s both ruthless and responsible for the deaths of Struan Loy and JK Coe – and who knows who else before the end of the season. The bodies pile up thanks to his “reprisals” and the ensuing confusion.

The ladies go on vacation

My only problem with this episode