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Can Sir Gary Oldman's dishevelled M15 agent save Slough House from a terrorist threat?

- SEAN MARLAND, VICTORIA WILSON

Jackson Lamb and his gang of misfits from Slough House are back with a new twist-filled case that sees their geeky colleague Roddy Ho being dragged into the centre of a dark conspiracy.

As the fifth season of Apple TV+'s Emmy-winning spy thriller Slow Horses opens, the department of MI5 rejects are flabbergasted when they discover the irritating hacker has a glamorous new girlfriend.

Immediately suspicious, Lamb (Sir Gary Oldman) begins to wonder if someone is using Roddy (Christopher Chung) as a way to target Slough House. 'The situation is bonkers,' says Oldman. 'Lamb is initially slow to pick up on things because he can't believe that Roddy has a girlfriend, and secondly, who would want to kill Roddy?'

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