From Upshott With Love
Jackson Lamb arrives to see Nikolai but his façade about working on behalf of Demetrio is shattered completely when Nikolai points out that he made the guy up. “What do you want Jackson Lamb?” He eventually says.
Nikolai’s story suggests that Andrei Chernitsky, the man he heard talking to the cicadas, is the same man as the killer known as “The Bull.” Nikolai says that he met Chernitsky in a bar in Kiev, and that they discussed funding for cicadas. Chernitsky looked like a killer – a big, bald bull – and it’s possible that this is him. If this is true, then Chernitsky is responsible for the murders of several people in Kiev over the past year.
The taxi worker remembered the man because he had asked to be taken right back to Oxford Parkway. He told River that the man had been driving a taxi and that he was very drunk. The man also told River that he was looking for his daughter, who was living in London.
When River dives a bit deeper and speaks to Kenny, the driver, it turns out he asked for a new destination when he got inside. An airfield, as it turns out, but also with instructions to throw guys off the scent.
According to Ho’s work, this man flew out on a plane across to Estonia.
Meanwhile, the security detail for the president of Russia is trying to figure out what’s going on. They stop by an Import/Export area and don’t return, but they see a bunch of taxis on the road. They think maybe someone got lost, but they can’t find their way back.
Louisa checks out this Nevsky fellow while Min is on the run, and soon learns that he’s super paranoid.
Jackson meets with Diana and feeds back what they’ve found out so far, with cicadas and Dickie potentially killed. He also brings up the fact Webb is poaching his agents, but when Diana speaks to Webb, he points out this meeting seems to smooth things out.
When River eventually makes it back to see Jackson, the former points out everything he’s learned…but Jackson Lamb is, inevitably, already one step ahead. He has a glossy dossier all ready to go with a new alias, IDs and the works. River is tasked with heading back to Upshott and finding out more about these cicadas. He even has a shiny new ID too. ..
Meanwhile, Min flies too close to the sun, and a bald man following him draws a gun. Just before he pulls the trigger, we cut to black. ..
The Episode Review
Min is in serious trouble! I imagine there will be a last-minute save to prevent Min from meeting a messy end, potentially from Louisa sweeping in, but we’ll have to wait and see. ..
Jackson Lamb and River Cartwright are a great addition to this show. Their banter is partly what makes the show so endearing and seeing the former smugly one step ahead of River, who’s just starting to get the hang of how to do this investigative malarkey the Slough House way, is a great inclusion.
It would appear that these cicadas are actually real and if that’s the case, it could well be that Popov is too. So far so good, Slow Horses season 2 is just as endearing as the first. Roll on next week’s episode!
