Slow Horses Season 6 ends with cliffhanger over character fate

Summarised from 2 outlets · 4 reports · Updated 21 Oct, 13:08 · Archive

Apple TV's Slow Horses concluded its sixth season with a finale leaving a character's fate uncertain.

Apple TV's spy drama Slow Horses finished its sixth season with an episode titled 'Judgment Day' that delivered both victories and losses for the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb successfully confronts the First Desk in a final effort to protect his agents. The episode kills off agents Coe and Flyte during their battle against Russian assassins and River's father Frank Harkness, though most of the team survives.

After the main conflict ends and the surviving agents gather to honour their fallen colleagues, the finale shifts focus to River and Sid. Standish alerts River that his grandfather's neighbour noticed a light on in his house, prompting River to rush there. He finds Sid has kept her promise to leave a light on for him and prepares a romantic surprise with wine and tea whilst Nick Drake plays. However, as River arranges the scene, he begins experiencing respiratory distress and breathing difficulties, leaving his condition ambiguous as the season ends.

How it is being reported

• Slow Horses Director Speaks Out After Shock Season 6 CliffhangerThis article contains major spoilers for the season six finale of Slow Horses. The director of Slow Horses has opened up about the cliffhanger at the end of the show’s most recent season. On Wednesday, the season six finale of the British spy drama premiered on Apple TV+, ending on what cast member Christopher Chung (who plays Roddy in the show) has called “the biggest cliffhanger that this series has ever done before”. In the scene in question, Jack Lowden ’s MI5 agent River Cartwright seemingly found himself at the middle of an unprecedented happy ending, arriving back to his grandfather’s…HuffPost UK · 21 Oct, 14:46
• ‘Slow Horses’ Season 6, Episode 6 Kills [SPOILER] In A Heartbreaking, Heroic Death That Differs From The BookIn the words of Ho: "What a legend. Bird takes flight."New York Post · 21 Oct, 14:00
• Is [SPOILER] Dead In ‘Slow Horses’? Season 6 Finale And Book Fate, ExplainedEverything to know about our boy's fate.New York Post · 21 Oct, 12:20
• ‘Slow Horses’ Season 6 Ending Explained: Is [SPOILER] Dead?!Talk about an agonizing cliffhanger...New York Post · 21 Oct, 08:01

In this story: Jackson Lamb · River · Sid · Slough House · MI5 · Apple TV

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