Season 1 Pilot episode

How the first series of Slow Horses begins.

The first series of Slow Horses premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April 2022 and adapts Mick Herron's novel Slow Horses. It opens with River Cartwright being blamed for a colleague's mistake in a training exercise at Stansted Airport and moved to Slough House.

Lore & Background

Lamb puts River on surveillance of the journalist Robert Hobden, while the far-right Sons of Albion kidnap the student Hassan Ahmed and threaten to behead him on a livestream. James Hawes directed all six episodes of the first series.

More in Story & Timeline

Jackson Lamb's Slough House leadership Slough House culture and motto Slow Horses Novel Season Two Arc River Cartwright's Slough recruitment The Slough House as institutional setting MI5 internal politics and hierarchy

Elsewhere in Slow Horses

Jack Lowden · Behind the Scenes Kristin Scott Thomas · Behind the Scenes River Cartwright · Characters CIA · Factions & Groups Slough House · Lore & History London · World & Setting

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