Slow Horses season 6, episode 5 centres on River Cartwright and Sid Baker’s escape from an airfield, mixing fast action with the pair’s romantic tension and first kiss.
01Summary
- 01Season 6, episode 5, “Sayonara”, picks up after Sid Baker is abducted by two assassins who have been killing ex-Slow Horses.
- 02River Cartwright stops Jim from drowning Sid, and later the Dogs take Sid to a private airfield to be handed to Russian intelligence in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 03River steals a vehicle, Sid jumps in the back, and they escape while black convoy cars chase them from the air base.
- 04River smashes through the gate and Sid throws a chemical drum to blow up the convoy.
- 05The sequence is directed by Adam Randall, who directed every episode of season 6 and previously every episode of season 4.
02Why it matters
The scene is being praised as one of the year’s best action set-pieces, and it also advances the central relationship between River and Sid. For viewers, it is a major emotional and narrative turning point before the finale.
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