Slow Horses Recap: Roddy's Girlfriend

"Even Jackson Lamb, who'd been reluctant to endorse Shirley's suspicion that Roddy was targeted deliberately by a van that nearly killed him, admits that Roddy's romantic relationship was finally enough to pique his interest. "It's dodgy," he tells Roddy about Shirley's concerns at his apartment, "but none of it raises my Spidey senses as much as hearing a real live woman is happy to spend time with you.""

"We now know for absolute certainty that the same terrorist group responsible for the Abbotsfield shooting is indeed going after Roddy, but the motives remain obscure. Yet Roddy, who's as embarrassed as a man like him is capable of being (which is to say, still not that much), firmly insists that what he has going with Tara, his girlfriend, is real."

Roddy claims his relationship with Tara is real despite widespread suspicion she might be using him. Jackson Lamb notes that a woman willingly spending time with Roddy raised his interest. Tara rebuffed Roddy's advances in a previous scene and then summoned a goon squad after he left. The same terrorist group behind the Abbotsfield shooting is actively targeting Roddy for unclear reasons. When River and J.K. Coe visit Tara's apartment they encounter a knife-wielding older woman and her son while Tara peers from a bedroom curtain, appearing frightened. Terrorists have a pattern of coercing uninvolved people to carry out attacks, making Tara a possible coerced actor.

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