Slow Horses: Season 5

2025 · 6 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 5 of Slow Horses

Roddy Ho, the neighborhood's tech nerd, suddenly shows up with a new, glamorous girlfriend, and the Slow Horses immediately become suspicious. At the same time, London is hit by a string of increasingly strange incidents, and the Slough House team must figure out how they are connected. A mass shooting shakes the capital in the middle of the mayoral campaign, and Shirley believes someone tried to run one of them over. Jackson Lamb, slovenly, rude and always ready with an insult, insists that in espionage the London rule applies: look after yourself first. River Cartwright, demoted after his mistake, remains stuck with boring tasks as chaos grows outside.

6episodes

Sep 24, 2025premiered

Oct 29, 2025final episode

4.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Bad Dates
Sep 24, 2025 · 46 min · ★ 7.9
A mass shooting rocks London, intensifying a testy mayoral race. Shirley believes one of the Slow Horses was the target of an attempted hit.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Will Smith · Starring: Rosalind Eleazar, James Callis, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke
5x02 Incommunicado
Oct 1, 2025 · 48 min · ★ 7.9
Lamb intercepts an assassin. Taverner receives a key piece of intel about the Abbotsfield shooting.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Will Smith · Starring: Samuel West, James Callis, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke
5x03 Tall Tales
Oct 8, 2025 · 40 min · ★ 8.1
An act of sabotage grinds London to a halt. Taverner interrogates Roddy. Coe is convinced a destabilization strategy is at play.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Sean Gray · Starring: Bally Gill, Chi Aloysius, Rebecca Dyson-Smith, James Callis
5x04 Missiles
Oct 15, 2025 · 40 min · ★ 8.5
Flyte sets out to find Roddy's girlfriend. The gang is dispatched to two different campaign events to prevent another attack.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Edward Docx · Starring: Rebecca Dyson-Smith, James Callis, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke
5x05 Circus
Oct 22, 2025 · 45 min · ★ 8.4
Lamb debriefs River and Coe. Roddy is pulled in to help decipher a piece of code as the destabilization strategy nears its final stage.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Will Smith · Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Bally Gill, Naomi Wirthner, Rebecca Dyson-Smith
5x06 Scars Season Finale
Oct 29, 2025 · 52 min · ★ 8.5
It's up to the Slow Horses to stop Farouk's team from completing its mission in a final act of mass carnage.
Directing: Saul Metzstein · Writer: Will Smith · Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Samuel West, Bally Gill, Rebecca Dyson-Smith