This review contains full spoilers for Slow Horses Season 6, Episode 4, which is streaming on Apple TV now.

Slow Horses has added a tad too much starch to its plot-thickening slurry in Season 6’s fourth episode, “Lost and Found.” It’s hardly devoid of standout moments — the entire opening sequence in the neon-hued bowling alley, Frank Harkness and Jackson Lamb (Hugo Weaving and Gary Oldman, finally getting some meaty shared screentime) facing off in the Shake Shack, JK Coe’s (Tom Brooke) bathroom knife fight to the death against Jim (Kyle Soller) — but it’s reached the point in its short six-episode season where Slow Horses feels like it’s scrambling a bit to make sense of its, as MI5 overseer Oliver (Lucian Msamati) put it last episode, “petri dish of intrigue.”

Let’s put it under a microscope and unscramble where we’re at. Frank — who gets a taste of what it’s like to be Lamb, managing two spacey morons — is working for the scuzzy right-wing TV magnate Damien Cantor (Harry Lloyd). We already knew this from their meet-up in Episode 2 where Damien authorized Frank to kill Reece Nesmith (Lenny), but now there’s a twinge more clarity surrounding their circumstances. Damien wants some sort of contract from the Russians, and to prove his value, he was the one who had the dead Dog Andy Nesmith steal the Slough House file at the Park. But Damien wasn’t the one who directed anyone to start killing Slow Horses from that list; he just contracted Frank as the clean-up crew to cover the tracks of the document theft.

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