Slow Horses season 5, episode 3, "Tall Tales", is a constrained episode, but that doesn't mean it's any less action-packed than the first two episodes of the season . The Slow Horses are in lockdown, and while Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) is obviously no match for Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) in a cell at the Park, Flyte (Ruth Bradley) is a formidable zookeeper for Lamb (Gary Oldman) and the other animals at Slough House.
Everyone's on the same side in "Tall Tales", but the years of distrust between the Park and Slough make extracting any information a slog. We are on to step 3 of Coe's "Destabilization List", an archaic conspiracy about the steps a terrorist (or clandestine government group) can take to work toward destabilizing a country. Step 3 is "Disrupt the Transport,"