The spooks who work in Slough House on ‘s masterful spy drama have had to grapple during previous seasons with everything from brilliant Russian terrorists to the fallout from a power struggle at MI5. For the new season, which Apple has revealed will debut on the streamer , it feels only right that the story would move forward by returning to the past — specifically, by spending a lot more time with a heretofore criminally underused side character. David Cartwright, legendary former spy and grandfather to tryhard Jackson Lamb understudy River Cartwright, will have a much larger role this time around — which is great news, considering that he’s played in by the fantastic Jonathan Pryce.
Season 4 is adapted from , the fourth book in Mick Herron’s series of spy novels, which finds the elder Cartwright slowly starting to lose his mind as a result of dementia (something we’ve seen little hints of before now already). The new season starts off with a literal bang. A bomb that’s killed dozens of people at a stylish retail center in West London also sets off a proverbial chain reaction that brings the sins of many surrogate fathers in this story to the fore.
The younger Cartwright has to wrestle with his grandfather’s insistence that someone is trying to kill him while at the same getting to the bottom of the shopping center bombing that actually killed scores of people — and, as if all that wasn’t enough, Cartwright also stumbled onto a conspiracy that connects t.
