‘Slow Horses’ Team Talks Major River & Louisa Moment in Season 5 Premiere

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Slow Horses Season 5 premiere “Bad Dates.”]

Slow Horses isn’t known for romance, so when it’s going to go there, it’s going to in the exact way you’d expect from anyone at Slough House. Such is the case in the Wednesday, September 24, Season 5 premiere, when River (Jack Lowden) goes in for the kiss as Louisa (Rosalind Eleazar) informs him of a major decision she’s made.

As the new season of Slow Horses opens up, there’s a shooting as well as what seems to be an attempt on the life of one of Slough House’s own, Roddy (Christopher Chung); Shirley (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) is certain that’s what it was, while Roddy himself laughs it off. Meanwhile, Louisa’s ostensibly taking a mental health break from Slough House, but, as she confides in River during their separate farewell by the Thames, she’s not coming back. She can’t deal with everything that’s happened, she explains, and he’s not letting himself feel things he should be while she wants to feel things again. He takes that to mean she wants him to kiss her and does just that, but he’s off-base.