The thing that makes ‘Slow Horses’ work so well is that everyone on this show is incompetent in their own little way. But Claude Whelan’s personal brand of incompetence in season five was something special.
Spoilers ahead for “Scars,” the season-five finale of Slow Horses.
Claude Whelan never stood a chance. I think he knows that now. I think he always knew it a little, probably, even as the rest of his brain tried to convince him he could manage a grou... [6489 chars]