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* CynicismCatalyst: He used to be one of the best, if not ''the'' best, agent in MI-5's employ with the service's leadership personally relying on him for sensitive and dangerous assignments. However, [[spoiler:assassinating Charles Partner, MI-5's traitorous director-general]] ended up breaking him mentally and he withdrew to become an alcoholic dick to everyone around him.
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* TheBrute: Duffy is stocky and imposing, and is comfortable with physical violence up to and including murder.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheDragon: In addition to physically protecting MI-5's internal security with his department, he serves as a glorified henchman for the higher ups with Taverner and Tearney using him to enforce their personal agendas.
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* TheBrute: Duffy is stocky and imposing, and is comfortable with physical violence up to and including murder.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheDragon: In addition to physically protecting MI-5's internal security with his department, he serves as a glorified henchman for the higher ups.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheDragon: In addition to physically protecting MI-5's internal security with his department, he serves as a glorified henchman for the higher ups.
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* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably crosses this when he [[spoiler: orders the assault on the storage facility and then murders the socially inept and generally harmless Douglas after he reveals a trivial piece of information that was unlikely to ever be a security threat]]. Though knowing Duffy, he probably crossed this many times previously in his career. Some viewers may even decide he crossed it when [[spoiler: he murdered the sleazy journalist Robert Hobden in the first season]].
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Part of the reason why he's at Slough House is that there's not a single person within MI-5 who can tolerate his grating presence, so they shipped him to a place where he could run people out of the service by his mere presence.
* SurroundedByIdiots: How he sees himself while of course, it's rather easy to outwit him.
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!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
* SurroundedByIdiots: How he sees himself while of course, it's rather easy to outwit him.
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!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Part of the reason why he's at Slough House is that there's not a single person within MI-5 who can tolerate his grating presence, so they shipped him to a place where he could run people out of the service by his mere presence.
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*SurroundedByIdiots: How he SmallNameBigEgo: He sees himself while of course, it's rather easy as being SurroundedByIdiots but he's blind to his own shortcomings and how easily others outwit him.
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!!Diana Taverner
!!Louisa Guy
->'''Played by:'''Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5,Creator/RosalindEleazar
An agent whohas operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:'''
The deputy director-general of MI-5,
An agent who
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI-5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI-5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed.OnlySaneWoman: She's tough and no-nonsense but also keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and probably the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provideonly member of Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each otherwho isn't disordered or prone to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
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making bad situations worse.
!!Shirley Dander
->'''Played by:'''Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards
An agent who'd like others to believe she was sent to Slough House for anger-control issues -- which is partially true.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
!!Nick Duffy
!!Shirley Dander
->'''Played by:'''
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
An agent who'd like others to believe she was sent to Slough House for anger-control issues -- which is partially true.
* FunctionalAddict: She has a drugs problem but claims that it hasn't affected her ability to work.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is quick to blow her top and this is part of the reason why she was sent to Slough House.
!!Marcus Longridge
->'''Played by:''' Kadiff Kirwan
An agent reassigned to Slough House due to being a degenerate gambler.
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* FamilyMan: He is one of the few characters who has a functional home life and talks about trying to provide nice things for his wife and children.
* TheGamblingAddict: He's lost a lot of money gambling and keeps throwing cash at his problem in the hopes of winning it all back and more. This makes him a liability in intelligence work.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He was previously a field operative tapped to become a Dog, but he declined because he couldn't see himself working with someone as callous and violent as Nick Duffy.
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!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI-5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
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* HairTriggerTemper: She is quick to blow her top and this is part of the reason why she was sent to Slough House.
!!Marcus Longridge
->'''Played by:''' Kadiff Kirwan
An agent reassigned to Slough House due to being a degenerate gambler.
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* FamilyMan: He is one of the few characters who has a functional home life and talks about trying to provide nice things for his wife and children.
* TheGamblingAddict: He's lost a lot of money gambling and keeps throwing cash at his problem in the hopes of winning it all back and more. This makes him a liability in intelligence work.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He was previously a field operative tapped to become a Dog, but he declined because he couldn't see himself working with someone as callous and violent as Nick Duffy.
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!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI-5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with corrupt politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
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* BrokenPedestal: After she goes on a tirade to Lamb on how great her former boss Charles Partner was, Lamb shatters Catherine's world by revealing [[spoiler: not only was Partner a traitor selling secrets to the Russians but he only kept Catherine around because he knew her drinking would cause her to miss all the signs of his treason ''and'' was set to frame her for his crimes.]]
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Among all other things, he's this, openly saying things like "no way we've ever been to the moon." Lamb just gives him a "how are you this stupid?" look.
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* ComplexityAddiction: A recurring problem with him as Roddy tends to think others can be as attuned to elaborate moves as him. In Season 3, he brushes off his agents finding a car's plate number and ID as any kidnapper would have used an alias and swapped the plates for fakes. It never occurs to him that yes, someone would be dumb enough to use their own car with their own name for a crime.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: How he sees himself while of course, it's rather easy to outwit him.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.people.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
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* AssholeVictim: Technically he is quite high in rank and was [[JustFollowingOrders just following orders]] when he [[spoiler: authorised and directed a Chieftain PMC unit to murder fellow MI-5 members.]] Even so, given his obnoxious personality and willingness to follow even the most amoral orders without question, no one sheds a tear or takes much action when [[spoiler: his operation goes wrong and he is instead killed by the Slough House team]].
* DirtyCop: Happily willing to engage in all kinds of unethical cover-ups and plants a firearm on an unarmed person that his men just gunned down.
* {{Foil}}: To Marcus. This is explicitly shown in their final battle together; both are large, imposing men who are good at hurting others and are affiliated with the Dogs. However, Marcus states he would never have wanted Duffy to be his boss, and is repulsed by his amorality and thuggish sadism.
* JustFollowingOrders: Duffy prides himself in being a man who follows absolutely any orders he's given, though he extends this logic to an excuse for his darkest actions.
* KillerCop: He's technically a state security police chief, but he regularly engages in murder, sometimes when it's perhaps not even necessary.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't show much emotion other than anger and doesn't care about the lives he and his men ruin.
* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably crosses this when he [[spoiler: orders the assault on the storage facility and then murders the socially inept and generally harmless Douglas after he reveals a trivial piece of information that was unlikely to ever be a security threat]]. Though knowing Duffy, he probably crossed this many times previously in his career. Some viewers may even decide he crossed it when [[spoiler: he murdered the sleazy journalist Robert Hobden in the first season]].
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Duffy tends to leap rapidly to simply killing people whenever he has to cover something up.
* PsychoForHire: While he's generally professional and good at security detail, he also doesn't have any qualms at all about murdering innocent people if ordered to do so, even for some very flimsy reasons. He also seems to enjoy abusing his power to brutalise and intimidate people he personally dislikes.
* {{Sadist}}: He apparently gains a lot of satisfaction from brutally beating up River while he is defenceless in the holding cells, knowing River will be fired if he fights back due to his superior rank. River lied to him, making him justifiably angry, but the level of violence he then [[DisproportionateRetribution subjects him to is extreme]].
* StateSec: The head of what is essentially a secret police force within MI-5.
* TheBrute: Duffy is stocky and imposing, and is comfortable with physical violence up to and including murder.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheDragon: In addition to physically protecting MI-5's internal security with his department, he serves as a glorified henchman for the higher ups.
!!Nick Duffy
->'''Played by:''' Chris Reilly
Head of the "Dogs" at the start of the series, the internal affairs and armed tactical wing of MI-5.
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* AssholeVictim: Technically he is quite high in rank and was [[JustFollowingOrders just following orders]] when he [[spoiler: authorised and directed a Chieftain PMC unit to murder fellow MI-5 members.]] Even so, given his obnoxious personality and willingness to follow even the most amoral orders without question, no one sheds a tear or takes much action when [[spoiler: his operation goes wrong and he is instead killed by the Slough House team]].
* DirtyCop: Happily willing to engage in all kinds of unethical cover-ups and plants a firearm on an unarmed person that his men just gunned down.
* {{Foil}}: To Marcus. This is explicitly shown in their final battle together; both are large, imposing men who are good at hurting others and are affiliated with the Dogs. However, Marcus states he would never have wanted Duffy to be his boss, and is repulsed by his amorality and thuggish sadism.
* JustFollowingOrders: Duffy prides himself in being a man who follows absolutely any orders he's given, though he extends this logic to an excuse for his darkest actions.
* KillerCop: He's technically a state security police chief, but he regularly engages in murder, sometimes when it's perhaps not even necessary.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't show much emotion other than anger and doesn't care about the lives he and his men ruin.
* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably crosses this when he [[spoiler: orders the assault on the storage facility and then murders the socially inept and generally harmless Douglas after he reveals a trivial piece of information that was unlikely to ever be a security threat]]. Though knowing Duffy, he probably crossed this many times previously in his career. Some viewers may even decide he crossed it when [[spoiler: he murdered the sleazy journalist Robert Hobden in the first season]].
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Duffy tends to leap rapidly to simply killing people whenever he has to cover something up.
* PsychoForHire: While he's generally professional and good at security detail, he also doesn't have any qualms at all about murdering innocent people if ordered to do so, even for some very flimsy reasons. He also seems to enjoy abusing his power to brutalise and intimidate people he personally dislikes.
* {{Sadist}}: He apparently gains a lot of satisfaction from brutally beating up River while he is defenceless in the holding cells, knowing River will be fired if he fights back due to his superior rank. River lied to him, making him justifiably angry, but the level of violence he then [[DisproportionateRetribution subjects him to is extreme]].
* StateSec: The head of what is essentially a secret police force within MI-5.
* TheBrute: Duffy is stocky and imposing, and is comfortable with physical violence up to and including murder.
* TheBully: A rather unpleasant man who seems to relish scaring others and engaging in the violence his job often entails.
* TheDragon: In addition to physically protecting MI-5's internal security with his department, he serves as a glorified henchman for the higher ups.
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* ThisIsReality: River's biggest problem is that he fails to realize just how cynical the world can be and that poweful people are more than happy to cause death and destruction for petty reasons. Lamb calls him an idiot for his continued naïveté, though Season 3 ends with signs that River is becoming more cynical.
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* ThisIsReality: River's biggest problem is that he fails to realize just how cynical the world can be and that poweful people are more than happy to cause death and destruction for petty reasons. Lamb calls him an idiot for his continued naïveté, though Season 3 ends with signs that River is becoming more cynical.savvier and learning to anticipate duplicity.
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!Regent's Park
!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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!!Diana Taverner
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The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
Slough House's long-suffering office administrator. Lamb takes particular delight in needling her.
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* TheAlcoholic: Standish has a debilitating drinking problem and is in recovery. Lamb occasionally waves alcohol in her face to tempt her into drinking.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Standish doesn't have an operational background and tries to see the best in everyone -- even Jackson Lamb -- but she's quite capable of pulling a gun on people after lulling them into a sense of false security with her quiet nature.
* ServileSnarker: She throws barbs towards Lamb's way. However, Lamb, being Lamb, doesn't react to them.
!!Roddy Ho
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristopherChung
A computer specialist who annoys everyone with his obnoxious attitude.
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* CasanovaWannabe: He has an inflated view of himself and how desirable he is to women. However, his physical appearance, bad attitude, and misogynistic comments disgusts everyone around him.
* TheCracker: Aside from his regular duties, he likes to crack into other people's personal details to cyberstalk women and ruin the lives of those he thinks wronged him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Part of the reason why he's at Slough House is that there's not a single person within MI-5 who can tolerate his grating presence, so they shipped him to a place where he could run people out of the service by his mere presence.
!Regent's Park
!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Standish doesn't have an operational background and tries to see the best in everyone -- even Jackson Lamb -- but she's quite capable of pulling a gun on people after lulling them into a sense of false security with her quiet nature.
* ServileSnarker: She throws barbs towards Lamb's way. However, Lamb, being Lamb, doesn't react to them.
!!Roddy Ho
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChristopherChung
A computer specialist who annoys everyone with his obnoxious attitude.
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* CasanovaWannabe: He has an inflated view of himself and how desirable he is to women. However, his physical appearance, bad attitude, and misogynistic comments disgusts everyone around him.
* TheCracker: Aside from his regular duties, he likes to crack into other people's personal details to cyberstalk women and ruin the lives of those he thinks wronged him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Part of the reason why he's at Slough House is that there's not a single person within MI-5 who can tolerate his grating presence, so they shipped him to a place where he could run people out of the service by his mere presence.
!Regent's Park
!!Diana Taverner
->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* ThisIsReality: River's biggest problem is that he fails to realize just how cynical the world can be and that poweful people are more than happy to cause death and destruction for petty reasons. Lamb calls him an idiot for his continued naïveté, though Season 3 ends with signs that River is becoming more cynical.
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* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with literal [CorruptPolitician corrupt politicians]] for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
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* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with literal [CorruptPolitician corrupt politicians]] politicians for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.material.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite doing some shady things to advance her career, she is generally competent at her job as Deputy Director-General. She also regularly agrees to provide Slough House with intelligence and resources when she recognises that they genuinely require them for a useful project.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI5.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI5.MI-5.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.rank.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She sometimes sanctions extreme operations that have good intentions (such as snaring a collection of Far Right terrorist groups) but these often go awry and endanger her own agents or innocent people.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Lamb appears over-the-hill, overweight and indulges heavily in booze and Chinese takeaways. That doesn't stop him being surprisingly fast and effective in combat when he has to be.
* AFatherToHisMen: A subtle and downplayed example. Lamb berates, belittles and goads his staff constantly and takes a delight in mocking their ineptitude (sometimes unfairly). By contrast he often reacts protectively towards "his people" when they are insulted by those outside of Slough House. He also shows professional, restrained signs of anger and sadness when he loses people under his command in the line of duty.
* AFatherToHisMen: A subtle and downplayed example. Lamb berates, belittles and goads his staff constantly and takes a delight in mocking their ineptitude (sometimes unfairly). By contrast he often reacts protectively towards "his people" when they are insulted by those outside of Slough House. He also shows professional, restrained signs of anger and sadness when he loses people under his command in the line of duty.
* HiddenDepths: During certain stressful situations (such as when talking to River after the apparent [[spoiler: death of Sid]]) he shows a much more earnest and empathic side to his character.
** It's also implied that one reason he [[CruelToBeKind treats his employees so badly]] is because [[TheCynic he wants them to leave MI5]] to live a less harrowing and dangerous lifestyle.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He often appears to others as lazy, clumsy, uninterested and slow on the uptake. In reality he's often [[TheChessmaster three steps ahead of everyone else]] and possesses a sharp intellect.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He often appears to others as lazy, clumsy, uninterested and slow on the uptake. In reality he's often [[TheChessmaster three steps ahead of everyone else]] and possesses a sharp intellect.
* TranquilFury: Often his go-to reaction when confronted by enemies, inept agents or backstabbing colleagues.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Played with. Most of her more unethical and underhanded actions are driven by her desire to rise to head of MI5.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
* BadBoss: At times, to varying degrees. Often seen to treat her subordinates with disdain, even telling Spider at one point that he's completely disposable and she's only concerned about the impact of his actions on her career. When her agents are killed carrying out her orders, which happens a fair bit, she often simply has their records erased.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
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* ManipulativeBastard: As befitting a spymaster, and similarly to Lamb. She plays the political game constantly, whether it is engaging with literal [CorruptPolitician corrupt politicians]] for her own career advancement, or manipulating others into taking the fall for her actions or providing her with blackmail material.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regularbasis.basis.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in this with Lamb.
* TheChessmaster: At least when it comes to office politics. Even when her complicated schemes and operations backfire, she has a habit of coming out of the chaos with a nice promotion and a pat on the back.
* TheStoic: Very rarely shows much in the way of emotion, except when pushed to extreme frustration.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with. Diana is certainly not a villain when it comes to national security; she ultimately cares about keeping innocent people safe and running the security services efficiently. However, she is also happy to do deals with sleazy extremist politicians to advance her career, and ruthlessly throws others under the bus for her own mistakes. She also engages in highly corrupt behaviour for political reasons, such as knowingly having unarmed people murdered by armed response teams in order to bury evidence that she orchestrated a FalseFlagOperation. Despite her clearly unethical behaviour at times, she has a far more prestigious department than Lamb and is higher in rank.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lamb is a slovenly has-been, but he can take down a man who's much younger and fitter than him with no problem. He's also shown to be adept at playing the political game and Taverner says that he used to be one of the best agents MI5 ever had. His observation skills are also top-notch, in Season 1's final episode he near-instantly figures out which direction the kidnappers ran and how many are still alive from [[SherlockScan "reading the signs of the earth."]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lamb is a slovenly has-been, but he can take down a man who's much younger and fitter than him with no problem. He's also shown to be adept at playing the political game and Taverner says that he used to be one of the best agents MI5 MI-5 ever had. His observation skills are also top-notch, in Season 1's final episode he near-instantly figures out which direction the kidnappers ran and how many are still alive from [[SherlockScan "reading the signs of the earth."]]
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* OnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Part of the reason why he gets so motivated when one of the Slow Horses is put in harms way is because ''he'' wants to be the one to run his subordinates out of MI-5. He'll be damned if a terrorist or hostile nation takes his fun away.
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* OnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Part of the reason why he gets so motivated when one of the Slow Horses is put in harms way is because ''he'' wants to be the one to run his subordinates out of MI-5. He'll be damned if a terrorist or hostile nation takes his fun away.
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Character sheet for the television adaptation of ''Series/SlowHorses''.
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* OnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Part of the reason why he gets so motivated when one of the Slow Horses is put in harms way is because ''he'' wants to be the one to run his subordinates out of MI-5. He'll be damned if a terrorist or hostile nation takes his fun away.
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--> Lamb: Woah! Better out than in!\\
Taverner: God, you're vile.\\
Lamb: Gor, actually...maybe not.
Taverner: God, you're vile.\\
Lamb: Gor, actually...maybe not.
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-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JackLowden
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* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also incompetent at her job.
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* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also incompetent at keen to get herself promoted to director-general. This results in her job.making sloppy and short-sighted decisions that would turn into national disasters if Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses weren't around to clean up her messes. Also, because she has a one-sided focus on being seen as tough, this means she has few friends and allies in the Service and government.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She despises Lamb and he returns the enmity. Unfortunately, the two need each other to further their own aims and need to ineract on a semi-regular basis.
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!Slough House
!!Jackson Lamb
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryOldman
The slovenly section chief overseeing the Slow Horses.
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* TheAlcoholic: He drinks constantly. Season 3 reveals that his consumption goes well beyond the limits MI-5 sets for officers.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As lazy and drink-addled as he is, Lamb is still a force to be reckoned with -- having a sharp intellect and still possessing some physical skills. Enough so that Taverner takes it seriously when he starts threatening to take action against her.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lamb is a slovenly has-been, but he can take down a man who's much younger and fitter than him with no problem. He's also shown to be adept at playing the political game and Taverner says that he used to be one of the best agents MI5 ever had. His observation skills are also top-notch, in Season 1's final episode he near-instantly figures out which direction the kidnappers ran and how many are still alive from [[SherlockScan "reading the signs of the earth."]]
* {{Gasshole}}: He is very flatulent that he disgusts himself, not to mention everyone in his vicinity.
--> Lamb: Woah! Better out than in!\\
Taverner: God, you're vile.\\
Lamb: Gor, actually...maybe not.
* IronicName: He's a smart, jaded, cynical, experienced operator at both spycraft and politics -- far from being an innocent lamb.
* JabbaTableManners: Lamb is so disgusting when he eats that Cartwright would rather sit next to him and get closer to his pungent body odor than sit across from him and be treated to the sight.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As badly as he treats his subordinates, he does care about them to a certain extent and will go on the warpath if any are put in harm's way.
* ThePigPen: He doesn't care for hygiene and smells as bad as he looks.
* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: His clothes are rumpled beyond saving, his socks have holes in them, and the tie he goes through the trouble of wearing is lopsided, showing how much he's beyond caring about what others think of him. Flashbacks before his complete descent into cynicism show he used to be a sharp dresser.
!!River Cartwright
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JackLowden
A former rising star within MI-5, who's now desperate to be brought back into the fold.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Deconstructed by River. He thinks he's hot stuff and eager to rush in to be the hero. However, this means he doesn't adequately analyze the situation and leaves him prone to manipulation by more cynical parties that exploit him for their own aims.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: In a less cynical spy story, River Cartwright would be a clear-cut hero. He's young, handsome, and athletic and eager to charge in to take down the bad guys. In the world of the Slow Horses, however, he's constantly humiliated and put into his place by the slovenly and more cynical Jackson Lamb while politically ruthless higher-ups easily exploit his heroic tendencies to turn him into a scapegoat. Cartwright is initially too idealistic to even consider how cold-blooded his own MI-5 colleagues can be.
* {{Nepotism}}: His grandfather is a legend at MI-5 and had to use his clout to save River's career after the Stansted Airport fiasco.
!Regent's Park
!!Diana Taverner
-->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also incompetent at her job.
!!Jackson Lamb
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryOldman
The slovenly section chief overseeing the Slow Horses.
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* TheAlcoholic: He drinks constantly. Season 3 reveals that his consumption goes well beyond the limits MI-5 sets for officers.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: As lazy and drink-addled as he is, Lamb is still a force to be reckoned with -- having a sharp intellect and still possessing some physical skills. Enough so that Taverner takes it seriously when he starts threatening to take action against her.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lamb is a slovenly has-been, but he can take down a man who's much younger and fitter than him with no problem. He's also shown to be adept at playing the political game and Taverner says that he used to be one of the best agents MI5 ever had. His observation skills are also top-notch, in Season 1's final episode he near-instantly figures out which direction the kidnappers ran and how many are still alive from [[SherlockScan "reading the signs of the earth."]]
* {{Gasshole}}: He is very flatulent that he disgusts himself, not to mention everyone in his vicinity.
--> Lamb: Woah! Better out than in!\\
Taverner: God, you're vile.\\
Lamb: Gor, actually...maybe not.
* IronicName: He's a smart, jaded, cynical, experienced operator at both spycraft and politics -- far from being an innocent lamb.
* JabbaTableManners: Lamb is so disgusting when he eats that Cartwright would rather sit next to him and get closer to his pungent body odor than sit across from him and be treated to the sight.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As badly as he treats his subordinates, he does care about them to a certain extent and will go on the warpath if any are put in harm's way.
* ThePigPen: He doesn't care for hygiene and smells as bad as he looks.
* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: His clothes are rumpled beyond saving, his socks have holes in them, and the tie he goes through the trouble of wearing is lopsided, showing how much he's beyond caring about what others think of him. Flashbacks before his complete descent into cynicism show he used to be a sharp dresser.
!!River Cartwright
-->'''Played by:''' Creator/JackLowden
A former rising star within MI-5, who's now desperate to be brought back into the fold.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Deconstructed by River. He thinks he's hot stuff and eager to rush in to be the hero. However, this means he doesn't adequately analyze the situation and leaves him prone to manipulation by more cynical parties that exploit him for their own aims.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: In a less cynical spy story, River Cartwright would be a clear-cut hero. He's young, handsome, and athletic and eager to charge in to take down the bad guys. In the world of the Slow Horses, however, he's constantly humiliated and put into his place by the slovenly and more cynical Jackson Lamb while politically ruthless higher-ups easily exploit his heroic tendencies to turn him into a scapegoat. Cartwright is initially too idealistic to even consider how cold-blooded his own MI-5 colleagues can be.
* {{Nepotism}}: His grandfather is a legend at MI-5 and had to use his clout to save River's career after the Stansted Airport fiasco.
!Regent's Park
!!Diana Taverner
-->'''Played by:''' Kristin Scott Thomas
The deputy director-general of MI-5, who has operational command of the Security Service's activities.
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* IronLady: Deconstructed. She's tough and no-nonsense but also incompetent at her job.
