Circus: Slow Horses season 5 penultimate episode Oct 22 on Apple TV

The fifth episode of Slow Horses season five, titled Circus, will be released on Apple TV on October 22 as the penultimate installment of the series. The episode continues the season-long destabilisation plot centered in London and will be available on Apple TV at the platform’s regular weekly release times, appearing at 8 a.m. British Summer Time on Wednesday and, for viewers in the United States, at 12 a.m. Pacific and 3 a.m. Eastern; it will be available across continental Europe at 9 a.m. Central European Summer Time.

Apple TV’s teaser synopsis for Circus says, "Lamb debriefs River and Coe. Roddy is pulled in to help decipher a piece of code as the destabilisation strategy nears its final stage," signaling a tightening of the season’s central conspiracy. The episode follows a team of intelligence misfits based at Slough House, a fictional branch of MI5 where washed-up or sidelined agents undertake the work headquarters prefers to avoid. Gary Oldman leads the ensemble as Jackson Lamb, joined this season by Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung and a supporting cast that includes Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Brooke, Saskia Reeves and Hugo Weaving.