River Cartwright is poisoned with suspected Novichok in brutal Slow Horses finale moments after his reunion with Sid
Jack Lowden, whose spy River Cartwright is struck down by suspected Novichok poisoning in the Slow Horses finale, is widely rumoured to be the next James Bond.
Head writer Gaby Chiappe declines to reveal whether Jack Lowden's bumbling spy makes it through: 'People survive it, but people also die from it.' River falls to the kitchen floor of his late grandfather's house, gasping, while Olivia Cooke's Sid is upstairs in the shower. Russian assassins had come to the property earlier in the season. Apple TV has already ordered two further series of the drama.
In Mick Herron's novels River survives the nerve agent but is left on medical leave.
Hugo Weaving's Frank Harkness shoots Ruth Bradley's Emma Flyte dead on a beach, a departure from the book.
Lowden is widely rumoured to be the next James Bond, feeding speculation about River's fate.
