While Hassan is alone and frightened, Min and Louisa have a few drinks at the pub. The Voice of Albion have recently made an announcement of their intention to behead Hassan within 30 hours, and Min and Louisa wonder if Lamb knows anything new about the case. They decide to go back to Slough House to see what they can find. Once inside, they begin to kiss passionately but they are interrupted by the sound of someone moving upstairs. Min and Louisa encounter a masked black-clad figure in Lamb’s office. There is a struggle, and the figure and Min tumble down the stairs. The intruder falls awkwardly and is killed. Louisa takes off his mask. They know him.

Meanwhile, River finds himself lying in the hospital, remembering the time he fell out of a tree and broke his arm as a child. He has been taken to a locked cupboard for security after arriving to the hospital, on instructions from Nick Duffy. There is a guard stationed outside his door. River hears heavy footsteps approaching. Lamb subdues the guard and releases River. Lamb tells him Sid was shot in the head; she is still alive but in a critical condition.