Speaking as Lamb of the spies he oversees, Oldman said: "My main objective is to make their time at Slough House so bone-crushingly boring that they leave and remove themselves from the service." This reflects the character's true intention of breaking the spirits of those he oversees.
The paradox of the novels and the series is that the spymaster at their center is both essential and unknowable. Herron has said that he avoids writing from the inside of his beloved protagonist's head because he does not want to break him.
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