The Capture (TV series)
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| Written by | Ben Chanan |
| Directed by | Ben Chanan |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 (list of episodes) |
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| Cinematography | Rasmus Arrildt |
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| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 56–69 Minutes |
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| Release | 3 September 2019 – present |
The Capture is a British
Paul Ritter, and Ron Perlman
.
The series premiered on BBC One on 3 September 2019, and received positive reviews from critics. It was announced in June 2020 that a second series had been commissioned.[1] The second series began airing on BBC One in the UK on 28 August 2022[2] and it also premiered on Peacock in the US on 3 November 2022.
Premise
In series one, after being acquitted of a
Homicide and Serious Crime Command
begins to uncover a complex conspiracy surrounding Emery, calling into question the validity of the footage.
In series two, rising politician Isaac Turner finds himself caught up in a similar conspiracy after a deepfake of him causes yet another race against time for Rachel to expose the truth before it is too late.
Cast
Main
- Holliday Grainger as DI/DCI Rachel Carey
- Cavan Clerkin as DS Patrick Flynn
- Ginny Holder as DS/DI Nadia Latif
- Ben Miles as Commander Danny Hart
- Ron Perlman as CIA Section Chief Frank Napier
- Lia Williams as DSU Gemma Garland
- Nigel Lindsay as DCI Tom Kendricks
- Daisy Waterstone as Abigail Carey, Rachel's half-sister[3]
- Peter Singh as DI Phillips, later seconded to the CIA
Series 1
- Callum Turner as Lance Corporal Shaun Emery
- Sophia Brown as Karen Merville, Emery's ex-girlfriend
- Paul Ritteras Marcus Levy
- Famke Janssen as CIA Executive Consultant Jessica Mallory
- Ralph Ineson as DCI Alec Boyd
- Laura Haddock as Hannah Roberts, Emery's barrister
- Barry Ward as Charlie Hall, Emery's solicitor
- Tommy McDonnell as Matt, Sean Emery's best friend
- Alan Williams as Eddie Emery
Series 2
- MP for HazlemereSouth
- Indira Varma as Khadija Khan, presenter of Newsnight
- Andy Nyman as Home Secretary Rowan Gill
- Rob Yang as Yan Wanglei, UK head of Chinese artificial intelligence company XANDA
- Charlie Murphy as Simone Turner, Isaac's wife
- Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan
- Harry Michell as Rhys Edwards, a political aide
- Natalie Dew as Aliza Clarke, a political aide
- Joseph Arkley as Gregory Knox, CEO of Truro Analytics
- Angus Wright as Anthony Reed, OBE, BBC security correspondent
Production
Filming locations
Production filmed interior scenes at
Canterbury Prison, Kent, England doubling as HMP Gladstone, London for episode one. Lead character Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) is released from prison wearing a soldier's uniform. He later is rearrested and returns to the prison.[4]
Other interior scenes were filmed at the Printworks venue in Rotherhithe, and The Shard.[5]
Series 2 of The Capture began airing on BBC One on Sunday 28 August 2022.[6]
Episodes
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | Average UK viewers (millions) | ||
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| 1 | 6 | 3 September 2019 | 8 October 2019 | 5.66 | |
| 2 | 6 | 28 August 2022 | 12 September 2022 | 3.81 | |
Series 1
| No. | Title [7] | Written and directed by | Original air date [7] | U.K viewers (millions) [8] | |
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| 1 | "What Happens in Helmand" | Ben Chanan | 3 September 2019 | 5.56 | |
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After serving six months in prison for the alleged murder of an unarmed ISIS terrorists. Rachel's team is called to the scene of the kidnapping, and Carey calls in her contacts to identify Emery with facial recognition . Emery is arrested, but no trace of Roberts is found in his vehicle. In custody, Emery is shown the CCTV footage, but violently lashes out and claims it is fake. Carey sets about locating Roberts's body. | |||||
| 2 | "Toy Soldier" | Ben Chanan | 10 September 2019 | 4.97 | |
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Carey is told that the CCTV footage is now redacted by the CCTV in the Counter Terrorism command centre. The taxi driver initially seems eager to aid Emery, claiming to recognise him from his publicised acquittal, but then locks Emery in the car and drives him to a house in Eaton Square , where he is escorted inside by armed men. Carey orders Flynn and Latif to intercept, but despite being parked in sight of the correct address, they see only an empty street. Emery is locked in an interrogation room, and American intelligence officers report that "the toy soldier is contained." | |||||
| 3 | "Truffle Hog" | Ben Chanan | 17 September 2019 | 5.19 | |
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Emery is questioned about Roberts's whereabouts by US intelligence officer Frank Napier, who shows him footage of his friend Matt being SCO19, but police are unable to find Emery. Carey searches for the earlier footage of him entering, but is told it can't be found. Emery escapes from the Americans and confronts Marcus Levy, a video engineer who helped with his appeal. Levy tells him that although deepfake technology does exist, there is no way to alter live footage. However, Levy later meets with Carey and hypothesises that footage of Emery and Roberts could have been delayed slightly then altered, using a passing bus as cover for a transition shot . Emery meets Matt and sees that he has not been tortured. Emery leaves London in Matt's car, but Matt tips off the police. Pulling into a scrapyard, Emery discovers Roberts's body in the boot. Observing his movements on CCTV, and growing suspicious, Carey leaves to confront him. | |||||
| 4 | "Blind Spots" | Ben Chanan | 24 September 2019 | 5.56 | |
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Emery is sprayed with pepper spray by a police officer but is able to escape only to be confronted by Carey, who tells him about her suspicions. Before overpowering her and escaping in her car, Emery tells her he was actually taken to Gastor Square. Forced to abandon the police vehicle, Emery is kidnapped by two people calling themselves Alma and Kenny, who show him a GPS tracker in his shoe and dispose of it. Carey and Flynn deduce the actual location Emery was taken to in Belgravia and are met by Napier, who asks them to leave. Marcus Levy is attacked and put into a coma by Napier's men. After defying Garland's orders by trying to have Roberts's body relocated by the coroner, Carey is suspended from duty, accused of perverting the course of justice. She confronts Hart in The Shard, but he warns her to tread carefully and think about why Roberts, a human rights lawyer, would choose to represent Emery. Flynn uncovers footage showing that Roberts did get on the bus the evening of her disappearance. Using an airgapped phone with a map of CCTV blind spots, Alma takes Emery to an industrial nightclub. She tells him about the covert intelligence practice of "correction", in which video evidence is manipulated to convict suspects. He is met by the man he saw in Roberts's flat, Kenny, and his former solicitor Charlie Hall. | |||||
| 5 | "A Pilgrim of Justice" | Ben Chanan | 1 October 2019 | 6.04 | |
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The group show Emery the original footage that proves his innocence but tell him the alteration was not made by the whistleblower from Napier's team. They intended to reveal Roberts as alive after Emery's trial for her murder, and so uncover the practice of "correction" and exposing real miscarriages of justice. After Roberts goes into hiding, Garland, Hart and Napier begin to suspect the footage is a stunt to expose their practices, and Napier decides to make the false story "true" and kill Roberts. After interrogating Eli, Napier and his men track Roberts to a safe house , where she is killed. Hart informs Carey, and she leaves with Flynn, disgusted. Wanting Emery to be re-arrested, Hall's group tips off the police, who surround the club, but Emery is able to escape with the assistance of Carey and Flynn. Napier instructs Garland to identify Emery's daughter's school. | |||||
| 6 | "Correction" | Ben Chanan | 8 October 2019 | 6.64 | |
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Emery hides out at Carey's family home but leaves when false footage on the IOPC. They remotely corrupt Flynn's USB drive so he cannot upload the footage. After spending time with his child under supervision Emery is met by Napier, who reveals the whole meeting was filmed and will be altered to show him abusing her unless he confesses to killing Roberts. Emery agrees and pleads guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. After sentencing, Garland defends the practice of correction to Carey, saying that they only fake events that actually occurred. She urges Carey to join them. Emery is visited in prison by his ex-partner, who Carey told he was innocent of killing Roberts. He claims justice has now caught up with him and confesses he did murder the unarmed insurgent. Eli is diplomatically repatriated by Mallory, as the executive branch wants to leak the idea of correction as a conspiracy theory, thus giving them deniability. Carey hides an SD card containing a copy of the real bus footage, but then returns to Counter Terrorism Command and asks Hart and Garland when she can start working for them. | |||||
Series 2
| No. | Title [7] | Directed by [7] | Written by [7] | Original air date [7] | U.K viewers (millions) [9] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Invisible Men" | James Kent | Ben Chanan | 28 August 2022 | 4.17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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