Introduction

The Capture is a British mystery crime-drama series created, written and directed by Ben Chanan, and starring Holliday Grainger, Callum Turner, Laura Haddock, Ben Miles, Paul Ritter and Ron Perlman.

Set in present-day London, Grainger stars as Detective Inspector Rachel Carey, who is assigned to arrest and charge United Kingdom Special Forces Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Turner), who is looking to clear his name of a horrific crime supposedly captured by CCTV.

Outline Series 01, Episode 06

Emery hides out at Carey’s family home, but leaves when false footage on the BBC shows him kidnapping his daughter. He confronts Charlie Hall and attacks him, but is intercepted by Garland, who allows him to visit his daughter.

Napier is met by Jessica Mallory, a senior official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Carey confronts them and demands that she be reinstated and Emery be removed as a suspect, or she will send the footage of Roberts on the bus to the DPP and 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.

The Capture Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director: Ben Chanan.
• Producers: Rosie Alison, Ben Chanan, Tom Coan, David Heyman, Ben Irving, Tom Winchester, Derek Ritchie, and David Higginson.
• Writer: Ben Chanan.
• Music: Ian Arber and Dave Rowntree.
• Cinematography: Rasmus Arrildt.
• Editors: Kim Gaster, Richard Graham, and Emma Oxley.
• Release Date: 08 October 2019.
• Running Time: 50-60 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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