New Conspiracy Thriller Captures Viewers Attention

With scenes reminiscent of 2018 thriller Bodyguard, The Capture follows the story of British soldier Shaun Emery (Callum Turner). After he is charged with a murder that he denies committing, Shaun finds himself wrapped up in the secrets of the Intelligent Services as young detective Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) investigates.

The drama is unpredictable, suspenseful, and gritty; a multilayered conspiracy that unravels the secrets of the Intelligent Services and their use of the mysterious Correction program.
Below, we dig deeper into this psychological thriller to bring you an in-depth analysis of the gripping series...

Shaun Emery and Hannah Roberts

We first meet Shaun Emery in court, as a soldier accused of murdering an unarmed man in Helmund Province. He is later acquitted of the crime, after video evidence suggests that there was a delay in the time of Shaun's vocal warning and the footage of the killing. However, we later learn in the last episode that this is untrue and Shaun did indeed take the life of an unarmed Afghan man.

After being acquitted, Shaun celebrates in a pub and later escorts barrister Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock) to a bus stop. After they share a kiss, things take a turn for the worst as live CCTV footage implicates Shaun in the assault and abduction of the human rights lawyer. However, this footage has been doctored by a group known as the Pilgrims of Justice - in which Hannah is a member.

The Pilgrims of Justice

The footage was faked by the group to prove to the courts and the world that the same method was used by the Intelligent Services to imprison terrorist suspect Dahmani. Shaun Emery was used as the target because of his high-profile case and image in the public eye.

The group receive help from Eli Jacobi, who works with the CIA and Frank Napier. At first we are lead to believe that video-manipulator Eli has turned his back on the CIA and works as a mole for the Pilgrims of Justice. However, we later learn that Eli was in fact planted in Napier's group by boss lady Jessica Mallory (Famke Janssen) to keep an eye on him and within the Pilgrims of Justice to not only release details of Correction but to implant it as a conspiracy theory within the public eye. Jessica Mallory thought that this was the best way to keep the program safe.

Frank Napier 

Frank Napier works for the CIA and runs the Correction program. After corrected footage emerges of Shaun Emery assaulting Hannah Roberts, Frank does all can to keep Correction under-wraps. As the Pilgrims of Justice get ready to expose the program and the real CCTV footage, Napier interrogates Eli who tells him of Hannah's whereabouts. To protect the program, Hannah is later found murdered so that there is no doubt in the public mind that Shaun Emery abducted and murdered Hannah Roberts - as the corrected footage suggests.

Frank later learns that Eli was acting under the orders of Jessica Mallory and that the idea to publicize Correction was a ploy to convince the public that Correction is just a conspiracy theory.

The Correction

Correction is a program monitored by mysterious Intelligence officer Gemma Garland, CIA operative Frank Napier and Commander Danny Hart, the boss of Counter-Terrorism.

The aim of the program is to doctor CCTV footage of terrorist members and organisations, to support evidence. Gemma Garland explains to Detective Rachel Carey in the final episode that evidence such as wire-taps is unusable in a court of law, so CCTV is faked to support the information that has been gathered - this ensures the lawful imprisonment of terrorists.

Shaun Emery is later blackmailed by Napier to enter a guilty plea over the murder of Hannah and Detective Rachel Carey is later convinced to join the Correction program.

This is a dark and twisted conspiracy thriller which is much more calmer with stunts compared to Bodyguard - although it does have a heart-racing scene where Shaun escapes from the moving boot of a car.
There is no good guys or bad guys, but the question of morality and ethics and how much we really need to know to keep us safe.

The Capture is currently available to watch as a boxset on BBC iPlayer