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The Capture Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
What Happens in Helmand
Wed, Jul 15, 202059 mins
After serving six months in prison for the alleged murder of an unarmed Talibaninsurgent in Afghanistan, former Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) is acquitted when the Court of Appeal rules that video evidence used to convict him was potentially flawed. Whilst celebrating victory, his barrister Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock) abruptly leaves. Emery goes after her and the two kiss, with Roberts then boarding a bus to go home. However, CCTV footage captures Emery assaulting and kidnapping her. Meanwhile, DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) has been temporarily seconded to Homicide and Serious Crime Command from SO15, having recently led Operation Sycamore that secured the convictions of four 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' body.
Episode 2
Toy Soldier
Wed, Jul 15, 202058 mins
Carey is told that the CCTV footage is now redacted by the Security Service. Unable to find Roberts' body or any other evidence, she is forced to release Emery on bail, but becomes suspicious and starts to suspect he may be suffering from PTSD. Emery attempts to track down Roberts himself, and with help from a friend breaks into her flat. He notices somebody else inside and gives chase, getting into a black cab to follow the man's vehicle. This activity is noticed by homicide detectives DS Nadia Latif (Ginny Holder) and DS Patrick Flynn (Cavan Clerkin), who began following Emery despite lacking evidence for a warrant, and also by Carey via CCTV in the Counter Terrorism command center. The taxi driver (Ian Burfield) initially seems eager to aid Emery, claiming to recognize him from his publicized 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." Briefly seen is the safe house operations room is Frank Napier (Ron Perlman).
Episode 3
Truffle Hog
Wed, Jul 15, 202058 mins
Shaun is interrogated by the CIA in a covert safe house, and while Rachel sees CCTV footage of him going in, she then finds she is unable to locate him inside. Her investigation leads her to make shocking discoveries about the degree to which CCTV footage might be manipulated. Finally released by his American captors, Shaun goes on the run from the police - but his quest to clear his name soon takes a devastating turn.
Episode 4
Blind Spots
Wed, Jul 15, 202058 mins
Rachel finally comes face to face with Shaun, who offers up the location of the CIA safe house before managing to evade arrest once more. The fugitive soldier flees into an encounter with two mysterious strangers, who offer to provide him with the answers he is looking for. Rachel pays Napier a visit, and the meeting leaves her more convinced than ever that the CCTV network has been compromised.
Episode 5
A Pilgrim of Justice
Wed, Jul 15, 202058 mins
The truth behind what happened to Shaun is revealed to him as he finally comes face to face with the powers behind his downfall. Rachel seeks answers of her own after her suspicions that Shaun has been set up are confirmed by a vital piece of evidence. However, the truth they both uncover places their lives in great danger.
Episode 6
Correction
Wed, Jul 15, 202058 mins
Emery hides out at Carey's family home but leaves when deep-fake 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 (Famke Janssen), 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 framed to prove he was 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 are actually "truth reenacted." 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.
