It’s a shocking moment. In this series of the pacey conspiracy thriller The Capture, a man marches into a press conference and kills the home secretary. The gunman’s face is plastered all over the footage picked up by the TV news cameras in the room, but the talented young police officer Rachel Carey is the only person to have seen him up close. She is convinced that the man in the videos is not the man she saw, and the situation is compounded when the real gunman turns up at her office and announces himself as her new boss. Last night the final episode was shown, revealing a conspiracy that goes to the heart of the British state.
Written down like that, the plot seems rather silly. But within the uncanny, paranoid parallel of modern Britain that the writer Ben Chanan has created, it feels entirely plausible. Carey’s Britain is one where agents of the deep state engage in an illicit process called “correction”, seamlessly editing CCTV footage to frame their suspects, and in doing so securing prosecutions with ease.
“Back when The Capture started, we [in the real world] were so far behind in terms of deepfakes and AI that people just didn’t believe it, but the world has caught up so much and so now, by series three, people are believing it,” says Holliday Grainger, who plays Carey.
The 38-year-old is speaking from Devon, where she is on holiday with her partner and soon-to-be five-year-old twins. “It started off feeling quite Black Mirror-y and now it just feels like another version of the news.”
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written by admin on April 15, 2026
