The Capture (BBC One)

[unique1986]

Tonight 9pm
Looks good!
Holliday Grainger is such a good actress.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

@Mouldyfoodhelp

watch this series 😃😃

then find no 2 of the capture

this is on bbc iPlayer

[humansympathique]

@peridito
Yes that's it - correction cannot be controlled so best to let it seep out, but simultaneously discredit it. That way muddies the water, so hard to know what is true and then use that environment to your advantage ... including support from a pres who like the idea of certain videos being deniable
I dont really get the anti holliday feel. Loads of lookers on the show - m& f. Successful ppl are often good looking & well dressed too .. deal w it loosers

[peridito]

I thought the CIA wanted "correction" proved so that damaging footage ( of the President ?) could be discredited ?

re teary eyes i wonder if Holliday Grainger has problems with contact lenses ?
I really disliked the Rachel Carey character - over dressed ,too much posing and pouting . But then I thought the silver haired Gemma and opalescent Jessica were also visually strange and hard to believe in .

[ColonelCathcart]

Yes I think Jessica would just see Hannah as collateral and the bigger picture as more important.

[AvillageinProvence]

Actually the chilling thought that has occurred to me is that the Jessica/Eli plan must have been all along that Hannah had to die. Because if Hannah turned up alive, it would prove that 'correction' happens - which wasn't what Jessica wanted.
The way it worked out, the rumours started that correction happens but they were never proved and remain just rumours - exactly how Jessica wanted it. So the plan must have been that Hannah would die somehow or other.

If that's true, Eli is even worse than we thought! Presumably he persuaded the team that Hannah had to be hidden away in the countryside to avoid being spotted. The only odd thing is that he also presumably supplied her cctv equipment at the cottage - which could have made it more complicated to kill her, although as it turned out it did her no good at all.

[ColonelCathcart]

I’d forgotten about her not being spotted, that’s true. But if Eli was ultimately working for the CIA woman and they wanted Correction exposed a little, at least to cast doubt on the video of the higher up guy, Eli wouldn’t want Hannah dead? As that ruins the plan. Or was it that they wanted to expose it themselves?

[AvillageinProvence]

They thought she'd be less likely to be spotted which would have given the game away. Though it was odd - they'd given Hannah all that cctv, which suggested they knew she might be in danger. In which case that was poor judgement to leave her alone in the middle of nowhere.

Maybe eli suggested it - not sure if his plan was that Frank would kill Hannah, but it certainly made it easier for that to happen.

[ColonelCathcart]

Why did they leave Hannah alone in the middle of nowhere? That still bugs me.

[Nonnymum]

Ker100 were you thinking she was eluding to the president?
That was my first thought.

[CurlyWurlyTwirly]

for the Shaun Emery fans

[Azzizam]

*Shaun

[Azzizam]

Absolutely loved it. Yes even Rachel's teary eyes. I loved her character. As for Sean Amery phew!! When he was in the shower, all I could think was "Ooh my what lovely big hands you have!"

[Babybel90]

Hopefully there will be a 2nd series where Carey and Shaun are both playing along so they don’t get set up further but manage to close down the correction team. I doubt they’d be able to expose it because it would mean every case that’s relied on CCTV evidence being retried.

[Powergower]

Really enjoyed this. It did get a bit bonkers but was ok. However. Both me and hubby we really distracted by the main female detective (already forgotten her name) always having really teary eyes. Even in the bin emotional scenes her eyes looked filled with tears! Very odd.

[AvillageinProvence]

Of course Shaun's story is far from complete in reality - what happens to him in prison, when he gets out, his relationship with his daughter, are all a very important part of his story - but he's served his purpose to the series in dramatic terms, just as he also has to Jessica/Eli, Charlie/Hannah, Frank/Gemma.

Very meta!

[CurlyWurlyTwirly]

Radio Times review

Looks like Shaun’s story is complete.
But the writer hints that Carey has more to offer to the story

[AvillageinProvence]

Agree jude - apart from anything else it means that the real killer of Hannah has got away with it, so she has not had justice at all. Obviously the real killer was always going to get away with it, being Frank and his mob, but as a matter of principle it's wrong that people think the killer has been caught when in fact he's roaming free. Also as a matter of principle it's undesirable for an innocent person to confess and plead guilty!

What would Shaun's sentence have been for the crime he really did commit (though I still cling to the hope that he has misremembered as a result of his recent traumas and is actually innocent of both!)?

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

I think in a way Shaun was more noble and honest than all the others put together.

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

the way above pay grade comment was a direct allusion to trump
Definitely, they even got in a bit of a clunky ‘alternative facts’ line from Frank, just in case there was any doubt

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

I liked how he went to prison, he deserved it ... I think he was pleased too and felt it was true justice." TarrantsTinyToe I agree. It was justice for him
Completely disagree. I really don’t like the way they are suggesting the (as PP put it) killing someone in the high pressure environment of war where you’re expected to make split second decisions and he made the wrong one is in any way comparable to a horrific kidnapping and murder of an unarmed woman in civilian life. It isn’t. And it would be in no way ‘justice’.

[AvillageinProvence]

Yes purple I think that was the message, slightly obliquely conveyed - Eli tricked Charlie and Hannah into hatching and carrying out their plot, because the US authorities wanted there to be unproved rumours circulating about 'correction'.

So Hannah should have relied on her instincts that Eli was not trustworthy! It makes more sense now that he was never given any backstory about why he was doing it, burning sense of injustice etc. He was unconvincing as a whistleblower for a reason!

[AvillageinProvence]

Just rewatched - I hadn't realised first time round that the 'gang' had uploaded to the internet their footage of Shaun walking away from the busstop (I got distracted!). It obviously hadn't achieved the desired effect as there was no newsflash about the Sycamore people being released. I suppose Shaun pleading guilty pulled the rug from under their feet - the real footage would just have been regarded as fake news.
So Shaun is the unimportant squaddie who everyone, on all sides, sees as expendable material to further their own plans - CIA, police, Hannah/Charlie, jessica's lot, and also apparently Rachel in the end. Not just Shaun who is expendable either - his child, grandfather, ex, will all suffer for the rest of their lives because of his wrongful conviction - but they're regarded as collateral damage I suppose because they're 'nobodies'. (over-invested here!)
I wonder about series 2 and Abi though - was she watching when Rachel transferred the gadget to the photo frame? May she yet be the true force for good?

[purpleme12]

So had Eli got all these people together to fight the correction?

[humansympathique]

Doubt it stands up to close scrutiny - it may do of course but doesnt take away too much from the story. To be fair to the plot, the bit that bothered me was the stupid plan cooked up by the group turned out to be orchestrated by the cia. I did wonder if they were being played, but had assumed by charlie rather than directly eli&co

[purpleme12]

It just makes you not know who to trust even watching it