The Capture (BBC One)

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

Oh this is still confusing!

Writer to BBC - so what do you think of the script then?

BBC - Fantastic but you are going to need to rewrite episode 6 because we want to leave it open for series 2.

Decent watch but disappointing ending for me

The premise was intriguing & we quite enjoyed the early eps but by the end didn’t care about any of the characters; just wanted it to be over, even that meant some kind of mass slaughter. The last ep was an odd mix of entirely predictable whilst simultaneously confusing. I don’t know how they did that. The main guy was so dull & didn’t really have the looks to make up for his lack of charisma.

Pistols69 as soon as it finished we both said, there’ll be a series two then!

Well I'd watch a series 2.
Still not entirely sure how I'm left feeling

Bit confusing. No real conclusions.
Famke Janssen was great, but I was distracted by her silicon cheek implants.

I think Carey will destroy Correction from the inside in series 2.

Little confusing

So SHAUN confesses or else they make him look like he’s an abuser of kids

He did kill the soldier in cold blood

Eli I think was working for 3 sides including famke who then basically said be careful of we can set you up to frank

Rachel has a clip that could save him and hides it behind her mums pic

But goes to work for the other side with the grey heads

Hannah lawyer bf got taken to Americans camp as he caused the trouble in the first place

But what was Eli doing for the 3 sides? Why was he working for 3 sides? And I thought he was supposed to have been tortured?
I just didn't get that bit

Also what was the whole scene about. The footage was fake he was looking at and he went into the room and the all seemed to ignore him?

And who even was the woman who seemed to be Frank's boss? What was her job?

FJ's character is his senior in the CIA and came over to monitor things in the 'correction' Unit.

She admits to Frank near the end that her own boss, a man far higher up in the echelons of power in the USA, wants the corrections to become public knowledge. This is because of his own indiscretions or wrongdoing, ie. he wants the public to doubt CCTV evidence so they won't think badly of him if he's caught on camera doing bad stuff.

So Eli was planted in there by Frank's seniors to make- in a very roundabout way- the corrections public knowledge.

I think??!!!

"It was Morgan Freeman with a bit of Correction" laughing out loud, BreakfastAtSquiffanys, or has someone superimposed my voice over another person! What is real!!

"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. It was lovely his (former) partner understood what he had done and what he had not done.

I did wonder if her crap partner would be on the way out - 17 missed calls!

Quaffy I agree about Eli. I also liked the fact that it was implied cameras were watching Frank too.

As always I predicted the last little bit to my dh with the words "I could write this shit." (I loved it) and he said as always "Why don't you then!!!" Actually, I could not write all the torture etc. I can't really write it I can just sometimes see it coming!

purpleme12 Yeah the Eli bit was a bit confusing.

My dh had already pointed out it said Series one, on iplayer!

Octonaught "I think Carey will destroy Correction from the inside in series 2." Now that is an interesting thought!

Ker100 were you thinking she was eluding to the president?

But what was Eli doing for the 3 sides? Why was he working for 3 sides? And I thought he was supposed to have been tortured?

Yes, eli had been primed by fj to do the 'whistleblowing' stunt with the gang - hence the replay, at the beginning of ep 6, of the scene when Hannah doubted his motives to Charlie. She was right all along! And when Frank told Hannah that Eli gave her up easily, he was actually telling the truth (paradoxically!) - we never actually saw Eli being tortured, and it now looks as though he gave away her location without much resistance.

So SHAUN confesses or else they make him look like he’s an abuser of kids

That was really shit and I’m not sure he would have agreed to that knowing there was the real footage out there?

Also, ok-he did actually kill the man at the beginning, but I’m not sure the secret service knew or cared about that so, basically they just all screwed his life up not knowing or caring whether he’d actually done anything at all. He didn’t kidnap or murder the lawyer and would have that shadow hanging over him forever.

I don't understand why Rachel didn't use her own copy of the footage to get Shaun off? Was that explained?

Didn't like the Shaun ending at all, though I could see why he gave in at the end - when Frank showed him the footage of him and his daughter you could see why he'd just had enough, and couldn't fight any longer.

Do we know what Charlie's fate was or were we just left to guess?

he did actually kill the man at the beginning, but I’m not sure the secret service knew or cared about that so, basically they just all screwed his life up not knowing or caring whether he’d actually done anything at all. He didn’t kidnap or murder the lawyer and would have that shadow hanging over him forever.

This is what I thought, I’d much rather be convicted for killing someone in the high pressure environment of war where you’re expected to make split second decisions and he made the wrong one, than for a horrific kidnapping and murder of an unarmed woman in civilian life.

Perhaps he was hoping the people helping Charlie would come forward with the real footage to exonerate him once he’d been sentenced.

Perhaps he was hoping the people helping Charlie would come forward with the real footage to exonerate him once he’d been sentenced.

Good point, they still want to get the brother and others off, so they would have every incentive to produce the footage. Though if Charlie has disappeared they may be too frightened to do so. It is a bit unrealistic to think that none of the five or six of them will go the press isn't it? (Though Frank may have been threatening all of them off-screen, of course.)

Does seem there might be a s2

His flashback showed the man he shot held out his hand palm open. No gun. And SHAUN still shot him

So correction big boss wanted SHAUN to be framed then released so in time to come if he got caught he could say been framed

Seems complex. I wanted Shaun to be free of the murder of Hannah as he didn’t do it

Whose fingers did they cut off

Pretty satisfying ending. The first half of ep6 was really gripping! Lost tension for me when they went all bafta by posing the big moral questions but still fun
Def felt for shaun - a real hero. He didnt seem to have eaten or slept throughout on top of being beaten tazered dumped from a car knocked down by a transit van balcony fall ..............
The big Q. Was rach

1. Just a fast track all along?
2. Worse as will do whatever to get ahead, sleep wth boss, blackmail with hidden file etc. The tears yes, but were they more for herself?
3. Persauded by the gey hairs real politik?
4. Gonna correct or screw coreection from the inside?

Im going with 1&3

I thought the ending was good. Enough loose ends tied up for a satisfying conclusion but enough questions left for a second series.

@sittonthefloor gotta disagree about looks - rarely seen such a handsome blackeye
@purpleme - eli never tortured
@ ker100 the way above pay grade comment was a direct allusion to trump - rumours of v compromising russian ss filming of him. Thought this was director trying to look all weighty
@italian ghound - doubt shaun was pleased to do time for manslaughter but agree he saw some poetic justice and maybe resigned to an opportunity to pay for guilt over previous actions - not just taliban either

Yes, I agree about the ending being both conclusive and suggestive of a second series.
That means I am ambivalent about taking or leaving a second series. think I'll leave it

How did they corrupt the memory stick that the policeman had? don't you need to have the gadget in your possession to corrupt it once it's been copied?

Yeh i wondered that too a village. Prob no explanation but all sorts of unlikely technical possibilities? Cd they have corrupted file on her laptop before transfer to stick?

hmm, in which case Rachel's own copy is also corrupted. Possible that they could have set his laptop remotely to corrupt any memory stick put into the d drive?

Another technical issue; the Charlie/Hannah gang corrected the busstop footage but have we ever learned how the cctv made Shaun appear to drive around for ages, including the river blind spot, after leaving Hannah? Was that footage real - a bit of a coincidence if so? Sounded as though the river was quite a way away - why would Shaun have been driving there 'for real' rather than going straight back to the flat.

This is what I thought, I’d much rather be convicted for killing someone in the high pressure environment of war where you’re expected to make split second decisions and he made the wrong one, than for a horrific kidnapping and murder of an unarmed woman in civilian life.

Exactly!

I just can’t imagine he would have pleaded guilty.