THE CAPTURE S3 - sun 8th March - bbc 1 9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Yay it’s back !!! S3

gives excited squeak !!

If you haven’t seen s1&2. Stop. Don’t read any more and go and watch

S1 here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/3682755-The-Capture-BBC-One

S2 here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4616946-the-capture-s2-starts-sunday-28-aug-bbc1-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers

Only taken 4 years but have s3 and think 7yrs from s1 !!

Don’t read below if haven’t seen 1&2

many of us loved this
the soldier accused of killing a lady at the bus stop

it was all faked

s1 & s2 is on iPlayer if want to refresh minds
i have downloaded e6 of s2 to refresh myself

It has been confirmed that the first episode of The Capture (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-capture-season-3-trailer-newsupdate/) season 3 will launch on BBC iPlayer at 6am on Sunday 8 March, before airing on BBC One at 9pm that evening.

Rather than all the episodes being made available at once on iPlayer, each new instalment will then arrive weekly on Sundays - meaning the finale is expected to air on Sunday 12 April.

😛😛😛😛 to you bingers - this is how good tv should be shown

The weekly anticipation like Line of duty and Happy Valley was

Blondes does happy dance as means hopefully be no spoilers - wouldn’t that be nice for once !! 😀😀😀😀

Holliday Grainger returns as Rachel Carey in the third season of BBC thriller The Capture (https://www.playpilot.com/show/the-capture-2019), with Rachel now dealing with a "brutal" act of terror and a high-stakes geopolitical crisis.

As seen in an adrenaline-filled extended trailer (https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a70218127/the-capture-season-3-trailer/), season 3 sees Rachel at the helm of the Counter Terrorism Command as Acting Commander.

other stars joining Carey for round three of The Capture (https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a69948383/the-capture-season-3-first-look/), including Game of Thrones' Indira Varma as Khadija Khan and Paapa Essiedu as MP Isaac Turner.

Season 3 also stars Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan, Lia Williams as Gemma Garland, Ginny Holder as DI Nadia Latif, Nigel Lindsay as DCI Tom Kendricks, Daisy Waterstone as Abigail.

Rounding out the cast for this season are Hugh Quarshie as Commissioner Cameron Yates, plus Broadchurch's Andrew Buchan, Game of Thrones' Joe Dempsie, Kaos star Killian Scott, and Good Omens' Jonathan Aris.

As Isaac suggests hiring Rachel as Commander of CTD is the best way for the department to "clean up its act", she's confident that the newly rolled-out Operation Veritas, a surveillance system aimed to detect deepfakes in real time, will restore public trust in the institutions.

After a shooting takes place in central London, Rachel realises she's the only one who's seen the attacker. When footage of the incident is released, she is stunned when she doesn't recognise the man, realising the video has been altered with Correction, the covert manipulation programme uncovered in previous seasons.

But the shooting derails the plan, with Rachel desperate to find out the truth and who's behind the attack.

Definitely set up for series four. Actually can’t decide if I understood it, and have no idea who is bad or good anymore, including Rachel.

I think Rachel's still good

But she's being forced into doing it basically

Being forced into keeping the other bad people a secret I mean

Hmm. I think I enjoyed it, but also thought it got a bit daft and convoluted.

Walker wasn’t a Russian spy, Simon ordered that so the Increment bunch could get more funding. Likely always the end game - money.

So, Rachel using correction means she might now have the job title, but will have to do Captain fella & his mates’ bidding. They’ve finally got something on her.

I was sickened by the old boy cronies, gathered for dinner. All men, of course.

My thoughts exactly
All men

it didn’t occur to me that the empty seat was for someone.

I def saw it as an empty seat but for who

My guess is that S4 will see Rachel come to terms with the fact that she’s done a Bad Thing, but refuse to be at the behest of Figgis et al. Probably go along with things at first, but secretly setting about exposing him & boys club, before any punishment (professional or otherwise) kicks in.

Helped by the deputy commissioner - whose name escapes me - who wants to see Yates punished.

Rick from holby 😂

It was all silly. I think it would have been better if they just put up someone we would totally least expect as Simon and end it all. But there were so many webs and rubbish. I didn't really enjoy this season as much as series 1 and 2. It was like they were trying to invent 50 things going on to over complicate and make it clever and make you think.

I dont even beleive that Will/Noah/Russian spy is truly dead either.

I liked how they went full circle.

Also was that Gemma in the pic or not

All a bit daft and convoluted.
I thought Holliday Grainger was excellent as Rachel.

Sorry I’m so confused. Is Noah/Will bad after all? Why did he go in to the inquiry and shoot Gemma. Did Gemma somehow fake her death.

He reactivated his heart thing so was connected to Simon again who told him to do it. I think 😂

I thought Noah/Will obeyed his order as trained to do, but I’m now wondering. Gemma got her passport, surely some relevance??

Going to need a rewatch I think!

Quite a comprehensive summary here:

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-capture-season-3-ending-explained/

i think I'm a bit clearer now.

I thought that when Gemma was shot they didn’t need to kill Rachel anymore as “correction died with Gemma”, and that was why William said he had saved Rachel in the end. I thought that’s why she’d been spared when they were about to shoot her. But I could also be really confused and way off the mark.

Just quoting myself here - I told you Natasha was a baddie.

I think the series redeemed itself for me, although I hated the torture episode (it certainly felt like it went on for the whole episode) and episode 5 which was basically just Rachel and Noah underground and Rachel preposterously trying to act like she was in charge.

I liked the Simon storyline and all those sinister Increment soldiers quietly going about their business. Linus Roache was brilliant - somehow old fashioned and you'd think he'd be a proper gent, but was an absolute psycho instead. It was a great twist to see the judge with them all at the end, I didn't suspect him at all up until the point he identified Whitlock as Gemma's killer.

I'm glad Abi wasn't dead but didn't see the point in that whole thing. Why did they do that to Rachel?

I really missed the other characters - Tom, Chan and Latif. They had hardly anything to do this series.

If Wizard was able to put a battery in Noah's chest to move the plot along, you have to ask why no one had thought to do that for him earlier.

My takeaways: Who is Wizard, how does Frank's murder change things and how come no one from the CIA came looking for him? How would they have covered up Whitlock's murder - his family will be wondering what happened so do they have to kill all of them as well? can a whole family disappear no questions asked?

I hated the silly final seconds of Gemma on the selfie. None of us trust that it could be real so it's pointless.

It mainly moved along quite well, the acting was good of course, the plot got overly tricky at times - I'd give it 7.5 out of 10 .

Thanks for that Radio Times link @MajesticWhine. It does clarify quite a lot.

Just read it - I hadn't clicked that Natasha Hayes was working for E-Squadron! (I don't know who I had thought she was working for...maybe just lost interest by that point tbh.)

Unless the empty chair was for her?!...

I don't think I could handle a fourth season. It was too much like A-Levels.

I definitely didn't get a lot of ins and outs

The Pochahontas thing was silly. It was nowhere near enough leverage to get Paige to risk her career.

Was she?? Did it say that in the episode? Totally missed that.

I don't understand why they pretended to shoot Rachel and then just left her alone in the tunnels with a gun??