The Capture

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You can watch the first episode on BBC One at 9pm. You’ll also be able to watch season two on the iPlayer as well, with the new season set to be available for nine months to watch after airing. If you’re keen to catch up on season one of The Capture before getting stuck into the second season, or if you haven’t even seen the first one yet, you can catch up on [Fantastic Beasts](https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/film/fantastic-beasts-3-release-date-when-is-the-secrets-of-dumbledore-coming-out-cast-is-johnny-depp-in-film-3494245), Green Room) played soldier Shaun Emery in season one, and you may be wondering if he’ll also be returning to the cast for the new season. One of the biggest new additions to season two is that of Paapa Essiedu ( [Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/28/the-capture-season-2-callum-turners-return-as-shaun-emery-teased-17245482/), The Capture creator and writer Ben Chanan said that, unfortunately for fans of Turner, the actor won’t be reprising the role of Emery. [The Last Kingdom](https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/the-last-kingdom-season-5-cast-netflix-viking-drama-eliza-butterworth-alexander-dreymon-3604593), The Agency) as DS Patrick Flynn The newest season of The Capture will feature a range of returning stars from the first season, as well as some new faces joining the lineup. [BBC](https://www.nationalworld.com/topic/bbc) iPlayer back in 2019, [The Capture](https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/the-capture-series-2-bbc-one-release-date-trailer-cast-holliday-grainger-paapa-essiedu-3818433) is returning to [TV screens](https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television) once again with another story of “fakery and disinformation”, according to series creator and writer Ben Chanan. This is everything you need to know about the new season - including who is in the cast and how to catch up on season one. The newest season of the BBC thriller features a whole host of new faces - as well as some familiar ones The Capture: who is in season 2 cast of BBC thriller with Holliday Grainger - is Callum Turner returning?

The Capture season 2 — Holliday Grainger reveals all about the return of the high-tech surveillance thriller.

The first season is also available on BBC iPlayer. Season 1 is also available to watch on Peacock now. The themes of surveillance and CCTV and the police from the first season were so timely, but then season two focuses on big business and the bigger power players that we are all concerned about. Holliday: “Through season one, Carey went through a process of having the wool pulled from over her eyes, and when she meets Isaac, she watches him go through a similar process. Holliday: “Well it starts with a murder, and in the course of investigating that, more levels of ‘correction’ are discovered by Carey and we get into the world of government and big tech and deep fake. Or is she going to try to infiltrate them and beat them from the inside?’ That question is still hanging in the air, you're not quite sure which one she has chosen…

Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) made a full circle in the first season of The Capture. He was freed from jail in episode one after being found ...

- Rob Yang as Yang Wanglei The full summary is provided below: The intelligence agencies were employing extremely powerful deep fake technology, as DCI Rachel Carey (Strike’s Holliday Grainger) discovered, to create court-admissible “evidence” that would guarantee the criminal conviction of anyone they chose.

As gripping BBC surveillance thriller The Capture returns for Series 2, here's what you need to remember from last time. Spoilers!

As CIA boss Jessica Mallory ( [Famke Janssen](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/x-men-famke-janssen-reckons-the-original-cast-are-done-now/)) told Frank, they needed Eli’s plan to get a certain way along so it would reach the right online message boards and infiltrate the right groups. The plan was to get Shaun arrested on the basis of the footage and attract a lot of media and public attention. [correction](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/teleprompter-interview-the-capture-callum-turner-holliday-grainger/)… Frank had Hannah murdered and her body planted in the boot of a car Shaun was found driving. That blackmail, along with the assurance that Shaun and his daughter would both be looked after if he went along with it, convinced Shaun to make a false confession. Hannah would be hidden away for a few days before emerging safe and well to reveal that that the footage used to charge Shaun was fake, thereby exposing the practice of correction and getting CCTV-based convictions including Faisal’s overturned. As Shaun saw it, justice had simply caught up with him, because he knew that he really had unlawfully killed the unarmed insurgent in Helmand and that he shouldn’t have been acquitted in the first place. [Laura Haddock](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/tom-riley-and-laura-haddock-interview-da-vincis-demons-man-of-steel-2-cannibalism-more/)) and Charlie (Barry Ward) were secretly working with the Pilgrims of Justice to expose a process known as “correction”, which they’d discovered had been used to convict a client of theirs named Faisal. Sycamore had earned Rachel a promotion from Counter-Terrorism to Homicide, where she was made Senior Investigating Officer in the disappearance of Hannah Roberts, working with DS Flynn (Cavan Clerkin) and DS Latif (Ginny Holder). [Poltergeist](https://www.denofgeek.com/poltergeist/), the shower in [Psycho](https://www.denofgeek.com/psycho/), little girls with long, wet hair in… Hannah was one of the barristers who’d worked on Shaun Emery’s retrial and was last seen on CCTV being assaulted and dragged away by Shaun hours after his release. So began a cat-and-mouse game that saw Rachel gradually realise that Shaun was telling the truth and that she was being lied to by her bosses, including Commander Danny Hart (secretly an MI5 operative), with whom she’d been having an affair.

SEASON two of BBC crime drama The Capture is nearly upon us, with fans eagerly anticipating the return of the conspiracy thriller.But where is it film.

[stream](https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/streaming/) on iPlayer, so you can catch up on the all the action ahead of the new episodes. [BBC](https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/bbc/) iPlayer in 2019. London is the capital of England and the UK and is one of the most visited places on Earth. [London](https://www.thesun.co.uk/where/london/) like the first. [The Shard](https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/5065043/shard-london-landmark-tallest-renzo-piano-restaurants/), and Rotherhithe's Printworks venue. [Kent](https://www.thesun.co.uk/where/kent/), which doubled up at HMP Glastone in London.

With DS Flynn in hospital, Carey and the team investigate a web of politically charged clues that seem to lead to China. The investigation widens, and Carey ...

With DS Flynn in hospital, Carey and the team investigate a web of politically charged clues that seem to lead to China. Holliday Grainger and the rest of the cast are going to bring another big chapter to this mystery, but this is going to be difficult. Carey IS going to discover a lot of clues within this episode, and she may find a few others who can help her.

Writer Ben Chanan has tried to raise the bar from the excellent first series, but in doing so he's stretched credibility to breaking point.

I’m as paranoid as the next 21st century apocalyptic, but even I draw the line at invisible assassins. But in doing so he’s stretched credibility to breaking point. Exactly how this is done is left a little blurry but go with that flow if you can because The Capture does paint a convincing picture of how compromised any notion of the truth has become when it comes to talking politics.

Holliday Grainger is back as Detective Rachel Carey as the new series of The Capture gets underway. Season two starts on Sunday, August 28 at 9pm on BBC One ...

With Correction still in use going into the second season, it is still possible to manipulate and “correct” CCTV footage to help net suspects in terrorism cases. By the end of the series, it was simply regarded as a conspiracy with Gemma telling Rachel: "Correction is not fake evidence, it's truth re-enacted." The biggest thing to remember from the season one finale is that soldier Shaun Emery (played by Callum Turner) ended up being sent to prison for the death of Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock). Turner confirmed back in 2020 that he wouldn't be returning to the show, explaining that Shaun's story was "finished". The season one finale saw her take up her former lover and boss Danny Hart (Ben Miles) and DSU Gemma Garland’s (Lia Williams) offer to join the team after she realised her efforts were futile. The official synopsis for the second series reads: "Britain is under siege: hacked news feeds, manipulated media, and interference in politics.

Paapa Essiedu plays Isaac Turner MP · Indira Varma plays Khadija Khan · Ron Perlman plays CIA Chief Frank Napier · Ginny Holder plays DI Nadia Latif · Ben Miles ...

Entrenched in the UK’s own ‘Correction’ unit, DCI Rachel Carey (Grainger) finds herself in the middle of a new conspiracy - with a new target. The Capture returns to BBC One at 9pm on Sunday, August 28. Their bond will be further explored in the second series. Returning to the lead role of DCI Rachel Carey is Holliday Grainger. The official BBC synopsis explains that “Britain is under siege: hacked news feeds, manipulated media, and interference in politics. Also returning for series 2 is Ben Miles, who plays Commander Danny Hart. Comic book aficionados will recognise Perlman as Hellboy in the two original films from Guillermo del Toro. Ben (Chanan) has written one of the freshest and most prescient scripts of recent times and I can’t wait to see what this incredible cast and crew can do with it.” The Capture explores the mad-capped world of digital intelligence and surveillance. On joining the new series, Essiedu said: “I’m so excited to be coming on board with The Capture. Reprising his role as villain, CIA Chief Frank Napier, is Ron Perlman. This led to a follow-up series being commissioned and three years later, it is finally here.

Conspiracy theories and Chinese spies abound as Holliday Grainger and Paapa Essiedu star in the return of the slightly silly TV thriller.

Even more risible is our other hero, security minister Isaac Turner (Paapa Essiedu), who has the aura of a more elegant, less consummately sociopathic In series two, DI Carey has been promoted to S015, the very security unit suspected of being behind the frame-up. DI Carey found that the footage showing Emery killing the lawyer had been digitally faked as part of a conspiracy going right to the heart of the state, and perhaps Even Further. And yet, by the end of series one, DI Carey could not stop Emery getting sentenced for six years, leaving her colleagues suspicious that she was part of the conspiracy to frame Emery for Reasons Unclear. Plot wise, this scene establishes Grainger’s rogue detective as can-do, maverick and deadly as Dirty Harry with the hair-trigger temper of a young Eric Cantona high-fiving a Crystal Palace fan with all the toes of one foot. Here, we are to believe that a Chinese tech company in cahoots with Beijing’s autocratic faux-communist politburo is pitching the British government to install facial recognition software at our airports to improve security.

Like Black Mirror by way of Line of Duty, tech thriller-come-police drama, The Capture, is back for a second season. Here, we unpack that gripping ...

[Rob Yang](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/tom-wambsgans-watch-succession)'s Yan Wanglei, the head of the private firm pitching the software: as Turner observes, Chinese law dictates that private companies must assist the Chinese government whenever required, implying that the company could be used to spy on enemies of the Chinese state in the UK. [Paapa Essiedu](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/paapa-essiedu-interview-2022)), a rare likeable politician placed at the head of a parliamentary committee set up to assess whether the UK Government should use Chinese tech. In the background, the police continue to investigate the death of the Chinese scientist: turns out he was shot through the eye with a pistol and calibre typically found exclusively on the Chinese mainland.

BBC drama The Capture returns for season 2, with Holliday Grainger resuming her role as detective Rachel Carey, and Paapa Essiedu starring as Isaac Turner.

[subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article) and get the next 12 issues for only £1. Its risks were highlighted in season 1 when soldier Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) was wrongly sent to prison for the death of Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock). But the tide appears to be turning for Rachel, courtesy of the Isaac Turner case. Running alongside that, DCI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) spends most of the first episode grumbling about her new role in mapping, with murders and high octane action swapped out for road repairs and street lamps. "No, I haven't joined them, you big bloody idiot," she says to Patrick (Cavan Clerkin) while he's laying comatose in a hospital bed. Or has Rachel, for all her mettle, bitten off far more than she can chew? Shortly after Isaac's frosty exchange with the London CEO of Xanda, Yan Wanglei (Rob Yang), an unpublished news report from a fringe publication lands in his inbox claiming that the MP has a secret love child in Lagos, which he strenuously denies. [TV Guide](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/) or visit our dedicated [Drama](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/) hub. [terms and conditions](https://www.immediate.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/) and [privacy policy](https://policies.immediate.co.uk/privacy/). Will she destroy Correction? Correction is the manipulation of CCTV footage using deepfake technology. [second outing](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-capture-season-2-release/).

DI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) is back and, as the finale of the first series revealed, she's working for Correction, the secret government operation that ...

As his family tune in to the show around the kitchen table, their faces drop in horror as they realise their youngest child is lurking in the background, potentially ruining a serious debate. In a faked clip, the politician is seen endorsing the surveillance system as real Isaac looks on in horror. However, when Isaac is ushered into the safe house, and is forced to give up a slot on Newsnight to not compromise his security, he sees himself on the BBC. While attempting to destroy cameras and shoving the wanted man in a cupboard, DI Flynn instead finds himself with a bullet in his chest. Elsewhere, Isaac Turner (Paapa Essiedu) is a rising politician and family man, but finds himself in a safe house and watching a fake video of him on the news. And of course, when it comes to looking at the CCTV footage there is not a soul in sight.

Holliday Grainger may be underused, and Paapa Essiedu may be miscast, but this cop show remains as entertaining as ever.

The spread of Correction technology – and the souping up of its capabilities to near science-fiction levels – is a smart way of creating a new mystery out of the one that’s already been unravelled. And Grainger, too, is underused: now that she is inside the tent, aware of the power of Correction, that sense of eye-opening discovery is diminished. “You know exactly who we need to call,” says Cavan Clerkin’s DS Patrick Flynn when he witnesses this technology in the wild, “and it ain’t Ghostbusters.” Cyberterrorism might not be the most original premise in 2022 (it’s only a few weeks since The Undeclared War was on our screens) but introducing a crack team of AI specialists is a satisfyingly pulpy twist. The actor is in his early thirties (an age that would make him, by several years, the youngest minister in the current government) and his boyish face makes it hard to buy him as a career politician. The role is a misuse of his undoubted talents. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) This season focuses on the threat seemingly posed by a piece of Chinese AI profiling software, Xanda. At its best, The Capture feels like the closest thing Britain has to Homeland. “As long as I’m security minister, Britain’s borders won’t be monitored by a storefront for the People’s Republic of China,” Turner tells him. As such, viewers can be fairly confident that, even after the cliffhanger ending of the last season, Carey isn’t naïve to the total immorality of the system. Correction, as The Capture’s first series exposed, is hi-tech audiovisual manipulation software, used for the planting of digital evidence by the authorities. [Holliday Grainger](/topic/holliday-grainger) – surely one of the most charismatic actors to remain predominantly constrained to the small screen – returns as Rachel Carey, now promoted to DCI and working within the bubble of Correction.