Holliday Grainger takes on AI and assassins in the new season of The Capture
The Capture: Season 3 | Creator: Ben Chanan | Cast: Holliday Grainger, Ron Perlman, Indira Varma | English | Prime Video
In the third season of The Capture, Operation Veritas is in full flow and the UK Government can finally begin to tell fiction from reality with a series of smart cameras that unscramble facial recognition data in real time. But then the greatest proponent of the smart cameras, the promising Home Secretary Isaac Turner (Paapa Essiedu), is shot dead at a press conference. The person who exposed the Deepfake scandal in the previous season, now Acting Commander of Counter Terrorism Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) is the only one who has seen the face of the assassin, and is sure the image being floated publicly is another deepfake. It is a delicious premise in the Age of AI. The Capture gives us an insight into how technology can be misused easily to conceal facts and hide the truth. There are two suspects, but who is the right one? A suspect who has a history of conspiracy theories or a cipher who has no digital trace of himself, or his career? And who is to tell the story? Someone who understands the art of sticking closely to the truth while lying, like the journalist Khadija Khan (the brilliant Indira Varma) or Commander Carey herself. If you are in need of a show that makes you fell intelligent while testing you at every point then The Capture will captivate you.