There’s almost no, “Something like this could happen to anybody!” empathetic connection here at all. Stories like this, in their best Hitchcockian form, work better when they keep the focus on extraordinary things happening to ordinary people.
It’s provocative stuff and I don’t know if The Capture is fully able to deal with the nuance the case explored over six episodes is so big and so far-reaching in its implications that it leaves reality behind and becomes borderline science fiction by the third or fourth episode. CCTV is pervasive and intrusive, and its effectiveness when it comes to deterring future crimes or solving past crimes has been the subject of countless reports that reach a variety of conclusions that could, on average, be boiled down to: “Yes, it seems to be effective when it comes to some types of crimes in some areas, but not other types of crimes in other areas.” Or, boiled down even more: “Kinda.” city, with less than 16 cameras per thousand people). How could you not? Outside of China, London is the most surveilled city in the world, with more than 68 cameras per thousand people as of mid-2019 (Atlanta, if you’re curious, is the most surveilled U.S.
Rare is the British crime drama over the past decade that hasn’t made CCTV into a key part of the investigative process. Shaun’s case sends Rachel down a rabbit hole of interconnected and international intelligence collaborations, leaving her unsure of whom she can trust (and whether or not she can trust her own eyes). That, in turn, prompts concerns about the country’s day-to-day sacrifice of freedoms in the name of an illusory security provided by a surveillance state. When a British soldier (Callum Turner’s Shaun Emery) is exonerated for a war crime but quickly accused of assaulting and kidnapping his barrister (Laura Haddock’s Hannah Roberts), Rachel’s investigation leads her to discover strange inconsistencies in CCTV footage. Written and directed by Ben Chanan, The Capture focuses on Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger), a young detective on the promotion fast-track in the London police department after helping to crack a major counterterrorism case with an assist from the city’s extensive CCTV network.
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