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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder when Frank threatens to use footage captured of him playing with his daughter to fabricate more incriminating video, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent. Meanwhile, Charlie is caught by Frank's men and is locked up in a safehouse, which meant that his team has no choice but to upload the real footage of the supposed attack online, but it'll take time until someone ''realizes'' that he or she is looking at unaltered video footage.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced [[spoiler:The end of the first season has Shaun being foreced to confess admit to Hannah's murder when Frank threatens to use footage captured of him playing with his daughter to fabricate more incriminating video, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent. Meanwhile, Charlie is caught by Frank's men and is locked up in a safehouse, which meant that his team has no choice but to upload the real footage of the supposed attack online, but it'll take time until someone ''realizes'' that he or she is looking at unaltered video footage.]]
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A ConspiracyThriller that first aired on BBC One in autumn 2019, ''The Capture'' is about a ShellShockedVeteran, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) who is implicated in the kidnap of his barrister (Laura Haddock) by CCTV, shortly after being freed by video evidence from a war crimes tribunal. The ambitious police officer Rachel Carey (Creator/HollidayGrainger), who is sleeping with her senior officer (Ben Miles), is put on the case and soon believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Creator/FamkeJanssen and Creator/RonPerlman also star.

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A ConspiracyThriller that first aired on BBC One in autumn 2019, ''The Capture'' is about a ShellShockedVeteran, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) who is implicated in the kidnap kidnapping of his barrister (Laura Haddock) by CCTV, shortly after being freed by video evidence from a war crimes tribunal. The ambitious police officer Rachel Carey (Creator/HollidayGrainger), who is sleeping with her senior officer (Ben Miles), is put on the case and soon believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Creator/FamkeJanssen and Creator/RonPerlman also star.



* BenevolentConspiracy: Deconstructed. Everyone involved in "correction" thinks it's this, but everyone who's been affected by it has a naturally different perspective. It may cross over with BelievingYourOwnLies.

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* BenevolentConspiracy: Deconstructed.{{Deconstructed}}. Everyone involved in "correction" thinks it's this, but everyone who's been affected by it has a naturally different perspective. It may cross over with BelievingYourOwnLies. The activists' plot to expose them however could be seen as a straight example.



* EvilStatesOfAmerica: While the English forces are not presented ''well'', the Americans are unambiguously evil. [[spoiler:The three we see are all working with the "correction" conspiracy.]]
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: This is essentially the entire point of "correction," creating fake video evidence to secure convictions when less-than-ideal evidence is all that's available.]]

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* EvilStatesOfAmerica: While the English British forces are not presented ''well'', the Americans are unambiguously evil. [[spoiler:The three we see are all working with the "correction" conspiracy.]]
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: This is essentially the entire point of "correction," creating fake video evidence to secure convictions when less-than-ideal where admissible evidence is all that's available.unavailable.]]
* FrameUp: Shaun insists he was framed for assaulting and kidnapping Hannah with faked video evidence. [[spoiler:Not only is he right, Hannah was ''part'' of the conspiracy, to expose intelligence agencies faking video so they could get terrorists convicted.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:Frank]] insists to [[spoiler:Hannah]] that correction is necessary to take down terrorists whom otherwise they couldn't convict.



* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Frank]] claims it's ironic [[spoiler:Hannah]] defends terrorists who he says would destroy the legal system she thinks so highly of. She however insists it's not, since upholding the system is her whole motivation-it applies even to them, they've also got rights.



* MagicalSecurityCam: Fake evidence is integrated perfectly into real footage on council security cameras and that by the secret services alike, to the point where nobody can tell the difference. However, [[RealityEnsues this is getting closer and closer to being reality.]]

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* MagicalSecurityCam: Fake evidence is integrated perfectly into real footage on council security cameras and that by the secret services alike, to the point where nobody can tell the difference. However, [[RealityEnsues [[TruthInTelevision this is getting closer and closer to being reality.]]



* WhamEpisode:
** "A Pilgrim of Justice" [[spoiler:mentions that Hannah has worked with Charlie and an American intelligence agent turned whistleblower named Eli to make a deepfake video to prove that intelligence agencies are conspiring to keep the world safe from bad guys. Hannah was not suppose to be killed in the fake video, which makes it easier for Shaun to be found guilty by the police.]]

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* WhamEpisode:
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WhamEpisode: "A Pilgrim of Justice" [[spoiler:mentions that Hannah has worked with Charlie and an American intelligence agent turned whistleblower named Eli to make a deepfake video to prove that intelligence agencies are conspiring to keep the world safe from bad guys. Hannah was not suppose supposed to be killed in the fake video, which makes it easier for Shaun to be found guilty by the police.]]



** "Since when did you hear about a human rights lawyer defending a British soldier?" Leads to Rachel and the audience beginning to realise that [[spoiler:Hannah was involved in the plot.]]

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** "Since when did you hear about a human rights lawyer defending a British soldier?" Leads This leads to Rachel and the audience beginning to realise realize that [[spoiler:Hannah was involved in the plot.]]
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler: This is essentially the entire point of "correction," creating fake video evidence to secure convictions when less-than-ideal evidence is all that's available.]]
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In June 2020, the show was announced to have a second season.
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** "Hello, Shaun. I'd imagine you'd like to know what's going on." Spoken by [[spoiler:Charlie]] and accompanied by the WhamShot of [[spoiler:the conspiracy to frame Shaun happily greeting him.]]

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** "Hello, Shaun. "Shaun. I'd imagine you'd like to know what's what the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] is going on." Spoken by [[spoiler:Charlie]] and accompanied by the WhamShot of [[spoiler:the conspiracy to frame Shaun happily greeting him.]]
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A ConspiracyThriller that first aired on BBC One in autumn 2019, ''The Capture'' is about a ShellShockedVeteran, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), who is implicated in the kidnap of his solicitor (Laura Haddock) by CCTV, shortly after being freed by video evidence from a war crimes tribunal. The ambitious police officer Rachel Carey (Creator/HollidayGrainger), who is sleeping with the head of MI-6 (Ben Miles) is put on the case and soon believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Creator/FamkeJanssen and Creator/RonPerlman also star.

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A ConspiracyThriller that first aired on BBC One in autumn 2019, ''The Capture'' is about a ShellShockedVeteran, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), Turner) who is implicated in the kidnap of his solicitor barrister (Laura Haddock) by CCTV, shortly after being freed by video evidence from a war crimes tribunal. The ambitious police officer Rachel Carey (Creator/HollidayGrainger), who is sleeping with the head of MI-6 her senior officer (Ben Miles) Miles), is put on the case and soon believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Creator/FamkeJanssen and Creator/RonPerlman also star.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder to save his daughter, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent. Meanwhile, Charlie is caught by Frank's men and is locked up in a safehouse, which meant that his team has no choice but to upload the real footage of the supposed attack online, but it'll take time until someone ''realizes'' that he or she is looking at unaltered video footage.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder when Frank threatens to save use footage captured of him playing with his daughter, daughter to fabricate more incriminating video, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent. Meanwhile, Charlie is caught by Frank's men and is locked up in a safehouse, which meant that his team has no choice but to upload the real footage of the supposed attack online, but it'll take time until someone ''realizes'' that he or she is looking at unaltered video footage.]]



* GreaterScopeVillain: Georgina, Eli, and whoever she's working for, implied to be the American government. [[spoiler:They're happy for video footage to be brought into question when it suits corrupt higher-ups, it just can't be debunked fully.]]

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* GreaterScopeVillain: Georgina, Jessica, Eli, and whoever she's working for, implied to be the American government. [[spoiler:They're happy for video footage to be brought into question when it suits corrupt higher-ups, it just can't be debunked fully.]]



** Frank watches the footage of Georgina interrogating Eli...[[spoiler:only to burst in and learn that the footage is faked and Eli is being busted out.]]

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** Frank watches the footage of Georgina Jessica interrogating Eli...[[spoiler:only to burst in and learn that the footage is faked and Eli is being busted out.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder to save his daughter, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent]].

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder to save his daughter, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent]].innocent. Meanwhile, Charlie is caught by Frank's men and is locked up in a safehouse, which meant that his team has no choice but to upload the real footage of the supposed attack online, but it'll take time until someone ''realizes'' that he or she is looking at unaltered video footage.]]

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Shaun only lives with his grandfather.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ''Everyone'' thinks so, from both sides of the conspiracy's aisle.

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Shaun only lives with his grandfather.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ''Everyone'' thinks so, from both sides of the conspiracy's aisle.angle.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Georgina, Eli, and whoever she's working for, implied to be the American government. [[spoiler:They're happy for video footage to be brought into question when it suits corrupt higher-ups, it just can't be debunked fully.]]


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* WhamShot:
** The video footage of [[spoiler:Hannah]] on the ''other'' bus that went that night.
** Shaun discovers the conspiracy [[spoiler:to frame him]] all standing around merrily in the nightclub.
** Frank watches the footage of Georgina interrogating Eli...[[spoiler:only to burst in and learn that the footage is faked and Eli is being busted out.]]

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Since when did you hear about a human rights lawyer defending a British soldier?"
* BenevolentConspiracy: Deconstructed. Everyone involved in "correction" thinks it's this, but everyone who's been affected by it has a naturally different perspective. It may cross over with BelievingYourOwnLies.



* ChekhovsGunman: The would-be bomb makers that Rachel arrested in Operation Sycamore, especially Faisal, who we learn is [[spoiler:Hannah's group's whole motivation for proving how far deep fakes can go]], and Charlie, Shaun's solicitor, who initially only seems to be there to turn against Shaun when Hannah goes missing, but [[spoiler:is actually part of the conspiracy to frame him.]]

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* ChekhovsGunman: ChekhovsGun:
** The video footage shown of the Sycamore bomb makers. [[spoiler:It's very similar to the video showing Shaun attack Hannah, which Rachel figures out.]]
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The would-be bomb makers that Rachel arrested in Operation Sycamore, especially Faisal, who we learn is [[spoiler:Hannah's group's whole motivation for proving how far deep fakes can go]], and go]].
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Charlie, Shaun's solicitor, who initially only seems to be there to turn against Shaun when Hannah goes missing, but [[spoiler:is actually part of the conspiracy to frame him.]]



* IHaveYourFamily: [[spoiler:Frank]] pulls this on Shaun, when he, having escaped for Hannah's murder, is drawn back in when [[spoiler:Frank's forces kidnap his daughter.]]

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* IHaveYourFamily: [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Family]]: [[spoiler:Frank]] pulls this on Shaun, when he, having escaped for Hannah's murder, is drawn back in when [[spoiler:Frank's forces kidnap his daughter.]]



* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ''Everyone'' thinks so, from both sides of the conspiracy's aisle.m

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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ''Everyone'' thinks so, from both sides of the conspiracy's aisle.m


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** "Since when did you hear about a human rights lawyer defending a British soldier?" Leads to Rachel and the audience beginning to realise that [[spoiler:Hannah was involved in the plot.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Shaun is forced to confess to Hannah's murder to save his daughter, Correction continues mostly unaffected, with none of their previous victims being released, and Rachel opts to join them rather than upload her own evidence that Shaun is innocent]].
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* IHaveYourFamily: [[spoiler:Frank]] pulls this on Shaun, when he, having escaped for Hannah's murder, is drawn back in when [[spoiler:Frank's forces kidnap his daughter.]]


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** "Hello, Shaun. I'd imagine you'd like to know what's going on." Spoken by [[spoiler:Charlie]] and accompanied by the WhamShot of [[spoiler:the conspiracy to frame Shaun happily greeting him.]]

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* ChekhovsGunman: The would-be bomb makers that Rachel arrested in Operation Sycamore, especially Faisal, who we learn is [[spoiler:Hannah's group's whole motivation for proving how far deep fakes can go]], and Charlie, Shaun's solicitor, who initially only seems to be there to turn against Shaun when Hannah goes missing, but [[spoiler:is actually part of the conspiracy to frame him.]]



* EvilStatesOfAmerica: While the English forces are not presented ''well'', the Americans are unambiguously evil. [[spoiler:The three we see are all working with the "correction" conspiracy.]]



* ItWasHereISwear: Things constantly disappear, thanks to faked video footage, especially of torturing his friends.

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* ItWasHereISwear: Things constantly disappear, thanks to faked video footage, especially of torturing his friends.Shaun's friends, and evidence that could exonerate him.


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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: ''Everyone'' thinks so, from both sides of the conspiracy's aisle.m
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* WhamEpisode:
** "A Pilgrim of Justice" [[spoiler:mentions that Hannah has worked with Charlie and an American intelligence agent turned whistleblower named Eli to make a deepfake video to prove that intelligence agencies are conspiring to keep the world safe from bad guys. Hannah was not suppose to be killed in the fake video, which makes it easier for Shaun to be found guilty by the police.]]
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* LeeroyJenkins: Shaun rushes into dangerous situations and physically attacks ''anyone'' who could be involved in the apparent conspiracy.
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: A recurring problem for Shaun, who wakes up after his celebration of being freed from prison severely hungover and with Hannah missing. [[|UnreliableNarrator He insists that he didn't hurt Hannah, but he keeps having flashbacks of ''something'' violent happening between them.]]

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: A recurring problem for Shaun, who wakes up after his celebration of being freed from prison severely hungover and with Hannah missing. [[|UnreliableNarrator [[UnreliableNarrator He insists that he didn't hurt Hannah, but he keeps having flashbacks of ''something'' violent happening between them.]]

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Shaun only lives with his grandfather.

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* ItWasHereISwear: Things constantly disappear, thanks to faked video footage, especially of torturing his friends.
* MagicalSecurityCam: Fake evidence is integrated perfectly into real footage on council security cameras and that by the secret services alike, to the point where nobody can tell the difference. However, [[RealityEnsues this is getting closer and closer to being reality.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Shaun only lives with his grandfather.grandfather.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Rachel has no problems accessing whatever security footage she needs, from all sorts of different departments, and is at least slightly more moral with it than the security services.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: A recurring problem for Shaun, who wakes up after his celebration of being freed from prison severely hungover and with Hannah missing. [[|UnreliableNarrator He insists that he didn't hurt Hannah, but he keeps having flashbacks of ''something'' violent happening between them.]]
* YouHaveToBelieveMe:
** Shaun insists over and over that he didn't kill Hannah, and nobody will believe him about the variety of disturbing things that keeps happening to him.
** Rachel needs to convince her colleagues that they're investigating a conspiracy.
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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of Series/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and [=MI5=]. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.

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* CIAEvilFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and [=MI5=]. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 [=MI5=] are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and UsefulNotes/MI5. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.

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* CIAEvilFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and UsefulNotes/MI5.[=MI5=]. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.
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* CIABadFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and UsefulNotes/MI5. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.

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* CIABadFBIGood: CIAEvilFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and UsefulNotes/MI5. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.

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* CIABadFBIGood: A UK-specific example is interrogated between the London police (FBI) and UsefulNotes/MI5. The protagonist is police, and she believes the M1-5 are interfering in Shaun's case, though why has yet to be seen.



* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Gender-flipped between Shaun and Hannah.

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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Gender-flipped between Shaun (a LowerClassLout soldier) and Hannah.Hannah (a wealthy lawyer).

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* CantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Gender-flipped between Shaun and Hannah.


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* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Gender-flipped between Shaun and Hannah.

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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of Series/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.

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* CantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Gender-flipped between Shaun and Hannah.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Photographic capture (as in a camera still) and capture as in kidnap, which Shaun may have done to Hannah.
* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of Series/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.surveillance.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Shaun only lives with his grandfather.
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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of Television/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.

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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of Television/BodyguardUK2018 Series/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.
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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of TV/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.

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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of TV/BodyguardUK2018 Television/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.
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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of TV/Bodyguard2018UK in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.

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* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of TV/Bodyguard2018UK TV/BodyguardUK2018 in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.
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A ConspiracyThriller that first aired on BBC One in autumn 2019, ''The Capture'' is about a ShellShockedVeteran, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), who is implicated in the kidnap of his solicitor (Laura Haddock) by CCTV, shortly after being freed by video evidence from a war crimes tribunal. The ambitious police officer Rachel Carey (Creator/HollidayGrainger), who is sleeping with the head of MI-6 (Ben Miles) is put on the case and soon believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye. Creator/FamkeJanssen and Creator/RonPerlman also star.

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!! ''The Capture'' contains examples of:

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Everyone, or so it seems by the surveillance monitoring that happens.
* FollowTheLeader: Reminiscent of TV/Bodyguard2018UK in that both are [[ConspiracyThriller conspiracy thrillers]] with young soldier protagonists who have come back from overseas only to be involved in English political plots, although ''Bodyguard'' doesn't focus on fake news or surveillance.

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