So many questions!
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shallownessThe Capture episode 3
Like the characters, I have no idea what is going on OR WHY, and it’s the last one that’s getting to my brain. Hunted and about to be caught with Hannah’s body, Shaun might be feeling pretty hopeless, but he’d intrigued the professional curiosity of video guy and Rachel, so maybe there is hope, but what level of conspiracy are they fighting against, and what is its purpose?
Most unbelievable moment: Shaun finding his man among the football supporters pouring out of Spurs’ (?) stadium. Yeah, right.
Otherwise, we started off with his hoody matching the décor of his posh cell/interrogation room/torture cell. Ron Perlman had fun as Frank, who tried to establish a rapport and then seemed to believe Shaun had done something to Hannah. But in reality, no, he was trying to mess with Shaun’s mind, and Shaun was too terrified to make the ‘hey, I’m watching this torture on screen’ connection. If that wasn’t enough to break him, seeing the police come and go must have done more – but survival instinct and all that.
What Frank, tapped into the surveillance network as he was, didn’t seem to know was that Shaun had followed his guy (Eli?) from Hannah’s flat. So the false taxi driver just happened to be there to pick him up? Eh? And why was Eli there then then?
I wished I’d been paying better attention to the Belgravia house’s layout in the previous episode, because I don’t know how they misled the police. ‘they’ being a mix of Americans and Brits. Although they are clearly manipulating CCTV footage all over the place, the ‘toy soldier’ monkier seems to suggest they’re hoping to manipulate and set up Shaun – maybe they’ve had their eye on him since Afghanistan. I DON’T KNOW.
Lowest point of the episode was either the confirmation that Hannah was dead (though I’d assumed she was) or Shaun’s daughter seeing the filmed attack on her TV. Ack.
By the end of the ep, Rachel had an inkling that all her old colleagues knew about the affair (ha! And dude, if your father had a whole family on the other side, why would you do that to another woman?) She also learned, a bit too late, not to trust the other cop (or was she a cop?) who was just as busy establishing a rapport while I thought ‘One dolly and a clean-looking car, nope, not buying she’s got kids’. Rachel was trying to pump info out of her, but basically looking like an amateur there, although she pullled lots of smart moves the rest of the time, as she realised the ‘evidence’ was vanishing like a mist and quite probably unreliable.
Including the evidence that had given her her promotion. Gulp.
Meanwhile, if there was trouble at the top, there was trouble at the bottom, as her subordinates decided to make the footage public. I was dubious about that being helpful, although their frustration had been well set up. Suddenly, their team got more resources and ooh, fancy that, they found a new blindspot, and a link to Shaun’s ‘friend’ and the conspiracy against him showed even greater scale and personal vindictiveness.
As to the motivations – Frank toyed with the whole ‘why would an American do this to a (white) British subject in London?’ question, but no answers. I can’t fathom it. It seems like a long and exhausting way to get fake convictions for terrorism to what – continue the military industrial complex???
First use of ‘deepfake’ in this episode.
Like the characters, I have no idea what is going on OR WHY, and it’s the last one that’s getting to my brain. Hunted and about to be caught with Hannah’s body, Shaun might be feeling pretty hopeless, but he’d intrigued the professional curiosity of video guy and Rachel, so maybe there is hope, but what level of conspiracy are they fighting against, and what is its purpose?
Most unbelievable moment: Shaun finding his man among the football supporters pouring out of Spurs’ (?) stadium. Yeah, right.
Otherwise, we started off with his hoody matching the décor of his posh cell/interrogation room/torture cell. Ron Perlman had fun as Frank, who tried to establish a rapport and then seemed to believe Shaun had done something to Hannah. But in reality, no, he was trying to mess with Shaun’s mind, and Shaun was too terrified to make the ‘hey, I’m watching this torture on screen’ connection. If that wasn’t enough to break him, seeing the police come and go must have done more – but survival instinct and all that.
What Frank, tapped into the surveillance network as he was, didn’t seem to know was that Shaun had followed his guy (Eli?) from Hannah’s flat. So the false taxi driver just happened to be there to pick him up? Eh? And why was Eli there then then?
I wished I’d been paying better attention to the Belgravia house’s layout in the previous episode, because I don’t know how they misled the police. ‘they’ being a mix of Americans and Brits. Although they are clearly manipulating CCTV footage all over the place, the ‘toy soldier’ monkier seems to suggest they’re hoping to manipulate and set up Shaun – maybe they’ve had their eye on him since Afghanistan. I DON’T KNOW.
Lowest point of the episode was either the confirmation that Hannah was dead (though I’d assumed she was) or Shaun’s daughter seeing the filmed attack on her TV. Ack.
By the end of the ep, Rachel had an inkling that all her old colleagues knew about the affair (ha! And dude, if your father had a whole family on the other side, why would you do that to another woman?) She also learned, a bit too late, not to trust the other cop (or was she a cop?) who was just as busy establishing a rapport while I thought ‘One dolly and a clean-looking car, nope, not buying she’s got kids’. Rachel was trying to pump info out of her, but basically looking like an amateur there, although she pullled lots of smart moves the rest of the time, as she realised the ‘evidence’ was vanishing like a mist and quite probably unreliable.
Including the evidence that had given her her promotion. Gulp.
Meanwhile, if there was trouble at the top, there was trouble at the bottom, as her subordinates decided to make the footage public. I was dubious about that being helpful, although their frustration had been well set up. Suddenly, their team got more resources and ooh, fancy that, they found a new blindspot, and a link to Shaun’s ‘friend’ and the conspiracy against him showed even greater scale and personal vindictiveness.
As to the motivations – Frank toyed with the whole ‘why would an American do this to a (white) British subject in London?’ question, but no answers. I can’t fathom it. It seems like a long and exhausting way to get fake convictions for terrorism to what – continue the military industrial complex???
First use of ‘deepfake’ in this episode.
