Peacock's 'The Capture' Brings In A New Cast for Season 2

When the NBC streaming platform Peacock first debuted in the summer of 2020, it arrived with a couple of British-angled titles, including the David Schwimmer comic oddity Intelligence and the Holliday Grainger mystery thriller The Capture. Though the former didn't take off the way the streaming service had hoped, the latter was one of Peacock's best offerings at launch. The series had already aired on BBC One a few months prior, and its ratings were such that a second season was commissioned just ahead of its stateside premiere. But the ongoing pandemic upended production at the time, and Season 2 is only just now getting underway.

Season 1's plot focused on DI Rachel Carey (Grainger), working in the Homicide and Serious Crime Command. Her connections to SO-15 mean when a man is caught assaulting a woman on CCTV, she sends it to her contacts to identify the man in question. Her actions accidentally trigger an internal network within SO-15, especially when it is revealed the suspect is Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), acquitted of war crimes mere hours before. As Carey digs into the video and Emery's claims that none of what the camera showed took place, she discovers a CGI deepfake operation within the intelligence community and a conspiracy that goes far higher than she ever imagined.

But the real twist in Season 1's finale is that when she confronts the people behind this operation, she seems persuaded by their argument that a little bit of evidence manipulation to create a slamdunk case against those who mean us harm is in the national interest. The episode concludes with her going to work for the SO-15 team and keep their secrets.