Crime
I Will Find You
‘I Will Find You’ follows a father’s desperate search for a son he thought dead for years—saturated, of course, in a violent story.
What is truth?
So asked Pontius Pilate about 2,000 years ago. And, in our age of deepfakes, spin doctors and artificial intelligence, many of us still ask that question today.
Rachel Carey has asked that question more than most. For years, she’s been investigating and debunking faked surveillance videos in London—one of the most surveilled cities in the world. People are doctoring footage to frame the innocent and protect the guilty. And sometimes, they do it in the name of national security.
What is truth? These days, it can be hard to know. But Rachel aims to find out.
Rachel’s work began when combat vet Shaun Emery was accused of assaulting and kidnapping his female barrister. A nearby CCTV camera caught the entire thing, and Emery was well on his way to going to prison for the crime.
Rachel had reason to suspect the footage was doctored, though, and eventually, she uncovered a far-reaching British initiative called the “Correction Programme.” It worked like this: If law enforcement suspected that someone was guilty of a major crime but lacked the evidence to prove it, no problem. They’d just create some new footage to make the suspect look guilty—sometimes in real time. Presto, one less dangerous bad guy off the streets … if he was a bad guy, that is.
Rachel, with the help of the up-and-coming politician Isaac Turner, ultimately exposed the Correction Programme, drumming its advocates out of government. And by Season 3, we see that Rachel’s whistleblowing has done wonders for her career. She’s now the acting head for London’s Counter Terrorism Command and has become the face of Operation Veritas, an effort that has seen the creation of new double-lensed cameras that can guard against real-time deepfakes.
But just as the technology is being publicly unfurled in a press conference, a gunman barges in, shoots a very important politician (and a number of other people, too) and walks away.
Oh, and before he leaves, the gunman stands right in front of Rachel—as if to make sure that she gets a good look at him.
Wouldn’t you know it, plenty of television cameras and cell phones caught footage of the killer. But that killer looks nothing like the one that Rachel saw.
Was this national disaster also an inside job? Have the people behind the Correction Programme upped their game, or is this a case of international sabotage? Or might Rachel herself simply have made a mistake?
The Capture is a BBC show imported by Peacock. It has received praise for its relatively grounded portrayal of this most disturbing sort of cyberattack. Its world, like ours, is a place where our most trusted senses may deceive us, where supposed facts may turn out to be fiction and morality seems measured on a sliding scale.
The show comes with its own moral pitfalls. While The Capture isn’t as problematic as many a crime thriller, it still comes with R-rated language and some alarming moments of violence.
Moreover, its central conceit encourages a sense of ethical unease. In today’s world, the show seems to ask, can one be an idealist? Or can the ends truly justify the means? The Capture isn’t always sure, and it doesn’t want you to be, either.
The Capture makes for taut, compelling, ethically ambidextrous viewing. But while its characters wonder if what they see can be untangled, what you see in the show is not so easily erased.
(Editor’s Note: Plugged In is rarely able to watch every episode of a given series for review. As such, there’s always a chance that you might see a problem that we didn’t. If you notice content that you feel should be included in our review, send us an email at letters@pluggedin.com, or contact us via Facebook or Instagram, and be sure to let us know the episode number, title and season so that we can check it out.)
Rachel has helped introduce a new sort of surveillance camera to the streets of London—a camera that won’t be so easily fooled by real-time digital manipulation. The cameras successfully help authorities capture a would-be Russian villain, and soon, Rachel and Parliament member Isaac Turner—now considered a prime contender for Prime Minister—hold a press conference to discuss this revolutionary new tool. But an assassin spoils the party in the worst possible way.
A man is shot in the head and killed. We see the assassination replayed a couple of times, both of which show the blast and a small spray of blood. The victim lies on the ground in a pool of his own blood with a bullet wound visible at his temple. Four other people are killed by the assassin before he makes his escape, and we see their corpses as well.
A news anchor discovers a flask underneath her desk—then learns that it’s filled with the tea that she asked for. Rachel drinks a glass of cheap Scotch, and someone later sends her a bottle of some more expensive stuff. She calls her sister and asks if she’d like to have a drink with her, but her sister is busy with her apparent boyfriend. (We see the two giggle and wrestle a bit.) Rachel overhears Isaac in a conversation with his wife: Her reaction suggests that she might’ve held some attraction to the politician.
Characters say the f-word a dozen times and the s-word twice. We also hear uses of “a–,” “h—” and the British profanity “bloody.” God’s name is misused twice, and Jesus’ name is abused once.
Deception is, obviously, a huge part of the show. Someone breaks into Rachel’s flat.
Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.
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