In season three of The Capture, A year since exposing the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation program, Correction, Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) has become the acting head of SO15 and is determined to win back the public’s trust in surveillance technology through the new Operation Veritas camera system. While demoing the system, the unthinkable happens. A shooter pulls off a well-coordinated act of terror that leaves behind only Carey as the witness, however, what she saw does not align with what their own cameras witnessed. The more she investigates, the further she is pulled into a conspiracy. With few people she can trust, what is she willing to sacrifice to find the truth?

Recently, Grainger spoke with SciFi Vision about the challenges of filming the intense opening attack sequence, Carey’s resilience and shifting moral compass, the changes to her relationships this season, working with the cast, and much more.

All episodes of three of The Capture launch tomorrow on Peacock.



Watch the interview and read the transcript below.




***The following contains spoilers for episode one*** ***Edited for clarity***

SCIFI VISION:   To start out, talk about filming the first episode, just the attack, because I feel like so there's so many moving pieces, it's going so fast…there was so much going on. Talk about filming just kind of that whole end scene as Pierson (Killian Scott) comes in and shoots everybody.

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   Yeah, I mean, it was it was quite complicated to film, because as you see, as the kind of episodes go on, there was a few different versions that we had to film, because we didn't just film with Killian playing Noah…There was a lot of sort of balls up in the air all the time. And so, you know, you'd think that would be fun and dramatic, but I feel like those kind of scenes, they translate to screen so well, but when you're actually filming [laughs], it's sort of technically difficult and lots of stuff starting. But yeah, they're really exciting to watch.

SCIFI VISION:   Yeah, it was definitely exciting to watch. So, Rachel never backs down. I mean, throughout the whole season, even when people don't believe her, she's adamant that he did it. Sort of talk about that resilience and why she never even gives in to like, say, you know, that somebody else did it.

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   Yeah, well, I think she has, you know, got a real steely backbone, Rachel. She's very ambitious, but she's also got such a strong moral compass about what truth is. And, you know, she really believes in herself. And I think in season one, she really believed in herself and the institution of the police, and then her eyes get opened, and she no longer believes in her institution, but she still, she believes in herself and her own eyes and her own truth, in a way that I think a lot of people could probably waver. But I think what's interesting, Rachel's journey is season three, by the end, you see that kind of moral compass falter. And kind of, her sort of self-belief gets tested.

SCIFI VISION:   Talk about the relationships this season with like, you know, Danny (Ben Miles) and Gemma (Lia Williams) and Frank (Ron Perlman), because she has to get help. She has to ask for help, even when maybe she doesn't want to. So, yeah, talk about sort of that this season.

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   Yeah, well, it was great having, you know, Ron Perlman back, like, what a legend, and Leah Williams and Ben Miles. And I think that, you know, you kind of really see these relationships shift over the three seasons. Particularly with like, Gemma Garland's character, I love that relationship with her and Rachel, that they're kind of coming from complete opposite ends of the spectrum in season one. And kind of there's a lot of mistrust and a lot of like, [the] idea of, you know, that Garland represents everything that Rachel doesn't like about the institution that she's in. But by the end of the season, there's this sort of like, mentor-like relationship. And by the end of season three, she has kind of become her, you know, it's like this process of sort of growing up and realizing that, you know, and having her eyes open to what comes with like, power and responsibility and the sort of how that is tested. Yeah.

SCIFI VISION:   The stuff that this is about, you know, the deep fakes and changing surveillance and all that, does the idea freak you out at all? Because obviously, I don't know so much they can do it [fully] live yet, but, you know, it's getting there more and more. Yeah, does it does that scare you? Because it scares me.

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not really on social media, but I've seen bits that people have shown me from like, you know, TikTok videos of people just changing their face into celebrities faces as they're talking. And I was finding it's like - and that was kind of live. It's like, this idea of like, you don't really know what - you can't believe what you're seeing anything anymore online. And I think that is quite sad.

SCIFI VISION:   No, yeah, some of it seems fun, but I don't know, then you think about kind of the dangers of it, and it doesn't seem so fun anymore with some of that. Do you have a favorite scene from this season?

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   Yeah. Oh, I love the scene, end of act one or two maybe, when Ron Perlman's character is just in Carey's flat, and she has to sort of like, deal with this. And, you know, I love scenes with Ron, because he kind of always brings this kind of like, spark and comedy to it. Yeah, but also the final scene with Abigail, I think it's feels like it's the only time you really see kind of Carey in her home environment. There's a bit more humanity to her, you know?

SCIFI VISION:   Yeah. What has this character taught you about yourself? Or this experience?

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER:   I mean, I think I couldn't be further away from Carey. [laughs] I guess I really admire Carey's ambition, but also the fact that she just doesn't really care what people think. She's not a people pleaser. And there's a sort of element of that, that I've, you know, wanted to bring into my own life. But also, just in general, the experience of doing these three series and having Ben [Chanan]'s world to delve into and also like the advisors on hand to ask questions of, has been so eye opening. And I really appreciate the [experiences] that I wouldn't have had on anything else, you know?