A new conspiracy thriller starring Holliday Grainger, Callum Turner, Ben Miles, Ron Perlman and Famke Janssen airs tonight on BBC One.
The Capture is a six-part series that looks at a troubling world of fake news and the extraordinary capabilities of the intelligence services.
It follows the overturned murder conviction of soldier Shaun Emery in Afghanistan, who returns to life as a free man with his daughter due to flawed video evidence.
But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun’s life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
With newly promoted DI Rachel Carey drafted in to investigate Shaun’s case, she quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective.
But is the show based on a true story?
The Capture, written and directed by BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Ben Chanan, blurs the lines between fact and fiction.
Chanan explains: "When I began writing The Capture two years ago, these questions felt firmly like the stuff of hypothetical ‘what if’ drama.
"I think they still are, but maybe not for long.
"Now, barely a week goes by without a new warning about the potential horrors of facial recognition, deep-fakes or fake news. Perhaps we will soon have to find new ways to judge the veracity of video footage."
He added: "This turbulent scenario reflects how the world feels to me at the moment. Several years ago, when the foundations for this idea were laid, I was working on a documentary about counter terrorism, interviewing retired agents from US Homeland Security and the CIA.
"I got a clear sense of where they all were politically - generally Hawkish, George W Bush-era Republicans. Now many of those same spymasters are commentators for CNN.
"Routinely they lambaste a Republican administration, whose President has professed a love for Wikileaks. Up is indeed down, black is white.
"My ambition starting out was to create a modern-day conspiracy thriller that evoked the mood and paranoia of my favourite 1970s post-Watergate movies, The Parallax View and Three Days Of The Condor.
"I had no idea our current era would turn out to be such a good fit."
