FIRST LOOK The Capture

Holliday Grainger and Paapa Essiedu return for the show's third series.

BBC One has released 12 first look images from the upcoming third series of hit thriller The Capture.

Paapa Essiedu reprises his role as Isaac Turner, after helping to expose Correction in the previous series, alongside Holliday Grainger, who leads the cast as Rachel Carey.

How do you protect the truth in a world where lies are daily currency? And with the proliferation of deepfakes, how can we trust what we see?

It’s been 12 months since Rachel Carey broadcast a live deepfake of a government minister to the nation, exposing the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation programme known as Correction.

Amidst an inquiry into the unlawful use of Correction, Carey has become Acting Commander of Counter Terrorism Command, determined to regain the public’s trust in surveillance technology through the new Operation Veritas camera system.

And then it happens: a brutal and exceptionally well-coordinated act of terror aimed right at the heart of the British establishment that leaves behind just one witness.

The more Carey investigates, the deeper she is drawn into an unfolding geopolitical crisis that infects the British political establishment, the security services, and the media. The conspiracy reaches deep into the State, but just who is pulling the strings?

Caught in an increasingly violent situation and with few allies left to trust, what sacrifices will Carey be willing to make?

The pictures also show Indira Varma as BBC News presenter Khadija Khan, Hugh Quarshie as Commissioner Cameron Yates, Linus Roache as Colonel Figgis, Ben Miles as Danny Hart, Lia Williams as Gemma Garland, Ginny Holder as DI Nadia Latif, Ron Perlman as CIA agent Frank Napier, Nigel Lindsay as DSI Tom Kendricks, Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan.

Also joining the cast are Killian Scott, Jonathan Aris, Joe Dempsie, Andrew Buchan and Amanda Drew. Daisy Waterstone returns as Abigail Carey.

The Capture is created, written, and executive produced by Ben Chanan and produced by Heyday Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The new six-part series is directed by Anthony Philipson, Johnny Allan and Ben Chanan, and produced by Derek Ritchie, who also serves as Executive Producer, alongside David Heyman, Rosie Alison and Sue Gibbs for Heyday Television, Tom Coan for Universal International Studios, Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC and Ben Chanan.

The Capture returns this spring on BBC One