One of the BBC’s best dramas has drawn to a close in grandstanding fashion – and fans have been left questioning if it’s really the end.
The Capture, exploring deepfake technology known as Correction, returned for a third season last month, bringing back Holliday Grainger’s Rachel Carey for a run of episodes that placed her character at the heart of the conspiracy.
Episode six satisfactorily closed every open plot hole introduced throughout the series. However, it also left things open for a return should creator Ben Chanan decide to write another series – but he’s unsure whether he will.
He told The Independent: “Three is a nice number. A trilogy feels nice. What we do after this, I don’t know. This is maybe it.”
But he levelled that “the whole subject of AI, and how we’re going to live with it, is still evolving, for sure”, hinting there could be hope yet for fans of the show.
“We’re just at the beginning of it, so there’s plenty of material and inspiration if we want to do another series,” he said.
Grainger added: “I feel like all the best shows are trilogies. But who knows? The Capture has the scope to go on – and to go anywhere. So I guess that would depend on Ben’s brain.”
*Spoilers follow – you have been warned*
The series ended with Carey, now the commander of counter terrorism, rocked by the death of her mentor, the senior spy Gemma Garland (Lia Williams).
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She had been assassinated by the trained killer Noah Pierson (Killian Scott), but a scene in the final episode hinted Garland might actually be alive.
After taking a selfie with her sister Abigail (Daisy Waterstone), she looks at the photo and sees Garland in the background – but, when she looks at the photo again, Garland has vanished.
“Well, that’s the question, isn’t it?” Grainger told Cosmopolitan UK. “I mean, do you believe what you see?”
Talking about what a possible fourth season could involve, Grainger said she hoped Chanan would explore the AI overlord known as Simon – an algorithm delivering orders to a high-ranking army organisation, called The Increment, based on the likelihood of events.
“I mean, if I was Carey, I’d want to know, in order to trust Simon, who programmed Simon? Who’s behind that?” Grainger said.
