Note: This article contains spoilers for The Capture episode 1.
Tonight (September 3) saw the premiere of BBC One's new crime thriller The Capture.
It stars Strike's Holliday Grainger, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's Callum Turner and superhero veterans Ron Perlman and Famke Janssen (who didn't actually appear in this episode).
The series follows a former soldier named Shaun who is freed after his conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned, but is later arrested by police over some CCTV footage involving him after a night out.
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The first episode teases the CCTV footage throughout its entire runtime, and is only revealed to viewers as it is shown to Shaun for the first time — and he can't believe what he sees: him attacking the woman he had just kissed, which he claims absolutely did not happen.
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So, viewers were left wondering if the footage was edited, or whether he really did it.
And the huge end-of-episode plot twist – where a vague flashback showed that Shaun did do the assault – and general quality of the series had people calling it 'the new Bodyguard'.
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But the reception wasn't completely positive, with a handful complaining the show relied too heavily on cliché and some of the dialogue was hard to hear.
The Capture continues next Tuesday (September 10) at 9pm on BBC One.
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