Callum Turner's Lance Corporal Shaun Emery walks free when Afghan war-crime footage is ruled unsafe, only to be arrested hours later for the abduction of his barrister, Hannah Roberts. Grainy London CCTV appears to show him kissing then dragging her into a car, yet the timestamps keep slipping and the pixels refuse to align. While Emery protests innocence, DI Holliday Grainger's Rachel Carey maps a covert Ministry of Defence programme called Correction that can rewrite video in real time.
Six months on, deepfake clips surface of MP Paapa Essiedu's Isaac Turner mouthing racial slurs; the clips tank a by-election and spark riots. Now promoted to Counter Terrorism Command, Carey traces the forgery to the same Correction servers, learning that private contractors sell fabricated reality to the highest bidder. She leaks the code, thinking sunlight will disinfect, but every screen in Britain becomes both courtroom and weapon.
Series three jumps forward a year: Carey, acting commander, is marketing Operation Veritas, a state-run body-camera network pitched as transparent policing. A coordinated bombing at a Remembrance service leaves one traumatised eyewitness whose phone contains pre-event footage that contradicts every official feed. While parliamentary inquiries circle, Carey realises Veritas is Correction wearing democratic livery and that her own body-cam has been looping an alibi she never lived. The show refuses to let technology be the villain; the hunger to believe what we see is.
Production Details
BBC One / 3 Seasons / 18 Episodes / 2019 - Present
Created by: Ben Chanan
Showrunner(s): Rosie Alison, Tom Coan, Ben Chanan
Writer(s): Ben Chanan
Producer(s): Derek Ritchie, Kristian Dench
Main Cast
Ben Miles as Danny Hart
Ginny Holder as DC / DI Nadia Latif
Lia Williams as DSU Gemma Garland
Holliday Grainger as DI Rachel Carey
Ron Perlman as Frank Napier
Nigel Lindsay as DSI / DSU Tom Kendricks
Paapa Essiedu as Isaac Turner MP
Indira Varma as Khadija Khan
Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan
Daisy Waterstone as Abigail Carey
Cavan Clerkin as DS Patrick Flynn
Andy Nyman as Rowan Gill
