Deepfakes, assassinations, China: breaking down The Capture's first big twist

The Capture, the BBC's Black Mirror-esque tech thriller-come-police drama, is back for a second season, and the stakes have never been higher. Like the season one premiere, we open with a crime that'll set the tone for the episode to come -- this time, the assassination of a Chinese computer scientist, Edison Yao (Joshua Jo), with apparent links to an AI surveillance firm trying to sell its software to the British government. But it gets weirder: there's CCTV all over his flat and apartment block, and the images pick up nothing but elevators moving and sliding doors parting, as if used by a ghost. That's just where the fun begins. We're then introduced to security minister Isaac Turner MP (Paapa Essiedu), a rare likeable politician placed at the head of a parliamentary committee set up to assess whether the UK Government should use Chinese tech.