![]() Sober, it also renders him well placed for plot purposes to actually drive the car he supposedly uses for the kidnapping/possible murder of Hannah Roberts. This sets him up as being a peculiarly disciplined member of our fighting forces, even off duty, and places him nicely for the innocence we are being invited to believe in. For a start, having been released from confinement, he spends the evening in a pub in a Croydon housing estate totally sober. We don’t know enough, yet, about Emery to feel truly invested in his fate, but what we do learn about him is sometimes so far-fetched as to be preposterous. A clever, self-confident police officer DI Rachel Carey (a first TV lead for Holliday Grainger) turns up to take charge of the case. Emery is charged with assault, kidnapping and perverting the course of justice. Thus, the expert evidence demonstrates, the incriminating words – “Get back” – were in fact not uttered after he shot a prisoner-of-war, but beforehand: case dismissed, you may walk free.Įveryone goes down the pub to celebrate, but outside, after offering his brilliant barrister a lift home, he is spotted on ever-watchful CCTV beating up and then abducting her – though key moments are obscured by a bus and gaps in coverage. Then, thanks to a resourceful solicitor Charlie Hall (Barry Ward) and super-smart barrister Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock), he finds himself freed, the legal team having discovered that the “incriminating” headcam video footage from the battlefield is faulty and out of sync. The MoD, useless and unsympathetic as ever, bangs him up for six months. First, in BBC series The Capture, he is wrongly convicted for the murder, in cold blood, of a surrendering Taliban fighter during a skirmish in Helmand province. ![]() Lance Corporal Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) must be the unluckiest squaddie ever.
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