The Catholic Weekly 9 August 2020

catholicweekly.com.au 24 9, August, 2020 ENTERTAINMENT ACROSS 1. Display of kicking against being in favour of trial month? (7,5) 7. The right friend to rouse (5) 8. It’s flat either way (5) 9. Mischievous child looks like one politician! (3) 10. Is she relatively sure to be a target? (4,5) 11. Alternatively bargain in severe trial (6) 12. Was the two-step seen at the tea-party? (6) 15. Got fatter and possibly old and futile (6,3) 17. Unselfish little being at heart (3) 18. This animal is shy and half puma (5) 19. Concede he was an American general (5) 21. It helps when the wicked get nothing, apparently (3,2,3,4) Quick Crossword answers also fit the large grid CROSSWORD DOWN 1. It is presumably not held by a private secretary (6,6) 2. Slippery customer could be electric (3) 3. Irksome court work? (6) 4. Also still a hopeless cry (3,2,4) 5. In this epic, a village gets hyper critical censure (5) 6. Where the farmer keeps his game? (7-5) 7. Quick attack around Peterhead (5) 10. Consequently rues atlas being ruined (2,1,6) 13. Doctors do - and, it’s worth having! (5) 14. Sumerian capital should be looked for (6) 16. Faithful ally gets upset about nothing (5) 20. Article you and I receive in reverence (3) CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES SOLUTION FOR LAST WEEK ACROSS 1. Pedagogue (12) 7. Garb (5) 8. Impelled (5) 9. Suitable (3) 10. Break up (9) 11. Left desolate (6) 12. Dwarf (6) 15. Maze (9) 17. Choose (3) 18. Killed (5) 19. Scope (5) 21. Obligation (12) DOWN 1. Sleepwalker (12) 2. Poem (3) 3. Maltreat (6) 4. Fastidious (9) 5. Rowing crew (5) 6. Accidental (12) 7. Put off (5) 10. Submission (9) 13. Apparition (5) 14. Baby (6) 16. Intellect (5) 20. Defective (3) 15,762 QUICK Across 4 Possess; 8 Harden; 9 Eternal; 10 In vain; 11 Upkeep; 12 Encumber; 18 Ruthless; 20 Thieve; 21 Impugn; 22 Getaway; 23 Refuse; 24 Streaky. Down 1 Shrivel; 2 Crevice; 3 Medium; 5 Outburst; 6 Strike; 7 Seamen; 13 Bareback; 14 Tenuous; 15 Asunder; 16 Threat; 17 Relate; 19 Hamper. CRYPTIC Across 4 Oculist; 8 Orphan; 9 Instead; 10 Pariah; 11 Une- ven; 12 Instance; 18 Watchman; 20 Tramps; 21 Emerge; 22 Imparts; 23 Kansas; 24 Pastime. Down 1 Pompeii; 2 Oppress; 3 Canada; 5 Conquest; 6 Litter; 7 Skater; 13 News item; 14 Impress; 15 Incense; 16 Crimea; 17 Impact; 19 Combat. SAINTS OF THEWEEK From an aristo Complex, engaging moral thriller worth it CLEVER AND engrossing, The Capture asks important, diffi- cult questions about morali- ty in the age of terrorism. The crime suspense drama, which first aired on BBC One last September, is available in six one-hour episodes. Set in contemporary Lon- don, the limited series was written and directed by BAF- TA Award-winning director Ben Chanan ( The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes ). Accused of a war crime for killing an unarmed Afghani at close range, British soldier Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) is understandably overjoyed when, after detecting aflaw ina video implicating him, his law- yers, Charlie Hall (Barry Ward) and Hannah Roberts (Laura Haddock), win his acquittal. Onhis first night of freedom, however, CCTV cameras ap- pear to record Shaun assault- ing and kidnapping Hannah. When she subsequently turns up dead, Shaun becomes the chief suspect. Ambitious and determined 30-something Detective In- spector Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) leads the investiga- tion. With its challenging subject matter and depictions of vio- lent actions of various kinds, including torture, as well as images of partial nudity and an adultery theme, The Capture is best for grown viewers. While the show also con- tains a fair amount of vulgar language, relative to other se- ries this element doesn’t seem excessive. The prevalence of CCTV surveillance in London and the use of fake videos are central to the plot. Thus Alma (Adelayo Adedayo), whose brother Fais- al (Tomiwa Edun) has been accused of terrorism and who, like Hannah and Charlie, be- lieves the government is tram- pling civil liberties, estimates there are 6 million closed-cir- cuit cameras in the UK. Seasoned and ruthless CIA operative Frank Napier (Ron Perlman), who’s in charge of the shadowy network support- THE CAPTURE Find the career you deserve catholicjobsonline.com.au SEE OUR LATEST JOBS The youngest of 11 children of a devout Jewish mother inWro- claw, Poland, Edith was an atheist by her teens. After studying philosophy in Germany, she was deeply affected by reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. Baptised a Catholic in 1922, she joined the Dis- calced Carmelites in Cologne in 1933, taking the name Te- resa Benedicta of the Cross. Fleeing the Nazis, she moved to a convent in Echt, Nether- lands, but was arrested with non-Aryan Christians after the Dutch bishops protested Nazi deportations. She was martyred at Auschwitz. This Austrian farmer and parish sexton had done his basic training in Hitler’s army in 1940-41, but refused to serve active duty in 1943. A military court in Berlin sentenced him to death as “an enemy of the state,” and he was beheaded Aug. 9, 1943. In prison await- ing his fate, he wrote about a dream he’d had in 1938. In it, many people were boarding a new train, but he heard the announcer say, “This train is bound for hell.” For him, the train symbolized the evils of Nazism, and he had become a conscientious objector. His wife and three daughters were still living when he was beatified in Austria in 2007. S treaming Edith Stein 1891-1942 Feast: 9 August Blessed Franz Jagerstatter 1907-1943 Feast: 9 August Holliday Grainger stars in The Capture , streaming on Peacock. PHOTO: CNS/HEYDAY FILMSVIA NBCUNIVERSAL STREAMING ON PEACOCK ing the London police force’s covert counterterrorism ef- forts, may be Alma’s foil. Yet he shares her assessment of the British capital’s security ar- rangements. “It is,” he says, “the most heavily surveiled city in the Western world.” The sheer volume of video footage presents opportuni- ties, both for the government and for those working to un- dermine it, to create false nar- ratives. This becomes a point of contention between Rachel, who’s convinced of Shaun’s innocence, and Detective Su- perintendent Gemma Garland (Lia Williams), who is working to block Rachel’s pursuit of the truth. “Accepting you can rarely see the whole picture is part of the job,” Gemma admonishes Rachel. The latter, however, knows better: “When they say, ‘Move along, nothing to see here,’” she says to her boss, “they’re lying.” Ethical complexity helps to make The Capture compelling. Rachel, for instance, wrestles with whether their potential to wreak havoc justifies using questionable methods against terrorists. After all, as Frank says to Hannah: “Your beauti- ful system is anathema to the people you are trying to de- fend. They want our way of life to end.” Shaun, for his part, accepts being pursued for a crime he didn’t commit as just punish- ment for a transgression of which he was guilty. To its credit, the show lets neither its characters nor the audience off the hook. Instead it forces them, in the words of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, to “live the questions.” Its suitably ambiguous ending, moreover, will sharpen view- ers’ appetite for a second sea- son of The Capture . - CNS ¾ ¾ Chris Byrd Ethical com- plexity helps to make “The Capture” compelling. Rachel, for instance, wrestles with whether their potential to wreak havoc justifies using questionable methods against terrorists.”