The Manchurian Candidate

Why tonight?

• ◆It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

• gulf war
• post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
• ambush
• presidential election
• senator
• kuwait
• remake
• election
• war hero
• implant