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Extrasensory

Dead Reckoning | 4

Extrasensory

Apple TV+ / Blanchard House

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Arts

4696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A film crew arrives to make a major TV documentary about the Pollocks, but the producer suspects the twins are holding something back. Stevenson’s big benefactor dies, leaving him questioning whether he can afford to continue his research. And a terrible tragedy blows the Pollock family apart.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

St Mary's Walk, Scarborough, Autumn, 1978.

0:10.0

Everyone on the street comes out to look.

0:14.0

On the side of the trucks, in multicoloured lettering, it says,

0:18.0

London Weekend Television, one of Britain's biggest TV companies.

0:24.0

John's inside the house, adjusting his cravat. Florence is spraying her hair. The twins are now

0:29.6

21, and the family have moved here a while ago, to another seaside town. Guys go in and out of the vans,

0:36.6

carrying endless bits of kit, cans of film, lenses,

0:40.3

lighting rigs, cables, boom poles. There are still only three TV channels in the UK, so this is a massive deal.

0:47.3

And the show will air on a Sunday night, which means a huge audience.

0:52.3

The producer is a young guy in his 20s called Michael Chaplin.

0:57.0

He's new to the job and wants to make his name with a big scoop.

1:01.0

And he's got one.

1:03.0

The first ever TV interview with the Pollocks.

1:07.0

Michael hears about the story from his wife's family,

1:10.0

there from Hexham,

1:11.3

and still talk about that terrible crash that killed Jacqueline and Joanna.

1:15.2

You know, it was a big event,

1:16.8

and the feelings about it were still quite raw,

1:20.4

and they all said, you know, what terrible thing it was.

1:24.1

You know, its ripples continued to spread outwards as far as the 70s.

1:31.7

The crew set up in the living room first.

1:34.0

A set piece interview with John and Florence in front of the bright white lights.

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