There’s a trend with fortean programmes of the kind that like to be journalistic and fact-finding and (putatively) balanced: the setting, which falls into one of two categories: the car parts-shop staff room, or the cool creatives’ office. Breaking Mysterious (Blaze) falls into the latter camp.
Jimmy Church, clutchingthat has things pinned to it: maps, photos with strings between them. He gazes at it pensively for a moment and turns. “So, check this out – what is a legend?” he asks the team. “Loch Ness,” says Jeremy Fels, photographer and Christian Slater lookalike. Jael De Pardo volunteers, “The Dutchman’s Mine”. Karamo Brown tells us there’s a startling new theory about the death of JFK, and that’s what we follow first. It seems that Dallas was actually Plan B, and there was a near-identical Plan A for Chicago the week before. In scenes reminiscent of , while Karamo eavesdrops nearby, the details are related in a dingy café booth to a fellow journalist by a former member of Kennedy’s Secret Service detail. The agent’s hushed tones are only slightly offset by his startling turquoise tasselled skullcap, giving the impression that JFK was guarded by Miles Davis. This aside, there do seem to be intriguing parallels, with verifiable details; however, as always, links between them all are impossible to prove.
