“E.S.P.” is episode six of season one of UFO.
A man leaves work and gets into his car, where his wife is waiting. The man, John, tells his wife, Stella, that he was going to see the doctor. He also knows what Stella was going to say about her mother before she speaks. The doctor said it would pass; outside the doctor’s, Stella says the doctor has to do something as she doesn’t know how long she can stand this.
Dr Brünner has John wired up; he thinks sometimes that John doesn’t want helping. John says this is a waste of time and Brünner can’t help. Brünner is going to arrange a new date; John knows what it is before he speaks. John says he won’t come back. Brünner says John knows where he is; John says his wife is going to get a visitor.
SHADO Control have a UFO on a strange course; Freeman contacts MoonBase. They have the UFO and Freeman says they’ve never had a flight pattern like this before. Straker arrives at this point and is told that the UFO is coming in slower than usual and the course is varying constantly. Straker comments that the overall flight plan is being maintained. It’s either avoiding something or trying to find something. Straker orders red alert.
MoonBase launches Interceptors, then contacts SHADO Control saying the UFO has been destroyed. Straker and Freeman are talking when MoonBase contacts them again; the UFO is back and it’s through their defences heading to Earth.
Straker thinks the UFO was under manual control to avoid the Interceptors and the pilot is now trying to regain control. It’s coming in close to SHADO. Mobile 2 and Colonel Foster are dispatched to the area. John calls his wife and asks his wife if the visitor has arrived yet. Straker is told that there is only a derelict farm and two buildings in the target area; he doesn’t think the UFO is crashing. It’s confirmed that the UFO is back under control and slowing for landing.
Roadblocks are set up in the area and John arrives at one. He knows what the man he speaks to will say before he does. The UFO has now increased its speed and will crash. It crashes through the house, then explodes.
Stella is dead and Straker thinks there is still something odd about the crash. It seems John has E.S.P. and it’s getting stronger. And he’s able to find out about SHADO using it. The aliens also know about it, and John is barely coping.