History Recap / InsideNo9SpecialDeadline

While Neil and Arthur are speaking, the sound on the broadcast cuts out, is restored, and cuts out a second time. The continuity announcer for BBC Two apologizes for the interruption before the program comes back with sound restored, but naturally, it loses sound again. The announcer apologizes a second time before stating that "Dead Line" will be rebroadcast at a later date, and instead they'll be showing "A Quiet Night In" from series one of Inside No. 9. However, during the opening minutes of "A Quiet Night In", a ghostly figure appears in the background of a shot multiple times before the rerun cuts out. The announcer, sounding frightened, asks for someone to help explain what's wrong with the program, before apparently seeing a presence and screaming before her microphone is silenced.

* FakeNationality / OohMeAccentsSlipping: InUniverse, English Stephanie Cole plays Moira with a rather hammed-up Irish accent. {{Lampshaded}} later on when Steve and Reece complain behind-the-scenes that she wasn't a good or logical casting choice.

* FakeNationality / OohMeAccentsSlipping: InUniverse, English Stephanie Cole plays Moira with a rather hammed-up Irish accent. {{Lampshaded}} later on when Steve and Reece complain that she wasn't a good or logical casting choice.

* KillEmAll: By the end of the episode, the entire cast of three is dead. Likely also the intended ending of the episode they were shooting, which implied Arthur was about to kill Moira to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep her quiet]].

*** The plight of the suicidal studio worker parallels the story of Raymond Turnstall
*** ''Ghostwatch'''s concept of a live broadcast spreading a haunting across the airwaves is repeated

* TakeThat: Reece and Steve bemoan the fact that the episode is not going out on Halloween itself because of "the bloody ''Apprentice''"

* SpotOfTea: It's a British production. So naturally, Reece, unsettled by the disturbing events around him and Stephanie's strange behaviour (unaware that she is possessed) decides the solution is to go and make a cup of tea.

Some other clips from other programs play, explaining the history of Granada; it was built near a church where over 20,000 bodies were buried, and the studio most definitely sits on top of some of the graves. The ending of the rehearsal performance of "Dead Line" is shown, where it's revealed Arthur has killed Neil because he believed him to have pushed Elsie (the phone's owner) off a bell tower to her death. The broadcast cuts to the GoPro camera on Reece's character's prop helmet as Reece and Steve investigate the studio's electrical room to figure out what's going on, but Steve is killed when he tries to open the door and is electrocuted by a puddle of water that's touching an electrical box.

* NightVisionGoggles: Reece's helmet camera films in night vision when the lights go out at the studio.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Elsie was apparently pushed off the church's bell tower by Neil.

* ProsceniumReveal: Subtly done from the moment the ghost appears in "A Quiet Night In", and the music starts to distort.

** When the broadcast can't continue because of the sound failing, the BBC decides to play ''A Quiet Night In'', an almost entirely silent episode of the show.

* DeathByFallingOver: Reece is killed when he falls down stairs and breaks his neck after one of the ghosts pulls a JumpScare on him.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The episode starts to break down, the audio cutting out, and the film cutting between different locations and channels, talking about the location they are filming at being haunted. It finally has the cast being murdered by whatever haunts the location.

* JumpScare: Steve surprising Reece with a Halloween mask at the props store.
* KilledOffscreen: Apparently happens to the continuity announcer who informs the audience of the technical problems delaying the broadcast.

* PullingTheThread: When Arthur mentions that the Reverend was concerned about his stolen bicycle, Moira looks around and sees the collapsible bicycle by the door but continues with her ObfuscatingStupidity until she finds [[ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun the head in the microwave]].

* SelfDeprecation: Stephanie tells Allen over the phone that she has never heard of ''Series/InsideNo9'' before.
-->'''Stephanie''': Apparently it's a BBC 2 [[BuffySpeak sort of comedy thing]].

** Disruption of a live HalloweenSpecial by inadvertent broadcast of a genuine haunting recalls the premise of ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}''.

* SpotOfTea: Reece, unsettled by the disturbing events around him and Stephanie's strange behaviour (unaware that she is possessed) decides the solution is to go and make a cup of tea.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Not even the BBC Two continuity announcer is safe from whatever is haunting the episode.

* DeathByIrony: Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are both killed by the ghosts. At the very end of the episode, we're shown a clip from [[https://youtu.be/kAJrP_T-74g?t=1256 The One Show]] filmed just a few days before, in which they are asked if they believe in the supernatural. Naturally, they don't.

*** The spectre that appears during the rebroadcast of ''A Quiet Night In'' is a direct reference to Pipes’s manifestations in Ghostwatch.

*** The POV footage courtesy of Reese’s headcam is an homage to the cameraman’s search for Susie Early at the climax of ''Ghostwatch'', right down to the switch to night-vision echoing the change to IR mode in the original scene.

*** ''Ghostwatch''’s concept of a live broadcast spreading a haunting across the airwaves is repeated

* TheFourthWallWillNotSaveYou: Not even the BBC Two continuity announcer is safe from whatever is haunting the episode.

When Arthur finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard, he makes the mistake of trying to contact the owner. But some mysteries are best left unsolved, and as Halloween draws near Arthur is plunged into a nightmare of his own making...

** Disruption of a live HalloweenSpecial by an inadvertent broadcast of a genuine haunting recalls the premise of ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}''.

* HalloweenSpecial: Aired on Halloween night, Sunday the 28th of October 2018.

** Disruption of a live HalloweenSpecial by inadvertent broadcast of a genuine haunting recalls the premise of ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}''.

-> "please, let us be"

When Arthur finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard, he makes the mistake of trying to contact the owner. But some mysteries are best left unsolved, and as Halloween draws near Arthur is plunged into a nightmare of his own making.

** Disruption of a live HalloweenSpecial by [[spoiler: inadvertent broadcast of a genuine haunting]] recalls the premise of ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}''.

* SelfDeprecation: Stephanie tells Allen on the phone that she has never heard of ''Series/InsideNo9'' before.