11.21.08
Heart & Soul - Episode 408
Melinda is drawn to a man Sam/Jim who is suffering from amnesia and she enthusiastically tries to help him regain his memory.
11.14.08
Threshold - Episode 407
Melinda has a hard time helping a troubled teenage ghost while Melinda deals with drastic changes to her personal life.
11.07.08
Imaginary Friends and Enemies - Episode 406
Melinda and Jim attend a wedding for Jim’s friend Trish and Melinda discovers that a child ghost is haunting Trish and convincing her to play a game which he says will keep her safe. When Trish plays the game she discovers a terrible truth about her fiance and calls of the wedding. When Jim goes back to clean up, the enraged ex-fiance is still there and he and Jim struggle and Jim is shot. He is taken to the hospital and dies and his ghost appears to Melinda.
10.31.08
Bloodline - Episode 405
A young woman passes out at a tennis club and Ned is there dialing 911. She dies and her ghost tries to convince Melinda not to tell a secret about her parentage that she had been keeping because it would hurt her mother to know the truth. When Melinda decides to tell her mother, the girl is shocked to find out her mother already knew the truth. Melinda feels nauseous and dizzy and thinks she is pregnant but is disappointed when she and Jim go to the doctor.
10.24.08
Save Our Souls - Episode 404
Melinda and Jim go on a cruise on an old ship that is about to be scrapped. When they get there, they meet a young newlywed couple, Rich and Julia, and Melinda realizes a ghost has attached itself to Rich. Melinda also realizes the ship is full of ghosts that are having fun and partying. Melinda figures out that Rich’s ghost is a succubus, which is a female demon who sucks the life out of men so she’ll have a partner in the afterlife, or some kind of siren, luring ’sailors’ to their death.
10.17.08
Ghost in the Machine - Episode 203
Ned, Eli and Melinda are checking out Virtual Life on Melinda’s computer when a ghost that looks like an avatar on the game flies out of her computer, unable to control himself, knocking over antiques and breaking glass. They follow him to try and find out where he was heading. Later, Melinda goes on Virtual Life and her avatar and the ghost’s get in a physical fight, Melinda finding that she has many good moves on the game, while she tries to convince the ghost to head to the light. Their investigation leads them to a young woman named Alise and Ned meets her on Virtual Life to play DDR and research more about the ghost. They then learn that a man is luring young girls using Virtual Life.
10.10.08
Big Chills - Episode 402
A popular former classmate, Grace Adams, contacts Melinda because she thinks her dead friend, Lucas, is haunting her after discovering his body. Secrets come to light that Grace, Lucas, and another friend have covered up an accidental death that happened ten years ago instead of reporting it to the police.
10.03.08
Firestarter - Episode 401
A shrink survives a fire in his office and when Melinda and Jim go to the hospital to visit him, they see him talking to what Melinda realizes is a ghost. She has to break the news to him that the patient died in the fire and he was talking to her ghost. After speaking with him, Melinda visits the young woman’s roommates and learns some interesting facts about what the injured man told her and more importantly, did not tell her. Melinda, Jim and Delia eat at a Chinese restaurant, where Ned is a waiter and serves them.
05.16.08
Pater Familias - Episode 318
Continued from the previous episode, Melinda bursts in to Tom Gordon’s hotel room, where it appears that he has attempted to take his own life. Tom is rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but survives. Melinda, still working under the assumption that Paul Eastman is seeking revenge for being wrongly convicted of murder, figures that Tom had been possessed by Paul during the suicide attempt. However, when she confronts Paul and asks him to leave Tom alone, Paul leads Melinda to his own body, which is buried in the house Melinda grew up in. This leads to even more questions about Tom’s involvement with Paul and as Melinda peels away the layers of lies Tom has told her she finally learns the horrible truth. It turns out that Melinda’s mother had been madly in love and engaged to Paul when he was accused of murder, which was how she met Tom. After Paul was convicted, she explained to Tom that she and Paul could see ghosts, and that’s how he had found the little boys body. Tom, who turns out to be a total sociopath, promised to help get Paul out of prison, but secretly did nothing to help Paul so he could endear himself to Melinda’s mother and eventually marry her. When Paul finally escaped and confronted Tom at his house, Tom killed him and buried him in his basement. Topping it all off, Melinda discovers that Tom isn’t even her father, but that Paul Eastman is.
05.09.08
Stranglehold - Episode 317
Melinda finally reunites with her father, Tom Gordon, after a long search and under suspicious circumstances. While searching for him she discovered he was a prosecutor in Grandview before he disappeared, and a spirit led her to a case he had prosecuted that involved the murder of a young boy, Michael. Tom had convicted the man who found the body, Paul Eastman, of the murder, sending him to prison where he escaped during a fire. However, before finding out that her father was in town, Melinda, led by clues left by the mysterious spirit, had approached Michael’s family hoping to get information from them about her dad. When she met with Michael’s mother she discovered that his ghost was still living with her, and that she was well aware of it. Melinda tries to convince Michael to go in to the light, but Mother and son are happy with the way things are. Melinda then discovers that Michael wasn’t murdered at all, that he had died after falling from a tree. After confronting Michael about it, he tells Melinda that Paul had found his body because Paul was also a ghost whisperer. Michael had told him where to search, and because of that Paul went to prison an innocent man. Knowing her father has been on the run for a long time, Melinda then assumes that he was running from Paul, who was hunting him to seek revenge. After getting Michael to cross over, Melinda rushes to find her father to warn him about Paul, but when she gets to his hotel it appears that she’s too late. To be continued…
