10.30.09
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
It’s Halloween time. It seems as though the Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is haunting Melinda. The book shows up mysteriously at Aidan’s school. Caroline, Aidan’s teacher, comes by the shop to drop off some things from her parent’s house as her father died recently and they are now selling the house. Melinda sees a riding gear in one of the boxes and is thrown into a memory of a Halloween costume party from years before with Caroline’s family. She sees to masked people sneak off together and then sees a cloaked man. Talking with both Caroline and her sister, Dana, Melinda finds out that her father died of Alzheimer’s and was haunted by horses, creatures he truly loved. When Melinda is thrown into another memory and visited again by the headless horseman, she looks deeper into the family and discovers a Sean Flanders who was thrown from a horse and later died. She discovers Caroline and Sean were in love and were going to run away together, but the night of this party he was accused of stealing. He ran away on a horse and was thrown. Melinda gets another vision and begins to suspect that Sean was set up, even though he was “seen” by Dana. It turns out, through some costume switching, their father was the one who set up Sean because he hated him. Through Melinda, Sean and Caroline reconcile and he reveals he saw her father leave but only part of him went into the light. Melinda is worried about Aidan’s ghost “friends” when he tells her they’re frightened of the shadows that are made of broken people.
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10.23.09
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
Melinda helps one of Eli’s new patients, the uber wealthy, obsessive compulsive, cute 40-something internet maven NATHAN WEISS. He locks himself in a safe room in his mansion every night because he feels he’s being watched and someone’s out to get him. This is only exacerbated by the security cameras that show him areas where security has been breached but no one shows up on the camera. Nathan thinks he’s being haunted by his sister’s ghost. who was kidnapped & killed when they were younger. Melinda discovers he’s actually being haunted by the ghost of an old girlfriend, Amy, he had before he was famous. The relationship ended abruptly and Nathan would never talk about it. He became a recluse, diving into his work. Melinda and Delia look Amy up and discover she died recently from breast cancer, very much in debt and was survived by her husband and 21-year-old son, Garrett, a brilliant MIT grad. Melinda suspects that the son is really Nathan’s but when they ask him about it, he has no idea what they’re talking about. Amy finally shows herself to Melinda and explains that Garrett only found out about his real father after she died and feels that Nathan abandoned him and his mother. They figure out that Garrett got himself hired by Nathan’s company to do something to get back at his father. Melinda and Nathan try to find Garrett while Garrett himself is working on releasing Nathan’s secret security software to the public free of charge. In doing this, he unwittingly locks Melinda and Nathan in the panic room and releases a poisonous gas. When Garrett discovers this, he saves both Melinda and Nathan and Amy brings both her son and his father together, telling them how she tried to keep them from each other. Melinda crosses Amy over having reconciled everyone. Melinda and Jim are concerned even more when Aiden talks about his shiny friends that aren’t ghosts but something else.
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10.16.09
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
Melinda must help the ghost of a doctor who believes he caused the death of one of his patients during open heart surgery in the 1950s. The episode begins with two high school kids going through an initiation at the hospital morgue. Paul Jett has to lie in a drawer for 15 minutes. When he does, he feel as though someone is in there with him and we see a man in a black rubber surgical mask. After this episode, the entire hospital believes the morgue is haunted when they also begin to see the ghost manipulate the dead bodies into different positions. Meanwhile, Jim brings home a 1950s surgical clamp and Melinda discovers a ghost attached to it - a doctor who is performing open heart surgery on a teenager. She sees it played out in her dining room every day at 9:13pm. The teenager does seem to die and she looks at his hospital bracelet to discover his name is William Jett. She goes to Paul, the one who was being initiated, to ask him if he knows a William Jett and Paul tells her it’s his grandfather. It turns out that Bill was only dead for a few minutes but was brought back to life. The operating doctor never knew this and the shock of having his patient die on the table brought on his own heart attack and death. Melinda brings the two of them together and the doctor is able to crossover. Melinda realizes though that it wasn’t the doctor who was haunting the morgue and she has no idea what ghost actually is.
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10.09.09
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
Eli’s dad, Ray, unexpectedly dies when he’s brought to the ER by Casey, his business partner’s daughter. Melinda is there, dropping Jim off and runs into Evelyn, Eli’s mother, who is a ghost and hasn’t crossed over. Together, Melinda and Eli try to discover why Evelyn is so insistent on getting her husband into the light and why she’s still hanging around. They quickly surmise that Ray was having an affair with his business partner, Anne, and, to Eli’s horror, they realize that Casey and Eli might be half brother and sister, which really puts a damper on their burgeoning relationship. Upon further investigation, with the help of Aidan’s drawings, Melinda is shocked to find out that when Evelyn died of a brain aneurysm she might not have been alone. Ray is insistent however that it was Evelyn who was having an affair with Anne’s husband, Don and though he’s forgiven her, he’s angered to find out that the affair might not have been over and Don was the one with Evelyn when she died. So he begins to torment Don. At Ray’s funeral, Melinda brings everyone together and the truth comes out that Evelyn was indeed having an affair but with Anne, not Don. They would meet at their shared lakehouse and one night, when Anne went to meet her, she found Evelyn, on the floor, dead of a brain aneurysm. She didn’t want anyone to suspect of their affair since there were candles and flowers around, so she cleaned everything up and ran off, calling the caretaker, pretending to be a neighbor so someone would find her. Everything is forgiven but rather than leave Eli alone and bereft, Ray and Evelyn decide to forgo going into the light for now and be there for Eli.
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10.02.09
Posted in Spoilers, Season #5 at 8:00 pm by nexuslite
A haunted email chain is being sent around Rockland U’s campus. Melinda gets involved when Ned’s girlfriend, Brianna, is sent the email by her friend, Gwen, After she was killed in a car accident. Melinda had a vision of a man and woman coming toward her wanting to sew her eyes shut. Ned disovers that Puritants used to believe that stitching out the eyes was punishment for spreading gossip. The Xed out eyes coincides with the “author” of the email chain, Sally Stitch, who threatens to hurt the recipient or someone they love if the email isn’t forwarded. Brianna finds her doll hanging by a noose in her closet and her mirror shatters after she doesn’t forward it. She thinks Gwen is behind all of it. Melinda confronts Gwen’s ghost and finds that Gwen thinks she caused the accident that killed her and put her mother in a coma because she didn’t forward the email. In reality, her mother suffered a seizure while they were driving, do to a brain tumor. The mother and daughter are reunited after the mother passes from her coma. Finally, Melinda and Eli track the originator of the email to a girl actually living in the hospital, suffering from leukemia. She’s being influenced by the real Sally Stitch, or Scarlet Breslin who we will hear more about in later episodes.
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