Ghost whisperer season 4

(missing . episode 19)

I like Melinda’s look here, and  that sometimes we even see her in jeans or anyway something simple :-)  I’d like this to be her new trend, I like it better. 

1-Firestarter

Eli is a man who died in a fire for a few instants, but was saved and since then he has the gift of hearing ghosts. He doesn’t realize it until Melinda tells him that the girl he’s been talking to while his eyes were covered actually died in the fire. This is all new for him so Melinda helps him. 

The scenes when she sends away all the ghosts that were talking to him all at once by shouting loudly was very funny :lol: one of my favourite scenes of GW ever! :lol:

Eli was Fiona’s therapist, and at first they believe that she started the fire but she was covering for a foster-brother or something. Eli and Fiona had fallen for each other, but she was his patient so he broke it off and she went home crying so the guy saw her and started the fire to scare him off. 

When he also starts a fire at the archives with Mel trapped in there, a ghost helps her find shelter and tells her that there’s a price for what she does. 

At the end of the episode Payne leaves, and Melinda is worried and cries, and tells him that he’s one of her best friends.. but I guess she’s something different for him…  :-/

2-Big chills

Melinda is invited to a funeral of a guy she knew in school. Eli and Melinda work the case together.

Ten years ago, Lucas was driving a bit drunk, and with friends Grace and Ryan they killed a man… somehow; I didn’t understand clearly what they did from the scene I watched. Only that when he died they didn’t call anyone. The guy went off road by himself , still Ryan didn’t want to say anything to protect the three of them. He felt guilty because Lucas had been drinking after seeing him kiss Grace. Ryan and Grace confess to the dead man’s widow and I guess to the police too, who knows. 

Melinda and Jim are trying to have a baby :-)   She’s also worried because of what that ghost said, about there being a price for what she does, touching death (it almost sounded like she could cause death to someone she touches).

3- Ghost in the machine

Eli talks to Melinda as if to a therapist :-p Ned fixed her computer and uses it to play an online game. He creates an avatar for her too, just for fun, to show her how it’s done,and she says “I would never wear my hair like that” and then “could you make me taller?” :lol: that was nice :lol:

Then Melinda draws a ghost out of the game :p To interact with him she touches the computer and becomes part of the game in her vision. Felix smashes her around in anger, until she reacts and kicks him a bit :-p 

The guy played by Raphael Sbarge had been dead a few days and he wanted to protect his daughter. There’s an online predator that might have targeted her, so Melinda enters the game again in a sort of Trinity-style-look, but can’t reach him. The perv convinces the girl to enter the car, but the ghost interferes with the car computer and saves her. 

Now, I understand that the actors can’t look at the ‘ghost’ directly because they’re not supposed to see them, but still at least Eli should look in the right direction since he can hear them! Anyway, he had a cop that owed him a favor so he called her and got her help. They had been  looking for this guy for a year. Eli tells her that he got the information from a ghost but she doesn’t believe him.

Melinda tells him to stop telling people about it, which is fun given the fact that she tells everyone each and every episode :-p

( Did people really die playing video-games? Seriously? I don’t think so, it’s just a movie thing I’m sure. They said here that people played for so long they didn’t even stop to drink or eat or sleep, which is kind of impossible)

4-Save our souls

Melinda and Jim go on a three-day cruise, and the ship’s full of ghosts :-p but Melinda only works the case of a girl that kisses a man on his honeymoon leaving him tired all the time. Many ghosts ask her help in relaying messages to relatives, so she calls Eli and has the ghosts talk to him on the phone :-p

The ship’s owner is played by William R. Moses :-) He had fallen in love with this girl Lorelei in Rio then he got on the ship and never saw her again. She secretly got on board too, but she saw him kissing another girl and ran away upset; running away she had an accident and died, and he never knew she was there. He wasn’t cheating, he was saying goodbye to the fiancée his family wanted him to marry; they broke it off that same night. 

A man who has now written a historical book on the ship was part of the crew in the 70s and he met Lorelei when she was a stowaway.

At the end Melinda and Jim wonder if she might be pregnant because she feels sick.

5-Bloodline

Melinda is not pregnant. At the end she asks Jim if he would consider adoption, in case they could not have a baby of their own, but Jim tells her that all she needs is to take some hormones and they’ll be able to have their own baby.

Ned was playing tennis with a friend when an old friend of hers collapses and dies later at the hospital. Diana was only 16; Olivia and Diana were switched at birth, and Diana only found out after her death. The woman who raised Diana always knew, and years ago she tried to tell her friend Lisa but she wouldn’t listen; Lisa got angry and moved away with Olivia. Lisa was afraid that both girls would have left her, choosing her friend over her. They make peace of course.

6-Imaginary friends and enemies

Jim and Melinda are staying at some friends’ house because they are getting married; Trish’s daughter Natalie is seeing and talking to a ghost and at first Melinda thinks it might be her dead father, but it’s a boy, the same boy Trish used to play with when she was little. She met him when he was alive, but then he drown because of a cruel joke of some kids. Owen now wants to help Trish because she was nice to him, she was his friend. Trish’s fiancée was lying to her, Hunter’s not even his real name. They break up and everybody thinks Hunter’s gone, but Owen tells Melinda he’s not gone at all. She tries to warn Jim but he left his phone in the car with no sound :-/ (they always do that in the movies, it makes me crazy). Melinda then calls detective Neely for help; Hunter tries to kill Jim and they fight, and even after hearing shots fired, Neely does not go in, instead he shoots from outside! :-/ Result, he shot Jim! not Hunter! 

Hunter is arrested of course, but really, what help was that??Jim would have done better if left by himself. It ends with a sad scene: Melinda doesn’t leave Jim’s bedside at the hospital, waiting for him to wake up, and she thinks he has when she sees him talking to her, but actually it’s his ghost!! She cries, repeating “not you, not you!!”

7-Threshold

It’s been two days since Jim died and she can’t see him or any other ghosts now. Grief is blocking her gift. Another ghost is breaking things and scaring her. Jim keeps talking to her but she doesn’t see him or hear him. At his funeral they all dance to commemorate him and she finally sees him. He doesn’t want to cross over, he wants to stay with her, and he’s also worried about the ghost of the girl that’s been haunting her, so he asks Eli’s help. Melinda says she doesn’t care about ghosts crossing over now, but the ghost-girl comes again and says “I’m the reason your husband’s dead” !

And in a way she is, poor girl. Her stepfather was detective Neely, and he went back to work right after her death (she died of anorexia). Now it’s a little more understandable what happened!

After talking to Neely the girl goes into the light, but Jim doesn’t. 

Later on, they see there’s been an accident, a guy is dead and his soul crosses over right away, so Jim looks at Melinda and then enters his body. Melinda yells No! but then she runs to him saying “Jim, you’re back!” but he replies “do I know you?”

8-Heart and soul

Sam Lucas is the name of the man who died, but now it’s also Jim’s name. Sam doesn’t remember anybody, not Melinda or Sam’s sister Jordan..  Melinda speaks about what Jim did (moving into Sam’s vacant body) to Eli, to Ned, but doesn’t go on and on about it with Delia because as always she has a problem with this. At some point she gets really angry and raises her voice with her because Delia keeps thinking/saying that this is just denial, it’s not real, and they kind of end their friendship because of it, but then later she sees Sam where Jim used to meet Ned and she finally sees him as Jim, and she brings him back to Melinda, telling her how lucky she is to have a second chance with her one true love. 

Sam’s parents want to take him home with them, 800 miles away, but he escapes and goes to Melinda’s shop to see her, eat something together and talk. He moves his stuff into her garage, to stay and help her around. Since she’s so kind to him Sam thinks they had an affair and tells her that he doesn’t want to be the same person he was, the kind of man who has an affair with a married woman, and she can’t tell him the whole truth, but tells him she’d had never cheated on her husband! True. 

The ghost of the driver who caused the accident , who feels guilty about it, saw Sam going into the light and Jim ‘stealing’ his body and he haunts them now. He hears when she speaks to Sam’s parents and “talk some sense into them”; later they apologize to Jordan and she goes home with them. Now he understands that she’s helping people, so he talks with her and crosses over.

9-Pieces of you

Sam has little flashbacks of Jim’s shooting. 

Melinda sees a dead girl near a wishing well. The little girl had wished for her brother to get hurt because he was mean to her, but then she fell off trying to take her wish back from the well. 

Sam wished for a piece of his life back and he finds a ring that Sam bought and now he wonders who did he buy it for…

10-Ball & chain

Melinda is very curious about Sam’s ring obviously, but he keeps dodging her questions and she’s getting crazy not knowing.

Melinda meets the ghost of Tammy at the market, she doesn’t even realize she’s dead. She disappeared two years ago and her ‘husband’ remarried. Tammy, real name Sara, didn’t leave her husband and children like everyone believed when she disappeared, she was kidnapped. Roger locked her up for a long time then started caring after her, and she couldn’t leave him because he threatened her children. After a while she was under his complete control, a sort of Stockholm Syndrome they say, but I don’t agree. She was brainwashed to believe that she had to obey him, but she never cared for him. She kept doing it because the thought she had no choice, not because she wanted to help him. 

Eventually Roger killed her, when he thought he was losing his power over her, and found another woman, Elizabeth, and he’s done the same thing to her. Melinda finds Elizabeth locked up under the house, but Roger comes back and tries to kill Melinda for freeing her, but Elizabeth helps her. The police finally arrest him so Elizabeth can go back to her family, while Tammy says her last goodbye to hers. 

11-Life on the line

Delia wants to sell a big house ( so I guess she’s still doing that job too, other than working with/for Melinda) and no surprise-there is a ghost there. A child had died there, an accident with the lawnmower : his mother (Sharon Lawrence) blames her husband completely, because he let the child drive the lawnmower and Josh died. The father actually covered the truth up, because he was not at all responsible, his older son Devon was with Josh, not him. Devon was driving the lawnmower and allowed Josh to stay behind him, while their father was in the house. When Devon called 911, his father took action and covered it up, trying to protect his son or maybe his wife from such a news. Still, that lie has been killing Devon ever since, and it also took the family apart, since the parents are about to divorce. Devon tries to kill himself, but luckily Sam is there and is able to help him thanks to Jim’s memories. Josh talks to them and brings the family together again.  

Jim/Sam finds a email that Sam had sent to Nicole, saying he was ready to marry her. Sam/Jim says he’ll leave to go talk to this Nicole, the one person that really knows him, he thinks! 

12-This joint’s haunted

Delia hosts a dinner party for two old school friends (one played by Bitty ‘Sharona’ Schram) and invites Eli for support :-p Delia gets mad at Ned, believing he threw a party and smoked pot, and her house is now haunted by the ghost of a girl that died when she was in school. Back then both Angie and Delia were party girls, and when Angie died Delia changed. Eli helps Angie explain to Delia, and to her own parents. He’s really sweet :-)

Sam wants to go and see Nicole, and Melinda wants to go with him because she wants him to “remember Jim”, so she convinces him to take her along for a road trip. Obviously she meets many ghosts on this trip - two easily crossed over, one gets Sam in a fight (it’s not safe to repeat foreign words if you don’t know what they mean) . Sam starts remembering things about Jim, and seeing Melinda doing random acts of kindness (she can’t tell him she’s helping ghosts), and when they get home he tries to ask her out, but is interrupted when Nicole shows up…

13-Body of water

Nicole asks Melinda to stay at her house with her to be closer to Sam and of course she says yes. Eli takes her mind off it with a case. A lake with lots, lots of ghosts. During a search many bodies are found at the bottom of this lake. The funeral home owner had money troubles, so he saved the money of the cremations by throwing the bodies in the lake. 

Sam goes to his session with Eli with Nicole, and almost kisses her, but Eli wants him to remember someone else rather than Nicole. Sam remembers wanting to have kids, but he thinks he wanted them with Nicole, of course. Nicole talks to Melinda, tells her she doesn’t want to let him go. You know, Nicole is actually very nice, which was a surprise, and she likes this new Sam, and her last talk with Melinda makes her think they’re going away together, but then Nicole hugs her, walks out, gets in the car, says “be happy” to Sam, and drives away alone!

14-Slow burn

Sam talks to Eli about him having feelings for Melinda, you know, like: that he barely knows her but also it feels like he’s known her a long time, and doesn’t know where to even start now. 

Melinda talks to Delia about having been married to Jim for years and how can she start it all over again now, falling in love with Jim/Sam…

Melinda has to chaperon Ned at a school dance and asks Sam to go too, and he likes the idea, to avoid the awkwardness of the first date, and they go together and dance and laugh and it’s lovely until she sees a ghost. Deborah’s ghost interrupts Melinda’s almost-kiss with Sam.

Deborah, dead lawyer and mother, wanted to help troubled kids, and with that excuse she cared for Tim, the son she had secretly given away for adoption. Tim had found out but kept the secret to protect his ‘sister’. To help them Melinda misses her date with Sam. He thinks it’s an excuse because she’s not ready, so she finally kisses him, and they go out together :-) and hold hands :-)

15-Greek tragedy

Eli gives Melinda a copy of the book he wrote. She has another date with Sam but a ghost comes.

Melinda sees a girl with a bag over her head, and thinks at first that it’s Courtney, that she died during a stupid sisterhood initiation, but it was Rebecca, dead 40 years now. 

Courtney has been alone in the woods all night, and at first Rebecca plans on letting her die to make this ritual stop, once and for all, but Melinda convinces her to help Courtney, the same way she tried to help another girl the night she died. 

Sam can’t understand why Melinda lies to him so much. He saw her on tv, on the news when Courtney was found, but evidently she didn’t notice the cameras because she lied to Sam about where she was and what she was doing. She’s so bad at keeping secrets that it’s unbelievable!

16-Ghost busted

Delia tells Melinda to talk to Sam about her seeing ghosts, and adds that she always tells everyone she can see them :-p Before she can do it, they meet “Linus Van Horn, Supernatural Paranormal Investigator” and Sam says he’s so sure ghosts don’t exists, them he talks to Eli about all the bodies that Melinda seems to find. Melinda lies to him all the time, and so Eli tells him that she’s undercover for the Feds :-p then Melinda tells him the truth in front of Linus and Eli. 

Linus finds ghosts everywhere with his machines because the dead father of his girlfriend was following him to help him. Melinda has them all talk to each other and then crosses him over. 

Sam simply tells her he needs time to get used to the idea, then hugs her.

17-Delusions of Grandview

Sam tells Melinda that he wants to believe her because he’s crazy about her :-) so he sticks around and is with her when she sees three ghosts at a playground. The school was once a sanitarium. Sam tries to help her and to understand: he sees her talking to a ghost, goes with her in the tunnels, sees her shaking while she has a vision of a ‘ghost’ being electrocuted. When it seems it is too much for him, Melinda tells him he has to try “to get back what he lost”, then tells him that Sam is gone, that his memories belong to a ghost who went into Sam’s body, and that he’s Jim. Sam says: “I’m not Jim, I’m not your husband” and leaves. 

Melinda helps the ghosts of the patients, but the ghost of the bad doctor stays. After the electroshock some patients could see the ghost of this doctor Bird who told them not to go into the light and kept them afraid. 

Sam tells her that it’s all a fantasy, that she needs help. After that she tells him that she can’t take it anymore, and to get his things and leave.

18-Leap of faith

Melinda tells Delia that the real Jim had faith in her, but not Sam. Sam actually thinks that Melinda put Jim’s memories in his head, but then he remembers something that Jim did as a surprise for her, that she knew nothing about.

Dr Bird is haunting Melinda. When she gets trapped, Bird calls Eli who meets Sam. Eli can’t really swim well, so Sam takes his place to go save her. Being near another near-death-experience brings his memory back. Now he remembers everything about Jim but nothing about Sam. Melinda shows him his new face and explains what happened.

Bird crosses over too, he wasn’t evil, just very afraid. 

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20-Stage fright

A soap-opera crew wants to film in Grandview and in Melinda’s store. The ghost of a guy that was shot and killed on stage shows up at the show conference. He keeps interfering with the show shootings, because he wants his old friends to make things right. His death was his own fault, but he wants them to stop lying to each other. The director lied to the soap’s lead actor so he wouldn’t go away and get back with his old girlfriend, she tried to control his life. The actors were afraid of following their true dreams. 

The nicest scene was when Melinda and Jim were watching the show together :-)

The end: Melinda is at the hospital for her injured wrist, and it turns out she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is Jim, real Jim, before he died, not Sam (meaning not Sam’s body).

21-Cursed

Since Emma’s whole family died, she went to live with her dad’s sister Lucy and her daughter Drew. Her family has been trapped in a dollhouse, and Drew has been talking to them. They were scared for Emma, believing Lucy had killed them for the money and planned now to kill Emma too, but she didn’t kill anyone. She was scared of them, but she cares for Emma and Drew. 

Melinda was going crazy because she believed she had lost her wedding ring, but Sam had took it to have it engraved with the word ‘forever’. Then he proposes to her. 

22-Endless love

Teenage Serena is haunted by the ghost of a friend. She was into vampires, and he says he wants her to be with him. He leads her to her death, but then he tells Melinda where to find her when she confronts him saying that if he really loved her he wouldn’t want her to die. Serena felt lonely and thought he understood her. They save her, and the ghost goes away. 

Eli asked the help of a teacher friend, Zoe, about the ‘vampire thing’.

23-The book of changes

Eli sees Zoe having lunch with a man and he’s jealous. They broke up some time ago but he has trouble being just friends. 

One night he goes to her house and they talk through the door; she wants him to go but he goes in anyway, and finds her dead. (!!!)

There’s a book that was stolen from the library; one of the Watchers tells Eli to keep the book safe and that Melinda can’t touch it: it’s the book of changes of the title. Inside the book, Eli finds his own name, plus the names of Andrea and Zoe and Jim and Sam, and the phrase “she helps the listener join the dead” and he thinks he’s going to die. Melinda insists on seeing it. She touches it: those are the names of people that died and came back, one way or another (… how did Andrea and Zoe come back? in what way?)

There’s also Melinda’s date, her future date of death. Well, day and month, but no year. 

The vision of a girl without face is scaring Melinda, telling her “you can’t save her”, and she freaks out thinking she won’t be able to protect her baby, but Jim tells her that they’re having a boy. Carl the watcher tells her that her baby will be able to do much more than her. 

Melinda’s mom hired a guy to plan a big wedding for her :-/ he doesn’t listen to her at all :-/ 

 At the end, Sam takes Melinda, Delia and Eli to the street where Melinda and Jim first met, where a priest is waiting for them, and they get married right there and then.