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My name is Melinda Gordon.
I'm married,
I live in a small town,
and I own
an antique shop.
I might be just like you.
Except that from the time I was a little
girl, I knew that I could talk to the dead.
Earthbound spirits,
my grandmother called them.
They're stuck here because they have
unfinished business with the living
and they come to me
for help.
In order to tell you my
story, I have to tell you theirs.
Previously
on ghost whisperer
there's a plane in the air
no one is flying it!
Yeah, I really don't get the feeling
that he was on that flight.
I mean, what are the chances?
I can't lose
my brother, melinda.
- Wait!
- They're mine.
I've been trying to work up
the courage to go in there,
- look at the passenger list.
- Andrea
there's
something I have to tell you.
- You saw mitch.
- Andrea--
- Don't! No.
No.
- But I'm not sure--
no way.
It's not him.
It was 250 people, jim.
Do I really have
the right to ignore that?
What about the thousands people
you could help the rest of your life?
You can't trick those souls
into staying here.
I will release
all your precious souls.
And in return,
I'll takeyou.
Mitch!
- Mitch?
- I'm so sorry, Mitch.
I was supposed
to be on that plane, Melinda,
I can't believe Andrea
it's dead.
How'd it happen?
She was driving
to your apartment in the city.
She tried so hard
to reach you.
I guess her car got caught in the
path of the plane.
- Do you think she suffered?
- No.
No, I don't think so.
This can't be happening!
she's mine!
- Andrea! Andrea!
- Melinda, I don't know what's happening!
- Please, help me!
- I've been looking for you, where are you?
At the store.
I'm so scared!
- Well, can you get to my house?
- I don't know!
Ok.
I'll come to you.
I have really good news.
Hello?!
How is she calling you?
She had her cell phone with her.
You know,
maybe she can tap into the energy fields.
- I'll come with you?
- No, she's gonna want to talk to me alone.
She's gonna be so happy!
Don't!
The light hurts my eyes.
Andrea, I've been
so worried about you!
- Tell me everything's gonna be ok.
- I think maybe it is.
You may not really be dead.
- What?
- It's truim found you,
Jim found you,
your body.
You're in a coma at mercy hospital,
but you're gonna be ok.
You're just out of body until ypu come out
of the coma.
Doctors are working so hard.
You're not lying to me? You're not just
trying to make me feel better?
Look, you're not out of the woods.
You have some injuries.
but the doctors think that
you're gonna pull through.
We've been with you
at that hospital every day.
- It's scary here.
- What's it like?
I don't really like to look around too
much.
Therethere are people here.
- People?
- Not people
I guess, maybe, um, beings or something?
They're dark, and they're always watching.
- I can't really see.
- Melinda!
Melinda Open the door!
- Open the door, let me in!
- I can't!
- The door!
- It won't open!
Andrea!
No No!
- No!
- It's ok, it's ok.
- Shh, just a dream.
- Sorry.
Want some water?
I dreamt
that she was alive,
that you found her body
and that she was gonna be ok.
Think she's trying
to come to you in the dreams?
It doesn't usually work that way.
Scared the hell out of me, though.
No kidding.
- Sorry I woke you.
- Yeah, me, too.
I was dreaming that I was floating on
a river of beer and I had a big cup.
Are your dreams
always that complex?
Pretty much.
Gonna be able to sleep?
I don't want to keep you up.
You know what,
I think I'm just gonna go downstairs and read.
Romano.
Mine.
Help me.
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away
into the next room.
Everything remains
as it was.
The old life that we live so fondly
together in unchanged.
Is andrea here?
Whatever we were
to each other, that we are still.
- I am but waiting for you.
For an inverval,
interval, somewhere very near - No.
I just don't understand why
she's not coming to me.
- Maybe she's crossed over.
- No, she hasn'T.
I would know if she did.
I just can't figure out
what's keeping her here.
How we shall laugh at the trouble
of parting when we meet again.
Maybe she's still in the department.
I will be going to see later
Thanks for everything
you did, melinda.
I hope you know
how much andrea loved you.
I loved her, too.
So much.
You were like her sister.
Do you everfeel like
she's with you??
In some ways, you know,
like she's near you?
No.
Not really.
Do you?
I'd like to.
Andrea said that you understood death
in ways that most people don'T.
What else
did she say?
Just that you knew
how to help people who were grieving.
Now I'm one of them.
We both lost a sister.
Here in the stricken
town of grandview,
residents struggle to resume
their normal lives
after the tragedy
of flight 395.
We're here today to see
how they're doing.
Excuse me,
We're here in grandview today to see
what kind of progress the town is making
in the aftermath
of the plane crash.
How do you think
things are going?
UmI can only say that the people
in this town are really strong,
they're survivors.
- We're gonna be ok.
- Thank you.
Well, there you have it
from a local merchant.
This town is grieving, but determined
to get back to business as usual.
Andrea?
Are you here?
I just want
to talk to you, please.
I know that you're scared.
- Where's andrea?
- I'll be glad to take a message.
- What are you doing to her?
- I don't have to do anything.
- She's doing it all to herself.
- Who are you?
I was alive once.
Just like you.
- I had names, I had lis.
- Romano Is that your name?
- I'm just a humble teacher.
- Teacher?
Trying to spread the word.
- Much like yourself.
- What are you doing here? What do you want?
- I have what I want.
- No.
No, you don'T.
Andrea will not go with you.
I
know her.
She's going into the light.
I'm going to have her,
and I'm going to have you, too.
It's just a matter of time.
Andrea, you have to cross
over.
Please let me help you.
- I can'T.
- Why not?
- You could never understand why!
Cloudy and cold in the seattle area
tonight.
Possible showers tomorrow,
but the rest of the week
looks like we might see some sunshine.
In other news across the nation,
the small east coast town of grandview
is still recovering from
that tragic plane crash.
Um, all I can say is that people in
this town are strong.
They're survivors,
and we'll be ok.
Thank you.
Melinda
That brings us back
to the power of the mind.
Something so powerful that it creates
that which we want to be true.
That's why athletes are taught
visualization techniques
because if you imagine it,
it will happen.
Now, how do we extrapolate this
theory to the world of the supernatural?
Specters, demon n tities,
poltergeists, hauntings.
Well, what do we do? We say that all
these things are complete bull,
or they're all explainable
in some way or another.
Now, my question
to you is this--
could it be all of these phenomena
are just an extension of brain function,
an extension of our collective minds
creating myths, filling in the blanks,
if you will And that is what we will
be studying in this class.
Professor payne,
hi, I'm melinda gordon.
- Good for you.
- No, we spoke on the phone, remember?
- About what?
- I read about your work.
- Why?
- I need some help.
I need a lot of help, too, more
than you can imagine,
but I don't come to your
workplace and ask for it, do I?
Look, you're supposed to be the
expert on the history and beliefs
of the occult and the supernatural--
As it pertains to contemporary
psychology.
If you want to find
your dead aunt's will,
I can't help you.
- Is it necessary to be this rude?
- Necessary, no.
Amusing, always.
Hey, you're the go-to guy,
and I need somebody to go to.
They say
you're a genius.
I can't believe you can't spare
half an hour!
Makes me crazy the way they throw the
word "genius" around, all right?
Although, coming from you,
it does give me a certain tingle.
- Will you buy me food?
- Yes.
- Follow me.
- Great!
I don't teach
the supernatural.
I teach society's need to believe
in the supernatural,
the myths and the legends
throughout the ages.
There are lots of myths about
dark spirits and light spirits.
I'm just trying to
find out more about them.
- Why?
- Because I really need to.
Well, most cultures
favor the same motifs.
Basically, it's demons, dark entities,
shadows, phantoms.
You know, the relationship between
good and evil has always been symbiotic.
You can't have one without the
other And speaking of evil,
- don't try that shrimp.
- What function do they serve?
- Apparently to make us violently ill.
- Are you still talking about the shrimp?
- Aren't you?
- Spirits, dark spirits.
Dark spirits.
Dark spirits and
light spirits are linked--
at opposite ends, obviously, and the
dark spirits are here to create evil,
not only create evil but to grow it.
And the light spirits?
The light spirits make sure that
the dead pass on to the other side.
The light, heaven,
whatever you want to call it.
They're the protectors
of the souls.
They, uh, they just go
around spreading all things good.
Love, happiness,
blah blah blah.
And can one dark spirit become
more powerful than the others?
Well, that depends on how many
souls they can take up,
and that's why the dark spirits
hate the light spirits so much,
because the light spirits are always
taking souls away from them.
Well, uh, there's
an east african version
where if a dark spirit can take over
the soul of a light spirit,
that's like triple bonus
points right there.
By engulfing the soul of a light spirit,
the dark spirit becomes invincible.
- You ok?
- Yeah.
Have you ever
come across this image?
- Heh, a villain from old-time radio?
- That's not funny.
- Do we have a name?
- Romano, maybe, I'm not sure.
Ok.
Is your romano
a dark spirit or a light spirit?
Oh, you're right.
They are too careless
with the word "genius.
"
That's harsh.
Who are you again?
Just someone who wants some help.
Someone who needs to learn.
- Can you just check the sketch for me?
- I'm already on it.
Good-bye.
I'm just not sure what you hope to
get talkin' to this professor guy.
I'm not exactly sure, either, but at
least, if I can find out who this romano is,
then I can keep her
away from him.
Does he know what you can do?
The professor.
- Why don't you tell him?
- I don't tell people.
- You told andrea.
- Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have.
Maybe this whole spirit thing evaded
her life just as it has ours.
Maybe she would have been
better off not even knowing.
Hey.
Slow down.
You gotta realize you're
hurting, too.
You've been through
a terrible shock.
Take a beat.
Yeah, I can'T.
- Why? - Because, if I stop
and think, I just feel so guilty.
You know, like maybe
what happened to andrea is my fault.
I mean, it's only because of me that
she knew about the plane.
It's only because
of me that romano went looking for her.
Maybe
Maybe I unleashed something
that even I don't understand.
Just do the best you can
do with what you know.
I can't believe
that she's gone.
I can't believe that she's not gonna
walk in this door at any minute
with her coffee and a joke.
I would give anything just to hear
her laugh one more time.
She never doubted me.
- Even for a minute.
- Ok, there's
something that you should know about me.
- Ooh, uh-oh.
- Yeah.
And it's gonna sound crazy.
And I'm telling you
for 2 reasons.
One, because I have a good feeling about
ypu.
You don't seem like you're judgmental.
- Ok
- ok, so here it is.
Uh, sometimes when people
die, their spirits don't leave.
They stay earthbound
for all kinds of reasons.
And, well I can see those people.
Thosespirits.
They talk to me,
I can help them.
You should say
something soon.
Thatis the
- coolest thing I've ever heard.
- You don't think I'm nuts?
Ooh, ahh, no more nuts
than I am.
I mean, I buy it.
I like it.
I knew you'd get it, I just knew it.
Yeah, but you said there was another
reason that you were telling me.
Yeah, you have a ghost
attached to you.
I'm sorry, what?
What--where? Where?
I thought you could see me!
He's, uh, behind you.
He's been
following you for the last 2 weeks.
What--why?
What does he want?
Finally!
Ok, it's like this all right--
you don't have to shout! Just because you're
dead doesn't mean that I can't hear you.
All right, all right, what do I know?
I thought I was talking
from the great beyond or something.
Anyway, the point is, I used to live
in the apartment she lives in now.
Ah, he's an older man who used to live
in your apartment.
Ok, please tell me he didn't die
in my apartment.
I didn't die there.
I crapped out on
a bus one day coming home.
Heart attack.
But I digress.
The point is this.
There's a stack of pictures of my
grandson that fell behind the stove,
and I never got around to gettin' them out,
and my daughter would love those shots.
Oh, there's pictures of his grandson
behind your stove.
My daughter's name is nancy howard.
She's in the phone book.
He wants you to send the pictures
to his daughter.
I have her name.
She's in the phone book.
Hey, you're kidding, right?
Ok, I am so gonna
love this job.
Andrea?
Got here about
a half hour ago.
My key won't turn in the lock.
I knock, but no one answers.
Hello? Who's in there?
Try your key again.
Who could have
done that?
That's sick.
I don't get it.
The words that name, romano.
I have no idea who that is, do you?
- Everything just seems a bit crazy right now.
- Should I call the police?
- If it'll make you feel better, but I don't--
- Melinda, if you know something,
please, tell me.
I really don't know
what's going on.
You feel like you
could know a person
I mean, really know who they
are through and through?
- I do.
- I do, too.
And I know my sister.
I know it sounds crazy,
but I feel like something's wrong.
Like she's not at rest somehow.
I can't shake it.
You probably know things weren't
always great with us.
She told me you didn't talk
for 2 years.
.
It's worse than that.
There's somethin'
I never told her.
Something she should
have known.
- What?
- What difference does it make?
It's too late.
Andrea?
Are you here?
Andrea?
He told me not to believe
a thing you say.
Romano?
I don't want to be dead!
I shouldn't be dead!
Pleasehelp me.
I don't want
to be here.
But I deserve it.
- No, you don't!
- What'll happen to me if I go with him?
He'll turn you into something,
something just like him.
- He makes me want to be with him!
-Andrea, it's all lies!
Please don't let him do it--
- I have to go.
- Where?
Back to the beginning.
Oh, my god.
Andrea, please!
- I have to go now.
- Andrea!
- Hello.
- Hi, melinda, it's rick payne.
Uh, I just got back
to my office.
Is there any chance you can
come over here? Right away?
Could this wait till morning?
It's been kind of a long night.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
Ok, I'll be there
in like 15 minutes.
Is there any chance
you'll pass a noodle parlor?
- None.
- Fair enough.
- when did this happen?
- Today.
I'm teaching a class,
and then I go out to
dinner--polynesian food.
Have you ever had tongue
and papaya? I don't recommend it.
I come back to my office to get some
books, and all this has happened.
I--who could have done this?!
Some disgruntled janitor? No.
No.
No.
Please.
I don't think so.
And then--ooh-- check this out.
Here's a drawing that i
didn't even know I had.
- Do you know what it means?
- Yeah, sure.
- Well?
- Oh, sorry, uh,
basically it's a warning.
It's a dark motif favored by the incans.
"Back off or die" being
the fundamental message.
Who are you really? Come on, you come here
asking me some very interesting questions.
Next thing I know, my office is redecorated.
And I'm on the wrong end of
an incan death threat.
Look, I'm really am
just kind of a student.
There are some things that I know and
some things that I'm trying to find out.
Ok.
That's--
that's great.
But are you going to tell me this all
happened because of a supernatural event?
- Yes.
- Come on! That's crap!
Who--who sent you here?
Who put you up to this?
Is it spiegelman from princeton,
that son of a ***?
Ok, the sketch that I gave you.
Did you find out anything about him?
Oh, yeah.
I did actually.
There's an obscure sect in algeria,
sort of a quasi devil worship
sort of a quasi devil worshiping group.
They
use this image as the object of their reverence.
I also found another group in morocco,
and there's another one in portugal.
Wow.
This is amazing.
Come here!, you maybe want
to see this.
Is this
that's an american cult leader living in
Spain-- went by the name romano.
This guy had 115 followers.
And he convinced them all to
commit themselves to their dark sides.
And like you were telling me that dark
spirits like souls to be angry and toxic.
Toxic is an understatement.
This guy convinced
these people to commit the ultimate dark act
That would assure them
a place alongside him in eternity.
- Suicide?
- On a grand scale.
You say you've seen
this guy recently?
- Kinda.
- You know, that's fascinating to me,
this happened in 1939! And romano
killed himself with all the others.
And became
a dark spirit?
Let's say the sake of argument
that dark spirits are real.
I would say your friend romano there
was a dark spirit long before that happened.
- A living one?
- As these entities get stronger,
they have the ability
to take over a weaker human.
Literally take over
their bodies?
In theory-- look, that's a picture of
some loser named romano
with an evil heart and a weak will.
,
But once the spirit got ahold of him
all the negative energy
from that mass suicide--
he was 100 times stronger.
And then when
he died, he was released back into
the ether badder than ever.
- And now?
- Now
regrouping
for a bigger bite.
Maybe he's just sucking
up soul after soul and building more
and more strength until the next
human being he takes over
he could do some real
hurt to the world.
And this guy's not gonna stop
until he destroys everything that's good.
- You sound like a believer.
- I'd like to believe.
I'd like to believe there's more than
this short rocket trip to the grave.
I'd like to believe in
an afterlife.
I believe in science.
I need proof.
I need facts and figures.
I can't just take it on faith
alone.
And there lies the rub.
No faith, no belief.
I--I have
to plan breakfast now.
Umromano-- he didn't kill
anybody himself, did he?
I mean, he just convinced them
to kill themselves.
That also fits in
with the dark motif.
In order for these things to win,
they have to take over a soul
that acts with its own free will.
They
have to cooperate in their own destruction.
Hey, where the hell
have you been, kyle?
- Well, I've been busy.
- I can see.
Man, what's with you
and this chickmelinda?
Like you're obsessed
with her.
She and I--we have some
unfinished business.
So the fact that romano
never physically killed anyone
means that he has less power
than you thought.
Means he has more power.
Imagine being able to convince people--
- Gets in their heads, huh?
- No, he gets inside their souls.
Makes them feel like
they're worthless, that they're bad.
He poisons their spirits.
And the weaker
they get, the stronger he gets.
- He's doing this to andrea?
- Yeah, he's trying.
And it makes me so frustrated, because
she's the only one who can turn him away.
And I have to make her
understand that.
- You don't know where she is?
- She said that she was going
back to the beginning,
but the beginning of what?
Your friendship?
The store?
Wait a minute
I used to tell andrea all the time that
death isn't the end, it's the beginning.
That's where she is.
She went back
to where she died--
where this began.
- I can't cross over.
- Why not?
Romano said I'd be punished.
- For what?
- That night
when mitch
came to the store
and when you told him
I was dead.
When I realized that was true--
that mitch was alive and I was dead
for just one minute
I wanted to trade places.
I wanted to live so badly
that I wished it was mitch who had
been killed by the plane and not me.
I prayed for it.
We were all in shock.
But you have to talk to mitch.
And he has
something that he has to say to you, too.
My own brother,
and I wished him dead!
I can't be forgiven for that.
- Yes, you can.
- I don't want to be.
I know you're packing,
but, I have to talk to you.
I know this is a lot
to take in.
- Ahh, you think?
- You tell me how well you know andrea.
That she's not at rest, that
something's wrong.
You can feel it.
Did andrea know about this? That
you could that you see the dead?
Yes.
I used to talk to her
about it all the time.
I can't believe she never
said anything to you.
- Did she believe you?
- Yes.
She was so open
and curious.
She had lots of questions,
always wanted to know more.
That night
in front of the store,
when I saw you and you told me
what happened to andrea.
Are you saying
that andrea was there?
That you saw her? She
saw us, and she couldn't--
she couldn't let me
know she was there?
She was confused, mitch.
She thought that you were the one that
was dead.
It was hard for all of us.
She's in a bad place.
She can't cross over
into the light, and you're the reason.
You have one last chance to do
something good for your sister.
There's a lot of her in this place.
It'll help us to be here.
Sohow do we.
.
- what am i supposed to do? - The best
way is tell me something about andrea.
Just tell me a story.
she was traveling
all the time,
always away and never too good
about being in touch.
My father was sick,
and it got bad real fast.
And I think my dad was hanging on
so he could see her one more time.
But we couldn't find her.
I was with my pop
the night he died.
He knew andrea would be heartbroken
about not being with him
how guilty she'd feel.
And he wanted me to tell her
that it was all right,
that he loved her,
and that he knew she loved him.
And that he'd see her again.
He didn't want her
to hurt.
You never told me that.
She's here, mitch
Now?
In here with us?
She wants to know why you never
told her what your father said.
Because I was so mad
about her not being there.
And I know it's wrong.
And I'm sorry.
I was going to tell her someday.
I just--I never thought
it would be too late.
Will you tell him, melinda?
Mitch, the night that you came
to the store, andrea was there.
She was watching when I told
you that she was dead.
And for a moment, when she realized the
truth she wanted to change places with you.
She wanted to be the one who was alive even if
it meant that you were the one that was dead.
It was only for a split second.
And she feels
full of shame about that.
It's part of what's keeping her here.
She needs your forgiveness.
- Tell her I--
- she can hear you.
Andrea
I wished the same thing.
I wanted it to be me on that plane,
and you still safe--
still alive.
I mean you were always
the one who lived.
I was always so cautious,
and so worried about the rules.
And what people think
you always charged ahead.
You're the
one who should have gotten more life.
She needs to hear you say
that you forgive her.
There's nothing to forgive.
She didn't do anything wrong.
Can you forgive me?
Let's just say we're even.
She says you're even now.
He says I'll be judged
in the light.
Don't be scared.
Don't let him into your head.
Why isn't he coming inside?
He can't now.
There's too much love
in here.
And that's what's in
the light, not judgment.
Look, we all feel guilt
about what happened that night.
But it's time that we let it go.
It doesn't mean anything anymore.
I'm scared.
I know you are.
Just try and remember l the good
things that you're leaving us with.
Remember that every person
that knew you is better for it
especially me.
You taught me
to be fearless.
And you loved really well,
and you were loved.
And that's what you're
bring into that light, nothing else.
AhhI see it.
The lightohh.
It's more beautiful
than I ever could have imagined.
Then go into it.
You're free.
This is how it's supposed to be.
Melinda
I'm gonna miss you
so much.
You'll see me again.
And when I get to that light,
you better be waiting.
You better be
the first face that I see.
I'll be waiting.
Good-bye.
Say hi to pop for me.
He says hi back.
She's gone.
Let's see, you're going to driscoll
county, connecting in chicago.
You're all set.
Just need
to see a photo I.
D.
Oh, shoot.
I left
my I.
D.
In the car.
Got time.
Go and get it, and just
come back to the front of the line.