Friday February 2, 2007
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Melinda's Jeep breaks down on a deserted road and a young woman who owns an auto shop comes by to help. Melinda meets a ghost who comes to her in the form of a skeleton. Melinda must first decipher the mysterious code that is linked to a drag racing society called the Midnight Circle. Melinda finds that Ned is involved with the society and needs her help. Ned lies to his mom and sneaks out to go to the drag races.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)Melinda is out at night driving when her Jeep breaks down. hide show
We get to see a lot of Ned in this show. Ned is the son of Delia who is coping with his father's death and being a teenager as well. He wants to be cool. He starts hanging out with a crowd called the Midnight Circle that drag races. When Melinda's Jeep breaks down a woman helps her. Melinda meets a ghost that doesn't reveal his identity. After snooping through the woman's car shop Melinda spies a photo of a dead man and realizes this is her ghost. The ghost says he is out to kill his girlfriend - the woman who helped Melinda - because she killed him. Ned finally introduces Melinda to a pizza driver who fills her in on some information on what happened the night of the deadly race. The ghost realizes with Melinda's help that he caused his own death yet he loosened the steering column of the girlfriend so she would crash. He finally helps her so she lives. Melinda crosses him over after he patches things up with his girlfriend. A good show.
The skeleton scared the hell out of me..... hide show
I was so pleased to see an episode that did not have some "smushy" bits in it this week. In fact it was quite exciting and had all the thrills of a chiller. How can Melinda watch the skeleton ghost without feeling any fear? What a woman! Ned is a good kid getting led astray by people doing this obviously illegal racing. Melinda helps the skeleton to find out why he died as always. It showed a mixed up spirit who was haunting for all the wrong reasons.
Nice to see Jim taking an active part in protecting his wife while she still continually goes out at night, on her own, on deserted roads, to places she has no idea about, and being 5ft nothing, is possibly one of the bravest characters I have ever watched on a TV programme.
Waiting with interest to see what happens with the professor. We see Melinda go to see him and pass his wife in the corridor. Did Melinda know about his wife? The Prof in quite a bad mood. For such a cute character, this was unusual. Someone has ruffled his charm a bit...
Live fast, die hard. hide show
When Melinda's car breaks down on an isolated road, she spots a scary-looking, skeletal ghost when a woman stops to help her. She is given a cryptic message to decipher and is led to an underground illegal street racing gang, which includes the woman who stopped to help her - Cindy Brown.
Melinda eventually learns that the skeleton ghost is Cindy's dead boyfriend, Gordon, who is planning on killing Cindy because he thinks she killed him by messing with his car before a race. Gordon soon realizes - thanks to hanging around Melinda when she questions people - that he died because his opponent knew that Gordon was going to try to run him off the road with his signature move and slowed down to prevent it, sending Gordon into a tailspin. Melinda helps Gordon deliver a message to Cindy and he crosses over.
Overall this was a good episode, although it was certainly nothing special or out of the ordinary. Melinda does, however, see the ghost of Professor Payne's dead wife when she goes to see him. I'm interested to see where that will lead...
Kate Payne is dead. she is haunting her husband (Professor Rick Payne) and causing things to go 'bump in the night'. hide show
In this episode, Melinda runs into Kate Payne as she is going to see Professor Rick Payne. Kate shows initial surprise and then talks to Melinda. Melinda seems a bit confused at first, but then carries on her side of the brief conversation. she does not mention it to Professor Payne and he does not mention his wife seeming to have just visited him.
In an earlier episode, 'Cats Claw' Kate Payne is seen looking through an upstairs window at Melinda and Rick in a car. There is a note on the fridge saying that she has gone out and will be back soon.
These are fairly normal events which seem to be leading the viewer to believe that Kate and Rick are together, but there is an undercurrent of tension.
I believe that in fact Kate Payne is dead. Rick's tone of voice when he says 'Honey I'm Home' in Cat's Claw is ironic which we are meant to believe is on the word 'Honey'. I think his wife died while she went out so he has left the note on the refrigerator door and announces he's home as a dark joke to himself. When he gets drunk in Cat's Claw instead of talking to his wife he comes and sees Melinda.
He also acts like a single man and speaks of actions he has done or will do that are only suitable for a single man (such as 'promising sexual favours to a rather unattractive woman').
Melinda's conversation with Kate in this episode can be interpreted as a conversation between a jealous wife and a suspected mistress. However it also seems to me that Kate knows she is dead and is initially surprised that Melinda can see her, but then carries on a conversation with Melinda. Kate appears to be a sarcastic personality which I think would match Rick quite well provided they were in love. I am not sure if Melinda realises that Kate is dead. She seemed to act as if she was aware that Kate was dead, but her conversation was normal. This is not the first time Melinda has talked to a ghost in a manner that makes the audience think the ghost is still alive, in 'Hope and Mercy' Melinda talks to a doctors wife as if she is living, but we find near the end of the episode that she died months ago.
Watching this series avidly and trying to determine more on Kate Payne's character and subplot.
I thought this was an exciting episode. I really like the ghost in this episode, it was interesting to see a ghost that started out looking like a skeleton, it was origional. I also like all of the Melinda and Jim things in this episode, and what Jim said about the store room was pretty funny. I also like how they had a bunch of Ned scenes, we don't see enough of him. I though Ned was good in this episode, it added a certain something that the show has been missing. And Cindy was a pretty good liar, Ned not so much. I give it two thumbs up!
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