Ghost Whisperer

Jim: That would have been pretty impressive had it been bourbon!

Beth: I don't blame you for hating me. Melinda: Mom, I could never hate you, your busy fighting you're own battles. Beth: You always believed in him, I just didn't see how I could take that away from you. Melinda: Mom I'm relieved. My father didn't abandoned me, at least not by choice. And to know that he would have wanted me if he could have made all the difference. Somewhere deep down inside I felt like I was disposable, now I don't. (Ghost of Paul Eastman appears) Paul: Never fond of seeing ghost were you? Beth: I'll make an exception today. How can you ever forgive me? Paul: I was so full of rage at you and him, I just wanted you all to feel as much pain as I did. That all went away with just one word. Melinda: What? Paul: (Looking at Melinda) Dad. When my daughter called for me, when he needed me, all the furry just went away and just wanted to save her. Beth: If i could do this all over again Paul: I wouldn't change a thing. Look at what we created. She is the reason we came together, nothing else matters, nothing. (Paul sees 'the light') Melinda: The light? Paul: It's getting brighter. Melinda: But there's so much I need to know. Paul: No there isn't. You're loved, that is all that is everything. And so am I. (Paul walks into the light)

Melinda: You're my father? Have you always known. Paul: After I died I've forgotten almost everything about my life, it's like I became paralyzed stuck down below with all of the other angry spirits. But, then I saw something; something that changed everything, it woke me up. Melinda: What? Paul: You. When I saw you moving through the church and I knew instantly. I felt that you were from me. You were so beautiful. The more I watched you I saw you pine for the man you thought was your father. How you were waiting for him to love you back, but I knew I never compete with your idea of him. So I had to make you destroy the myth yourself. Melinda: You could have told me this sooner. Paul: You never would have believed me. This is a journey you had to make on your own, with my help. You spent so much time tying to understand that man trying to be your father, you never saw the one person who was right in front on your eyes. Melinda: I tried but she pushes me away and lies about everything. Paul: She only wanted to protect you, that's what mothers do. But, you have always looked at her in the shadow of Tom Gordon. But, she has always put you first. It's time to make things right. Be too good for you're own good.

Tom: You're too good for your own good. I was hoping that you would get scared off, but you don't scare easily do you? (Tom starts choking Melinda) Melinda: Dad...please, dad! Tom: Don't call me dad. I'm not your father. Melinda: I wasn't talking to you (Melinda's real father's ghost puts himself in Tom's body and releases the choke hold)

(Talk between Beth, Jim and Melinda. Beth had finished telling the story about Paul.) Jim: Do we know the rest? I mean, do we Beth? We'll just gonna wait around for you to tells us the next big missing piece on Melinda's life? Melinda: Jim don't. Jim: You know what? I'm sick of this. I'm sick of people like you and like her father who should have been protecting her. Who should still be watching out for her instead of lying to her. I mean, playing mind games when she is in danger. Melinda: Jim this isn't helping. Jim: Beth all she ever wanted from you is for you to accept her as she is and, maybe from her father, maybe and explanation. You know, how do you walk out of a family? And for all that, I mean look at her. She still wants to understand, she still wants to forgive. But every time she opens her heart to you, you stick a knife in it. You Beth, you ran away from everything you could do in your life, my wife runs towards it. For that she deserves...just the littlest bit of respect and a little of truth. Sorry. Melinda: Mom... Beth: No, he is right. You are right. There is another missing piece.

Melinda: (While Tom Gordon is trying to strangle her) Dad, please... Dad! Tom Gordon: Don't call me Dad. I'm not your father. Melinda: I wasn't talking to you! (Paul Eastman appears behind Tom.)