Ghost Whisperer

Melinda and Delia are in the shop and Delia says "I know your secret". Frightened, Melinda asks "what secret"? Laughing, Delia tells her that Melinda is in touch with her inner child. Melinda lets out a relieved laugh and changes the topic. Delia then tells Melinda that her son can't stay to help her today. She then instructs her son to explain why. Ned tells her that he has an important assignment due and Delia offers to take his place. Melinda agrees and Ned leaves the store. When Delia asks Melinda what she needs her to do, Melinda tosses her the keys and tells her to lock up; they are going shopping.

Melinda and Delia are in a small thrift store talking to the owner, Liz, who is explaining that after 20 years, she is having to close down. She tells Melinda that EBay has caused problems with her sales and Melinda suggests that she follow the lead of others and start selling her stuff online. Liz tells Melinda that she likes the interactions with the people.

Meanwhile, Delia is looking around and discovers a box, under a table, that is filled with wooden block ornaments. Delia tells Melinda to come see what she has found and Liz starts to act funny about them. As Liz is running Melinda's credit card, Melinda is look at the ornaments and they start to glow and pound like a heart beat.

Returning to the store, Delia asks Melinda where she wants to put the ornaments in the store. Melinda tries to convince Delia to wait to put them out, but Delia is persistent. After a few moments of back and forth about what to do with them, Melinda gets frustrated and tells Delia to 'just put them back' in a stern voice. Apologetic, Delia agrees and prepares to leave the store. Before she leaves, Delia and Melina apologize about the issue and start talking about how Delia got into real estate. Not really listening to what Delia is saying, Melinda rushes Delia out of the store, because there is a banging sound coming from the back that only Melinda can hear.

Once, Delia is gone, Melinda goes into the back to discover a young white male banging the ornaments on the table. The man is very timid and will not talk to her. As she tries to get him to speak, the man starts throwing the ornaments around the room, breaking glass vases and glasses. Melinda drops to the floor screaming. Once he runs out of ornaments to throw, he calms down and draws his hands in close to his face; then the ornaments begin to return to the box on their own. Melinda stands up and asks him if he can see her. Then he just disappears.

Back at their house Melinda and Jim are discussing the new ghost. She tells him that they look like they are alive. When he asks to see them, she leads him into the kitchen where they are sitting in the crate that they came in on the island. Jim replies that they are pretty and Melinda tells him that she wishes he could see them glowing the way she does. While she is staring at the glow, Melinda decides to pick one up and something happens. She spins around facing the door and the screen starts to flash like a black light. Melinda is suddenly outside where she is seeing faded images of a woman fighting with someone. Suddenly she doubles over and she is back in the kitchen with Jim holding her. She asks him what happened and he tells her that she just blacked out. As she is explaining what she saw, the ghost begins to bang one of the block ornaments on the floor in the kitchen. Although Jim can't see the ghost, he can see the ornament hitting the floor. He responds by telling Melinda that he wants that ghost out of there.

The scene changes to Melinda and Jim outside standing in front of a charcoal grill, where they are burning the block ornaments. She tells Jim that the ghost is obviously trying to destroy the ornaments, so if she helps him, he will cross over. A big blue flame flies up from the grill and the ghost is gone.

Back inside the house, Jim finds the ornaments back in the box in the kitchen. Melinda looks down to see them glowing and then notices that the ghost is back in the room. As she is looking at him, the ghost's face stretches and he screeches, hurting Melinda's ears.

Melinda goes to see Professor Payne to ask him about spirits that can make objects appear that they can see and touch and that humans can see and touch. He tells her that he has heard of it, but he does not believe in it or believe in ghosts. As she is trying to learn things from he about this ghost he is telling her that she smells good and is hitting on her. Melinda is persistent and finds out that the objects are called a-ports. He asks her if she has a-ports at home and she denies the whole thing.

Melinda returns to the thrift store to question Liz about the ornaments. After Melinda suggests that the ornaments may have just appeared out of nowhere, Liz admits that she does not know where they came from; that they did just show up in her store the day that Melinda came in. As they are talking the ghost appears and leaves another ornament on the table in front of Liz. Melinda offers to buy it, but Liz tells her that she can have it and places it into Melinda's handbag.

Out in the car, Melinda holds the ornament and she goes into another reality. She is standing in a grassy field with blue sky all around, when a house starts being built, stick by stick, around her. When the house is whole, Melinda looks around and then goes back to just sitting in her car.

Trying to find some information, Melinda goes to Delia to try to find this house. Delia gives her a website that she can go on to look at all the residential properties in the area. With that information, Melinda returns home to search the site. She and Jim are discussing what she has found out so far, when she finally finds the house that she had seen.

Melinda pulls up to the house that she was searching for and when no one answers the door, she goes in. Inside, Melinda hears a banging sound. When she walks around the corner she finds a beautiful African American woman sitting in a rocking chair, rocking and banging into the wall. Then she looks over to see the body of the ghost lying in the floor with the ghost standing above his body.

Outside of the house, Jim is examining the woman in the ambulance. Jim tells Melinda that her name is Christine Nelson and the dead mans name was Denis Hightower. Jim thinks that now that Melinda has found the ghost body he will cross over, but she informs Jim that Denis is still there.

Following the ghost, Melinda goes into a shed to find Denis standing with his arms folded in to his chest and rocking back and forth. Melinda tries to tell him about the light and the he needs to go into it, but the man just repeats what she is saying without actually responding.

Back at their home, Melinda and Jim are in the kitchen and Jim is cooking. Jim tells Melinda that they discovered that Denis had been poisoned. Melinda can't understand why Denis did not tell her that, she can't figure out why he won't talk. Jim suggests that Christine may have been the killer, but she says that is does not make sense for her to kill him and then stay with the body.

Melinda goes to visit Christine, who is now in a hospital. When she gets there the ghost is in the room while she tries to get the woman to speak to her, but she will not talk. As Melinda is talking to Christine, a doctor walks up behind her and tells Melinda that it will be a while before Christine's communications skill are back to where the should be. The doctor informs Melinda that Christine is autistic and that Denis was as well. Apparently, Denis and Christine were a couple that had been living together since their 20's. The doctor then takes Melinda into a room with many people who are autistic and starts to tell Melinda about their behavior. She explains that they respond to objects and that they rock back and forth as coping mechanisms. Meanwhile, the ghost of Denis is standing by the window rocking and the doctor finds another ornament sitting on the desk in front of Christine. Melinda tells the doctor that it is hers. When she takes it from the doctor, in her mind, Melinda goes to their house the day that Denis died. First she sees Christine walking into the house, finding Denis and then getting upset and throwing things around. Then she sees the story of what happened to Denis in reverse. He was pulling things out to do some cooking and had turned on the gas stove, but the fire went out and the gas was still going. Suddenly, the scene ends and Melinda is back in the hospital with the doctor. Quietly, to herself, Melinda states that she knows how Denis died; it was the oven.

Back at home, Melinda is telling Jim about the stove accident, while she is doing research on the computer. Jim asks her why Christine was not affected by the gas when she came home. Melinda replied by telling him that in her vision she saw that Christine had a ritual, that when she came home she would always open all the windows. Melinda says that it was not a murder, but she does not know is why Denis is still around. Jim asks her why he is autistic even after he is dead. Melinda explains that he should have lost his disabilities when he died, but because he is earthbound he is still using the only method he knows how, to communicate with Melinda; through the ornaments.

Melinda returns to Professor Payne to have him study one of the wooden ornaments. She tells him that her friend had visions when she held them and he suggest that Melinda should hold them and see what happens. Uneasy about revealing herself, Melinda picks up one of the blocks and starts to have a vision. In her vision she is standing outside a fence watching Christine as a child being forced into a building screaming, where a man in a white coat is standing at the door.

When the vision is over, Rick Payne asks Melinda what she saw. Nervously, she reveals that she saw a young girl being taken from her mother. Rick tells her that it is called Phycomitry when people get visions from touching objects. She suggests that he should do more tests on the ornaments, but he wants to do tests on her. "I'm not an experiment" she tells him. Trying to comfort her, he tells her that she should come back and talk to him sometime; that it is important. With only a glance at him, Melinda leaves with the ornaments.

Melinda is at the store and is running her ideas by Jim. She thinks that she should take the ornaments by the hospital to see if they spark anything in Christine. As she packs them in the car, she looks over and sees Delia setting on a bench in the square with a sad look on her face. Concerned, Melinda goes over to talk to her. Delia reveals that she is sick of selling houses; that the people who she sells to bring back painful memories about the loss of her husband. Melinda suggests that she try something new, like coming to work for her. Asking her to think about it, Melinda walks back to her car to leave.

At the hospital, Melinda is watching Christine pull the blocks out calling out the picture that is one the front and laying them on the table. When Melinda asks what they mean, she starts talking about thinks that they did for her. Denis then appears and Melinda asks if the blocks are supposed to represent Christine's mother. Denis replies by telling Melinda to find Christine's mother. When Melinda turns her attention back to Christine, she watches Christine turn the blocks face down and realizes that they are puzzle pieces. Christine then proceeds to put the pieces together and form the face of a woman; Christine's mother.

Melinda walks into the thrift store, dropping the box of blocks on the counter and telling Liz that those blocks were meant for her. The two sit down and put the pieces together and Melinda asks Liz why she gave Christine away. Liz told her that there was a doctor that told her that is was her fault that Christine was autistic and once she gave the doctors custody they would never let her see Christine again. She admitted though, that she did go to see Christine one time after Christine had moved in with Denis and that it turned into a fight; the fight that Melinda had a vision of. Melinda tells her that she has to try again; that Christine needs her.

At the hospital, Melinda leads Liz into a room where Christine is setting alone at a table. Liz comments on how her daughter is all grown up and tries to tell Christine that she is sorry. Melinda tells her that Christine is not angry with her, but Liz states that it does not matter to Christine if she is there or not. Then, out of nowhere, Denis appears and says "that is not true. Say love is patient". Taking his advice, Melinda tells Liz that she just has to be patient. Liz walks forward and tries to talk to Christine, but like a child, Christine puts her fingers in her ears and rocks back and forth. This upsets Christine's mother and she leaves the room.

Melinda goes after Liz and tells her that Christine needs her mother. Liz says that Christine does not need her and that Christine does not love her or even know what love is. "That's not true. Christine loves, she just doesn't know how to show it; her boy friend, he was teaching her how." Then Denis appears beside Melinda and says "ask her". Melinda then proceeds to ask Liz if she loves her daughter. Liz says that she wants to, but she does not know how if Christine can't love her back. Melinda tells her that she should show Christine love first; that that is all Denis wanted, was for Christine to have her mother back. Liz agrees and goes back in the hospital to be with Christine.

Once Liz is gone, Melinda turns to Denis and tells him that he needs to go into the light, but he does not see the light. She asks if there is something else that she can do for him and he asks her what love is. Melinda tells him that what he did for Christine was love and with a convinced look on his face, he disappears.

Back in the hospital, Liz sits beside Christine and with Christine's permission; she helps her put together a puzzle. Melinda is standing at the do or watching when Denis appears. He looks at Christine with her mother, looks up at Melinda and smiles and then he disappears into the light. Satisfied, Melinda turns and walks away.