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AIRED: 1/7/11

While Allison's dream arouses suspicion regarding her brother Michael, Bridgette's abilities pique the interest of Devalos' campaign manager.

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Allison's brother, Michael, is on the verge of suicide until he is helped by a ghost and Bridgette helps out with the D.A.'s campaign for Mayor of Phoenix.

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By Lady_Lancaster, Feb 12, 2011

The opening sequence shows us Allison's brother, Michael, (played by Patricia Arquette's brother, David) about to commit suicide. A ghost talks him out of it and assures him that he can be a success. Allison wakes from a dream and immediately calls her brother who, it seems, has a high-powered job as a pharmaceutical drugs salesman and is about to fly to Phoenix on business.

Joe was less than impressed when Allison told him that Michael appeared to have turned his life around and, in fact, made some pretty nasty comments which Allison didn't try all that hard to dispel. I found this annoying because Joe, especially lately, has had quite a self-righteous attitude about a lot of things and was very cautic and sarcastic.

When Michael arrives, Allison is overjoyed to see him doing so well. Although I have no problem at all with David Arquette, his portrayal of the character was very different from that of the actor who has previously played the role. Even when Michael was about to jump to his death, David didn't give me the impression that he was 'down and out' enough to supposedly be feeling so rotten that he wanted to take his life. The previous actor always seemed more than capable of showing how desperate and displaced Michael was.

We soon learn that the ghost, whom we find helped Michael secure his new job, wants some payback. He wants to 'borrow' Michael's body upon occasion so that he can finish writing a book which he didn't have time to complete before his own death. Michael is more than happy to oblige but when Allison has dreams which indicate the ghost is using Michael's body to travel around and manipulate others into performing illegal acts, she feels she may have been mistaken when Michael produces typed pages of manuscript.

The pieces soon begin to fall into place though when it is realised that the two people the ghost has visited, one who killed the man who murdered his sister and one who took a drink even after being on the wagon for a year, are both on the list waiting for a heart transplant. Their felonies will now push them further down the waiting list and, as it turns out, the widow of the ghost, who needs a transplant herself, will be moved up.

Meanwhile, over at the D.A.'s office, his rival is running a negative campaign against Devalos in the race for Mayor but, in spite of pleading from his campaign manager, Manny refuses to stoop to the same level, even though he is way behind in the polls. The campaign is getting a helping hand from Bridgette and the campaign manager, without Manny's knowledge, asks Bridgette to see if she can see or dream up some dirt that can be used against the opponent. When Manny finds out, he is very unimpressed and tells Bridgette she need not worry about such things but when it turns out that she has something extremely important to tell him about a former election, he is able to turn things his way.

As the episode ends, Michael and Allison find a way to make the ghost leave Michael alone and he moves along on his way to get on with his life and his new job.

Once again, I was sorry that we didn't see Ariel and I hope that with only two episodes to go, she may be back for at least one of them. I also found the episode irksome in that it didn't follow on in any logical way from the end of the previous one when Joe's mother delivered her warning to Allison just after her death. It seemed more like a vehicle for David Arquette to be a guest star than the second last episode of a series which has been on for seven seasons. Ah well, at least Michael's storyline was wrapped up on a positive note. I'm really looking forward to the next one! I hope the last two are really excellent and that 'Medium' ends on a very high note.moreless
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Patricia Arquette	Allison DuBois
Jake Weber	Joe DuBois
Miguel Sandoval	D.A. Manuel Devalos
Maria Lark	Bridgette DuBois
David Cubitt	Det. Lee Scanlon

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John Glover	Carson Churchill	Guest Star
Lesley Boone	Justine Godrich	Guest Star
Lee Reherman	Jason Bumgarner	Guest Star
Madison Carabello	Marie DuBois	Recurring Role

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- Allison: (about Dalton's book) There's some pretty interesting things in here.
  Joe: Like what?
  Allison: Like, "Success comes from good judgment, good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from
  bad judgment."
  Joe: Well, if that's true, then your brother is gonna be the most successful man on the planet. I'm just saying, life is a, is a long-distance run, not a one-month sprint.
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- Bridgette: So what is it you actually do?
  Michael: Well, basically, I sell drugs to doctors.
  Marie: Are you a drug dealer?
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- Allison: Just had a... horrible dream. My brother Michael. I'm worried, I think he might be in trouble.
  Joe: You needed a dream to tell you that?
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- Featured Music:
  "All American Nightmare" by Hinder (when Allison has a vision of Warren Cheswick taking pictures of the girl he's suffocating)
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- Although credited, Sofia Vassilieva (Ariel) does not appear in this episode.
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- Ryan Hurst, who played Michael (Allison's brother) for one episode in each of the show's first three seasons, was replaced by David Arquette in this episode.
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- David Arquette, who plays Allison's brother Michael in this episode, is Patricia Arquette's real-life brother.
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- International Air Dates:
  Canada: January 7th, 2011 on CTV
  Norway: June 28th, 2011 on TV2
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