Dec 06 2008
Ghost Whisperer Episode 4-9
TV.com: Pieces of You: Melinda discovers the secret behind a girl who has been missing for 12 years.
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Recap & Review: Ghost Whisperer has taken an interesting turn in the last few weeks. Jim died and left Melinda. However, he coould never really leave her. His love for her went beyond death, and she was miserable without him. His death did shock a lot of viewers, including me. However, we saw the writers of the series had a different plan in mind. They brought Jim back when he jumped into another man’s body - a man that had just died. When he did this, he lost all memories of his life as Melinda’s husband and all memories of his life as Sam. At first no one believed that Jim had jumped into another man’s body, but with a little time and patience they all saw what Melinda did..
Now we are moving forward. Sam is living in Melinda’s garage while she tries to cope with the loss of her husband, even if he is right there. He doesn’t remember their lives together. He makes her nervous every time he comes near her, and he seems to have similar feelings, even if he can’t really explain them. While working on her garage, he has also taken on a job at a house that is being demolished. He takes Melinda there, and she sees the spirit of a young girl in the well outside the home. The little girl thinks the well really makes wishes come true. The girl somehow attaches herself to Sam after he makes a wish at the well, and this worries Melinda. At first, she thinks that the spirit is somehow attached to Sam, but that doesn’t happen to be the case.
The spirit is of a little girl that once lived in the home. She went missing twelve years before, and she blames her older brother for her death. He is still alive, and he lives in town. Melinda thinks it is possible that the boy killed his sister, but it turns out to be a case of two siblings that never seem to get along. They fight more than anything, and after the boy cuts the little girl’s dolls apart, she wishes the same happens to him. He decides to play a trick on her, and when she thinks her brother has lost an arm, she goes to the well to take her wish back. However, she ends up falling into the well and dies. Melinda helps the little girl make amends with her brother, and before she goes into the light the little girl also helps Sam.
We see Sam and Melinda share little moments together as they get closer. Melinda knows the spirit of her dead husband is in his body, but Sam has no idea. He doesn’t even know when he starts doing things like Jim did. Melinda picks up on the little things though, and it makes her miss Jim even more than she already does. There is a problem though because the little girl directs Sam to a safe deposit box with an engagement ring inside. The only thing he doesn’t remember who he planned to ask to to marry him. This episode continued the slow development between Melinda and this new Jim. I like how they connect him in some what to what is going on with the ghost Melinda is helping. We’ll have to see how long they keep this slow development continuing. For now, I am curious to see where this series is headed.
