The Paranormal World

Melinda Gordon tries to help her friend Delia sell a house in this week’s episode of Ghost Whisperer. What no one knows is that the house is haunted by the spirit of a young boy that died two years ago when he was run over accidently by someone running the family’s lawn mower. There is a secret in this one that tears the family apart.

The father has taken the blame for this tragic event to prevent his wife from dealing with the pain of knowing her oldest son did it. It was an accident that breaks this family apart, and the spirit wants them to come clean and allow wounds to heal. The oldest son takes things the hardest of them all as he almost takes his own life over the guilt he feels for causing the death of his brother.

Once the secret is out, the spirit of the younger boy can move on, and the family can begin to heal itself. Melinda helps yet another family find peace while trying to deal with her own life. Jim is still in the body of Sam, but Sam is trying to figure out who he was about to propose to.

With Ned’s help, he finds an email he sent to someone named Nicole. He asks her to marry him via this one email, but as far as he can tell he never heard back. He wants to settle this and this means leaving Grandview. This is something that worries Melinda. Will she lose Jim all over again? We’ll have to wait until next week.

In this week’s episode called Ball & Chain, Melinda is dealing with the ghost of a woman she comes upon at the farmer’s market when she visits it with Delia. The woman seems to be quite confused each and every time Melinda ends up encountering her. She is always fearful of being late. Melinda as always goes on to find out more about the woman, taking her home and meeting the woman’s husband.

As it turns out, Tami has been missing for two years. In that time, her husband has already apparently remarried, and Tami seems to be confused by this. Melinda keeps digging on, and the other thing that stands out to her is the fact that Tami keeps mentioning a family. In the neighborhood, no one seems to remember their being any children. This makes things just more confusing for Melinda, and she has Eli help her find out what happened after Tami describes things for her.

Eli happens to find Tami’s body. It looks like a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Melinda keeps digging though, and Eli finds out more information. Tami had another identity. Six years before that moment, she was also known by the name of Sara. Melinda goes to see Sara’s husband to find out Sara disappeared six years. This is similar to what Roger told Melinda had happened. He tried to tell Melinda Tami had been mentally ill, but as Tami hears more, she remembers.

Roger apparently worked in her home, and he kidnapped her. He held her captive, and then he slowly made her trust him in a case of stockholm syndrome. Melinda thinks he might be doing the same to his new wife Elizabeth. She tries to talk to her, but she is obviously scared. Tami tells her all that happened, and Melinda goes to the house where she finds Elizabeth in the floor of the house tied up. She frees her, but Roger arrives. He comes after Melinda, but Elizabeth is able to help and all ends well. She is returned to her family, and Tami is able to make peace with hers before crossing over.

Melinda had other issues to deal with this episode as well. Issues in the forum of Jim still in Sam’s body while he tries to remember who he planned to propose too. He doesn’t feel comfortable talking to Melinda about it, and he tells Delia that. Melinda has no idea what he will do, and she wants to know. She doesn’t want to lose Jim again. However, there is a chance she might. Sam wants to find this woman.

A good episode, but no holiday feel to it with Christmas only a few days away. With the previews, I expected more of Sam dealing with his problems, but it was a quiet episode. What did you think of this week’s episode of Ghost Whisperer?

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.