Oct 11 2008
Ghost Whisperer Episode 4-2
TV.com: Big Chills - Melinda reunites with some of her former high school classmates after one of the group dies unexpectedly.
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Recap & Review: Last week, we lost Professor Payne to a non-ghostly pursuit, and this week we see Melinda going back to her past with a friend of high school passes away. This puts a friend in contact with her, even though she really didn’t have much of a relationship with the man, Lucas Marsden. Melinda is wondering why she has even been invited to the guy’s funeral, especially since all her classmates knew of her ability to take to the dead. She soon finds out why she was called. The woman that found him dead asks Melinda about her ability and the possibility that Lucas might be haunting her. Melinda ends up seeing his spirit, so she believes he is still around.
Melinda starts researching the victim, and Eli becomes the new go to guy now that Payne is out of the picture. At the hospital, we see Grace talking to another high school buddy, and he says it looks like Lucas died of a drug overdose. However, there is more going on here. Grace and this guy have something to hide. While the guy is working on a surgery, there is an incident of too much blood. Ryan rushes off, and the blood is gone when he returns. Melinda talks to both him and Grace, and she brings up the possibility of a ghost. He doesn’t seem too keen on this idea though. Melinda tries to get him to see things her way, but during this he starts bleeding. We also see a flash back of his that makes it look like he killed his best friend. Melinda also picks up on this, and she sees that Ryan is trying to convince her that Lucas killed himself.
Eli goes to talk to Lucas’ girlfriend, and he is able to talk her into giving him Lucas’ apartment key. They find a bottle of pills in his apartment, along with some pictures. We see more of a flashback. It turns out Lucas, Grace and Ryan killed a man back in college. Eli goes to visit the widow of the man killed. During this visit, he is able to hear the spirit of the ghost. He gives the widow the pictures he found, and he learns that the widow had been taking money from someone. The voice Eli hears calls it blood money. Eli tells Melinda all he learns, and she comes to the conclusion that Ryan and Grace are next to be killed. We see them driving, and they talk about the ghost that haunted Lucas just before they wreck. Grace lives, and she asks Melinda for help.
The two of them talk, and Melinda tells Grace she knows what happened. This leads Grace to take us back and show us how the three of them killed the man. Lucas was driving drink on a foggy night. The man skidded off the road after the three taunt him. They did nothing to him, but he still crashed and died as the result of his injuries. Since Lucas’ death, Grace and Ryan have both been haunted. This wasn’t the case before. Melinda then believes the haunting is from Lucas, and not the man they killed. She confronts the spirit. Lucas tells her that Ryan killed him. This was her first conclusion.
Eli figures out that Ryan prescribed Lucas drugs that would end up killing him. Melinda confronts him, and it is Ryan’s turn to tell the story of what happened ten years ago. He also tells everyone about how Lucas came to him and how he gave his friend pills. Ryan did warn him not to mix those pills. Lucas is the one that took too many that night. On a personal front, Melinda and Jim are still trying to have kids. However, there is more and more pressure on them to have kids. Mostly put on them by Melinda. She wants to convert the garage, and she starts tracking her schedule. Melinda also connects to these high school friends, and they finally see her as someone not to fear. This helps her deal with her own inner demons. At the end of the episode, we see Jim going forward on remodeling the garage.
As a viewer of this series, I have always enjoyed going back in time with this series. One of my favorite episodes is the one where we see how Jim and Melinda met. This episode takes us back to Melinda’s past, and it shows her fear about moving forward and having children. This time, she needs to lean on Jim and use his strength. What did you think of this week’s episode?
