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Recap & Review: Ghost Whisperer is a series that can either scare you or touch you. Sometimes both in the same episode. This week, the focus returns to the couple as they decide to take a romantic trip together. Nothing can ever be too easy when it comes to Melinda though. The trip she takes with her husband ends up being on a haunted cruise ship. When I saw this week’s preview, I thought of the Queen Mary immediately. In fact, it looked like the Queen Mary when the episode started.

This is a working trip for Melinda. The ship they are sailing on is about to be scraped, and the items are going to be auctioned off. Melinda wants to get a few items for the shop. Within a few moments, Melinda finds ghosts on the ship, and they are friendly. One gives her a short tour that ends at their room. When the couple arrives there, the couple in the room next day is already there. They were trying to switch before a new occupant arrived. Apparently, the couple is having trouble in the romance department in that room. The husband keeps falling asleep. Melinda soon finds the source of their trouble, a ghost. Melinda automatically wants to get involved because this angry is sucking the energy out of the man. Even on her vacation, she doesn’t get a break. It looks like on this ship, the ghosts live among the living with no problems, until this one.

This couple looks to be having a big problem with this ghost. The ghost bangs around and moans, causing heat in the room. This is unusual because ghosts usually cause cold. The ghosts on the ship go to Melinda for her help because they know the ship is about to be destroyed. She then enlists Eli to help her get their information and start the process of crossing them over. The next day, Melinda finds out more about the ghost, and it isn’t who she thinks it was. The woman she thinks might have been the ghost actually abandoned ship and is having some kind of torrid affair. This leaves Melinda to go to the ghost herself to find out who she is. Could it be someone from the man’s past?

Melinda’s husband has a little one on one with the man, and he finds out more about what the ghost does. The man thinks he is dreaming about this woman. She leads him somewhere in his dreams, and that is where he wakes up. Melinda continues to find out more about who could be the ghost, and she even finds out some information from one of the ship’s ghosts. We see an instance like the man described to Jim, but this time it could be fatal. The woman leads him to the edge of the ship and then makes him jump overboard. This instance shakes the ghost out of her thinking. Rich is not her fiance. Melinda switches rooms with the other couple, and the ghost comes to her and Jim. Melinda tells her the man is not her fiance either, and they speak. Melinda decides to follow the ghost, and she sees what happened. The woman was killed by one of the crew and then thrown overboard.

The more Melinda researches, the more she finds out. The man in her vision is the same man that published a book about the ship. She has already spoke to him. She goes to him and confronts him. He tells her what happened. He knew the woman, but he didn’t kill her. He helped her when she stowed away, and he found her dead. The man in charge of the ship at that time had the historian get rid of the body, but something went wrong. Melinda finds out one of the men currently on the ship was her lover. She came onto the ship to meet him, but she saw him kissing another woman when she went to his room, the very room the couple was staying in. The man has been obsessed with the woman’s disappearance. Maybe they can now both move on. Lorelai fell in the shaft alley when she hid there. This one ghost crosses over, and the rest on the ship follow suit. All except for one. She wants to sail forever. Jim and Melinda return home, but they might not be alone. She might be pregnant.

This episode had elements of Titanic and the Queen Mary legends throughout. There is a famous death that happened in Shaft Alley on the Queen Mary, and there are stories of women that died on board as well. This was an episode with a mix of both elements of what makes this show great. Things are set to change though. Check out what’s hot on TV for daily listings.

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