Ghost Whisperer - Spoilers!!

[Jojo]

I don't know if many of you still watch (or ever have) but I and hubby love this show, so as series 3 has finished here and I'm not sure when 4 will be on, I thought I'd take a look and see whats happening in the US.

OMG I wish I hadn't!!!

You know at the end of Series 3 when Prof Payne looked at their shadows and there was one less shadow than there should be, which led us to the conclusion one of them was dead - well during series 4 JIM gets killed!!! Yes JIM!!!!

If anyone wants any GW spoilers in a little more detail, let me know and I'll post them

[moonstorm]

Oh how can they kill poor Jim!!! Yes please, can you post anything at all, it will be most appreciated. Tks

[Jojo]

During a deadly fire at Rockland University, Jim is able to save a young psychology professor, Eli, who suffers a near death experience (NDE). Back at the hospital, Melinda and Jim are shocked as they watch Eli talk to a student, Fiona, who died in the fire. They soon learn that Eli, whose eyes had been bandaged, hadn’t realized he was speaking to a ghost, and that even with the bandages removed, he can’t see her but can hear her. When Melinda confronts him about it, Eli is unwilling to believe he can communicate with ghosts, blaming it on post traumatic stress disorder. Later, after being bombarded by several needy spirits, Eli accepts his new ability and turns to Melinda for guidance. However, Eli is also being haunted by Fiona, a former patient, who had a history of arson, and who may have set the fire that killed her. Eli had ended his work with Fiona because he felt he had grown to close to her to treat her professionally. However, she took this as a rejection, and confronted him late at night in his office, just before the fire started. As Melinda and Eli investigate Fiona’s involvement in the fire, they discover that Fiona, a foster child, has been covering for her foster brother, Christian, who had burned down their foster home to escape their abusive foster father. A young Fiona took responsibility for the fire because her brother would have been tried as an adult. They soon learn that Christian is also responsible for the fire that killed Fiona as he was angered by the control Eli had gained over Fiona’s life and wanted to scare Eli away. Fiona continues to cover for Christian in death, until Eli and Melinda are able to convince her that he needs help and that she needs to cross over. Melinda then says goodbye to Professor Payne, who is spending several months on sabbatical.

[Jojo]

Melinda reconnects with some high school classmates after one of them dies mysteriously. While she didn’t really “know” any of them, Melinda “knew of” the cool kids Ryan, Lucas, Haylie and Grace, and was a little surprised when Grace contacted her after she found Lucas dead. Melinda was sure that Grace remembered her from school as the crazy girl who spoke to ghosts, and now Grace was willing to believe a little in order to find out what happened to Lucas. However, while Lucas’ ghost remains elusive, another ghost begins haunting Ryan and Grace. After much sleuthing and a couple of visions, Melinda and Eli discover that Ryan, Lucas and Grace had been involved in a traffic accident where a man had died, but they had covered it up because Lucas, the driver, had been drunk. While they weren’t directly responsible for the man’s death, Lucas was slowly being driven mad by the secret, and had accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills while trying to get it out of his head. Once dead, he decided to haunt Ryan and Grace as the ghost of the dead man, hoping it would prompt them to come clean. In the end, Melinda is able to convince Grace and Ryan that its time to fess up, and Lucas is able to cross over.

[Jojo]

When Ned shows Melinda his online gaming community, Altworld2, Melinda discovers a ghost is haunting the game. The ghost is able to continue playing the game as his avatar, Phoenix, and is particularly fixated on a young girl, Alise. Melinda works with Eli to discover the identity of the ghost, who they initially suspect is a pedophile. They soon learn that Phoenix is actually Larry Jones, Alise’s father, who had used Altworld2 to reconnect with his daughter after a he had an affair and his wife divorced him. Alise didn’t know that her new friend Phoenix was actually her father, who she pushed away after the divorce. Melinda and Larry then must work together to find the location and identity of a real pedophile who had been actively perusing Alise in the game. They succeed just in the nick of time, and Larry is able to reconnect with his daughter through Melinda and crosses over.

[Jojo]

Melinda and Jim attempt to take a vacation by going on a cruise on the SS Claridon, an old ocean liner on its final voyage before being scrapped. However, once aboard Melinda notices that the newlywed couple in the stateroom next to them is haunted by a potentially dangerous ghost. Despite being a trip about relaxation and trying to conceive a baby, Melinda can’t help but try and get the ghost to leave the newlywed’s alone and cross over. After much investigation Melinda discovers that the ghost was a young woman, Lorelei, who had fallen in love with the owner of the ocean liner, Cliff, after they had spent a magical week together in Rio 30 years earlier. Lorelei and Cliff had to part ways when the SS Claridon returned to the US but Lorelei had snuck on board to surprise Cliff one last time, and had witnessed a kiss between Cliff and the fiancé his family was forcing him to marry. Not understanding that Cliff had just broken off the engagement, and was kissing his fiance goodbye, Lorelei went to flee the ship but before she could she had slipped and fallen down an air shaft where she died. Ever since, she had haunted the room where she saw Cliff kissing another woman, trying to win back the man she thought had scorned her. Melinda is able to help Cliff and Lorelei reconnect and Lorelei is able to cross over.

[Jojo]

While playing tennis with the new girl in school, Olivia, Ned witnesses a classmate of theirs, Diana, collapse during her lesson. Diana is rushed to the hospital with Ned and Olivia in tow, but doctors fail to revive her. There by coincidence, Melinda watches as Diana's spirit emerges and briefly follows a nurse around, and is surprised when the spirit leaves the hospital with Olivia's family instead of her own. After Ned asks about the girls' history, Olivia explains that she and Diana used to be extremely close. Their mothers had become best friends after giving birth on the same day, but something had happened when the girls were about 8, and when Olivia's family abruptly moved to Texas, communication between the two girls ceased. Melinda returns to the hospital to confront the nurse she had watched Diana follow right after she died, but just as she gets there she witnesses Diana haunt the nurse so badly that she falls down the stairs and is knocked out cold. Melinda and Jim investigate the files the nurse had been looking through before she fell, and discover that Olivia and Diana were accidentally switched at birth. The nurse had been on duty the night the accidental switch had occurred, and since discovering the mistake after Diana died she had been trying to get in touch with the families to let them know. Thinking that the truth will cause more damage, Diana demands that Melinda keep quiet. Melinda then discovers that both mothers had been aware of this for years, and when Diana's mom confronted Olivia's about it 8 years earlier, she was too overwhelmed at the idea of losing the daughter she had raised and moved her family to Texas. Furious, Diana's spirit leads Olivia to the truth about everything, and Olivia is understandably distraught. Once both of their mothers are able to explain their motivation for keeping the secret was to avoid hurting Olivia and Diana, the two girls come to terms with everything and Diana crosses over.

[Jojo]

Jim and Melinda attend the festivities surrounding the second marriage of Jim’s good friend Tricia, a young widow with a daughter, Natalie. The location for the wedding is Tricia’s family’s lake house, where she had spent her summers growing up. Once there, Natalie, who is still young enough to see ghosts, starts playing games with a young spirit who leads her to clues meant for Tricia. However, these clues are unpleasant things that either scare or hurt Tricia, once Natalie hands them over to her. Thinking that Natalie is just acting out, Tricia scolds her for trying to stress her out around her wedding, but Melinda knows that Natalie is in contact with a spirit who is trying to get a message to Tricia. Melinda discovers the spirit is a little crippled boy who Tricia had played with down by the river when she was very young. When she didn’t show up one day, he tried to go and find her by crossing the river. Without Tricia’s help, he slipped, fell in to the river and drowned. However, Tricia was still young enough to see ghosts at that point, and they were able to spend all summer playing the game that the ghost is playing with Natalie now. After Melinda helps Tricia remember all this, she puts the clues together and discovers that the ghost had discovered that Hunter, her fiancé, was a fraud. Tricia breaks off the engagement, leaving Hunter devastated. Later, the ghost appears to Melinda at her shop and tells her Hunter is still at the lake house. Melinda tries to warn Jim, who is on his way there to pick up some things, but can’t get him on his cell. Once at the lake house, Jim encounters Hunter, who is drunk with a gun, and when Jim tries to wrestle the gun away from Hunter the scuffle leads to Jim getting shot.

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[Jojo]

With Jim now dead, he struggles with the idea of leaving Melinda behind and crossing over. Determined to talk with her before doing anything, Jim is frustrated when he discovers Melinda's grief is blocking her ability to see ghosts, including him. While trying to get through to her, Jim discovers that the ghost of a sickly teenage girl is haunting Melinda, delivering signs to her that she assumes are coming from Jim. Once at Jim's funeral, a moving speech by Jim's friend Tim Flaherty lifts the force blocking Melinda’s gift, and she and Jim can finally communicate. While difficult, Melinda tries to do the responsible thing, explaining to Jim that he needs to cross over. However, Jim is insistent that he stick around to make sure that Melinda is safe, especially with the creepy girl ghost he saw haunting her. Jim then works with Eli and Melinda to figure out what the ghost wants, and they discover that she was the step daughter of the detective that had shot Jim, Carl Neely. She had died from anorexia, and Carl blamed himself. When he tried to get past it quickly he returned to work too soon, and he felt that clouded judgment caused the accidental shooting, making him feel even worse. Melinda visits Carl and helps him understand that his step daughter and Jim don’t hold him responsible for what happened to them, and his step daughter crosses over. On the way home Jim and Melinda have a heart to heart, but when Jim notices a car accident up ahead he leaves Melinda and, despite her protest, jumps into the dead body of a man who they had both witnessed cross over. Knowing Jim’s soul is now in the man’s body, Melinda rushes to him as he sputters back to life, but when he sees her he has no idea who she is.

[Jojo]

At the hospital, Melinda stands vigil by Sam Lucas, the man whose body Jim inhabited after watching his soul cross over. While Jim's interference allowed "Sam" to survive his accident with minor injuries, neither of their memories are present in "Sam" now. Melinda is certain that given the time, Jim will regain his memories in Sam's body, allowing them to be together again. Eli and Delia start to worry that Melinda is losing her grip on even the bizarre reality they all share, and Eli reminds her that even if Jim did inhabit Sam's body, memories generally don't survive the transformation of either reincarnations or "walk-ins." Undaunted, Melinda continues to spend time with Sam, who will almost always appear on screen as Jim. When Sam and Melinda start to put the pieces of his old life back together, Melinda must help convince his parent that he needs to follow his own instincts to regain his life. She must also cross over a ghost who witnessed Jim "steal" Sam's body, which she does by helping Sam's family. Finally, Delia is truly convinced that Jim is in Sam's body, after she runs in to him at an appointment only Jim would keep. In order to keep Sam close and give him a reason to stay in Grandview, Melinda offers him a job renovating and living in her garage.

[Jojo]

Melinda continues trying to reconnect with Jim who has inhabited Sam’s body. She fears she may have gotten him haunted after he makes a wish at a wishing well, which is answered by a creepy young female ghost. Unsure how the ghost died in the well, or why she was answering people wishes, Melinda and Eli begin their sleuthing, initially working under the assumption that the girl, Gretchen, was murdered, possibly by her own brother. However, they soon discover that simple sibling rivalry was responsible for Gretchen’s death. Escalating pranks between Gretchen and her brother had led her to make a wish at the well that he get his arm chopped off, and he discovered this wish. He set up a prank where it appeared that he had lost his arm, and racked with guilt, Gretchen had returned to the well to take back her wish, only to fall to her death. Not realizing it was a prank and still feeling guilty, she had then spent years in the well answering people’s wishes. Once Melinda helps her reconnect with her brother she is able to find peace and cross over, but not before granting Sam’s wish. He had wished that he could have a clue to who he was in his forgotten life, and Gretchen helps him discover that he had recently purchased an engagement ring for an unknown recipient.

[Jojo]

Melinda encounters the ghost of a bipolar woman, Tammy, who it's assumed had run out on her husband, Roger, and who had been missing for two years. Melinda and Eli work under the theory that Tammy's mental condition had contributed to her rash decision to leave Roger, and after help from a vision they find Tammy's dead body in her car, where it appears that she committed suicide. This leads to the discovery that Tammy had not only run out on Roger, who had remarried, but also on her previous husband, Thomas, and their two boys. Tammy tries to help Melinda figure out exactly what led her to this end, but she struggles to remember anything about her life. However, after Melinda notices bruises on Tammy's wrists it all comes flooding back. Roger had kidnapped and brainwashed Tammy, eventually convincing her that she was his wife and that she loved him. When he felt he was starting to lose control over her he decided he had to kill her, so he drugged her and staged the suicide to cover his tracks, and then he repeated his crime by kidnapping his current "wife." Melinda is able to rescue this latest victim and reunite her with her family, and she helps Tammy reconnect with Thomas and her sons before crossing over.

[moonstorm]

Many thanks for all these spoilers, looks a good series.

[Perdita]

The next season of Jennifer Love Hewitt's Ghost Whisperer will leap five years into the future, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Producers of the CBS drama are reportedly considering moving the story forward several years to show Melinda (Love Hewitt) and Jim's (David Conrad) son at pre-school age.

Season four of Ghost Whisperer ended with Melinda discovering that her child would have psychic abilities even more powerful than her own.

Meanwhile, One Tree Hill is considering advancing its storyline by a year for the start of season seven. The teen drama previously jumped forward several years for season five.

[lizann]

Does Jim/Sam remember Melinda?