Ghost Whisperer“Big Chills”
Original Air Date: Oct 10th, 2008
Lynn – TwoCents Reviewer
lynn@thetwocentscorp.com
Poor teenage Melinda was labeled “nutcase” in high school: most likely to end up in the loony bin. However, when an old classmate of Melinda’s dies suddenly, and it’s up to her (and her new sidekick Eli James!) to help uncover the mystery of his death and the cause that dates back ten years.
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Original Air Date: Oct 10th, 2008
Lynn – TwoCents Reviewer
lynn@thetwocentscorp.com
Poor teenage Melinda was labeled “nutcase” in high school: most likely to end up in the loony bin. However, when an old classmate of Melinda’s dies suddenly, and it’s up to her (and her new sidekick Eli James!) to help uncover the mystery of his death and the cause that dates back ten years.
The episode opens with a very impatient Grace Adams, knocking on the door of a certain Lucas Marston’s apartment. Finally, she leaves when another woman informs her that Lucas must be here because his car was in the parking lot. Grace leaves to find Lucas, lying dead on the pavement next to his car.
Melinda gets a phone call inviting her to Lucas’s funeral, although she explained to Jim that she hardly knew him. Nonetheless, Melinda decides to go. While there, she tells Jim about how she was caught talking to ghosts in high school, and her fellow classmates thought she crazy. She continues to give him a rundown of the nicknames they had given her, including “the loony Gordon.” As they are leaving, Grace appears and asks Melinda if she wants to ride with her back to Grandview. Melinda says yes.
Grace asks if Melinda can really see ghosts. Melinda confirms it, but when Grace asks if she’s seen Lucas, Melinda says no. Suddenly a ghost appears in front of their car, and Melinda sees him throw himself across the windshield.
Melinda talks with Eli (the newbie from the last episode, who is apparently the new Rick Payne) about Lucas, and he predicts that it had something to do with drugs. Apparently, Grace has the same idea. In the next scene, we’re introduced to Dr. Ryan Keller, a close friend of Grace and Lucas. He tells Grace that it was most likely a drug overdose that killed Lucas. They hold a hushed conversation, and Grace ends it with, “We know what we did.” Ooh.
Okay, now we switch back to some Melinda/Jim baby business. Melinda says she wants to remodel the garage, complete with a new stove and all, so their guests can stay there. That way the guest room can be the nursery. Aw. However, Jim thinks that the remodeling is moving too fast. Melinda nods and smiles and blinks back little tears. Well, maybe not tears, but she’s sad, okay?
Later, Melinda is talking with Grace and Ryan about Lucas’s death, and why his ghost is still here. Ryan’s still skeptical about the ghost thing, and he’s quick to insist it has nothing to do with him. His nose begins to bleed randomly (Lucas?) and he and Grace leave.
Eli goes to talk to Haylie, who was Lucas’s on-again off-again girlfriend. She says that Lucas was never the same after a trip he took with Grace and Ryan to visit colleges ten years ago.
Melinda and Eli visit Lucas’s apartment and find anti-anxiety pills that Eli says could have been the cause of his death. They also find a booklet of photographs, containing one photo of an older man and his daughter. The sight of it causes Melinda to have a vision of a bloody Grace, Lucas, and Ryan on the side of the road, kneeling over the man in the picture: Tim Graber.
Eli volunteers to talk to the widow of the man in the photo, Sandy Graber. At the door, he hears voices in his head that say to tell her that he has something of theirs. He shows them the photograph, and Mrs. Graber tells Eli that Tim died in a car accident ten years earlier. Eli shows her a picture of Lucas, and she says that Lucas had come to her house, but he had introduced himself as Mark. After his visit, she had begun to receive checks. She figured he had taken pity on them, so she took the money because she needed it to support her and her daughter.
Later, Grace and Ryan are driving down a stormy road. Grace says they need to tell the truth. They see blood running down the windshield. Ryan swerves and the car flips on its side.
Grace is at the hospital with a few minor cuts and bruises on her face, waiting for Ryan. She tells Melinda about Tim Graber. Grace, Lucas, and Ryan had gone on a road trip to visit colleges. On their last day, they had gone to a frat party. They were all drunk, and Lucas had been driving. A motorcycle was tailing them, and when they made a sharp turn, the motorcyclist crashed. They pulled over and tried to save him, but they couldn’t. They didn’t call the police because they were all drunk, and they were afraid that they would get into trouble.
Melinda goes to Lucas’s apartment to find him, and he implies that it was Ryan’s fault he died. The now-skeptical Melinda then attends Lucas’s memorial service.
Because of what Lucas said, Melinda confronts Ryan after the service and he finally explains what happened. Lucas wanted to tell the truth about what happened to Tim, but Ryan was against the idea, using Grace as an excuse to not tell. Finally, after ten years, Lucas decided for himself that he was going to come clean and that Ryan couldn’t stop him. Ryan gave Lucas a prescription for sleeping pills and asked him to get some sleep and make sure he was thinking clearly about everything. Lucas reluctantly agreed. He took more and more pills, also mixing them with anti-anxiety pills Ryan told him not to mix. He went out to the parking lot to get his headphones from his car—the last thing he remembers before the drugs took their toll and he sees his dead body on the ground.
Grace and Ryan learned their lesson, finally confessing to Tim’s wife about what happened to her husband. Lucas smiles proudly at them as the light appears and he crosses over, but not without thanking “loony Gordon” for her help.
Jim is already remodeling the garage when Melinda finds him. She asks him about what he had said before, about rushing things. He’s says that’s what he thought, but it hadn’t seemed to make Melinda happy. Isn’t he the best? Anyway, Melinda tells him about what the ghost watcher had warned her about last episode. Remember, things “brushing off on what you touch?” Then Jim says something profound and reassuring, and it’s all hugs and kisses. Just the kind of Ghost Whisperer closing I love. So, now it’s your turn. What did you think? Share your two cents!
Tom is the BEST!!! I can't wait to see what the heck is meant by "what she touches " comment.And why haven't they covered the shadow-thing??
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