Ghost Whisperer“Bloodline”
Original Airdate: October 31st, 2008
Lynn – TwoCents Reviewer
lynn@thetwocentscorp.com
A perfectly healthy 16-year-old, Diana Morrison, collapses at her tennis lesson, dying within minutes. After her death, she discovers something about her death and her parents that she can’t leave behind, nor can she let Melinda reveal it to anyone else. Melinda must help her cope with the startling revelation and the consequences that come along with it.
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Original Airdate: October 31st, 2008
Lynn – TwoCents Reviewer
lynn@thetwocentscorp.com
A perfectly healthy 16-year-old, Diana Morrison, collapses at her tennis lesson, dying within minutes. After her death, she discovers something about her death and her parents that she can’t leave behind, nor can she let Melinda reveal it to anyone else. Melinda must help her cope with the startling revelation and the consequences that come along with it.
We’re first introduced to Olivia Keller, Ned’s friend, while she’s beating him at tennis. They take a break, and a tennis ball comes flying in their direction. Diana Morrison comes over to retrieve the ball, mysterious tension between her and Olivia. Moments later, they hear Diana’s tennis coach calling for help, leaning over an unconscious Diana.
We switch gears now and find Melinda and Jim in a room at Grandview’s Mercy Hospital. The doctor comes in and says that Melinda isn’t pregnant. He says she had conceived but her body couldn’t support the baby. He reassures her that the couple can have a baby, though. Jim has to leave to go back for work, leaving heartbroken Melinda alone in the hospital room.
Back with Ned and Olivia, they have followed the ambulance to Mercy Hospital, where Diana dies. Her spirit screams, asking how she can be dead. She follows a tense nurse that was in the room when she died. Diana’s mother comes to find her and the doctors break the news: her daughter died due to a blood clot in her lung. Olivia wants to go comfort Mrs. Morrison, but Olivia’s mother says it’s a bad idea. They leave, and Melinda sees Diana trailing behind them.
Olivia is in her room, reading through messages left on Diana’s MySpace. She struggles with deciding what to say. The lights begin to flicker and there’s several loud thuds coming from upstairs. She gets a phone call asking for her parents, but the voice quickly is muffled and disappears.
At a memorial service for Diana, Olivia offers her condolences to Mrs. Morrison, but she just walks away. Eli and Ned are there with her and she tells them about Diana. She says that they were like sisters when they were younger. One day, though, her mother came into her room crying in the middle of the night, saying how much she loved Olivia. After that, things changed. They moved to Texas and she didn’t talk to Diana for eight years. Next, Olivia sees her father going over to embrace Mrs. Morrison.
Eli tells Melinda that he suspects Olivia’s dad and Diana’s mom had an affair, which would explain why Diana was so rude to Olivia at the tennis courts. The former friends were also half-sisters.
Olivia goes to her dad for answers about Diana. He says he doesn’t know anything. They hear noise in the attic again and he goes to investigate. In the attic, a box flies at him and photographs are scattered across the floor.
Melinda goes with Ned to see Olivia. Olivia says that these pictures keep arranging themselves on the ground into a timeline of her life. She’s also getting phone calls, where someone’s trying to talk, but she can never hear what they’re saying. She thinks it’s Diana. Melinda goes to check the caller ID (and why Olivia didn’t do this, who knows) and finds that the calls are from Mercy Hospital. Melinda goes to find Nurse Perry, the uneasy nurse in the room when Diana died.
We see Nurse Perry in a room full of medical records. She’s making copies of several files when the copy machine begins to spit out paper across the room. The lights flicker, turning green, and the shelves roll back and forth. The terrified nurse runs out of the room, with Mel on her tail. She turns a corner and loses her balance, tripping down a flight of stairs. Melinda calls for help, but when she turns around, she finds Diana behind her, creepy stare and all.
The nurse is okay. Heavily drugged, Jim says, but okay. They go to the room the nurse came running out of and find that she was making copies of Diana Morrison’s file. Melinda finds that her recorded blood type changed from AB at birth to O when she had surgery at age eight.
Diana says that when she followed the nurse into the record room the day she died, she found that her and Olivia had been switched. Diana also says that her parents can’t know about it. Melinda goes to the nurse for her side of the story. The nurse says she didn’t do it, but she was there when it happened. She saw a nurse with the two wristbands for the babies, looking confused as she glanced from infant to infant before finally putting the wristbands back on. She asked if she could help, but the nurse told her to go help Mrs. Keller. She checked the blood types and realized what she had suspected was true—that the girls had been switched. She wants to tell the family now because the blood clot Diana died of is genetic and could affect other members of her family.
Despite Diana’s protests, Melinda tells her mother about the switching of the girls. To their surprise, Mrs. Morrison said she already knew. She told Melinda how she met Olivia’s mother, Cynthia, while they were in labor. They became friends, as did their daughters. She said she noticed similarities between her and Olivia but not between her and Diana. The change of her blood type was just a confirmation. She tried to tell Cynthia, who didn’t believe it. That’s when the Kellers left and cut off all communication. Diana is listening to all of this, thinking her real mother didn’t want her, and the woman who raised her couldn’t get rid of her. She says to Melinda that they probably won’t mind her and Olivia were both gone. Eeks.
Back at Olivia’s house, photos hanging in the hallways start cracking, and Diana leads Olivia to a shoebox hidden under her parents’ bed.
Once Melinda and Mrs. Morrison get to Olivia’s house, her mother is just arriving home. They go inside to find Olivia, but she’d disappeared. The shoebox is open on her bedroom floor, full of letters that Diana sent to Olivia when she was in Texas. Diana finally tells Melinda where Olivia is.
They find her in a park. The mothers and daughters come to terms with what happened. The moms love both of their daughters, biological and not. Diana makes her mom promise to try her best to be okay. She makes that promise, and Diana crosses over.
Melinda goes home to find Jim sitting on the front porch. He says Dr. Chin prescribed hormone pills for Melinda, and that’s all it takes for them to have a child of their own. The episode ends with an embrace and a lovely Holly Conlan song. Aww...
What did you think of this epsidode? Just so-so? Or really, “whoa!” Okay, and is anyone else terribly freaked out over these new episode promos or what? I’ve chills already. Big chills.
Halloween Ghost Whisperer Extras:
- Ghost Whisperer Mash-Up
- Trick-or-treating with Jamie Kennedy
- Ghost Whisperer helmet cam this week goes behind-the-scenes for a spooky tour of the basement of Melinda’s Same as it Never Was antique shop.
Nice recap! Let me just say that if I was in the house and lights are flickering like that and boxes are moving around...I am outa there! You know what I mean. Good , spooky episode.Nice Halloween treat!
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