Ghost Whisperer - Jim's Memories Resurfacing as Nicole Returns

Did anybody catch what I talked about last week? Melinda’s up and down emotions. She’s sad Sam’s going in search of Nicole, happy she won’t return his calls, sad when he’s going out of town to look find her, happy he finally agrees to take her along and she might be able to rekindle his memories, sad when she sees a woman answer the door and hug him, happy it’s not Nicole, sad he has her new phone number, happy he gets an answering machine, sad when she returns his call, happy Nicole told him to have a good life. Well, you get the picture. At the end they come home and he asks her to go out with him when a woman gets out of a cab. It’s Nicole and Melinda’s sad again.

One good thing, we only got to see Sam in the mirror once this episode the rest of the time we saw only Jim. It does seem like he’s having more and more Jim memories though and no Sam memories. He didn’t remember if he liked Mexican food or not when Melinda takes him to a Mexican restaurant her and Jim use to eat at. He tastes the food and remembers tasting it before and wonders if he and Nicole were there at the same time as Melinda and Jim. As he’s raving about the food he starts to itch and suddenly he’s covered in a rash. He may have Jim’s memories but it’s still Sam’s body with Sam’s allergies. As he’s in the bathroom a ghost is talking Spanish to Melinda and has a message for a guy at the counter. Melinda, trying to help tells the man she has a message for him and repeats what the ghost tells her, in Spanish and doesn’t realize she just told the man his girlfriend looks like a hooker. Jam walks up just as the man is about to let loose on Melinda. Jam gets into a fight with the guy and the next scene is him leaving the ER. Jam suddenly has a flashback of a man being wheeled in on a stretcher, it’s Jim. Then he remembers getting shot and gets terrible shoulder pain.

The ghosts Melinda ran into on her trip very benign and rather amusing. There was the man who rented the truck Melinda and Jam were in. He was a coin collector and had dropped a coin in the truck but can’t pick up. It’s a valuable coin and his wife sure could use the money. Melinda agrees to help and when she finds the coin she sticks it in an envelope and mails it to the widow. Later as Melinda’s picking up a garage full of stuff she bought at an estate sale she opens a jewelry box. The ghost of a woman yells at her. She promised she’d be buried with a certain broach and her sister forgot. The funeral hasn’t happened yet so Melinda goes to the funeral home and puts the broach on the woman’s body. Jam, not quite sure what’s going on believes Melinda is just a person who goes out of her way to be nice to everyone, even people she’s never met.

Back in Granville Delia has a reunion of sorts with some high school buddies. Feeling uncomfortable because she hasn’t seen these girls for years she has Eli there to keep conversation going. Ned has agreed to spend the night at Melinda’s to let the heating guy in the next morning. We see three girls at Delia's have but soon realize one of them is a ghost. She was a high school friend who died before graduation. The party’s soon over when Delia gets a call that there’s a party going on at Melinda’s. Seems Ned was there studying when his friends showed up and brought a party with them and it got out of hand. Delia goes from green to red in a split second, stops the party and takes Ned home. The next morning the ghost is still in the house and Delia’s aware of it then she finds a joint in Ned’s bedroom. Not knowing what to does she goes to Eli for help. Ned ends up grounded, sneaking out to go to a party and Delia jumps to conclusions again. It turns out the joint was left there by one of Delia's friends the night before. Delia was a party girl in her younger days and her friends called her Doobieia. They were at a party and her friend got killed on her way home from the party and Delia blames their wild ways. She soon finds out, with Eli’s help, that her friend’s parent’s been very strict and locked her out of the house because she was five minutes late getting home. She was walking back to the party because she fit in there. She was upset and crying and didn’t hear the car that hit and killed her. Eli helps the ghost talk to her parents one last time and she eventually goes to the light.

It was nice to see Eli finally embrace his gift and not try to run from it. He realized he could help a ghost and didn’t need any prodding from Melinda.

SAM AND MELINDA NEXT WEEK:
Nicole sticks around and realizes she’s attracted to New Sam and doesn’t want to let him go. Melinda’s sad again.

I tried to find some more juicy spoilers about the show but nothing new was to be found. If anyone has any news they’d like to share please enter them in the comments. As I said, I love spoilers and the more the better.

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