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The Underneath is the first episode of the third season, and the fourty-fifth overall episode, of the CBS series, Ghost Whisperer, originally premiering on September 28, 2007 as the season three premiere. The episode was written and directed by John Gray, and recieved a total of 8.72 million viewers.
Jennifer goes to Melinda's store to sell some belongings that came from her deceased parent's house. Melinda then helps Jennifer with her father who died when she was only a toddler. Someone takes photos of Melinda and they show something suspicious. Melinda finds that she has a hidden connection to Grandview while digging into her family's past.
Guest Starring
- Anne Archer as Beth Gordon
- Martin Donovan as Tom Gordon
- Jayma Mays as Jennifer Billings
- Robert Blanche as Ray Billings
- Marina Benedict as Mary Billings
- Omid Abtahi as Justin Yates
- Kris Lemche as Scott the Ghost
- Grace Fulton as Young Melinda
- Wayne Pere as Doctor Hayes
- Sarah Jaye as Young Beth Gordon
Plot Synopsis
X-Ray of Melinda's skull
The episode starts with flashing lights, Melinda is having her head x-rayed, Outside of the examination room a doctor is talking to Jim and says he thinks it's a concusion, he says that she may feel a little confused or dizzy but says that they're talking about an injury that is only a few days old but he says she will be fine, telling Jim to wait ntil he makes sure the pictures are okay, The next shot shows Melinda and Jim walking down the hospital hallway, Jim asks how Melinda is and she says shes tired. Jim talks about how if it wasn't for the kids then he would have lost Melinda on that field and Melinda says she doesn't know if she can ever thank them enough, they hug. When Jim says they need to talk about what happened Melinda says that she told him everything she saw and Jim asks what it means and if it really was her father that she saw. Melinda says she has to find out how he died and if he is telling the truth about Gabriel being her brother. Jim says they will deal with it if it is true and mentions how Gabriel has disappeared. The doctor comes out from another room and says they need to take the X-Ray's again and says there is an exposure problem with the first set. Melinda enters the room and looks at the X-Ray's on the screen, there is a man's face over her skull in one of the shots.
Jennifer's trunk of photos and posessions
At Same As It Never Was, Delia is chatting with a customer talking about a concert as Melinda is on the phone to her mother, she is leaving a message on her answering machine and telling her that everything went fine at the doctors but she needs to talk to her about something important, she tells her to call her back and then hangs up. Melinda walks over to Delia and the customer who says that the chest of stuff she has brought has just been in the attic all these years and that she was just going to throw them out. Melinda asks if she is sure that shewants to part with this stuff and the girl replies that she does because its her parents stuff and they died when she was young so she didn't really know them, she says that she doesn't even know most of the people in the photos and Melinda apologises. The girl says she only works on the future, looking forward, she asks how selling the stuff to Melinda will work and Melinda says they'll see how the prices will look and then how they will present them. She says they'll call her when they know so she gives them her number to call and says to ask for Jennifer Billings, she hands them her card and says she'll talk to them soon, she then leaves and Melinda asks what is up with Delia to which Delia replies nothing. She asks Melinda to take the trunk downstairs while she works on the inventory and Melinda says she'll go through the returns first but Delia says they should get it out of the way and hands her the trunk to take to the basement. Melinda asks if she is okay and Delia says that she is and says she just wants everything organised as Melinda leaves the room carrying the trunk. Melinda places the trunk down on the floor of the basement, she turns to leave but the trunk slides against the wall. Melinda pushes it back to where it was but the trunk moves to the wall again. This time however, there is a door on the wall, Melinda places her ear to the door and listens, she hears creaking and then lots of dust bursts through the little window bit, Melinda coughs and backs up, she turns bu the door is gone.
Melinda, Jim, Rick and Delia have their photo taken
Upstairs, Melinda enters the room to a chorus of "suprise!" and finds a party of people including Delia, Jim and Rick, She is suprised and stands on the spot but Delia walks over and guides her into the party eagerly. A man then steps forward holding a plaque and says that the town council presents her with it for her heroic act in saving the children from the falling tower at the plane crash site. Melinda says that she doesn't know what to say but then slyly says to Delia that she doesn't want to say anything at all. Delia Melinda, Jim, Delia and Rick gather together to get their photo taken, Melinda asks if Jim can get her out of this party but he says he has to go to work, she asks if Rick can go to lunch with her to which he replies that if theres food then he is there, the man then takes another photo which flashes us to the next scene.
Hands underneath the road
At lunch, Rick talks about how he thought she had died on the site and says that all the feeling inside of him died right there and then and he says that he wasn't going to be able to say to her everything he wanted to, he is interrupted when Melinda returns to the table, showing that he was talking to himself, Melinda asks him if he wants to get the cheque, he says yes then pulls out his wallet but Melinda says she'll pay because she asked him to lunch, he then says in that case he is still hungry and then Melinda asks what he thinks the door in the basement meant, saying she could hear strange noises from behind it, Rick says that doors symbolise endings and beginnings but then Melinda says something else weird happened and tells him about the man's face on the x-ray of her skull, Rick asks if it was her father's and she says she doesn't know, Rick jokes about how even her x-ray's are haunted and how it is hardcore, Rick asks when the last time was that she saw her father and she replies when she was eleven, she gets up to leave and Rick follows asking "what about Gabriel?" and Melinda says he is no where to be found and that she is just going to consentrate on what happened to her father, Rick asks how she will do that and she says she will talk to her mother and says that she has calmed down after the accident and then talks about how her mother had denied she could see spirits and then Melinda had found out she could two years ago, she says that Beth hates talking about her father and hates talking about anything to do with her real feelings, While Rick talks about how "we all have our haunted x-ray's one way or the other" Melinda notices the ground moving, there is some lump moving across the road. She asks if Rick sees it but he says he doesn't, asking what it is. The lump turns into some hands which are pushing up as Melinda says she isn't sure, They vanish.
Melinda talks to her Mother
The next show shows Melinda driving into a place called "Hamilton", she is then seen talking to Beth asking when the last time was that she saw her dad, Beth says she doesn't remember and says she barely thinks of him if she can help it, Melinda says that she thinks he is dead and Beth turns ans asks how she'd know that, Melinda replies by saying she saw him when she died on the field, Beth asks why she didn't tell her that before, Melinda says she's telling him now and says he told her she has a brother, Beth says this is the second serious head injury Melinda has had but Melinda protests, saying she is being haunted by someone or something that has to do with her father, saying he is trying to tell her something. She says she thinks it has something to do with underground, Beth says she doesn't know what Melinda wants from her but Melinda says she wants her to talk to her, asking if she has a brother, Beth says if she is asking if she had a second child then no. Beth then says its not as if Tom kept in touch when he walked out on them all those years ago, Melinda asks if Beth has seen him and she says she hasn't. Melinda asks if Beth is keeping a secret from her, asking what the last thing she remembers about Melinda's dad. Beth says the last thing she remembers about him is how hard Melinda cried when he left, she says Melinda cried for days and tells her not to romantize him, saying he doesn't deserve it.
A mysterious man appears in the photo
We next see the photographer from Melinda's party at his home, he is uploading the photos to his laptop and suddenly notices that a man appears in one of the photos behind Melinda but doesn't appear on any of the others, he begins checking the photos again, He continus to go through the photos over and over again, atching as theman keeps reappearing. At Melindas home, She is looking through some photos as Jim enters the room and asks what shes doing, she mentions how Jennifer came in and gave her a trunk of her old stuff which made Melinda want to look through her own old stuff and Jim then asks how it went with Beth, she tells him that it didnt go too well, Jim looks at a photo and says Melinda looks beautiful in it, she says she can't help looking at her father, thinking what is under his smile, if he is trying to tell her something then why doesn't he just say, she asks if she is being obsessive and Jim says that she is but with good reason, She says that now her dad is gone she feels that there is this big hole and Jim asks if she really thought he was goning to come back and she says she used to think so when she was a kid, thinking he'd show up after school with an explanation of why he left, saying that she thought he'd been kidnapped by spies and that they'd burnt all the letters he was going to send to her and he'd finally escaped and fought his way back to her, Jim says its hard to deal with the truth about their parents saying they are flawed too. Melinda says if her dad had of just come back she would have believed anything he'd said to her and she could have forgiven him for anything because she just wanted her dad. Jim hugs her and apologises saying he is sorry he hurt her so much, he asks if she is coming to bed, she replies that she will soon and he then leaves the room.
A man from underground grabs Melinda
Melinda dumps a banana in the trash and then gags on the smell, carrying the bin bag outside to the trash can, she runs across the grass in the yard, holding her nose, once the bag is gone, she heads back for the house but suddenly a lump in the grass appears and starts moving, Melinda stops and looks at it, she steps onto the grass to get closer, the spot where she is standing suddenly starts sinking, she starts to panic and tries to stop it, she screams as she sinks lower and lower, two hands burst out through the grass and grab at her, she struggles to break free as the grabs grab tightly onto her, a face comes up through the grass and says "it was you!", Melinda calls out for Jim and he comes running out, finding that she is in a vision, he grabs her and pulls her away as she screams, he says shes okay, and tries to calm her, he kisses her cheek as she stares at the grass where she just was, everything is fine.
Melinda is shown the photos
The next day, at Same As It Never Was, Delia enters the room and asks if Jim saw the man too, Melinda says that he didn't but he heard her yelling and by the time he came out of the house everything was back to normal again, Delia looks away and Melinda then asks "what?" but Delia says "Nothing", Melinda asks if Delia thinks she is making it up, Delia says she doesn't, saying she is trying to wrap her mind around it because its hard to believe, Melinda says at least she's honest, Delia asks if Melinda thinks her dad is linked to this, asking if her mom was any help, Melinda says she wasn't and says that everytime she searchs "Tom Gordon" online she gets lots of hits, saying Tom Gordon is apparently a popular name, Delia asks if there is anything she can do but Melinda says she is doing it already and thanks her for listening to the "rantings of your very weird and haunted friend", Delia asks if it's okay for her to leave so she can go and meet Ned at the dentist, Melinda says she can, Delia asks if she wants anything and Melinda says a muffin, Delia asks healthy or disgusting and Melinda pauses to think, then replies "mild digust" and Delia leaves. As Delia leaves, the photographer enters the store and walks over to Melinda but she doesn't recognise him. He says he has something to show her and he pulls out his camera, showing her the photos of the man appearing behind her, she tries to come up with an excuse saying it could be a reflection but he says it couldn't be. He says he also enhanced them to get a better contrast and shows her them in "negative" contrast which shows a small window with bars on (like the one on the door in the basement) which appears over Melinda's face. Melinda asks him to send her the photos, he says he will.
Melinda in negative contrast, bars over face.
Melinda is next seen talking to Rick, she shows him the photos and he asks about it being a reflection, she says that she is reasonably sure that it is not a reflection, Rick still tries to make an exucse but Melinda says its a ghost so he should get over it. He says its sweet because its photographic evidence of a ghost but then he asks how she didn't see it on the day the photo was taken, Melinda says she doesn't know, he asks why the ghost is so dirty and Melinda holds up a picture of her and her father when she was younger, He asks if shes sure that she thinks its her father, she says she doesn't know what to think, he asks if her father would have a reason to be so dirty, making a joke about him being a chimney sweep. Melinda says all she knows is that the hauntings have something to do with things underground, Rick asks what she told the blogger to which she says she just played dumb but says he won't let it go, especially after he showed her the photo in negative contrast, she shows Rick. Melinda asks what he thinks it is, asking for a serious answer and Rick replies that he doesn't have anything. He asks if that always shows up on photos of her then says that he will take photos of her with the same enhancements on that photo to seif the bars still show up. He takes a photo.
Melinda finds the door again
Delia and Melinda leave Same As It Never Was, Melinda walks to her car but then hears creaking, she turns to see the door from the basement is now in the middle of the road. She walks over to it, pulling it open, pausing for a moment she stares at it, the inside is all just a cloud of darkness but Melinda is suddenly pulled inside and the door slams shut behind her, she is now on the inside of the door looking out, she walks towards it but bumps into Jennifer's trunk. A man walks up behind her, the man grabbed her in the vision, he says that she killed "her", suddenly a large light covers Melinda's face and then the sound of a car's horn beeping drives Melinda to run away from the road,
Spirits
Notes
- Jay Mohr joines the Main characters starting from this episode as a Regular cast member.
- This episode gathered a total of 8.72 million viewers.