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My name is Melinda Gordon.

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I'm married, I live in a small town,

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and I own an antique shop.

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I might be just like you.

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Except that from the time I was a little girl, I knew that I could talk to the dead.

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Earthbound spirits, my grandmother called them.

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They're stuck here because they have unfinished business with the living

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and they come to me for help.

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In order to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs.

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Previously on “Ghost Whisperer”...

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There's a plane in the air...

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No one is flying it!

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Yeah, I really don’t get the feeling that he was on that flight.

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I mean, what are the chances?

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I can’t lose my brother, Melinda.

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- Wait!
- They're mine.

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I've been trying to work up the courage to go in there...

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- Look at the passenger list.
- Andrea...

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There's something I have to tell you.

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- You saw Mitch.
- Andrea--

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- Don’t! No. No.
- But I'm not sure--

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No way. It's not him.

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It was 250 people, Jim.

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Do I really have the right to ignore that?

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What about the thousands people you could help the rest of your life?

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You can’t trick those souls into staying here.

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I will release all your precious souls.

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And in return, I'll take... you.

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Mitch!

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- Mitch?
- I'm so sorry, Mitch.

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I was supposed to be on that plane, Melinda,

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I can’t believe Andrea it's dead.

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How'd it happen?

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She was driving to your apartment in the city.

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She tried so hard to reach you.

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I guess her car got caught in the path of the plane.

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- Do you think she suffered?
- No.

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No, I don’t think so.

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This can’t be happening!

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She's mine!

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- Andrea! Andrea!
- Melinda, I don’t know what's happening!

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- Please, help me!
- I've been looking for you, where are you?

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At the store. I'm so scared!

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- Well, can you get to my house?
- I don’t know!

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Ok. I'll come to you. I have really good news.

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Hello?!

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How is she calling you?

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She had her cell phone with her. You know, maybe she can tap into the energy fields.

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- I'll come with you?
- No, she's gonna want to talk to me alone.

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She's gonna be so happy!

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Don’t!

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The light hurts my eyes.

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Andrea, I've been so worried about you!

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- Tell me everything's gonna be ok.
- I think maybe it is.

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You may not really be dead.

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- What?
- It's true.

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Jim found you, your body.

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You're in a coma at Mercy Hospital, but you're gonna be ok.

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You're just out of body until you come out of the coma. Doctors are working so hard.

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You're not lying to me? You're not just trying to make me feel better?

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Look, you're not out of the woods. You have some injuries.

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But the doctors think that you're gonna pull through.

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We've been with you at that hospital every day.

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- It's scary here.
- What's it like?

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I don’t really like to look around too much. There...there are people here.

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- People?
- Not people...

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I guess, maybe, um, beings or something?
They're dark, and they're always watching.

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- I can’t really see.
- Melinda!

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Melinda... Open the door!

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- Open the door, let me in!
- I can’t!

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- The door!
- It won't open!

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Andrea! No... No!

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- No!
- It's ok, it's ok.

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- Shh, just a dream.
- Sorry.

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Want some water?

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I dreamt that she was alive.

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That you found her body and that she was gonna be ok.

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Think she's trying to come to you in the dreams?

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It doesn't usually work that way. Scared the hell out of me, though.

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No kidding.

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- Sorry I woke you.
- Yeah, me, too.

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I was dreaming that I was floating on a river of beer and I had a big cup.

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Are your dreams always that complex?

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Pretty much.

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Gonna be able to sleep?

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I don’t want to keep you up. You know what, I think I'm just gonna go downstairs and read.

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Romano.

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She's mine.

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Help me.

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Death is nothing at all. It does not count.

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I have only slipped away into the next room.

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Everything remains as it was.

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The old life that we live so fondly together in unchanged.

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Is Andrea here?

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Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

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- I am but waiting for you. For an interval, somewhere very near...  
- No.

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I just don’t understand why she's not coming to me now.

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- Maybe she's crossed over.
- No, she hasn't.

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I would know if she did.

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I just can’t figure out what's keeping her here.

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How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again.

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Maybe she's still attached ti her appartment. I will be going to see later.

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Thanks for everything you did, Melinda.

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I hope you know how much Andrea loved you.

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I loved her, too. So much.

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You were like her sister.

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Do you ever...feel like she's with you??

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In some ways, you know, like she's near you?

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No. Not really.

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Do you?

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I'd like to.

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Andrea said that you understood death in ways that most people don’t.

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What else did she say?

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Just that you knew how to help people who were grieving.

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Now I'm one of them.

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We both lost a sister.

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Here in the stricken town of Grandview,

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residents struggle to resume their normal lives

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just days after the tragedy of flight 395.

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We're here today to see how they're doing. Excuse me,

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We're here in Grandview today to see what kind of progress the town is making

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in the aftermath of the plane crash.

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How do you think things are going?

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Um... I can only say that the people in this town are really strong,

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They're survivors.

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- We're gonna be ok.
- Thank you.

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Well, there you have it from a local resident.

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This town is grieving, but determined to get back to business as usual.

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Andrea? Are you here?

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I just want to talk to you, please.

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I know that you're scared.

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- Where's Andrea?
- I'll be glad to take a message.

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- What are you doing to her?
- I don’t have to do anything.

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- She's doing it all to herself.
- Who are you?

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I was alive once. Just like you.

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- I had names, I had lives.
- Romano... Is that your name?

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- I'm just a humble teacher.
- Teacher?

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Trying to spread the word.

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- Much like yourself.
- What are you doing here? What do you want?

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- I have what I want.
- No. No, you don’t.

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Andrea will not go with you. I know her. She's going into the light.

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I'm going to have her, and I'm going to have you, too.

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It's just a matter of time.

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- Andrea, you have to cross over. Please let me help you.
- I can’t. 

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- Why not?
- You could never understand why!

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Cloudy and cold in the Seattle area tonight. Possible showers tomorrow,

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but the rest of the week looks like we might see some sunshine.

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In other news across the nation, the small east coast town of Grandview

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is still recovering from that tragic plane crash.

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Um, all I can say is that people in this town are strong. They're survivors,

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and we'll be ok.

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Thank you.

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Melinda...

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All these questions bring us back to the power of the mind.

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Something so powerful that it creates that which we want to be true.

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That's why athletes are taught visualization techniques

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because if you imagine it, it will happen.

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Now, how do we extrapolate this theory to the world of the supernatural?

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Specters, demons, entities, poltergeists, hauntings.

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Well, what do we do? We say that all these things are complete bull,

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or they're all explainable in some way or another.

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Now, my question to you is this--

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Could it be all of these phenomena are just an extension of brain function,

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an extension of our collective minds creating myths, filling in the blanks, if you will... 

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And that is what we will be studying in this class.

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Professor Payne, hi, I'm Melinda Gordon.

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- Good for you.
- No, we spoke on the phone, remember?

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- About what?
- I read about your work.

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- Why?
- I need some help.

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I need a lot of help, too, more than you can imagine,

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but I don’t come to your workplace and ask for it, do I?

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Look, you're supposed to be the expert on the history and beliefs

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of the occult and the supernatural--

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As it pertains to contemporary psychology. If you want to find

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your dead aunt's will, I can’t help you.

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- Is it necessary to be this rude?
- Necessary, no. Amusing, always.

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Hey, you're the go-to guy, and I need somebody to go to.

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They say you're a genius.

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I can’t believe you can’t spare half an hour!

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Makes me crazy the way they throw the word "genius" around, all right?

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Although, coming from you, it does give me a certain tingle.

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- Will you buy me food?
- Yes.

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- Follow me.
- Great!

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I don’t teach the supernatural.

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I teach society's need to believe in the supernatural,

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the myths and the legends throughout the ages.

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There are lots of myths about dark spirits and light spirits.

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I'm just trying to find out more about them.

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- Why?
- Because I really need to.

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Well, most cultures favor the same motifs.

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Basically, it's demons, dark entities, shadows, phantoms.

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You know, the relationship between good and evil has always been symbiotic.

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You can’t have one without the other... And speaking of evil...

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- Don’t try that shrimp.
- What function do they serve?

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- Apparently to make us violently ill.
- Are you still talking about the shrimp?

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- Aren't you?
- Spirits, dark spirits.

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Dark spirits and light spirits are linked--

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At opposite ends, obviously, and the dark spirits are here to create evil,

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not only create evil but to grow it.

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And the light spirits?

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The light spirits make sure that the dead pass on to the other side.

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The light, heaven, whatever you want to call it.

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They're the protectors of the souls.

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They, uh, they just go around spreading all things good.

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Love, happiness, blah, blah, blah.

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And can one dark spirit become more powerful than the others?

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Well, that depends on how many souls they can take up,

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and that's why the dark spirits hate the light spirits so much,

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because the light spirits are always taking souls away from them.

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Well, uh, there's an east African version of the same motif

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where if a dark spirit can take over the soul of a light spirit,

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that's like triple bonus points right there.

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By engulfing the soul of a light spirit, the dark spirit becomes invincible.

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- You ok?
- Yeah. Have you ever...

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Come across this image?

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- Eh, a villain from old-time radio?
- That's not funny.

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- Do we have a name?
- Romano, maybe, I'm not sure.

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Ok. Is your Romano a dark spirit or a light spirit?

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Oh, you're right. They are too careless with the word "genius."

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That's harsh. Who are you again?

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Just someone who wants some help. Someone who needs to learn.

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- Can you just check the sketch for me?
- I'm already on it. Good-bye.

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I'm just not sure what you hope to get talkin' to this professor guy.

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I'm not exactly sure, either, but at least, if I can find out who this Romano is,

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then I can keep her away from him.

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Does he know what you can do? The professor.

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- Why don’t you tell him?
- I don’t tell people.

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- You told Andrea.
- Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have.

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Maybe this whole spirit thing evaded her life just as it has ours.

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Maybe she would have been better off not even knowing.

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Hey. Slow down. You gotta realize you're hurting, too. You've been through...

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A terrible shock. Take a beat.

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Yeah, I can’t.

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- Why? 
- Because, if I stop and think, I just feel so guilty.

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You know, like maybe what happened to Andrea is my fault.

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I mean, it's only because of me that she knew about the plane.

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It's only because of me that Romano went looking for her.

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Maybe...

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Maybe... I unleashed something that even I don’t understand.

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00:17:22,463 --> 00:17:24,641
Just do the best you can do with what you know.

241
00:17:24,641 --> 00:17:26,781
I can’t believe that she's gone.

242
00:17:27,787 --> 00:17:31,610
I can’t believe that she's not gonna walk in this door at any minute

243
00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:34,533
with her coffee and a joke.

244
00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:40,353
I would give anything just to hear her laugh one more time.

245
00:17:42,055 --> 00:17:44,983
She never doubted me.

246
00:17:45,648 --> 00:17:50,482
- Even for a minute.  
- Ok, there's something that you should know about me.

247
00:17:52,446 --> 00:17:56,202
- Ooh, uh-oh.
- Yeah. And it's gonna sound crazy.

248
00:17:56,202 --> 00:17:58,200
And I'm telling you for 2 reasons.

249
00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,873
One, because I have a good feeling about you. You don’t seem like you're judgmental.

250
00:18:02,873 --> 00:18:06,223
- Ok...
- Ok, so here it is.

251
00:18:07,038 --> 00:18:12,900
Uh, sometimes when people die, their spirits don’t leave.

252
00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:15,612
They stay earthbound for all kinds of reasons.

253
00:18:18,798 --> 00:18:23,613
And, well... I can see those people. Those... spirits.

254
00:18:23,613 --> 00:18:26,391
They talk to me, I can help them.

255
00:18:28,117 --> 00:18:30,783
You should say something soon.

256
00:18:32,567 --> 00:18:36,103
That... is... the...

257
00:18:37,537 --> 00:18:42,550
- Coolest thing I've ever heard.
- You don’t think I'm nuts?

258
00:18:42,550 --> 00:18:47,923
Ooh, ahh, no more nuts than I am.

259
00:18:47,923 --> 00:18:50,153
- I mean, I buy it. I like it. 
- I knew you'd get it, I just knew it.

260
00:18:50,153 --> 00:18:53,763
Yeah, but you said there was another reason that you were telling me.

261
00:18:53,763 --> 00:18:57,100
Yeah, you have a ghost attached to you.

262
00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:00,562
I'm sorry, what? What-- where? Where?

263
00:19:02,288 --> 00:19:05,263
I thought you could see me!

264
00:19:05,263 --> 00:19:09,243
He's, uh, behind you. He's been following you for the last 2 weeks.

265
00:19:09,243 --> 00:19:11,611
What-- why? What does he want?

266
00:19:12,238 --> 00:19:15,380
Finally! Ok, it's like this all right--

267
00:19:15,380 --> 00:19:19,112
You don’t have to shout! Just because you're dead doesn't mean that I can’t hear you.

268
00:19:19,112 --> 00:19:21,600
All right, all right, what do I know? I thought I was talking

269
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,241
from the great beyond or something.

270
00:19:23,241 --> 00:19:27,391
Anyway, the point is, I used to live in the apartment she lives in now.

271
00:19:27,391 --> 00:19:31,063
Ah, he's an older man who used to live in your apartment.

272
00:19:31,507 --> 00:19:33,962
Ok, please tell me he didn't die in my apartment.

273
00:19:33,962 --> 00:19:38,052
I didn't die there. I crapped out on a bus one day coming home.

274
00:19:38,052 --> 00:19:42,090
Heart attack. But I digress. The point is this.

275
00:19:42,090 --> 00:19:47,563
There's a stack of pictures of my grandson that fell behind the stove,

276
00:19:47,563 --> 00:19:52,461
and I never got around to gettin' them out, and my daughter would love those shots.

277
00:19:52,461 --> 00:19:55,383
Oh, there's pictures of his grandson behind your stove.

278
00:19:55,383 --> 00:19:58,882
My daughter's name is Nancy Howard. She's in the phone book.

279
00:19:58,882 --> 00:20:00,870
He wants you to send the pictures to his daughter. I have her name.

280
00:20:00,870 --> 00:20:02,513
She's in the phone book.

281
00:20:07,658 --> 00:20:09,951
Hey, you're kidding, right?

282
00:20:13,576 --> 00:20:16,990
Ok, I am so gonna love this job.

283
00:20:35,857 --> 00:20:36,697
Andrea?

284
00:20:52,458 --> 00:20:55,481
Got here about a half hour ago.

285
00:20:55,481 --> 00:20:57,783
My key won't turn in the lock. I knock, but no one answers.

286
00:21:01,356 --> 00:21:03,833
Hello? Who's in there?

287
00:21:06,645 --> 00:21:08,681
Try your key again.

288
00:22:04,227 --> 00:22:06,223
Who could have done that?

289
00:22:06,223 --> 00:22:08,623
That's sick. I don’t get it.

290
00:22:08,623 --> 00:22:13,441
The words... that name, Romano. I have no idea who that is, do you?

291
00:22:13,717 --> 00:22:17,793
- Everything just seems a bit crazy right now.
- Should I call the police?

292
00:22:17,793 --> 00:22:21,783
- If it'll make you feel better, but I don’t--
- Melinda, if you know something,

293
00:22:21,783 --> 00:22:23,203
Please, tell me.

294
00:22:23,978 --> 00:22:26,620
I really don’t know what's going on.

295
00:22:27,146 --> 00:22:29,202
You feel like you could know a person...

296
00:22:30,228 --> 00:22:32,801
I mean, really know who they are through and through?

297
00:22:32,801 --> 00:22:34,853
- I do.
- I do, too.

298
00:22:34,853 --> 00:22:37,952
And I know my sister. I know it sounds crazy,

299
00:22:37,952 --> 00:22:42,722
but I feel like something's wrong. Like she's not at rest somehow.

300
00:22:43,288 --> 00:22:45,381
I can’t shake it.

301
00:22:47,735 --> 00:22:51,043
You probably know things weren't always great with us.

302
00:22:51,043 --> 00:22:53,251
She told me you didn't talk for 2 years..

303
00:22:53,251 --> 00:22:55,863
It's worse than that.

304
00:22:55,863 --> 00:22:58,413
There's somethin' I never told her.

305
00:22:59,025 --> 00:23:01,161
Something she should have known.

306
00:23:01,161 --> 00:23:04,601
- What?
- What difference does it make?

307
00:23:05,545 --> 00:23:08,073
It's too late.

308
00:23:14,087 --> 00:23:18,850
Andrea? Are you here?

309
00:23:28,627 --> 00:23:30,632
Andrea?

310
00:23:32,367 --> 00:23:35,622
He told me not to believe a thing you say.

311
00:23:35,622 --> 00:23:36,462
Romano?

312
00:23:37,938 --> 00:23:41,153
I don’t want to be dead! I shouldn't be dead!

313
00:23:42,655 --> 00:23:50,890
Please...help me. I don’t want to be here. But I deserve it.

314
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:53,682
- No, you don’t!
- What'll happen to me if I go with him?

315
00:23:53,682 --> 00:23:57,522
He'll turn you into something, something just like him.

316
00:23:57,522 --> 00:24:03,053
- He makes me want to be with him! 
-Andrea, it's all lies! Please don’t let him do it--

317
00:24:03,556 --> 00:24:06,783
- I have to go.
- Where?

318
00:24:06,783 --> 00:24:08,553
Back to the beginning. Oh, my god.

319
00:24:09,828 --> 00:24:12,101
Andrea, please!

320
00:24:13,667 --> 00:24:16,981
- I have to go now.
- Andrea!

321
00:25:12,626 --> 00:25:15,940
- Hello.
- Hi, Melinda, it's Rick Payne.

322
00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:18,270
Uh, I just got back to my office.

323
00:25:18,270 --> 00:25:21,102
Is there any chance you can come over here? Right away?

324
00:25:21,102 --> 00:25:24,183
Could this wait till morning? It's been kind of a long night.

325
00:25:24,183 --> 00:25:27,663
Hmm. I don’t know. Maybe not.

326
00:25:28,657 --> 00:25:30,833
Ok, I'll be there in like 15 minutes.

327
00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:33,101
Is there any chance you'll pass a noodle parlor?

328
00:25:33,101 --> 00:25:35,333
- None.
- Fair enough.

329
00:26:07,268 --> 00:26:10,072
- When did this happen?
- Today. I'm teaching a class,

330
00:26:10,072 --> 00:26:12,011
and then I go out to dinner-- Polynesian food.

331
00:26:12,011 --> 00:26:14,870
Have you ever had tongue and papaya? I don’t recommend it.

332
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:19,202
I come back to my office to get some books, and all this has happened.

333
00:26:19,202 --> 00:26:22,192
I-- who could have done this?! Some disgruntled janitor? No. No. No.

334
00:26:22,192 --> 00:26:25,690
Please. I don’t think so. And then--ooh-- check this out.

335
00:26:25,690 --> 00:26:27,780
Here's a drawing that I didn't even know I had.

336
00:26:28,495 --> 00:26:31,471
- Do you know what it means?
- Yeah, sure.

337
00:26:32,286 --> 00:26:34,362
- Well?
- Oh, sorry.

338
00:26:34,362 --> 00:26:38,150
Basically it's a warning. It's a dark motif favored by the Incans.

339
00:26:38,150 --> 00:26:42,191
"Back off or die" being the fundamental message.

340
00:26:42,848 --> 00:26:46,712
Who are you really? Come on, you come here asking me some very interesting questions.

341
00:26:46,712 --> 00:26:51,280
Next thing I know, my office is redecorated. And I'm on the wrong end of an Incan death threat.

342
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,773
Look, I'm really am just kind of a student.

343
00:26:53,773 --> 00:26:56,790
There are some things that I know and some things that I'm trying to find out.

344
00:26:56,790 --> 00:26:58,791
Ok. That's-- that's great.

345
00:26:58,791 --> 00:27:01,811
But are you going to tell me this all happened because of a supernatural event?

346
00:27:01,811 --> 00:27:04,691
- Yes.
- Come on! That's crap!

347
00:27:04,691 --> 00:27:07,250
Who-- who sent you here? Who put you up to this?

348
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:09,160
Is it Spiegelman from Princeton, that son of a bitch?

349
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,783
Ok, the sketch that I gave you. Did you find out anything about him?

350
00:27:11,783 --> 00:27:13,813
Oh, yeah. I did actually.

351
00:27:13,813 --> 00:27:18,642
There's an obscure sect in Algeria, sort of a quasi devil worship...

352
00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:22,993
Sort of a quasi devil worshiping group. They use this image as the object of their reverence.

353
00:27:22,993 --> 00:27:26,322
I also found another group in Morocco, and there's another one in Portugal.

354
00:27:26,925 --> 00:27:29,340
Wow. This is amazing.

355
00:27:29,340 --> 00:27:32,262
Come here!, you maybe want to see this.

356
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:38,693
Is this...

357
00:27:38,693 --> 00:27:41,763
That's an American cult leader living in Spain-- went by the name Romano.

358
00:27:41,763 --> 00:27:44,053
This guy had 115 followers.

359
00:27:44,053 --> 00:27:47,513
And he convinced them all to commit themselves to their dark sides.

360
00:27:47,513 --> 00:27:51,320
And like you were telling me that dark spirits like souls to be angry and toxic.

361
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,343
Toxic is an understatement. This guy convinced these people to commit the ultimate dark act...

362
00:27:55,343 --> 00:27:58,143
That would assure them a place alongside him in eternity.

363
00:27:58,143 --> 00:28:00,633
- Suicide?
- On a grand scale.

364
00:28:00,633 --> 00:28:03,222
You say you've seen this guy recently?

365
00:28:03,222 --> 00:28:05,541
- Kinda.
- You know, that's fascinating to me.

366
00:28:05,541 --> 00:28:10,073
This happened in 1939! And Romano killed himself with all the others.

367
00:28:10,073 --> 00:28:12,162
And became a dark spirit?

368
00:28:12,162 --> 00:28:14,901
Let's say the sake of argument that dark spirits are real.

369
00:28:14,901 --> 00:28:18,150
I would say your friend Romano there was a dark spirit long before that happened.

370
00:28:18,150 --> 00:28:20,421
- A living one?
- As these entities get stronger...

371
00:28:20,421 --> 00:28:22,773
They have the ability to take over a weaker human.

372
00:28:22,773 --> 00:28:24,773
Literally take over their bodies?

373
00:28:24,773 --> 00:28:26,910
In theory-- look, that's a picture of some loser named Romano

374
00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:30,320
with an evil heart and a weak will. But once the spirit got ahold of him

375
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,493
all the negative energy from that mass suicide--

376
00:28:32,493 --> 00:28:37,230
He was 100 times stronger. And then when he died, he was released back into the ether, badder than ever.

377
00:28:37,995 --> 00:28:40,323
- And now?
- Now...

378
00:28:40,747 --> 00:28:42,831
Regrouping for a bigger bite.

379
00:28:42,831 --> 00:28:46,340
Maybe he's just sucking up soul after soul and building more

380
00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:48,440
and more strength until the next human being he takes over

381
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,960
he could do some real hurt to the world.

382
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,472
And this guy's not gonna stop until he destroys everything that's good.

383
00:28:54,287 --> 00:28:57,563
- You sound like a believer.
- I'd like to believe.

384
00:28:57,563 --> 00:29:02,063
I'd like to believe there's more than this short rocket trip to the grave.

385
00:29:02,063 --> 00:29:04,081
I'd like to believe in an afterlife.

386
00:29:05,086 --> 00:29:08,371
I believe in science. I need proof. I need facts and figures.

387
00:29:08,371 --> 00:29:10,821
- I can’t just take it on faith alone. 
- And there lies the rub.

388
00:29:10,821 --> 00:29:14,721
No faith, no belief.

389
00:29:19,515 --> 00:29:24,273
I-- I have to plan breakfast now.

390
00:29:27,058 --> 00:29:29,923
Um... Romano-- he didn't kill anybody himself, did he?

391
00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:33,613
I mean, he just convinced them to kill themselves.

392
00:29:33,613 --> 00:29:35,841
That also fits in with the dark motif.

393
00:29:35,841 --> 00:29:37,832
In order for these things to win, they have to take over a soul

394
00:29:37,832 --> 00:29:41,461
that acts with its own free will. They have to cooperate in their own destruction.

395
00:30:15,077 --> 00:30:17,171
Hey, where the hell have you been, Kyle?

396
00:30:17,171 --> 00:30:21,022
- Well, I've been busy.
- I can see.

397
00:30:21,022 --> 00:30:24,592
Man, what's with you and this chick... Melinda?

398
00:30:25,086 --> 00:30:27,390
Like you're obsessed with her.

399
00:30:28,846 --> 00:30:33,541
She and I--we have some unfinished business.

400
00:30:35,317 --> 00:30:38,153
So the fact that Romano never physically killed anyone

401
00:30:38,153 --> 00:30:39,841
means that he has less power than you thought.

402
00:30:39,841 --> 00:30:41,241
Means he has more power.

403
00:30:41,241 --> 00:30:45,921
Imagine being able to convince people-- 100 of them-- to kill themselves

404
00:30:45,921 --> 00:30:48,671
- Gets in their heads, huh?
- No, he gets inside their souls.

405
00:30:48,671 --> 00:30:50,972
Makes them feel like they're worthless, that they're bad.

406
00:30:50,972 --> 00:30:54,191
He poisons their spirits. And the weaker they get, the stronger he gets.

407
00:30:54,546 --> 00:30:56,571
- He's doing this to Andrea?
- Yeah, he's trying.

408
00:30:56,571 --> 00:31:00,302
And it makes me so frustrated, because she's the only one who can turn him away.

409
00:31:00,302 --> 00:31:02,492
And I have to make her understand that.

410
00:31:04,206 --> 00:31:06,280
- You don’t know where she is?
- She said that she was going

411
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,013
Back to the beginning, but the beginning of what?

412
00:31:09,013 --> 00:31:11,100
Your friendship? The store?

413
00:31:13,136 --> 00:31:15,212
Wait a minute...

414
00:31:15,647 --> 00:31:20,340
I used to tell Andrea all the time that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

415
00:31:20,805 --> 00:31:22,810
That's where she is.

416
00:31:22,810 --> 00:31:24,941
She went back to where she died--

417
00:31:24,941 --> 00:31:26,963
Where this began.

418
00:32:16,798 --> 00:32:19,093
- I can’t cross over.
- Why not?

419
00:32:19,093 --> 00:32:21,091
Romano said I'd be punished.

420
00:32:21,091 --> 00:32:23,090
- For what?
- That night

421
00:32:23,090 --> 00:32:25,320
When Mitch came to the store

422
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,350
and when you told him I was dead.

423
00:32:28,816 --> 00:32:33,290
When I realized that was true-- that Mitch was alive and I was dead...

424
00:32:35,166 --> 00:32:37,171
For just one minute

425
00:32:37,171 --> 00:32:41,792
I wanted to trade places. I wanted to live so badly

426
00:32:42,028 --> 00:32:45,891
that I wished it was Mitch who had been killed by the plane and not me.

427
00:32:46,806 --> 00:32:49,062
I prayed for it.

428
00:32:49,062 --> 00:32:51,131
We were all in shock.

429
00:32:51,786 --> 00:32:56,533
But you have to talk to Mitch. And he has something that he has to say to you, too.

430
00:32:56,533 --> 00:33:01,383
My own brother, and I wished him dead!

431
00:33:02,625 --> 00:33:05,003
I can’t be forgiven for that.

432
00:33:05,003 --> 00:33:08,621
- Yes, you can.
- I don’t want to be.

433
00:33:30,848 --> 00:33:34,790
I know you're packing, but, I have to talk to you.

434
00:33:39,905 --> 00:33:41,950
I know this is a lot to take in.

435
00:33:41,950 --> 00:33:44,890
- Ahh, you think?
- You tell me how well you know Andrea.

436
00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:48,891
That she's not at rest, that something's wrong. You can feel it.

437
00:33:49,096 --> 00:33:53,973
Did Andrea know about this? That you could... that you see the dead?

438
00:33:53,973 --> 00:33:57,211
Yes. I used to talk to her about it all the time.

439
00:33:57,211 --> 00:33:59,401
I can’t believe she never said anything to you.

440
00:33:59,401 --> 00:34:01,301
- Did she believe you?
- Yes.

441
00:34:01,895 --> 00:34:04,583
She was so open and curious.

442
00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:08,620
She had lots of questions, always wanted to know more.

443
00:34:11,715 --> 00:34:15,312
That night... in front of the store,

444
00:34:15,312 --> 00:34:17,952
when I saw you and you told me what happened to Andrea.

445
00:34:17,952 --> 00:34:20,370
Are you saying that Andrea was there?

446
00:34:20,370 --> 00:34:24,161
That you saw her? She saw us, and she couldn't--

447
00:34:24,161 --> 00:34:26,861
She couldn't let me know she was there?

448
00:34:26,861 --> 00:34:28,992
She was confused, Mitch.

449
00:34:28,992 --> 00:34:32,663
She thought that you were the one that was dead. It was hard for all of us.

450
00:34:32,663 --> 00:34:34,762
She's in a bad place.

451
00:34:34,762 --> 00:34:38,603
She can’t cross over into the light, and you're the reason.

452
00:34:38,603 --> 00:34:42,671
You have one last chance to do something good for your sister.

453
00:34:50,146 --> 00:34:54,190
There's a lot of her in this place. It'll help us to be here.

454
00:35:04,077 --> 00:35:06,081
So... how do we...

455
00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:10,780
- What am I supposed to do? 
- The best way is tell me something about tou and Andrea.

456
00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:13,070
Just tell me a story.

457
00:35:18,975 --> 00:35:22,322
She was traveling all the time,

458
00:35:22,676 --> 00:35:27,430
always away and never too good about being in touch.

459
00:35:28,658 --> 00:35:31,900
My father was sick, and it got bad real fast.

460
00:35:32,436 --> 00:35:35,550
And I think my dad was hanging on so he could see her one more time.

461
00:35:36,115 --> 00:35:37,672
But we couldn't find her.

462
00:35:39,337 --> 00:35:41,763
I was with my pop the night he died.

463
00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:46,482
He knew Andrea would be heartbroken about not being with him...

464
00:35:46,482 --> 00:35:49,101
How guilty she'd feel.

465
00:35:50,596 --> 00:35:54,070
And he wanted me to tell her that it was all right,

466
00:35:54,356 --> 00:35:57,640 
that he loved her, and that he knew she loved him.

467
00:35:58,247 --> 00:36:00,132
And that he'd see her again.

468
00:36:02,717 --> 00:36:05,161
He didn't want her to hurt.

469
00:36:05,161 --> 00:36:07,810
You never told me that.

470
00:36:09,037 --> 00:36:11,120
She's here, Mitch.

471
00:36:13,245 --> 00:36:14,245
Now?

472
00:36:15,337 --> 00:36:17,331
In here with us?

473
00:36:17,331 --> 00:36:20,681
She wants to know why you never told her what your father said.

474
00:36:21,546 --> 00:36:25,300
Because I was so mad about her not being there.

475
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:30,330
And I know it's wrong. And I'm sorry. I was going to tell her someday.

476
00:36:30,330 --> 00:36:32,380
I just--I never thought it would be too late.

477
00:36:33,506 --> 00:36:35,753
Will you tell him, Melinda?

478
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:42,070
Mitch, the night that you came to the store, Andrea was there.

479
00:36:42,568 --> 00:36:45,810
She was watching when I told you that she was dead.

480
00:36:45,810 --> 00:36:50,832
And for a moment, when she realized the truth she wanted to change places with you.

481
00:36:50,832 --> 00:36:54,323
She wanted to be the one who was alive even if it meant that you were the one that was dead.

482
00:36:54,323 --> 00:36:56,583
It was only for a split second.

483
00:36:56,583 --> 00:36:59,121
And she feels full of shame about that.

484
00:37:01,796 --> 00:37:05,743
It's part of what's keeping her here. She needs your forgiveness.

485
00:37:10,097 --> 00:37:12,401
- Tell her I--
- She can hear you.

486
00:37:14,987 --> 00:37:17,210
Andrea...

487
00:37:17,210 --> 00:37:22,850
I wished the same thing. I wanted it to be me on that plane,

488
00:37:22,850 --> 00:37:25,511
and you still safe--

489
00:37:25,511 --> 00:37:27,793
Still alive.

490
00:37:28,016 --> 00:37:31,630
I mean you were always the one who lived.

491
00:37:32,097 --> 00:37:36,431
I was always so cautious, and so worried about the rules.

492
00:37:36,431 --> 00:37:38,522
And what people think...

493
00:37:39,285 --> 00:37:46,330
You always charged ahead. You're the one who should have gotten more life.

494
00:37:47,076 --> 00:37:49,661
She needs to hear you say that you forgive her.

495
00:37:49,661 --> 00:37:54,530
There's nothing to forgive. She didn't do anything wrong.

496
00:38:00,776 --> 00:38:03,361
Can you forgive me?

497
00:38:06,665 --> 00:38:09,910
Let's just say we're even.

498
00:38:10,656 --> 00:38:13,932
She says you're even now.

499
00:38:26,675 --> 00:38:29,023
He says I'll be judged in the light.

500
00:38:29,023 --> 00:38:33,490
Don’t be scared. Don’t let him into your head.

501
00:38:38,105 --> 00:38:40,970
Why isn't he coming inside?

502
00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:43,012
He can’t now.

503
00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:45,273
There's too much love in here.

504
00:38:45,273 --> 00:38:48,270
And that's what's in the light, not judgment.

505
00:38:51,268 --> 00:38:54,002
Look, we all feel guilt about what happened that night.

506
00:38:54,002 --> 00:38:58,212
But it's time that we let it go. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

507
00:39:00,387 --> 00:39:02,381
I'm scared.

508
00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:04,381
I know you are.

509
00:39:04,381 --> 00:39:08,541
Just try and remember all the good things that you're leaving us with.

510
00:39:08,541 --> 00:39:12,422
Remember that every person that knew you is better for it...

511
00:39:12,422 --> 00:39:14,960
Especially me.

512
00:39:15,637 --> 00:39:17,732
You taught me to be fearless.

513
00:39:18,388 --> 00:39:20,451
And you loved really well,

514
00:39:20,451 --> 00:39:24,540
and you were loved. And that's what you're bring into that light, nothing else.

515
00:39:30,196 --> 00:39:32,510
Ahh... I see it.

516
00:39:33,735 --> 00:39:35,790
The light...

517
00:39:41,617 --> 00:39:45,610
It's more beautiful than I ever could have imagined.

518
00:39:45,610 --> 00:39:48,123
Then go into it.

519
00:39:50,166 --> 00:39:54,382
You're free. This is how it's supposed to be.

520
00:39:56,008 --> 00:39:58,760
Melinda...

521
00:40:00,276 --> 00:40:04,901
I'm gonna miss you so much.

522
00:40:04,901 --> 00:40:07,661
You'll see me again.

523
00:40:08,007 --> 00:40:11,120
And when I get to that light, you better be waiting.

524
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,041
You better be the first face that I see.

525
00:40:16,348 --> 00:40:18,963
I'll be waiting.

526
00:40:20,256 --> 00:40:21,336
Good-bye.

527
00:40:26,148 --> 00:40:28,891
Say hi to pop for me.

528
00:40:34,117 --> 00:40:37,503
He says hi back.

529
00:41:07,248 --> 00:41:09,721
She's gone.

530
00:41:38,365 --> 00:41:42,181
Let's see, you're going to Driscoll County, connecting in Chicago.

531
00:41:42,181 --> 00:41:45,333
You're all set. Just need to see a photo I.D.

532
00:41:48,456 --> 00:41:51,793
Oh, shoot. I left my I.D. in the car.

533
00:41:52,348 --> 00:41:55,753
Got time. Go and get it, and just come back to the front of the line.

534
00:42:18,348 --> 00:41:21,753
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