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You know what my kind is? People who are respectful of others. People who are intelligent, kind, funny, nice to kids. People like Melinda.

Melinda Gordon is the owner of antique store Same As It Never Was, who has the unique ability to talk to the deceased. She is the daughter of Beth Gordon and the now-deceased Paul Eastman. She was married to Jim Clancy until his death; they had a son, Aiden Lucas. She later married Sam Lucas.

History[]

Season One[]

She uses her ability to help ghosts by finding them peace by assisting them in any unfinished business, sometimes having to contact their living loved ones and tell them of her gift so that they can transfer messages to them just before they cross over into the Light. However, telling her secrets to the living often causes Melinda trouble, usually doubt and anger from the people she tries to help.

During the first season, she is helped by best friend Andrea Marino, who co-owned Same as it Never Was, the antique shop Melinda ran. Andrea continued to help Melinda until her death, where the role was later resumed by Delia Banks, who had a hard time getting her head around Melinda's ability to talk to the dead. However, she still supports Melinda and helps her solve the hauntings she comes across.

In Season 5, Melinda and Jim have a son, who they name Aiden Lucas, after Jim's father and Sam Lucas. However, it is later revealed that he is more powerful than his mother, as he can not only see the earthbound, but also the spirits who have crossed over. Melinda also fell pregnant during the early Season Four with Jim, but suffered a miscarriage because her body could not support the baby.

In "Mean Ghost", she saw a ghost of a teenage boy trying to get his locker number. She forces him to go to the light, but most of the teens didn't see him. She was called a "freak" because of her upsetting behavior.

Melinda and Jim moved to the small town of Grandview where Melinda opens a small antique shop called "The Same As It Never Was" Antiques. There, she meets and becomes friends with Andrea Marino, who came to share management responsibilities of the store with Melinda. Eventually, Melinda gained enough trust in Andrea to tell her about her ability.

In the later part of the season, Melinda begins encountering a malevolent spirit named Romano who wears a black hat while she is trying to "cross over" earthbound spirits. In the season finale, a plane crashes in Grandview. Romano used the massive death count of the crash to his advantage by "keeping" the souls that Melinda was unable to cross over--- one of which was Andrea who died because her car was in the path of the plane.

In "Pilot", Melinda is first introduced as a young girl at a funeral for someone she doesn't know. Melinda is unaware of what is going on, as she can see the spirit of the deceased, and therefore does not understand why the people are in mourning. However, Mary Ann tells Melinda what is going on and teaches her how to cross him over by giving a message from the ghost, an elderly man, to his widowed wife. The scene changes to a grown-up version of Melinda at her wedding, throwing a bouquet of flowers for one of her bridesmaids to catch, in which Andrea catches it. Later, Melinda sees the spirit of Daniel Clancy, her husband's dead brother. Melinda and Jim, as newlyweds, move into a new house that Jim is fixing himself. However, Melinda gets visits from the ghost of a sergeant, who tells her that he is looking for his wife who is pregnant. However, it is later revealed that his wife is long dead and that it is his son's wife whose pregnant. This eventually causes Melinda to tell his son of her "gift", who reacts negatively when she does so. However, by the end of the episode, Melinda crosses the ghost over when his son believes Melinda. It is implied that Melinda consults Andrea a lot about her ghost problems, as Andrea is her best friend, and Andrea already knows about her ability to see the deceased.

In "The Crossing", Melinda catches Dylan with another boy named Kenny playing on the railroad tracks and tells them to get off, only to find out that Kenny is a spirit. When Andrea asks how Dylan could see him, Melinda says that almost all children can see spirits, stating "Where do you think imaginary friends come from?". Melinda also has to deal with Jim's mother, Faith, visiting her and Jim for a few days. Riddled with her ghost problem, Melinda is forced to cancel dinner with Faith. Melinda finds out that Kenny, the boy ghost, died in a train accident, and she goes to see his parents, fresh out of court after trying a case against the person who sold them the car that was a tool in Kenny's death. She tells them of her gift, and the father acts negatively, whereas the mother is curious. Not wanting to talk to her son, Candace leaves Melinda, and Melinda leaves her address for the store. Later, the father, Hank, visits Melinda and tells her to stay away, calling her a fraud, and Andrea backs Melinda up when she needs her to. After being a bit off with Faith, Faith suspects she is pregnant. Melinda helps stop Hank from killing the man who sold them the faulty car with Kenny's help, and later she crosses Kenny over. Melinda also has to tell Faith that she isn't pregnant, and that she just had to deal with a mother who lost her son, to which Faith could relate.

In "Ghost, Interrupted", Melinda deals with the stubborn spirit of a twin whose sister was locked in a psychiatric ward after her death. Finding it difficult to do so, she visits the alive twin at the ward after finding out she stole from her. Melinda then has to tell Natalie that her twin sister, Zoe, is a ghost, to which Natalie replies that she could always feel her presence, even after she died. Throughout the episode, Melinda has flashbacks of her grandmother, Mary Ann, the woman who taught her everything she knows about ghosts. She follows her life with her, like when she visits her at an old folk's home. Another flashback shows when Mary Ann tells Melinda that she will know she is encountering a ghost when she can feel what they are feeling, and to Melinda's surprise and fear, she could feel that from her grandmother, who she realized she has died. Melinda tells Jim that Mary Ann was like a twin to her, how she was the only one who fully understood her and was the only person who didn't think Melinda was crazy. Also in the episode, Melinda and Jim work together to set Andrea and Will, a friend of Jim's, on a date, which doesn't go as planned as Will seems to still be in love with his ex. In the end, Jim witnesses Melinda crossing over a ghost for the first time, and when they are alone, Melinda asks what time it is, and Jim says a little after midnight, in which Melinda then tells her grandmother "Happy birthday".

In "Mended Hearts", Melinda is at Andrea's apartment with Jim as they celebrate her moving in until water leaks from the ceiling, and Melinda hears noises from someone upstairs. They later find out Andrea's upstairs neighbor, Gwen, is trying to kill herself, and she suceeds, and Melinda sees her spirit reunite with a man named Conor, which Melinda later finds out is her fiance. However, Jim revives her, and Melinda finds out that Gwen saw Melinda talking to her dead fiance for the little time she was dead, so Melinda tells Gwen of her gift. Melinda has difficulty with Conor, her fiance, as he doesn't want to leave Gwen, and Gwen doesn't want him to leave her. Melinda then looks for the person who received Conor's heart after he died, as Conor claims that would allow him to be at peace. Melinda then sets up a date between Gwen and Clifford, the receiver of Conor's heart hoping that would aid Gwen in getting over Conor and Conor in crossing over. However, when Gwen sees Clifford doing something only Conor ever did, she leaves. Melinda tells Clifford to not give up, and attends a study group to where Clifford talks to the group and Conor attends. Conor tells Melinda they should ask what Gwen wants, for him to go or stay. When Gwen is confronted about it, Conor realizes that he needs to let go and let her move forward, and he crosses over with Melinda's help. At the end of the episode, Melinda notices a man watching her and she realizes it's a ghost. Then, he laughs ominously and disappears, leaving her creeped.

In "Lost Boys", Melinda runs into some young ghost boys and a ghost dog, and faces the challenge of trying to cross them over when their leader, a spirit named Rat, doesn't want them to go anywhere. But Melinda later realizes that the building the ghosts are attached to is scheduled for demolition, and if she is not able to cross them over before the building is destroyed, they will remain earthbound forever. Melinda also has to deal with Jim's naive friend who she dislikes because of his rudeness towards her. Melinda grows attached to two of the ghost boys, Marty and Vic, who get attached to her, in return. She reads them Peter Pan, a story they love, and their attachment to her grows to love. They ask her why they can't stay with her and be their mother, to which Melinda says she would be proud to have the two as sons, but they don't belong in the world anymore and need to cross over into the Light. At the end of the episode, she crosses Rat, Vic, and Marty over, the first time she crosses multiple ghosts over at the same time, and returns home to her husband. Homer the ghost dog, however, remains earthbound, and seems to look to Melinda as his new owner.

In "Homecoming", Melinda deals with a spirit named Jason who found out he was adopted on the day he died. Melinda doesn't want Andrea's brother, Mitch, to come over for drinks at hers because she hasn't finished tidying the house and he is a millionaire. Andrea, however, changes Melinda's mind and she finally agrees to it. Melinda gets visits from Jason who is very angry. Melinda and Jim host Andrea and Mitch, where Melinda and Andrea frequently say the same thing at the same time. Melinda finds out that the reason Jason was earthbound was because of his adoptive mother's refusal to tell Jason who his birth mother was. Later, Melinda goes to see Diane, the adoptive mother, and tells her about her gift, but Diane doesn't believe her, until that night when Jason visits Diane and puts the radio on. Melinda sees Diane the next day and she gives Melinda Jason's birth mother's address. Melinda goes to the city to find her, and she does, telling Fran that she can see ghosts and the son she gave away eighteen years ago is dead. Fran doesn't believe Melinda either, but Sybil, Fran's daughter, overhears and believes her. Sybil visits Melinda and Melinda helps her communicate with her dead half-brother. Fran comes to pick Sybil up, and Melinda urges Jason to say something to Fran, but Sybil misheard and thought Melinda was urging her on and tells Fran she is pregnant. The next day, Melinda takes Fran to see Diane. Fran leaves, but later seeks Melinda's help at her store when she has a change of heart. Melinda helps Fran and Sybil get closure, before going to see Diane and give her closure, crossing Jason over in the process.

In "Hope and Mercy", Melinda gets a call from the hospital telling her that her husband was in an accident, and Melinda rushes straight to the Hospital. After being told her husband is okay, Melinda sees a ghost named Hope whose husband had dialed 911 when he saw the ambulance Jim was in a tip over. After being pestered by a ghost named Hope, Melinda agrees to help her. The next day, Melinda goes to Same As It Never Was and talks with Andrea, telling her the watch she bought was fake. When Melinda goes to the Hospital to collect Jim, she finds him gone but finds out he had gone to Cat Scan, Melinda sees Hope and talks with her, Melinda sees a lot of spirits in the hospital, and finally takes Jim out of the hospital, much to Melinda's relief. She tells him she is glad it's not him she is helping cross over. At the store, the man who sold Andrea the fake watch comes back, and even though Andrea wants to do it, Melinda goes and gives him a piece of her mind, but fails in getting the money back. Melinda talks with the doctors who operated on Hope, one of them a very old man named Dr. Devine, and the other a young man who tells Melinda that it's Dr. Devine's fault she died. Melinda tells Brad, Hope's husband, that it wasn't his fault as he kept blaming himself for his wife's death. Melinda helps Brad gain closure, allowing Hope to cross over. Meanwhile, Melinda finds out that Dr. Devine is slowly losing his mind as said by his deceased wife, and that that was the cause of Hope's death. Melinda crosses over his deceased wife and at the end, Melinda and Jim find out that the person who died in the ambulance was just released from prison for attempted murder, and fail to realize that his ghost is watching them.

In "On the Wings of a Dove", Melinda is stunned to bump into her old best friend from High School, Alexis, with who Melinda seems very awkward and gives her the cold shoulder. Andrea assumes correctly that she has issues with Alexis, but Melinda just tells her they drifted apart. Melinda gets worried when her husband, Jim, begins to act weird, but realizes that it's down to the fact that a ghost is attached to him, the tattooed man from the previous episode. Melinda and Jim try to help him, despite him accidentally killing a man, so they go to see the parents of the man he killed, only to be shut away because they could never forgive Julian, the ghost, for what he did. Alexis also tells Andrea of the fancy dress party that humiliated Melinda. In Freshman Year, Melinda was led to believe that she was going to a fancy-dress party, as told to her, and is told to go as her favorite fantasy, which is a fairy. So when she goes to the party, everyone else is dressed as ghosts, taunting Melinda because Alexis has told everyone about her gift. Andrea sticks up for Melinda and gives Alexis the cold shoulder. Back with Melinda, she goes to see Julian's wife and child with Jim, eventually crossing Julian over and giving Rachel and Joseph closure. In the end, Melinda agrees to lunch with Alexis and tells her she has learned forgiveness, only to find out that Alexis's true intention was to use Melinda to contact her deceased aunt to find an emerald necklace that she owned. Melinda walks away after telling Alexis how she felt, and notices a big flock of doves.

In "Voices", Melinda and Jim come back from a night out at a restaurant to find their car had been stolen. Jim calls the police and they soon find it, stolen by a young teenage boy who creeps Melinda out. They don't press charges and while Jim is driving her home, they both hear EVP on the radio station, to Melinda's surprise. Melinda investigates it by going to see a Dr. Huffman and she starts to understand what it means. Faith comes to stay again while Melinda gets headaches from the ghostly messages on her phone's answering machine. Melinda finds the ghost outside an electrical station, who appears fuzzy to her. The ghost, Lacy, asks Melinda to help her rebel teenage son, Kirk, who stole her car, overcome his hatred for her and cross over. Meanwhile, Jim is suspicious of Faith's new boyfriend Ellis, though Melinda seems to take a liking for Ellis straight away. Faith and Melinda also cook together, where Melinda tells her she is jealous of what Faith and Jim have, and she wishes that she and her own mother were like that. Melinda continues to consult Andrea about her ghost problems, but usually leaves her when she sees Kirk in the middle of the Square or if she gets a headache from the EVP's that Lacy uses as a means of communication.

Season Two[]

After losing her friend and business partner to the plane crash, Melinda succeeds against Romano in helping Andrea and many of the other ghosts from the plane crash cross over.

An occult professor, Rick Payne, often helps Melinda with a troublesome ghost without realizing it, until she tells him about her gift. She also meets widow Delia Banks and her son Ned. After a few episodes, Melinda invites Delia to take the place of Andrea as her business partner, and confides in Ned about her gift. While trying to crossover Delia's husband, in the episode Delia's First Ghost, Melinda reveals to Delia her gift. Delia, a skeptic in anything beyond the norm, slowly begins to believe Melinda.

Throughout the season, events occur showing that the "veil" between the living and the dead is thinning. With the introduction of a second ghost whisperer, Gabriel Lawrence, it is learned through the earthbound spirit of Payne's wife that dark forces "are trying to make the dead stronger than the living." In the season finale, she learned that she might have a brother from her dead father. Before she had learned this, she had died momentarily after a tower of poles collapsed upon her. Four children help revive her (as noted under "Abilities"). She is stunned when she returns to consciousness, stating "I think I have a brother". She looks around and, from a distance Gabriel is looking at her very crossly.

Season Three[]

Melinda searches continually for her father, strongly believing him to have died, and for her brother. She speaks with her mother who does not give her much information other than that Melinda and Jim have to leave Grandview because of all the evil spirits. Melinda also learns that Beth had once lived in Grandview. In the fifth episode "Weight of What Was" Gabriel arrives at her home saying that he is her half-brother and that he is also looking for their father. He was staying in a hotel under the name Gabriel Gordon. He hands Melinda a package that leads her to an underground church that had been buried as well as to her ancestor, Tessa, who was also a ghost whisperer.

Tom Gordon reveals to her a little bit about her past. Melinda and Jim later on have a discussion about having children and Melinda agrees on having one. From some point in the show Melinda is haunted by a ghost who is known as the (Masked Man) at first. Towards the end of the season, Tom Gordon shows up in Grandview alive. It is revealed, however, that Tom Gordon is not her biological father.

She asks her mother to be absolutely honest with her and tell her everything. Her mother reveals the fact that her birth father is really a man named Paul Eastman. At the very end of the season, what seems to be a happy moment is spoiled when Payne makes a shocking observation. He points out the fact that there are six people lined up (Delia, Beth Gordon, Ned, Jim, Melinda, and Payne himself), yet there are only five visible shadows.

Season Four[]

Melinda and Jim talk about having children. At the beginning of the season, Melinda meets a man who had a ghost haunting him - one of his patients. Eli suffered a near-death experience, and when he was revived he discover that can hear the dead. Eli is extremely confused and refuses to listen to Melinda, but in the end they develop a good partnership.

Professor Payne went on a trip for a long time. In "Big Chills", Melinda helps a ghost that has to have the truth come out about an accidental death on a boat. In the next episode, Melinda finds a man that is dead and trapped in an online chat game. She soon realizes that the man is actually the teenager's father, who is trying to protect his daughter from an online predator. Melinda and Jim go on a trip to find another ghost (or many on the boat), but the main reason is to talk to the boat owner's son, who is planning to tear down the boat and rebuild it. Many spirits were worried that their home would be ruined, so they were bothering Melinda to help them. But one girl needed help to talk to the owner of the boat about the accidental death, when she waited for him in the same room she met him many years before.

Then Melinda meets a teenage ghost who dies on the tennis court from a blood clot in her lung and Melinda watches the dead teenager follow her friend's family home (both families used to be friends, but one moved away and they stopped talking, and the families are no longer friends.) The two families soon find out that the hospital made a mistake and they switched the girls at birth. In the end Melinda and Jim think she is pregnant, but are disappointed when they get they discover that Melinda had a miscarriage. This episode is the episode of which the tagline is: The episode that will change everything.

In this episode Melinda and Jim go to the woods and they stay in a cabin for Jim's friend's wedding. The spirit wants the bride to play a game which will let her know the truth about her fiance. She discovers that the ghost (Owen) used to know the bride when they were young. When she finds out the truth, she calls off the wedding. Later Jim goes back to clean up and finds the groom still in the cabin, with a gun. Melinda finds out and calls a detective. When Melinda and the detective get there they see two shadows through the door windows and they see one man with the gun and one man without. Then the detective pulls out the gun and shoots. Then in the window Jim falls. Melinda is in the hospital waiting for Jim to wake up from the surgery. Then when Melinda wakes up she sees Jim's ghost. He says "Remember me this way; I'll always love you." Nurses suddenly rush in, and Jim begins to flatline.

In the next episode Jim keeps saying throughout that he is will not cross over, no matter how hard Melinda tries. There is a teenage ghost who keeps saying she's sorry and that it's all her fault that Jim is dead. It turns out that the teenager was anorexic and that made her heart stop. Her stepfather was very depressed, and he went back to work before he was ready to. Later it is found out that the girl's stepfather is the detective who shot Jim. Melinda says to Jim "You have to do the right thing." He replies "I will." and possesses the body of a dead man, Sam, to live again in episode 4.07 "Threshold". After Jim jumps into Sam's body he has no idea who he is.

Melinda begins dating Jim/Sam when Sam's ex-girlfriend Nikki leaves Grandview. Melinda revealed her gift to Jim/Sam and his response was unexpected. Melinda told Jim/Sam he is really Jim; Melinda saves Jim/Sam from drowning and is surprised when he asks her why she is calling him Sam because Jim has now gotten his memory back. Melinda soon learns she is eight weeks pregnant with Jim's baby. Melinda began to have nightmares and visions that her baby was in danger. She was sure by the things she was being told the baby was a girl after Melinda runs into the faceless child again, who puts her hand on Melinda's belly and says, "You can't save her. You can't." and Carl telling Melinda that her future is in Melinda's hands.

Jim reveals to Melinda that he had seen her chart accidentally and knew it was a boy. He knew they agreed not to find out, but he told her to ease her mind, so she’d see her visions and dreams were wrong and were actually about Zoe, who was Eli's ex-girlfriend and killed accidentally when she fell down the steps, startled by a thief ( who is actually being controlled by the Watcher Carl) in her house. They were looking for an ancient tome written in multiple languages called The Book of Changes, of which Zoe was caretaker. Eli then became the caretaker of the book, and was warned by one of the Watchers (Carl) that people were after the book, he must safeguard it and was also warned he must NOT show it to Melinda.

Melinda, however, couldn’t get the idea something was wrong out of her mind and convinced Eli to show her the book. The book had their names in it, followed by odd dates. The dates were revered; Melinda realized they were dates of death. Jim was there, as was Sam, Zoe and even Eli from his near-death experience. She was also listed as September 25 and if the prophecy is fulfilled, Melinda will die upon giving birth to her son. Later Melinda confronts Carl in the Tunnels of Doom and wants to know if her son is in danger. Carl tells Melinda that white light spirits are watching over her, but the balance can shift and her son is the key. Carl advises her to teach her son about the other side, not shield him from it, because her son will be able to do much, much more than she can. Jim and Melinda marry again at the same place they met - in front of witnesses, Eli James (best man) and Delia Banks (matron of honor), and a full gathering of spirits.

Season Five[]

Season Five begins with Melinda giving birth to her son Aiden. Five years later a ghost shows up claiming that Aiden is her son. Melinda crosses this ghost over. In the next episode a ghost uses a chained email to cause bad stuff to happen. A ghost with their eyes and mouth stitched shut appears in this episode. This ghost has yet to be seen again.

Melinda's son Aiden begins to talk about ghosts called Shinies and spirits called the Shadows. The Shadows are after the Book Of Changes. They are made of the parts that are left behind when ghosts cross over. They are evil. The Shinies are the enemies of The Shadows and are referred to as crossed over spirits of children. In the end, the Shinies destroy the Shadows with the help of Aiden and everything is back to normal.

Powers and Abilities[]

Melinda has the ability to speak to, hear, and see, the souls of the people who have died, but have not yet crossed over.

Melinda confused

Most people assume that she is a psychic, to which she replies that psychics can only see the future, whereas she can only see the dead. Though she experiences "visions" of the past and of the future, she cannot do so on her own accord. The spirit(s) that she is trying help to cross over give her these visions so that she may glean information from them in order for her to solve the reason for them being earthbound.

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Melinda seeing the ghost passengers of Flight 395

Her "job" is to see to it that the souls of the dead are to cross over into the Light. Some spirits go into it willingly, whereas some remain earthbound. Melinda sees these spirits and communicates with them, she gives messages from the souls of the deceased to their loved ones who cannot see them or hear them. Melinda's duty is to give the loved ones closure, and the spirits peace, so that they can cross over.

Though Melinda can see spirits, they can sometimes "leave" her line of sight. She explains that spirits can only choose to manifest, and that she cannot force them to show themselves to her.

In "The Ghost Within", it is revealed that Melinda is capable of psychometry, a form of extrasensory perception wherein she receives visions of the history of an object by touching said object.

Personality[]

• Melinda is kind and always willing to help out others. She puts her relationships and friendships before herself and will do anything to keep her loved ones safe.

• She is naturally curious person and when helping earthbound spirits, she will go the distance in figuring out ways to help them, a lot of the time researching at all hours of the night to find out everything she can.

• Melinda can sometimes come off as angry when talking with her mother but she has always felt a deep hurt since her mother never tried to understand her gift. Her grandmother was her confidant and best friend and after she died, Melinda was very depressed because she felt like she had no one to talk to.

• She is a very independent person and worked very hard, with babysitting jobs as a teenager to afford her first car. She is seen to have saved her money to be able to open up her antique store.

• Sometimes she can been seen as scatter brained and very flaky, but she is always dealing with a ghost.

Relationships[]

Romantic[]

  • Jim (Husband). They were married until his death. She ended up falling in love with a man named Sam who her husband's spirit went into.

Familial[]

  • Beth Gordon (Melinda's mother)
  • Mary Ann Patterson (Melinda's grandmother).
  • Melinda, her mother, and grandmother all have the ability to see and talk to the dead.

Friends[]

  • Andrea (Melinda's partner at the antique shop til her death) Delia (Melinda's current partner at the antique shop that Melinda owns)

Professional[]

  • Rick Payne (College Professor at the local university in Grandview). He helps Melinda when she comes to him for help about artifacts that need help being identified.

Notes and Trivia[]

  • Melinda loves anchovies on her pizza.
  • Melinda didn't know how to cook when she met Jim.
  • Melinda bought her first car with the babysitting money she made in high school.
  • Melinda graduated from Hillridge High School and went to college in Washington State.
  • Melinda played field hockey in high school and wore braces when she was seventeen.
  • Melinda likes chick flicks and horror movies (though she often gets scared).
  • Melinda had a red umbrella turn inside out on her first date with Jim. He replaced it on the fifth anniversary of that encounter.
  • Melinda knows nothing about sports.
  • Melinda is allergic to Ho-Hos.
  • Melinda doesn't like her birthday or Halloween, but loves Christmas.
  • Melinda's biggest fear is being studied for her gift.
  • Melinda's mother resented her for seeing ghosts.

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