Ghost Whisperer

these are intense. Are any of these yours?

No, they're my grad students' from my masters portfolio class.

Wow, you really look beautiful in this light.

Wishful thinking on both our parts. It's a model, not me.

Some photos down there you might enjoy.

Student of mine was in bangladesh.

Well, I'll tell you what I used to tell my mother when I didn't finish my dinner--

I don't care about kids from india, I just care about you.

I didn't say the last part to my mother. That'd be weird.

- Although I'm sure she was fascinating. - She was, very.

But no mother issues here at all.

These have to be yours.

This is, uh, what, your apartment down in the east village?

Do you miss it, the whole bohemian lifestyle?

No, I like teaching here just fine.

How come there's no pictures of you here at all?

Come on, rick.

It's the command performance for the new dean. We're already late.

Ok. So much for small talk.

This is amazing.

Just 'cause the dean is former ivy, they rent out an entire restaurant.

You know what I got when I came to rockland U.?

I got a welcome packet with a few take-out menus.

Professor pollili.

Hi. I'm stacey adler. Not that it matters.

I know your work. I've tried to get into your classes, but they fill up so fast.

Well, it's very nice to meet you, stacey. This is professor payne.

Oh, great. I'm going to get the spelling in just a sec.

Oh, no, please.

Oh, it's just a P.R. Picture for the university magazine.

No. I said no.

I'm sorry. I just-- please, don'T.

Ok. I'm-- I didn't realize. Sorry.

I can't do this.

- I thought I could, but I can'T. - What? What can't you do?

Look, it's not you. I just--

I really don't feel well, so I'm going to go. Um...

- that is weird. - Yeah, that's weird.

I know. I had her right in frame.

Wow. That is weird. Can I borrow this for a second?

Actually, like, right now, this second.

It's ok. I'm a professor.

- Ok. Thank you very much. - Wait. Why?

Because you just gave your memory card to the anthropology department.

I appreciate it.

But--wh-what about the magazine?

Use your descriptive powers. Why, you know, cheat with pictures?

Hello!

I know you guys are home. I can see your cars.

- Are you expecting someone? - No one!

Hello?

Hello, hello, hello!

Hello.

Hey. How are you, jim?

You been working out? You look good.

There she is. Ahh. This is nice.

There's the missus, a nice crackling fire.

Nice vintage-- a little pricey. "Scrupulistic" not a word.

Didn't you have a date tonight?

I did have a date tonight,

as it were, since you're the one that forced me back into the dating world.

- What happened? - Well, what happened? I'll tell you what happened.

This might have been the first time in my life

that a woman said "it's not you, it's me," and I believed her.

Let me find these for you.

Oh, here's professor reeman, russian studies.

He just got published... again.

Ok. Oh, here we are. Ok. That's me.

Wow. This really is...a damn fine suit.

That's me, and next to me, that's where my date should be.

That big, empty space, that's where my date was. Ok?

Here's another one. That's me sitting next to...

ehh, no one. Nothing's there. Ok.

Oh. Here's claudia's exit, which was abrupt, to say the least,

although you can't see it on any of these photos

'cause apparently, she doesn't exist.

Let me take a look at that.

So she's not showing up in any of the photos.

Just admit it, melinda-- tonight, I got dumped by a ghost.

- Does she even exist? - Yes. She has tenure.

It's publish or perish. Her photographs are published everywhere.

But she's not in any of them,

and nor have I seen her in any of her personal photography,

and the photos she has of herself on her desk with her family and things--

nothing. She's not in any photos.

Well, that's weird.

I mean, maybe it's something about her energy, or something the camera can't capture.

I don't think so. Paranormal occurrences usually work the opposite way.

Spirits are visible in photographs because cameras detect light and heat.

But a broader spectrum of energy the human eye can't detect.

Kind of like that?

Ok. I've never seen this before.

Hang on a second.

It's with her in every shot.

For the record, that's not who I asked out.

Maybe not, but...

that's who went home with her.

Ghost Whisperer Season 3 Episode 6

I've been looking for occurrences of images being erased from a photograph.

They're hard to find.

I mean, ghosts popping up, stealing the spotlight?

I mean, they're a dime a dozen.But somebody actually being knocked from the frame?

That's-- that's unusual.

I'm more interested in the shape we saw following claudia.

Oh, him. Yeah. Let's call him bob.

Ok. Bob. Why?

'Cause bob riker got my prom date drunk on peach schnapps.He stole her from me.

Now they're married with 3 kids, but I don't think they're happy.

Sad. But you've moved on to claudia.

Does she have any idea what happened to her?

Well, she flipped out the second a camera was pointed at her,

and, well, I'm no expert in composition,

but it sure seems like all the pictures in her office are kind of lopsided.

- Like she used to be in them? - More like bob riker took them.

Can a ghost do that?

I mean, transform an existing image or print?

Well, it would help if he had basic knowledge of photographic principles--

I mean, knowing how light and heat affect pigment.

A photograph is just pixels and colors.

So in theory, he could move them all around like the piece on an ouija board.

You said he. Is this bob?

No, I'm talking about kevin.

Kevin was one of claudia's graduate students. He died 2 weeks ago.

And you're just telling me this now? That is, like, plain withholding.

- What happened to him? - He died in a car crash.

But I didn't even know until this morning when I called claudia-- which, by the way,

I was completely breaking my "don't call anyone for 48 hours after a disastrous date" rule.

I can't imagine how that came up in a conversation.

Actually, a pretty smooth segue from "hey, do you know you're invisible?"

That's what makes it a great photograph, that's the unspoken narrative.

It tells a story.

I will have extended office hours this afternoon, ok?

But I need to talk to these people. And joseph, congratulations.

Oh, seriously, professor pollili, I can't thank you enough.

See you later.

- Hi. I'm claudia. - Hi. Melinda.

The friend I was telling you about.

What happened to your forehead?

Oh, I was driving home last night and I clipped a parked car.

- Lucky nobody was hurt. - Except for you.

Mmm. I don't know where I'm at these days.

All I know is, I came home one day to find I wasn't in any pictures.

Family, friends, travel--

the photos were still there, but I was gone.

What day was that, exactly?

It was the day after kevin graham died.

Your student.

He died in a car crash.

So talented. Nicest guy.

Last night, did you feel anything strange, like a presence?

I don't think so.

How well did you know kevin?

Was there any reason for him to be angry with you?

Kevin had the makings of a great photographer.

He had everything that it took...

except for patience.

There was a gallery showing that he was just desperate to get into.

And he wanted me to make a call on his behalf, but I told him that he wasn't ready.

Was he upset?

He took it really hard, like I was telling him he didn't have a future.

But in this business, you only get one introduction, one shot,

and I didn't want to blow it for him.

I mean, I thought of 100 different ways that I could have told him, but--

but you thought no matter what the outcome, it would have always been the same?

I don't know.

I mean, would he have been driving down a dangerous road at 90 miles an hour

if he thought he had more to live for?

That's every teacher's worst nightmare, you know.

You toss a kid a low grade or a criticism.

Next thing you know, he snaps his cap, and he wants to off himself or you.

Is that what you're thinking?

Maybe he found a way to do both?

I don't know.

Was this always here?

This translucent shape, do you see it?

- Have you seen it anywhere else? - Yeah.

Last week, in one of my students' work. His name's joseph.

Did he know kevin?

Yeah.

Professor pollili knows everybody in the photo world.

She picks up the phone, and your slides get seen.

So it's that easy?

Well, she has to like your work.

What about kevin? Did she like his work?

She's tough but fair.

And no disrespect to the dead, because kevin seemed like a nice guy,a good artist,

but those 2 things, even in combination...

they're not enough. You know what I mean?

I'm not sure I do.

It's so competitive.

It's, like,this tiny market with too many people to begin with.

And if you don't have what it takes, what people want...

then you get squeezed out.

And kevin was feeling that squeeze.

Because she made phone calls on your behalf and not on his?

Yeah. Basically.

She said that you had some photos with this strange shape in them.

Yeah. Yeah, right. Uh...

that was weird.

I did this ocean series last week-- just sand, water...