Ghost Whisperer

Tube socks or crew socks?

What are we in the mood for tonight?

Why are we using the royal we?

I wonder if the post office keep records of people's address changes.

I mean, detectives track people down. How do they do it?

All right, it's official. I've been on the night shift too long.

We're talking to ourselves like the other one's not there.

I'm sorry. Did you say something?

What'd you say about a detective?

Somethin' about your dad?

Yeah. I can't track him down anywhere.

Until I do, I won't know how he lived all the esyears.

Or how he died.

Well, maybe he'll find you... like he found you in that dream.

Hmm. I could sure use his help.

What for?

Well, you know that ghost I was telling you about,

the one at the city hall archives?

Yeah, the one who acts like he's guardin' the place.

Yeah, he made all those weird threats about,

you know, there being angry spirits down there

and some serious darkness in grandview.

All right, wait a minute.

You're not really worried about us, like we're in danger?

Definitely not with jim clancy out there in his uniform, so...

- hey. Easy. - Go to work

and don't come back until people are healthy and safe.

Go to work.

Sleep well.

Hey, al, there's a clear mirror over here.

Yeah. Thanks.

See ya.

No.

No!

- Hey. - Oh. Hi.

They told me you'd be up here.

Are you ready for breakfast? I'm buying?

Thanks, but can i show you something first?

Yeah, sure.What is it?

Look, we brought this girl in with, uh, amino acid catecholamines flooding her neurals,

and that result was acute catatonia.

That would have been really interesting had it been in english.

But see,it sounds a little crazy to say in english

that I think-- I think this girl was almost scared to death.

How?

Washing her face in a bathroom.

All right, according to one of her friends,

before she lost consciousness, the last words out of her mouth

were, "bloody mary."

Bloody mary?Like the drink?

No, like bloody mary,the ghost.

Oh, you mean bloody mary, the urban myth.

I don't know. You're the expert. You tell me.

Ghost Whisperer Season 3 Episode 2

- What really happened? - Nobody saw.

They're gonna run tests, but the tox screens could take days.

I mean, look at her face.

Somethin' scared her.

Bloody mary. What's the legend again?

Well, you'd stand in a front of a mirror, you call out her name,"bloody mary,"

turn around a few times, and then she comes through the mirror

and scares you to death.

Hey...what do you think?

I don't know what to think.

Tell me everything you know about bloody mary.

Are you kidding me?You're, like,the 100th person that's asked me about bloody mary today.

All right. Well,news travels fast.

Yeah, all over campus.

It's like a full-blown mania.

I have students clamoring to get into my class,

and I have offered a little extra credit for anyone that does the bloody mary ritual,

and the first kid that dies, I'm giving an automatic "A."

Well, that's a little ghoulish, don't you think?

Nah. I'm just riding the cyberwave.

Cyberwave? What's a cyberwave?

Ok, I know you live in the world of antiques and dead things and dead people,

but us, normal people that live in the land of the living,

we have this little invention that we like to call...ready? Ta-da!

The internet. And bloody mary is all over it.

Wait. So there are whole sites devoted to one urban myth?

Oh, yeah. There's bloody mary sites all over the world.

Whatever area the myth takes place in,

well, you change the myth to fit local lore.

So what's the rockland U. Version?

Well, it starts the usual way. You look into a mirror.

You say her name a few times over and over and over again,

and then all of a sudden, bloody mary appears behind you. Very scary.

But then here's where the rockland U. Students,

who I normally mock because their brains are tiny, mushy, and unformed,

you go into some sort of suspended state where you--you can't talk,

you can't move for about 4 days, and day after day,

mary appears to you until you go mad,

and then on the fouth day, you die. You're dead.

And this is what they think will happen to the girl who collapsed yesterday?

Well, here's a hint.

Hi. Excuse me.

My name is melinda. I'm so sorry to hear about allision.

Could I talk to you guys for a second?

Uh, who are you?

M-my husband is the paramedic who brought her in.

Ok. What do you wanna know?

Well, anything that you can remember.

Did somebody hear her say, "bloody mary," right before she lost consciousness?

Um, well, we weren't there, so we don't know anything.

We just came when we heard that allison,um, that she--she got sick.

Well, you can talk to me. I'm not one of the police,

and I don't work for the university, so...

but we don't have anything to say.

We weren't there,so we don't really know.

She heard the noise.

What noise?

Um, I know that this may sound strange, but if you're scared of, well, anything,

I think that I might be able to help you,

but you have to help me. I need to know more about allison,

like did anyone around her die recently, like family or close friends?

What does that have to do with anything?

- That's hard to explain. - Ok, I don't mean to be rude,

but unless you're a doctor or a family member, you need to leave us alone.

Ok, see, that is the thing about bloody mary.

There are so many legends that you can have 2 in one town.

So there's the rockland U. Version, and now there's a grandview version also?

Yes, but technically the rockland university version derives from the town version.

I mean, that-- that's why my students went so crazy.

When they found out they had their own local ghost,

I mean, they--are you sure you don't wanna light candles?

This story is way better with atmosphere.

Positive.

It would go a lot better with your new decor.

- Get to it. - It's kind of dark.

Ok, uh, look.Mary lived in grandview about 150 years ago.

She was a teenager, she got a disease,

and she goes to the doctor after slipping into a coma.

The doctor declares her dead. You know where this is going?

To the end of the story.

Anyway, mary goes into the ground,

and they tie a string around her hand, runs up to the surface,

which is attached to a bell on top of the ground.

That way, if she ever wakes up 'cause she's not really dead,

- then she-- - a dead ringer.

Mmm. Melinda gordon, you listen. I like that about you.

Ok. So, mary's parents are so grief-stricken, they really tie one on that night,

and I don't mean tie one on like a string around the hand.

They get hammered.

When they wake up the next morning, they look at the bell.

They see that the bell is-- as the kids say--off the hook.

Huh? What are they gonna do? They have to dig her back up.

They open the coffin lid. Except now it's way too late.

She's really, really dead. And get this.

On the inside of the coffin, there's bloody scratch marks inside the coffin lid.

That's it? You just go back to your I.M.Ing?

You're like my students.

Ok. So then it all makes sense.

All the blogs started out by saying that a bell would ring

and then bloody mary would appear,

which must be what allison's friend in the hospital meant

when she said that allison heard a noise.

Ipso ghosto, you seem to be saying.

Ok, so I do agree that it might have something to do with a ghost.

I did see something in allison's hospital room,

but I definitely don't think it has anything to do with bloody mary.

Why would a century-old ghost show up and terrorize coeds?

Maybe she was tired of getting her bell rung.

Whatever is or isn't haunting allison is about her,

but I-I'm not gonna know what she saw until she wakes up.

You mean if she wakes up.

That myth does not prove that anything is gonna happen.

Jen, you gotta get real.

If people are dumb enough to believe in ghosts, then guess what.

You know, it's like they deserve to get scared out of their minds.

It's like they basically asked for it.

Allison did not ask for that.

She's not in a coma 'cause she saw bloody mary.

Please, would you please not say that name?

Jen.

Come on.

No.

Please don't do this.

Please don'T.

Hey, uh, I'm not an expert on this,

but I'm pretty sure that's what I would look like if I saw a ghost.

How did you hear about this so fast? I mean, is it already on the net?

I came back to my office, and you know me. I hear an ambulance, I come running.

I'm pretty sure you told me this wouldn't happen again, no?

Will you just show me where it happened?

I'm paid to be a skeptic. I'm just running out of reasons to doubt the myth.

Well, here's a reason. I see ghosts. Other people don'T.

Ok, but you're forgetting about the one element that runs through all versions of the myth,

- and that's the mirrors. - I'm not forgetting it.

I'm ignoring it-- the bell,the rest of it.

It all makes a good story. It doesn't make it real.

Excuse me. Sir, that car is being examined by campus security.

It's ok. I'm--I'm rick payne, anthropology of the occult.

I'll take it from here.

Where are we going?

This is it. We're here. This is where jenna was found.

And while we're on the subject of things you don't know,

let me give you my condensed lecture on mirrors

and their place throughout history and the supernatural.

Like the first queen elizabeth,

she had her own personal magician who would use a mirror to describe the future.