The crush dissipated after he met Jim, Melinda's husband, but they remain very close friends. Eli's father thought she was really having a love affair with her friend's husband, making his spirit unable to cross over. He can be disobedient to his mother, and sometimes abrupt towards her. However, Melinda discovers she was naive to believe in Gabriel, who had invited her to work with him in the difficult task of dealing with ghosts. Season 4 of Ghost Whisperer finds Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) dealing with tragedy after Jim is killed in a tragic accident. At first, Melinda does not like the idea, but she later agrees to it. Lost spirits are in the old Grandview. When Eli attempts the theft of an ancient book from the library of the University, Zoe tells him the true value of the book, which she has studied. S5, Ep19 30 Apr. A few episodes later, when his deceased father Charlie visits him and his mother, Melinda helps his father go into the Light. Familial Information Rick, Jim, and Melinda go as far as breaking into Gabriel's home. After having seen Dan die and being unable to save him, Jim decides to become a paramedic. The "safe" place is Melinda's childhood home and Paul Eastman's burial site. Near the end of "Imaginary Friends and Enemies" (early season 4), Jim is shot in the shoulder and rushed to the hospital, where he is immediately taken into surgery. She meets Melinda Gordon when her son attempts to rob her antique shop. It is unclear from whom he inherited this gift, since neither of his parents has that gift. After Ghost Whisperer, he starred on the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried. That was soon followed by a role in the somewhat controversial movie Hounddog which was shot on a plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina. Aiden reveals, in Season 5, that the Shinies are ghost children that have crossed over into The Light. That last film netted her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, though she lost out to Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave. She joined the series near the very beginning of the show's second season and remained a major character until the show went off the air. Ghost Whisperer Fanfiction. Paul talks to Melinda and her mother and says he thought that he would never be so angry with his former lover, and only hearing his daughter calling for her father made all of his anger disappear. Ghost Whisperer marked a successful return to television for the actress, and she's found solid success there since the show ended. Christopher "Christoph" Sanders (born April 21, 1988) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Ned Banks in the television series Ghost Whisperer and Kyle Anderson in the sitcom Last Man Standing on ABC (2011-2017) and FOX (2018-2021). The events of his adolescence have been part of the plots of some episodes. He took over the role of Ned, which was previously held by Tyler Patrick Jones, when producers decided to age the character by few years in order to explore more mature storylines. Beings of good who are composed of light energy. Fell off a tree and was hanged by the cape he was wearing, Car crash due to car colliding with other car. He is the son of Delia and Charlie Banks. Later in recovery, Melinda tells Jim theyll name the baby Aiden Lucas, in honor of Jims father and Sam Lucas. Later in recovery, Melinda tells Jim they will name the baby Aiden Lucas, after Jims father and the late Sam Lucas. She set up an antique store, named The Same As It Never Was, that she owns along with Melinda. Jennifer Love Hewitt wasn't just the star. Fell down a well and drowned while reaching for a note she stuck on the inside-wall of the well, Murder via being drugged and carbon monoxide poisoning, Delia's old friend from high school/First ghost that Eli crossed over without Melinda, Followed the Watchers, on the quest for good, Tripped and hit her head on a fireplace post. Her gift was passed down to Melinda, the current "ghost whisperer." Jim delivered some of his convincing argument with Matt's gun pointed at him. She has appeared in several successful films over the decades, including In & Out with Kevin Kline, About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson, and in the 2013 film Nebraska. CBS, David M. Benett/Getty Images. Jim also begins thinking of moving out of Grandview to attend medical school. Tom decided he must kill Melinda to protect himself from the truth being revealed. Mary Ann Patterson, (played by June Squibb) - Melinda's grandmother and Aiden's great grandmother, now deceased, was a person who spoke to ghosts. Serricchio has a lot of acting experience under his belt already, despite only being born in 1982. Was the driver of the car that hit Sam Lucas' motorcycle; he was angry that "Sam"/Jim came back to life. Then, the aliens brainwashed everyone that had anything to do with the production of Ghost Whisperer into believing that Ned had always been a teen. Characters that appear as spirit guest stars: These are some of the spirits who either did not cross over or went to the Dark Side (Hell). She tells him that she was the "Guardian of the Book of Changes" and, henceforth, he will need to take care of the Book. Jim is now a resident at Rockland Memorial Teaching Hospital, as Sam, and he takes the name Jim as his middle name. Delia tells Melinda about how stressful her job as a real estate agent is, so Melinda offers her a job to help work at the antique store, which Delia accepts. Last Camryn Manheim portrays Delia Banks on Ghost Whisperer. While in Grandview, he resided in a hotel under the name Gabriel Gordon. He reappears in the fourth season in the episode Threshold. 4. Romano attempts to prevent Andrea from crossing over into the Light and get her to join him on the Dark Side. When Melinda tells Tessa the fate of her daughter (in "Weight of What Was"), it is revealed that Mary Anne was the granddaughter of Julie Lee Lucas. Melinda's classmate and first ghost she saw. Lucy, looking very confused because she hadn't sent any email, is told by Ned "come on, don't be shy. She even played Hubie's mom in Netflix's Hubie Halloween. She continues to seek Rick's help for various paranormal occurrences throughout the rest of the season. She soon discovers that he was an escaped prisoner accused of killing a child whose ghost Melinda was attempting to cross over. Delia even goes as far as to tell Melinda not to expect her at work again. She is then invited to watch the tall ships come into the harbor with Melinda, Jim and their friends, Rick, Delia, and Ned. A teenager dies while playing tennis with Ned and a friend, and her ghost starts haunting the girl. 1. In previous seasons, the Shinies have already revealed their presence to Melinda without her knowing. Lacy didn't cross over because she was worried about her son. Zoe and Eli had broken up because at the time he didn't share her beliefs regarding ghosts, life after death, etc. After a fire at the place where Charlie worked, Charlie was said to be different and more of a family man. They begin a friendship, though Delia does not know about Melinda's gift at first. However, she only stayed away for three years. Melinda's great-great-great-grandmother that died in 1848. The ghost in the morgue probably cross under just like Greta Hansen. Another of Melinda's family members, Mary Anne Patterson was the character's grandmother. Occupation. He had been observing her moves for quite a long time. Aiden is able to see things Melinda can't, namely the Shinies (which Aiden refers to as "faceless" and made of "light") and the Shadows, which can be defeated easily by the Shinies, but the Shinies are too afraid of them to do so. Scarlett made Julia Miller create the "Sally Stitch" website. Melinda then realizes Jim is back and she happily hugs him. his character died in the fourth season. Andrea becomes essential to the store and Melinda, because of the very fact she knows about Melinda's gift. They are extremely dangerous and use people, both living and dead, to gather the souls of ghost children so that they may feed; examples are President Bedford of Rockland University to get the Book of Changes, which helps Melinda, Eli and Aiden, but they killed him when he could not complete the task. Ned isn't very popular, with a select group of odd friends. As Tom realizes to whom Melinda had been calling, Paul enters Tom's body and forces him to fall to his death. However, the viewers continue to see him as Jim while everyone else in the show including Melinda sees him as Sam. He always seemed to be observing Melinda. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film Fatal Attraction, and she also appeared in films like Short Cuts and Patriot Games. Had to let the son she gave up for adoption know that she was his mother. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Ghost_Whisperer_characters&oldid=1152302015, Lists of American drama television series characters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from August 2019, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Professor at Rockland University, therapist, Melinda's grandmother, seen in several episodes. Before Melinda can stop him, Jim's ghost enters Sam's body, thus bringing him back to "life." Later Melinda begins to worry about their unborn baby. It isn't too much of a stretch, considering the series' name recognition and cult following. Her death was foreshadowed in Season 1, Episode 15. Before his birth, the watchers predict him and tell Melinda that her son is the key if the ghost's balances shift, and he will be more powerful than she is. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Finally, Romano manages to get at least seven of the souls, including a stewardess who later does go into the Light in season two. In one episode, his mother says, "You study the Occult to help people." Romano (John Walcutt), also known as "Wide Brim" (due to his outfit: black suit and black hat) was an American evil cult leader who lived in Spain, and who committed suicide along with 100 followers in 1939. Melinda was in high school when her grandmother died and Melinda did not realize it until her grandmother said something about presence and then it dawned on Melinda that her grandmother was talking about her death and Melinda's loss of her grandmother. Conrad's body of work is relatively small, though he's one of those actors with a memorable face who pops up in things and has you diving for your phone to try to figure out who he is. I just met a guy. Archer has had a long and successful acting career, though many of her most well-known roles came long before her time on Ghost Whisperer. Payne also warns Melinda about Romano's real purpose: to destroy good spirits (the ones in charge of helping souls to "cross over" into The Light, such as Melinda) in order to make the dead stronger than the living, and to be endlessly powerful. Melinda Gordon is the owner of antique store Same As It Never Was, who has the unique ability to talk to the deceased. Andrea is later mentioned in "Drowned Lives", "A Grave Matter", "Delia's First Ghost" and "The Prophet". Ned was caught shoplifting at Melinda's antique shop, stealing Grateful Dead backstage passes. During this incident, Melinda sees the ghost of a boy who supposedly died in a skateboarding accident, Thomas Benjamin, just as the bleachers begin to collapse, but it is clear that all is not as it seems. Sometime within the five-year leap between seasons 4 and 5 she left working for Melinda to open a Real Estate agency next to the shop, however she is frequently seen helping Melinda in the shop at various points in the series and remains Melinda's best friend. We wish him the best. In "Double Exposure", Rick's date and co-worker, Claudia, is haunted by a ghost who makes it so she cannot appear in any pictures. Portrayed by actress Anne Archer, Beth is Melinda's mother and also had the ability to speak with ghosts. Gabriel returns to Grandview in the third season episode "Weight of What Was", informing Melinda he is her half-brother. The series then jumps ahead to 2014 and the celebration of Aiden's upcoming fifth birthday. Ned is a nice guy who has dedicated his life to helping Melinda with the occult. Payne loved Melinda but finally excepted she was happily married to Jim. Pretty standard stuff in the world of the supernatural. Melinda then finds out Tom actually is not her father, Paul Eastman is. The Shadows are ghosts who are seen as beings of darkness. That said, Conrad has been relatively quiet since Ghost Whisperer came to an end. Paul set a series of "clues" to help Melinda see the truth. Tessa, the ghost of Melinda's maternal ancestor who was also a Ghost Whisperer, helps them find Melinda by communicating with Delia and Jim. The fact that he lasted the whole series is surprising considering that (spoiler alert!) He haunted Melinda throughout the series, tempting souls away from the light and trying to win them over to the darkness. Later on, Melinda finds out she is pregnant again and it turns out Jim had gotten her pregnant shortly before he died. In Season 5, Melinda believes her due date is the exact date in the book, which causes doubts in Jim, Delia, Ned, and Eli. Melinda meets a teenage ghost who dies on the tennis court from a blood clot in her lung. As the ghost whisperer, her struggle is real: fighting those who doubt her supernatural abilities and working to piece together clues that help each soul go into the . He quickly disappears and time restarts. In one episode, his . Later, when Ned and Melinda follow the IP of the text message sent and it leads to Lucy, it is revealed that Thomas was not actually the one emailing Krista, but it was actually Lucy, who was "kind of into" Krista. At the end of season two, both Gabriel and Melinda struggle against each other for the fate of living and dead. She died by choking on what seemed to be a cheeto. Like her granddaughter (and her daughter, Beth), Mary Anne had the ability to speak to ghosts. He also comments that there are more Shinies than there are Shadows, and that if they were to go to war with each other, the Shinies would win. He is a widower; his wife, Kate, died in a crane accident before his first appearance in the series. She knows a lot about the supernatural, because she teaches a course entitled the "Science of the Occult." In addition to being an empath, Aiden is able to see and communicate with ghosts like his mother and grandparents do, and he is psychically connected to Melinda. Aiden Lucas, Melinda's son, is the only one who has the ability to see both of them while his mother and the Watchers cannot. Gabriel never had a living friend. Mary Anne was played by actress June Squibb, who continues to stay incredibly busy despite having been born in 1929. When Melinda was stalked by a lawyer, Shane, he tampered with Ned's records because Delia was trying to get him into private school. Every year on his birthday something bad happens; Aiden strangely gets sick or something happens to Melinda or Jim. She played a big part in how well Melinda understood her powers and even helped her solve a few of her trickier cases. Once they arrive, Tom probes Melinda about her memory of Paul's death; she eventually has a flashback revealing Tom deliberately killed Paul. According to Digital Spy , Nina Tassler, CBS Entertainment's president, said it wasn't an easy choice to make. Meanwhile . Abrasive at times, Professor Rick Payne is often perceived as obnoxious on first impression, but most of the time he means well. Carl, a Watcher, tells Melinda that she is surrounded by "light beings" watching over her and they are shown all throughout Grandview, watching over her during her wedding vow renewal. First He feels that he is taken for granted too often and likes to tell people so, though some believe it is only a technique to make others feel sorry for him. When she fails to appear, Eli goes to Zoe's house and finds her dead. The audience sees the actor David Conrad, but all the characters in the show see Mitchell. Comedian and actor Jay Mohr may have seemed like an odd pick to play Professor Rick Payne on Ghost Whisperer, but he performed well in the role. She helps Melinda bring ghosts to peace through dreams in two episodes: "Voices" and "The Gathering". Accidentally bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, Car accident when the car went into the river, Fell and was impaled to death by a metal pike, Suicide by exsanguination from wrist cutting due to, Suffocated to death inside an old army storage unit, Cassidy crossed over but came back to talk to Aiden and revealed that ghost children became shinies, Murdered by Geoff Colson via gunshot wound, Laughing Man (appears with Romano and is a ghostly agent for the dark side. Concerning the difference Scouting made in his life, Sanders says, "when you spend that much time working on something, it becomes a part of you. Gabriel turns out to be a Ghost Whisperer from the Dark Side, and he had been gathering souls to prepare for what "was coming", a complex prophecy of the death of a "loved one". Eli's girlfriend; guardian of the Book of Changes. Ned Banks was originally portrayed by Tyler Patrick Jones, but starting with season 3 episode "Slambook!" In the season three episode "No Safe Place," Ned gets into a private school. Evelyn, Eli's mother, died 7 years ago, even though in "Stage Fright" he told Melinda and Jim he was getting an autograph for his mom who watches the show which was visiting Grandview. Ned asks Melinda's help when he's injured by what appears to be a ghost haunting his new girlfriend, but as Melinda struggles to solve the mystery of who the ghost is she runs into interference from the girlfriend's family. The events of his adolescence have been part of the plots of some episodes. He asks her to come back to the house she grew up in. He is always eager to help Melinda with her ghosts. During a building fire on the Rockland University campus on October 3, 2008, he died but was brought back, causing him to have a near death experience. At first, he thinks she's crazy and doesn't believe her. Shinies are attracted to "shiny things" such as flashlights, utensils, etc. Even though Melinda wants Jim to stay, she knows it's selfish of her and begs him to go into the light, promising she'll be there one day. Ned and Melinda go to question Thomas's sister, Lucy, who everyone believes is the culprit to the scoreboard and bleachers, but she gets defensive and it is obvious she is hiding something. He was in the same mental health institution where his mother resided. He also works a large deal more with Melinda on some things. In recent years, Kennedy has had guest roles on television shows like Lucifer and Criminal Minds, and he's also worked on several films like horror movie Trick and the sixth (!) Finally, Serricchio has also done some recent voice work with Seth MacFarlane. She wakes up to find Jim next to her, and believing him to be awake, she tells him she loves him. It is later revealed, in Season 3, that Melinda's maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Tessa (Amy Acker), could also communicate with ghosts and Melinda helps her cross over. There are some ways to tell that a TV show will go off the air, and other times, it's a big surprise to everyone. [1] He took drafting classes at Blue Ridge Community College for two years[2] and had been accepted at UNC Wilmington, but decided that acting was what he wanted to do instead. When Romano first appeared on the show, his appearances were quick and mysterious, and he was usually attached to a laughing man who had, theretofore, never spoken. I just moved back to my grandma's small town and just found a sweet job at a music store. At the end of Season 4, Zoe crossed into the light (or so it seems) after telling Eli he was the next Guardian of the Book of Changes. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, He hosted a Radio Show with 4 of his friends. Ned Banks was originally portrayed by Tyler Patrick Jones, but starting with season 3 episode "Slam", Christoph Sanders took over the role. Though he only actually appeared in a few early episodes of Ghost Whisperer, few of the show's villains are quite as memorable as Romano. With Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Christoph Sanders, Jamie Kennedy. Kennedy played Professor Eli James during the last few seasons of Ghost Whisperer, becoming a friend and confidant of Hewitt's character. In season 5, Ned is studying Anthropology of the Occult at Rockland University. When Melinda says "You're back", Jim, who now believes he is Sam and has no memory as Jim, says "Do I know you?" He was cast as Kyle Anderson in the Last Man Standing tv show starring Tim Allen. Melinda goes on an eventful road trip with Sam as he tries to reconnect with his old girlfriend, Delia and Ned clash over what she believes is his risky behavior, and a ghost from high school takes up residence at Delia's. When a confused ghost dressed as a clown begins haunting Melinda's house, it's up to her and Eli to look for answers in the ghost's final case as a private investigator - a love story involving greed and suspicion. He only has a handful of roles to his credit, but he has landed some large parts in both film and television considering his relative inexperience. If you didn't follow the plot of Ghost Whisperer, this concept is going to go way over your head, but here goes: Sam Lucas, played by . He was home-schooled and participated in such extra curricular activities as soccer and the Boy Scouts of America. At the end of season one, it was revealed it was Andrea who had died during the crash and not Mitch. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The only actor to appear in every episode of Ghost Whisperer besides Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad played Melinda's husband Jim Clancy (and another character in a way, but we'll get to him). Andrea Joyce Marino,[1] played by Aisha Tyler, is Melinda's (Jennifer Love Hewitt) best friend and was part of the main cast during season one. Some of her more recent roles have come in shows like Person of Interest, Stumptown, and The Magicians. When in the episode "The One", the final episode of season one, a plane crashes outside Grandview, he attempts to gather all of the lost souls from the accident. She apologizes for calling him crazy earlier, and she looks across the square to Melinda, who is outside her shop. In the episode "The Walk-In", Tim Flaherty (Thomas Wilson), a friend and co-worker of Jim's, is trying to get Delia to go out on a date with him, something Delia refuses to do. Since then, he's had roles in series like The Astronaut Wives Club, Star Trek: Discovery, and Nancy Drew. This reference could tell viewers that Romano ultimately became a Shadow after Andrea crossed over, and this is why he does not appear to Melinda for the rest of the series. In the episode "Heart and Soul", Delia's need for a rational explanation nearly destroys her relationship with Melinda, but a conversation with her son and a moment with "Sam" at a basketball court provides her with faith in Melinda's gift. In later events, Melinda notices Aiden talking to himself. After Aisha Tyler's character is written off the show at the end of season one, Melinda needed a new best friend to help keep things running and keep her in check.
