Posted by Dustin on 03.14.2009 at 6:29 pm

Okay so last night we finally got what we’ve been waiting months for (but in all honestly we never should have had to endure), Sam remembered EVERYTHING!

First up, the evil ghost Dr. Byrd (who it took me until the end of the show to realize it was the guy who married and knocked up Jackie on Rosanne) returned. He had found a new person to torment, this was someone who was living though. It was another step-in too, just like Sam/Jim.

Melinda and Eli explained what had happened to this guy, which helped him remember everything. One guy had “died” 3 years ago in an accident and woke up in another guys body (who also had a death experience), not remembering that guy’s supposed wife, life or much of anything. Over time his memories slowly came back. He remembered another woman, he had left a wife behind, but she moved on. She wanted nothing to do with her dead ex, who had apparently cheated on her. She also wasn’t really believing all of this story anyway.

Well the Dr had taken an interest in this guy and was somewhat tormenting him. As Melinda figured out, the Dr himself wanted to become a step-in and come back to life. He was following Sam/Jim as well as this guy to figure out how to get it right. The step-in fled to the underground and Melinda ran after him, getting herself trapped in some sewers that were flooding.

Well also going on, Sam had moved out. He was still convinced Melinda had put thoughts into his head. He was checking some things out, one memory he had was of some bike shop. He was sure he was supposed to pick up an order made on a certain day, but thought it was Melinda’s doing. As it turned out Jim had ordered traveling bikes for him and Melinda, a surprise she didn’t know of! So Sam realized perhaps there was something going on here after all.

Sam and Eli went to help Melinda, who was trapped underground. Sam ended up swimming through all these tunnels, as he did he ran into troubles. Somehow this caused him to remember his life as Jim fully. When he got to Melinda, he had no clue who Sam was, he thought he was Jim.

Melinda took Jim home and had to explain what happened. He was stunned to see what he now looked like, but accepted what happened and what Melinda told him.

I am so glad we are over “Sam,” though are we? If she gets pregnant by “Sam’s” body then who knows, will they have to make his family part of the kid’s life? See this could get messy.

I thought Jim kinda took the news of what happened fairly well. He screamed, but I would have flipped out totally. That was way played down, there should have been more there.

As someone pointed out in the shoutbox, the Dr. just turned “good” way too quickly as well. At the end he just realized “Oh this is wrong, I should go into the light after all, bye bye!” Kind of rushed too.