Posted by Dustin on 11.07.2009 at 5:27 pm

I have to say, I was completely lost on this episode. It started off with a former med student turned stripper who went missing apparently haunting a doctor at the hospital. Did he kill her? Nope. As it turns out, he was just a clue and a lead to another guy, the Dean of Rockland University where Eli works. The doctor at the hospital was in line to become the new dean, but this other guy (guest star Bruce Davidson) got it instead. This guy also knew the missing girl. Eli didn’t like the Dean because he kept denying him tenure.

Melinda talked to a watcher, who warned her of the Shadows, the bits of peoples souls left behind when they go into the light. He said the “Book of Changes” was so afraid of them that it makes no mention of them, to keep them from destroying it. However he hinted it might still hold answers. In the end the Dean was afraid of the Shadows too, they had taken control of his mother who is comatose in a hospital and were threatening to make her unplug the machines keeping her alive if the Dean didn’t keep doing what they told him to. One thing he was supposed to do was split up Eli and Melinda, that’s why he was denying him tenure, to try and get him to leave.

Okay I just didn’t get it. It’s like they’ve dropped all the storylines with the hospital they’ve set up and now have moved onto the Dean and the Shadows. Huh? This is starting to remind me of the sloppy writing back with Melinda’s so called half-brother and the souls under Grandview.

Also, maybe I missed it, but whatever happened to the med-student-turned-stripper ghost? Did they even resolve her, cause I don’t remember them doing so!