Medium – Recap & Review – Talk to the Hand

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Medium
Talk to the Hand

Original Air Date: Oct 22, 2010

Rachel M – Associate Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com

After two weeks of fairly dark and serious shows, we’re moving back to a little bit lighter DuBois adventures. What kind of trouble will Allison get into this week?

We are in a very strange dream, even for Allison. Mr. Bill (a clay figure) is giving us safety tips around the kitchen. Avoid knives, put away plastic bags and be careful around the stove. But Allison accidentally upends a pot of boiling water all over her hand, ouch! Cut to hospital, where our clumsy psychic has had a skin graft on her hand after apparently burning it very badly.

After a very gross shot of the injury, Allison and Joe are discussing the weekend ahead. Without Ariel around, the younger DuBois girls need rides and help and already Bridgette is taking on the role of big sister. That night, Allison dreams of a woman being attacked in her home, so she calls Lee and who finds the girl and agrees to meet Allison at the office so they can do research and “recuperate” together since they are both bandaged up. Allison gets everything ready for girls, and then discovers that her injured hand is changing channels on the TV all by itself- creepy!

When Joe drops Bridgette off at soccer practice, another parent comes up and raves about Bridgette’s talents. So Joe talks to her about why she hasn’t told them, since they would want to come and see her. Bridgette admits to keeping the secret, and tells him he doesn’t want them to come.

At the office, Allison and Lee find the guy in the dream, who is a doctor at the hospital where the missing girl Monica worked. When Lee kind of blows Allison off, her phantom hand grabs Lee and then shakes the picture in his face. So he promises to call the doctor today instead, and it all stops. At the hospital, the doctor can’t find anything wrong with Allison’s hand. He doesn’t know about Allison’s talents, and when he tells her that the skin came from a deceased person, it suddenly makes more sense. So Joe comes to drive her home, and kind of makes fun of her “possessed” hand. And Joe delivers a line that reminds me why I love this show, “I don’t know how to participate in this conversation.” It’s perfect. It sums up how he deals with all of Allison’s craziness. It’s perfect and it’s totally honest. Instead of trying to be something they aren’t, Allison and Joe have a great marriage and relationship built on trust and faith that everything will turn out all right.

Anyhow, Joe figures out how to see Bridgette play despite her wishes that they don’t come to the game. Allison dreams of Monica’s kidnapping that night (The doctor meets someone and tells him they have a problem) in the morning she goes to the office, and sees the doctor/kidnapper there talking to Devalos, but the guy has an alibi, and Allison picks up his remote and starts changing channels again. She lands on something but Devalos takes it back and turns it off.

Joe sees Bridgette play, and Marie sees that Bridgette is being coached at the soccer game by a ghost in a red jacket, and Joe insists that it’s cheating, while Allison sees it as using a natural talent to your advantage. She and Joe get into a bit of a fight, and that night, the hand wakes Allison up and takes her to the living room to turn on the TV again. This time, the hand gets her to a funeral home commercial and pauses on the second kidnappers face.

Lee and Allison go to the funeral home, and Allison’s phantom hand leads her to a corpse, and she starts unbuckling the mans belt while he lays in the open casket. At practice, Bridgette isn’t doing as well as goalie, so she confronts the coach, and he says he’s not telling her where he ball is going to go, he figures it out based on the other players. That night, Allison dreams it all to figure it out, the doctor and the funeral home director need to get rid of the resident. She figured out that some of the organ donors are not really donors, but just dead people. They’ve been making money off it. At the office, Allison explains it to Devalos and Lee, and they figure out a way to nail the guys. By matching the skin on Allison’s arm to Monica’s, and showing that it came from the doctors organ/tissue bank, then the doc has to explain how he got skin from a missing woman.

At the soccer game, her ghost coach has abandoned Bridgette. Turns out she’s on his memorial field, and when she takes a break, she and the coach have a nasty chat. The coach has a point though, Bridgette has been taking the easy road, not practicing, exercising or dieting to get better on her own. The funny thing is, the speech serves to motivate Bridgette, and she gets better. The team doesn’t win, but Bridgette learned a lesson, and she’s happy.

The skin on Allison’s arm can’t match the test. That night, Allison dreams of the man who she was trying to take the pants off of. Devalos and Lee catch the bad guys, but there’s no real evidence for murder, only organ fraud. And then Allison and her hand find the smoking gun, in the form of a necklace that Monica was wearing when she was murdered.

What do you think? A little bit of fun amongst all the death? Leave your TwoCents!