Ghost Whisperer - ReCap - Season 4, Episode 14 – Slow Burn – air date 7/31/09. In this episode Melinda deals with the ghost of a domineering mother (Mrs. Marks) who wants to keep an older boy (Tim) away from her high school age daughter. Mrs. Marks appears to Melinda at a school dance that she, Delia and Sam are chaperoning. Melinda and Delia observe a young girl having problems with her date. Before they can intervene, an older boy (Tim Dwight) comes in and takes the girl away.

The ghost (Mrs. Marks) appears to Melinda as she and Sam come home from the dance (cutting short her evening with Sam). The ghost will not say anything other than that Melinda must keep her daughter away from Tim (the boy that rescued her daughter at the dance). Melinda thinks that the ghost must have died in a fire, as every time she appears Melinda see fire or ashes.

Melinda visits the father to talk to him about his daughter and the ghost of his wife. The father denies that there was a fire, or any kind of break in. He insists that his wife’s death was an accident. However, again Melinda is getting visions of a fire in the fireplace, and of the fireplace poker. She thinks that perhaps Mrs. Marks was killed with the poker.

Delia’s son, Ned, goes to talk to Kristy Marks (the girl from the dance). She tells him that she believes her mother and Tim were having an affair. Her mother was a lawyer who specialized in rescuing youth at risk, and Tim was one of the youth that she rescued.

Melinda goes to talk to Tim, who denies any kind of personal relationship with Mrs. Marks. He drives away in anger. Tim’s roommate tells Melinda that Mr. Marks came to the apartment and got into an argument with Tim. He felt that the business trip that Tim had taken with his wife was much more of a personal trip. The roommate says that it was just a business trip.

At this point the ghost of Mrs. Marks tells Melinda to stay away from her family. Melinda goes to see Mr. Marks, explains that she sees ghosts, and that she believes that his wife was murdered. Mr. Marks refuses to believe this, and orders them out of the house.

Mr. Marks has the safe fingerprinted, and has Tim arrested when his fingerprints are found on it. This is a problem, because Mr. Marks is a judge!

Melinda then goes to see Tim’s mother, who tells her that Tim was adopted. She shows Melinda the book “The Little Prince” that came home with him from the hospital. The front page is missing. This is the page that Melinda saw burning in the fireplace. Tim is really Mrs. Mark’s son.

Mrs. Marks has been trying to keep her son away from her daughter to protect them both. It turns out that Kristy had broken into the safe looking for money in her anger at her mother. Tim was with her – saw the front page from the book and realized that Mrs. Marks was his birth mother. They hear someone entering the house, and they run, but not before Tim places the paper in the fireplace. There was no evidence of a break in because Mrs. Marks put everything back in the safe. She turned, saw the paper burning in the fireplace, and moved too quickly. She tripped, hitting her head on the corner of the fireplace.

In the end, everyone is told about Tim, and that he and Kristy are brother and sister. Melinda and Sam share a kiss at the end of the show.