Medium – ReCap – Season 5, Episode 6 – Apocalypse … Now? - air date 8/04/09. This episode is about an all too real apocalyptic dream that Allison has – one that is followed upon waking by a very real earthquake!

Allison is called to Chandler to help with an investigation. There are rooms with blood and blood spatter, but no bodies. Presumed killed are a husband and wife, their son and their daughter. On the way home, Allison stops to purchase disaster supplies, and gets into a conversation with the store owner, who believes that everyone needs to be prepared for the worst – including owning a gun!

That night, Allison talks to her husband about getting a gun – which he firmly refuses to consider, largely because of their children. Later she has a dream, where she sees a young girl in a bunker, with a man entering in a biohazard suit. It appears that they are the only two people living – that everyone else has dies. The man – who is the owner of the disaster supply store – tells the young girl that they will “repopulate” the world.

As Allison watches a suspect in the murder of the family being interrogated, she gets an image of a body being buried on a hillside. A body is found – but it is not one of the family members. It is the young girl from her dreams. It turns out that she was a runaway three years before.

The detectives find what turns out to be the bodies of the family that was murdered. They are in a large sink, in an abandoned restaurant, and have had acid poured over them.

Allison has another dream, where she sees the girl that was buried, only she is back in the bunker. The whole place is on fire, but she manages to get out. Once she gets out, she discovers that there is no apocalypse, that no one is dead. She goes into the nearest house, looking for help. The house belongs to the man from the disaster supply store – the man that was in the bunker with her. Now that she knows the truth – he kills her.

Allison then has another dream, in which she sees a different girl being held – by the same man. They cannot locate him, but they search his home and store, finding nothing. Later one of the detectives goes backs, and sees a footprint, left by the man after he walked through paint that a second earthquake had spilled while the detectives were searching the store. There is a hidden room, and this is where the young girl is. She is the daughter of the family that was killed. She has not been harmed, and will be living with extended family.

Subplot – Ariel learning to deal with her psychic ability, and being conned by a fellow classmate.