The Ghost Whisperer - Season 4, Episode 20 – Stage Fright – airdate 9/04/09. In this episode, a ghost causes problems for a film crew filming in the Grandview town square (and in Melinda’s antique store!). It turns out that the ghost was killed on stage during a performance that involved two of the people doing the filming and a local woman.

The ghost is actually very funny, opinionated, and mischievous. He was killed when someone loaded a prop pistol with actual bullets. The players on stage at the time were exonerated, and no one was ever charged. It turns out that everyone has their own secrets.

Each person has their own “interaction” with the ghost. For the local lady, it is waking up to a television that is replaying different versions of the play – all on its own! For Melinda, it is choking up the letters to the word “Lies”. Oh, and one more interaction – a boom coming down when she is performing a bit part as an EMT!

The female producer (who wrote and produced the play that the ghost was killed in) is quite manipulative. She told one of the actors that when the play went to stage another actor was going to be given the lead. Why would she do this? So that the actor would flub his lines, generally act up, the play would not make it to the stage, and she would be able to accept a job in Hollywood.

The female producer brought the leading man with her, and secretly married him. He came and left the show seemingly at will – because that was how she felt hat she could hold on to him. She had no idea that he had secretly been in communication (for several years) with the local lady.

The ghost – well, he is happy when his friends are honest with themselves, and he walks into the light. BTW – it was him that loaded the prop gun. He thought the play needed a bit more “pizzaz” (and did not expect to die!).

In the end, each character is faced with their own “lie”, the lead actor and the lady from Grandview get together, and the female producer agrees to move on.

Sam takes Melinda to the hospital to have her wrist looked at (fallout from the boom dropping down on her). Since she is going to need an X-ray, the nurse asks her if she is pregnant. She says she isn’t sure. The nurse asks when her last period was. Well, it was two months ago! The baby is Jim’s, from before he entered Sam’s body!

All is well with the western world!