Ghost Whisperer - Season 4, Episode 23 – Book of Changes – air date 9/18/09. In this episode Melinda deals with her mother’s efforts to take over the planning of her wedding (can we say fifty foot ice sculptures!), while at the same time trying to help Eli with the loss of his love interest (Zoe), and figure out why someone is interested in purchasing the entire university book collection that Zoe is so interested in keeping there.

The tension builds when a Watcher comes to talk to Melinda, telling her that her baby is protected, but that the veil of protection can tear at any time. He also tells her that her baby will have her abilities … and more!

Eli sees Zoe having dinner with a handsome man – who turns out to represent the buyers of the book collection from the university. Eli asks Zoe out to dinner, as a friend, and she accepts – but never shows up. He goes to her house, where she will not open the door, and asks him to leave. He is concerned for her, and goes in the back door. He finds Zoe dead, and chases a young man out of the house, capturing him.

The young man tells Melinda that he was “not supposed to take anything from the house, he was supposed to leave something – but he doesn’t know what. Melinda and Eli break into Zoe’s house, looking for a book that has been stolen from the university collection. They encounter someone who has brken in ahead of them – the handsome man that Zoe was having dinner with. He admits that he was looking for the book too.

Melinda is visited several times by the ghost of a faceless young girl, carrying a leather bound book. Melinda is also having dreams – in one of which she has her baby, only when the nurse goes to show her the “babies”, they turn out to be cats!

In the end, we know that there are the Watcher’s and another nameless group that are interested in the book. The book is the Book of Changes, which shows things that have happened in the past to specific individuals. Melinda appears in the book – but in the future – her baby’s due date is marked after her name!

Zoe, unbeknownst to her, was the keeper of the book during her lifetime. After Eli helped her to cross over, he took on this responsibility.

Season Five starts next Friday – with paranormal challenges for Melinda’s baby, and who know what else! I lke the way the storyline has been “cleaned up”, and that the paranormal activity has been “ramped up”! This is a show well worth watching.