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Medium	comment	Medium is a TV show set around the character Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette), who is a psychic. She has the ability to see dead people, and often has dreams of the future or the past. She's also the mother of three young daughters, who are developing psychic abilities as they grow up. Her husband Joe (Jake Weber) is the suffering normal person of the family, having to deal with all this while trying to succeed at his job in aerospace engineering.Allison works as an intern in the office of District Attorney Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval). He comes to believe in her abilities, and approximately Once an Episode she helps solve a murder or other criminal case. Even with psychic powers there is still some drama and mystery, because dreams are often cryptic, dead people sometimes lie, and psychic evidence is not admissible in court.Medium's series finale aired on January 21, 2011.
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Medium / int_105cabdd	type	Jacob Marley Apparel
Medium / int_105cabdd	comment	Jacob Marley Apparel: In "Will the Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?", the ghost of a mascot of a local college football team is still wearing a beaver costume, since he died during a game.
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Medium / int_1122f435	type	Pregnant Hostage
Medium / int_1122f435	comment	Pregnant Hostage: "Joe Day Afternoon"
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Medium / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Medium / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: "A Cure for What Ails You" combined this with "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder: 5 strangers, all of whom wanted someone close dead meet on an airport lobby due to a delayed flight. One of them works as a chemist and suggests poisoning them with tainted painkillers. Since none of the people have any connection, the deaths would be blamed on a poisoner a la the Tylenol poisonings.
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Medium / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Medium / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Except perhaps not always so arbitrary, especially since Allison's abilities have proven at times to be fallible. Yet, she still often treats them as if there's no way that she can be mistaken. This almost gets into outright deconstruction territory. Joe's extreme skepticism and inhumane insistence that Allison think things through almost fall into irrational... except for the numerous times he is dead right, which ironically gives him just enough credibility to insist on doing the same when it will not work. Likewise, Devalos's and Scanlon's skepticism is not so much doubt rather than "We believe you, but we have to dot the i's and cross the t's." While Heaven and Hell were repeatedly implied to exist, Allison scoffs at the notion of demons in an episode that appeared to involve Demonic Possession (and she was right to do so, as the "possession" turned out to actually just be a case of Chemically-Induced Insanity). Demons were never brought up again except by a psychotic who was convinced that Allison was an instrument of the Devil. In fact, the only possible non-ghost supernatural entities that appeared in the series were the Angel of Death (who may have just been a figment of Allison's imagination) in "Death Takes a Policy" and the talking doll (which may have just been projecting the thoughts of its psychic owners) in "Very Merry Maggie".
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Medium / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Medium / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: There's frequent drama around the breakfast table, mostly due to Ariel's frustration at Bridgette being a Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
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Medium / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Medium / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In "In the Rough," Lee Scanlon tells Allison that, when he was a patrolman, he pulled over a guy and saw the guy's niece in the backseat. He let the guy off with a warning, but later learned the girl wasn't the guy's niece, and she disappeared and was presumed murdered. Lee was unable to do anything about it at that point, but later learned who the guy was. Then Lee was first cop on the scene of an unrelated suicide. He took the gun from the scene, planted it in the first guy's car, and phoned in an anonymous tip. The guy went to jail for that "murder." Allison is torn about how to handle this information. She gives the D.A. evidence that exonerates the guy, but also finds the body of the girl, so the guy finally goes away for the right crime.
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Medium / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Medium / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Serial killers and mass murderers aren't all that common in real life, but they seem to crop up quite often in the Medium universe.
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Medium / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Medium / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Joe - his wife has these crazy dreams, to which he generally makes reasonable suggestions, only to have them ignored.
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Medium / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Medium / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Scanlon delivers one of these to an abusive father in front of his (the abuser's) terrified wife and son.
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Medium / int_256eaa53	type	Prophetic Fallacy
Medium / int_256eaa53	comment	Prophetic Fallacy: It would be easier to list the episodes where this trope doesn't come into play. Allison's dreams are usually vague at first, and she has a tendency to jump to conclusions about their meanings.
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Medium / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Medium / int_25b5600	comment	Police Chief Ersatz: An unorthodox law enforcement officer in another county is clearly modeled after Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, pink prison outfits and all.
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Medium / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Medium / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Bite Me."
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Medium / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Medium / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: A version of this is shown in "You Give Me Fever", where a boss actually gives a deadly fever to his employee-slash-boyfriend, in order to get money to produce the antidote, and the guy blows himself up to avoid anyone else getting the virus. In the end, it turns out that the boss has a fatal allergic reaction to the antidote, and the boyfriend's ghost taunts him.
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Medium / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Medium / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: How Allison frequently awakens from her psychic dreams.
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Medium / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Medium / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Bridget and Ariel, in a very downplayed and normal case of The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry.
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Medium / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Medium / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Joe appears to grow a lovely example at the start of Season Six. Naturally, it's all a dream.
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Medium / int_337ef720	type	Ghostly Animals
Medium / int_337ef720	comment	Ghostly Animals: "Bite Me" reveals that animals (in this case, a tarantula) can become ghosts and even have Ghostly Goals.
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Medium / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
Medium / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip "The Man in the Mirror" A more Freaky Friday incident in the season 7 premiere "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day".
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Medium / int_3b9a79a	type	HotForStudent
Medium / int_3b9a79a	comment	Hot for Student: Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for Ariel: her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so, but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen. The very next episode, Ariel starts losing time Futurama-style, jumping hours, then years into the future where she's Happily Married to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years — where her mother is dead, killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband who's about to kill her — and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage babydaddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover). Also, despite now knowing it was all just a dream, Ariel really loved her daughter. Needless to say, after all that Ariel really, really needs a hug.
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Medium / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Medium / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector In one episode where Allison hears a buzzer sound in her head whenever someone tells a lie. There are times when Allison sees what really happened in her head when someone is lying to her face.
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Medium / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Medium / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: in "Twice Upon a Time," a murder victim had previously appeared in a twincest-themed porn film with her sister.
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Medium / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Medium / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina Aside from Allison herself, "divine intervention" for already-dead foes has appeared twice against the mad doctor and Allison's psychic-hating stalker. Thrice-ish: When Devalos' daughter's rapist threatens to rape someone unless Devalos admits he gave the prosecution evidence, Ariana intervenes from beyond to save her dad's career.
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Medium / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Medium / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Allison claiming to sleeping normally in the episode she had to be slapped out of sleepwalking at a highway by Joe.
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Medium / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Medium / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: All The Chessmasters
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Medium / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Medium / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The series finale takes place seven years after Joe dies in a plane crash. Allison, now a lawyer for the DA's office, throws a case after finding proof that Joe is alive, but it turns out it was all just a dream that Joe sent to comfort her in the afterlife that Allison hijacked out of hope he could've survived. 41 years later Allison is reunited with Joe in the afterlife, and the final shots are the actors leaving the set.
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Medium / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Medium / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Ariel and Joe, and to a lesser degree, Hannah, play this on a few occasions.
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Medium / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
Medium / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: A plot standard is for one of Allison's daughters, especially Ariel, to struggle with visions, only to discover it's secretly connected to the case her mom is working.
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Medium / int_4e351021	type	The B Grade
Medium / int_4e351021	comment	The B Grade: Causes the teacher some very Disproportionate Retribution when the student plants emails in his account and accuses him of rape. She gets him sentenced to 10 years in prison, which sets him up to be accused of murder once he gets out and has to announce himself as a sex offender.
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Medium / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
Medium / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Bridgette, but also Ariel when she was younger.
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Medium / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Medium / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Averted, what seemed like a case of this was actually just information overload from the ghost to his infant son.
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Medium / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
Medium / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: In the season 2 finale "Twice Upon a Time," Allison dreams what life would be like if she married her old childhood friend instead of Joe after being throughly embarrassed at a court hearing which turns out to also be part of a dream, which gives her a clue as to how the impossible appeared to be possible.
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Medium / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Medium / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Averted, or possibly even inverted. The real Alison Dubois is actually very attractive, and Patricia Arquette, while certainly not bad-looking, made an effort to present the character Alison as just an average, unglamorous mom.
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Medium / int_5942bb71	type	Disguised Hostage Gambit
Medium / int_5942bb71	comment	Disguised Hostage Gambit: Allison manages to avert one thanks to her dreams.
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Medium / int_5ce2ab52	type	Police Psychic
Medium / int_5ce2ab52	comment	Police Psychic: The main character, Allison, can talk with the dead and often has dreams of the past or future. Once she convinces the D.A.'s office that her gift is real, she is allowed to tag along on police investigations.
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Medium / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Medium / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Sometimes Allison's powers lead her to irrational/illegal courses of action... e.g. when she shows up at a woman's house in the middle of the night, maces her, and kidnaps her baby. Though Allison was just following a vague Gut Feeling at the time, it later turns out that because she kidnapped the baby, the cops were there to arrest a second set of kidnappers who were planning to ransom and sell the baby. As a result, the mother decides not to testify against her.
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Medium / int_5eb7e838	type	Let's Meet the Meat
Medium / int_5eb7e838	comment	Let's Meet the Meat: Allison dreams of talking pigs, and after being tortured by squealing sandwiches feels compelled to save a pig named Barney from the slaughterhouse. It turns out that what could happen to Barney isn't as important as who was fed to him.
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Medium / int_6379edc1	type	Valentine's Day Episode
Medium / int_6379edc1	comment	Valentine's Day Episode: "The One Behind the Wheel."
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Medium / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
Medium / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light Averted, as far as I know there's no mention of any light/afterlife for Medium's spirits, and even if they seem to be at peace (such as Joe's dad or Ariana Devalos) they come back if there's something serious enough to warrant it. One spirit did talk about Heaven and Hell. She made it to Heaven but couldn't get in until Allison helped her settle her affairs. She could sense Hell sucking at her feet the whole time.
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Medium / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
Medium / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: Allison does, and eventually, so do her daughters.
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Medium / int_646b9cc8	type	Organ Autonomy
Medium / int_646b9cc8	comment	Organ Autonomy: In one episode, Allison gets a skin graft on her hand and wrist after burning herself. It turns out the skin came from a murdered woman who wants to help Allison solve the crime, although her "help" usually takes the form of doing things with the affected hand without Allison having any idea why (including, at one point, undoing the pants of a dead man laying in a coffin).
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Medium / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Medium / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: They can see the future, for starters. And apparently psychics can take any form they want as a ghost, whereas normal people are stuck with the clothes and age they were when they died. When Allison dies in 2061 she reappears not as an old woman but her "present" self wearing different clothes. The method by which they communicate with Allison (or her daughters) varies wildly. Sometimes they simply appear to her as they were when they died (and can therefore converse with her normally), other times they show her things in dreams, and still other times they give her completely bizarre experiences (like a pair of sunglasses that, when worn, tell her exactly how many days to live a person has).
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Medium / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Medium / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: When Joe first meets Captain Push, his first comment to Allison is that he thought the great Captain Push would be taller. He later admits that he got taller as the night went on.
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Medium / int_697b1af	type	Jump Cut
Medium / int_697b1af	comment	Jump Cut: Used fairly cleverly: a boy offers Ariel the use of his car as a napping area between exams; she begins to turn him down but in mid-sentence we cut to her waking up in the car. It's then revealed that this wasn't a jump-cut, is was literally how she experienced the moment, and her life starts jump-cutting further and further and further, well into her twenties. Naturally it turned out to be All Just a Dream.
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Medium / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
Medium / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Pretty much every other time Allison wakes up. If you pay close attention, whenever she and Joe get "friendly" as they're going to bed, when she later wakes up from a dream, the bedsheet will be the only thing covering her.
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Medium / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Medium / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Inverted, since Allison's abilities are widely accepted as completely normal even though she's the only one (in earlier seasons) with these abilities. Anyone who knows about her secret, including her own husband, still makes wise-cracks about it. Now that Allison's children have abilities too, Joe has become this even more.
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Medium / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Medium / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide Devalos' daughter Ariana after learning her then-defense-attorney father's client was the man who raped her several years earlier. Because she hadn't reported it, he was able to rape (and videotape) many more women. The runaway girl in "There Will Be Blood" appears to most of the Dubois females in their (for once) pleasant dreams, asks "Is this what you do with your gift?" and then kills herself by slitting her throat, shooting herself in the head, and walking onto thin ice, respectively. Oddly, the girl herself doesn't seem to know about this. The ex-history teacher who's accused of rape by a Tracy Flick-expy due to The B Grade. He serves 10 years in prison and after getting out is then set up for another girl's murder and eventually kills himself in prison. Fortunately as a ghost he's able to show Allison that there's proof he's innocent of murder.
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Medium / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Medium / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Ariel is pregnant seven years in the future.
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Medium / int_6fd1837b	type	Argument of Contradictions
Medium / int_6fd1837b	comment	Argument of Contradictions: In "Night of the Wolf," Ariel and Bridgette have a very loud and extended one regarding whether not Bridgette's friend Bobby is real. (Bobby is real, but he's the ghost of a boy who died five years before, thus why most people can't see him.)
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Medium / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Medium / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: An odd version. James Van Der Beek and Morena Bacarrin play brother and sister, but he kills her and his girlfriend gets plastic surgery to look exactly like her.
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Medium / int_786e5cac	type	Circling Birdies
Medium / int_786e5cac	comment	Circling Birdies: In "A Changed Man," Allison falls and hits her head. Bridgette asks if she saw stars, or planets, or these. Ariel tells her that they're only cartoons, Bridgette insists that they could be in real life too.
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Medium / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Medium / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Subverted, by this point everyone who matters (except Joe and his wrecked sleep cycle) takes Allison's visions seriously.
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Medium / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
Medium / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: In "Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow," Bridgette starts wearing a red helmet all the time and Joe doesn't like it, but Allison thinks she'll grow out of it. When Allison arrives home on the morning of the school Picture Day, Ariel tells her that Joe is talking to Bridgette about her "H-E-L-M-E-T."
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Medium / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Medium / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call Allison's half-brother Michael a.k.a. "Lucky" is in denial about his powers, though that doesn't keep the plot from finding him. Allison herself used to drink to block her powers when she was younger. In an episode from the final season, he ends up straightening his life out with some help from a ghost who takes over his body, but has to work with Allison to defeat the ghost's sinister agenda. When Allison dies, she has Ariel continue being the DA's psychic since she's the only one who can talk to her (while Devalos is grateful, he thinks Ariel should've had her own life first; when he dies, he doesn't have a last message for his wife since he's already said everything he needs to say). Essentially becoming her mother, Ariel gets so stressed out she's driven to drink to drown out her mom ("It really does work!") and leaves. Allison wakes up, is glad that her daughter is going off to college on her own, and severely reprimands the ghost who (would have) started all this ("Pack for someplace warm").
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Medium / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Medium / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter Ariel. Only some of the time, though. Allison and Joe are clearly happy that she's turning into such a mature, responsible young woman. The mantle has long since been passed to Bridgette. Future Marie, who's angry that her dad never visited after he died (this was a dream, unfortunately it was sent from the afterlife).
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Medium / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Medium / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Allison gets a case of faulty Translator Microbes that make everyone sound as if they're speaking gibberish (she can still speak and read English) except for a professor who speaks Navajo. It turns out that she and her assistant killed a pair of Navajo bank robbers after hearing them brag in Diné. She gets hers later when she escapes to a foreign country and doesn't notice someone paying attention to her while she's bragging to Allison in English.
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Medium / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Medium / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang Bridget and Ariel. Laid-back Joe and his drama-queen sister. Would-be lawyer Allison and slightly Manchild-ish Lucky. Detective Scanlon and his rapist ex-con older brother.
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Medium / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Medium / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: If Doctor Who wasn't the Trope Namer, then this would be a close-runner for the title of...
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Medium / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
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Medium / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Medium / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death The disease specialist who took a vaccine for a super-virus he planned to let loose via his unsuspecting lover in order to get a research grant was killed due to either being allergic to the antidote or his own body being too overworked by both the vaccine and medicine for the common flu. The dead lover finds this hilarious. A really good one gets the Monster of the Week in Judge, Jury and Executioner. He took his spouse into the woods and gave her a three minute headstart. His father-in-law returned the favor. In the same fashion. The language professor who, with her assistant, killed two Navajo bank robbers and stole their loot because they didn't think anyone could speak their language was in turn robbed and killed by someone because she was in a country where no one spoke English and didn't notice a guy paying extra attention while she was bragging to Allison on the phone. Bob Sherman, the insurance salesman played by Kelsey Grammer in "Death Takes a Policy", who conned desperate patients into undertaking risky experimental procedures and profiting off their deaths and murdered his former business partner by staging an accident in the shower. The guy was such a Smug Snake Manipulative Bastard that Allison had visions of him as the Angel of Death. Near the end of the episode, he has apparently gotten off scot free and is relaxing in a tropical island... only for him to be visited by the aforementioned Angel of Death doppelganger:
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Medium / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Medium / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong Any dreams where time travel or alternate futures appear to be involved, such as Allison's vision of a post-apocalyptic world actually what a kidnapper/Crazy Survivalist wants his young victims to think, or Ariel suddenly finding herself 10, then 17 years in the future after her teacher is murdered. Or a literal episode where she's working on a murder and just so happens to reacquaint with a childhood friend and at the same time begins dreaming about when she first met him she quickly finds out he's likely behind the murder and others and in a dream alters time to stop herself from interrupting his suicide attempt.
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Medium / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Medium / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Ariel, who's about to leave for college, is annoyed with Bridgette apparently not caring and even seeming somewhat glad she's going to be leaving. When Ariel confronts her about it, Bridgette bluntly explains that all Ariel has ever done is relentlessly tease or bully her... and that's whenever she wasn't outright ignoring Bridgette, causing Ariel to realize that she's missed out on forming any kind of meaningful or loving bond with her eldest younger sister up to this point.
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Medium / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
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Medium / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Medium / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: It turns out that Bridgette has Mommy's abilities, too, but all of her premonitions are in the form of extremely chilling (and violent) cartoons.
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Medium / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Medium / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: How Scanlon's brother gets revenge for his death. In addition to a campaign of night-terrors that severely compromises Lee's mental health, he teams up with the ghost of a prostitute to make false visions for Allison to lure Lee and her killer, a semi-Knight Templar sheriff, to the same spot where they'll kill each other. He knows he'll succeed due to ghosts being able to see into the future, but while Lee is dead he can see just a little farther and knows he'll survive.
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Medium / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Medium / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Allison has faced off against a psychic Serial Killer and a psychic Corrupt Corporate Executive.
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Medium / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Medium / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: When Devalos is tapped to become mayor of Phoenix, he wants to know his wife's best friend's husband Benito, a very ambitious but politically weak councilman, won't use their wives' personal information against him. Benito implies that he will (he knows about both Ariana's suicide and Mrs. Devalos's subsequent pill addiction that she later beat (thankfully he doesn't know why Ariana killed herself)) so Devalos counters with $25,000 in stolen funds for an abortion for Benito's comely campaign worker.
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Medium / int_9f88a80a	type	NightmareDreams
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Medium / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Medium / int_a0db7803	comment	Devalos breaks attorney-client privilege, an offense that could get a defense lawyer not only fired but disbarred for life, by submitting to the prosecution evidence against his client, a serial rapist. He not only gets away with this, but goes on to become an assistant district attorney. As it turns out, It's Personal, the client had raped his daughter and she ended up killing herself out of guilt for not reporting the assault, which could have spared his later victims.
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Medium / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Medium / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini There have been several, the most egregious instance so far being a patient-killing doctor played by Oded Fehr who kills the one person who could've implicated him and then transfers to a hospital in another state, where he will almost definitely continue killing, considering how by the end of the episode he's proudly admitted twice to Allison that he fully believes it's up to him to decide who lives and dies. It's also at times subverted with gusto, like the aformentioned Navajo robbers-killer and the episode where Allison gets a pair of shades that tell her how many days a person has left to live. The killer-of-the-week gets away from being prosecuted for murder, but turns out that the shades (who were of the guy he killed) show Allison he only has a day to live before they stop working. The man who built a bomb so his father could kill seventeen people. Allisson even gets him to confess and he gives her an exposition for why he shouldn't go to jail, mainly claiming he have changed and saying he has a family now. And Allisson just drops the matter letting him drive away. Devalos breaks attorney-client privilege, an offense that could get a defense lawyer not only fired but disbarred for life, by submitting to the prosecution evidence against his client, a serial rapist. He not only gets away with this, but goes on to become an assistant district attorney. As it turns out, It's Personal, the client had raped his daughter and she ended up killing herself out of guilt for not reporting the assault, which could have spared his later victims.
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Medium / int_aab624e5	type	Is That a Threat?
Medium / int_aab624e5	comment	Is That a Threat?: In "Penny for Your Thoughts," when Ariel's math teacher tells Joe that she believes Ariel cheated on an estimation problem because she got exactly the right number and must have looked in his book on his desk where he'd written it down, Joe points out that the odds of someone having done so, with 25 kids in the class, were 1/40. When the teacher continues to insist that she must have cheated, Joe says that if she's penalized, he'll go over his head and the teacher asks "Are you threatening me, Mr. Dubois?"
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Medium / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Medium / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance When Allison hears the stirring opening strings of Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" when she sees items that can be the components of a bomb. She also hears a cheerful song while watching her ill friend from therapy being killed by the doctor. Y'know, just any episode with a featured song.
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Medium / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Medium / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Several, but Joe CERTAINLY takes the cake. For instance:
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Medium / int_ae5686dd	type	Terrible Ticking
Medium / int_ae5686dd	comment	Terrible Ticking: In the beginning of the Season 2 episode "The Song Remains the Same", Allison hears a loud song in her head. The song repeats itself over and over until it subtly guides her to the iPod of a missing college student who was listening to the song before her abduction.
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Medium / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Medium / int_b01abe4f	comment	"Will the Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?" — referencing the famous Catchphrase of To Tell the Truth
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Medium / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Medium / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice Patricia Arquette For the 18-25 generation, Holliston Coleman. Ellen Hollman, when she appeared in the episode "Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?". Also, pretty much a Star-Making Role invoked for her in the United Kingdom.
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Medium / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
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Medium / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Medium / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: One episode seemed to be poking fun at Ghost Whisperer's concept of "step-ins," ghosts who take over recently dead bodies for a second chance at life. The "reincarnated" husband was actually a conman using the dead husband's secret biography, and it's the dirty laundry he didn't write about that gets him caught.
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Medium / int_b5660747	type	Muggleâ€“Mage Romance
Medium / int_b5660747	comment	Muggle–Mage Romance: The titular medium is married to an ordinary man.
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Medium / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
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Medium / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Medium / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Defense attorney Larry Watt was not above using dirty tricks to get the best of Devalos and Allison, such as trying to pass the twin sister of a murder victim off as the victim to get his client off for the murder.
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Medium / int_bad22526	type	What If?
Medium / int_bad22526	comment	What If?: "Twice Upon a Time" shows Allison's life if she had become a defense attorney and married, not Joe, but an earlier boyfriend who turned out to be career-minded and unsupportive.
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Medium / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
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Medium / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Medium / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw Many of the dreams. The finale. All of it, but especially the ending.
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Medium / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Medium / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: Played with. Allison appears to have much more powerful abilities than even she anticipates given how much her psychic nature branches out into lie detection, seeing the future, and even body-swapping. However, this is usually given some variant on thematic significance, which suggests that is how she got those powers.
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Medium / int_c2cd384	type	Dream Spying
Medium / int_c2cd384	comment	Dream Spying: A standard occurrence in every single episode.
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Medium / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
Medium / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: In one episode, a young Allison has visions about one of her friends. She sees that, by knocking on his door, she will stop him from killing himself, and many years later he will rape and murder teenage girls. So a few days later, she decides to not interrupt his suicide.
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Medium / int_c2e1f423	type	Really Dead Montage
Medium / int_c2e1f423	comment	Really Dead Montage: For Joe's mom, who died of brain cancer.
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Medium / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Medium / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me The episode "Man in the Mirror" where Todd Emory (Jeffrey Tambor) stole Allison's body. There's another episode where a vapid socialite occupies Allison's body on Valentine's Day, leaving Joe to figure out what's going on.
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Medium / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Medium / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out Allison finds a pair of sunglasses that show how long a person has to live. "The lamb chops were screaming at me." "Will the Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?" — referencing the famous Catchphrase of To Tell the Truth In one installment, Joe discovers Marie is using her psychic powers to watch "Nugget," a children's cable channel the Dubois family doesn't get. This is a sure reference to Noggin, a preschool-themed cable channel run by Nickelodeon that was later rebranded as Nick Jr., which was once a block on the Nickelodeon channel.
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Medium / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Medium / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Kurtwood Smith's and Laura Prepon's characters, an FBI profiler and a rape victim-turned-self defense instructor, kill serial killers and rapists, respectively.
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Medium / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Medium / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Joe in the series finale (which kind of doesn't seem fair to the real-life Joe) and eventually Allison.
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Medium / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Named such because the main character is a spiritual medium.
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Medium / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Medium / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero? Allison keeps a lot of guilty secrets, especially like the Well-Intentioned Extremist FBI profiler played by Kurtwood Smith ("Red") who lets his prey go only to kill them later himself; there's also Devalos' revenge for his daughter on his own client. Lucky to not get disbarred for that... There's also the fact that Scanlon allowed his rapist brother to be killed by Vigilante Woman Laura Prepon, although no one knew at the time. Later, driven to the edge of sleep deprivation by his brother's ghost, he beats up an abusive father in front of his family and later threatens to reveal the wife's dark past to the DA (though that might be the brother talking). He has now, and Allison doesn't feel like they can be friends anymore, at least until Allison's stubbornness about the whole thing leads to Scanlon nearly being stabbed to death. Now, they seem to be taking it day-by-day. Then there's Allison's general sanctimoniousness regarding her powers, to which Joe finally busts out with this: "Do you know how many sentences you begin with the words 'I know'? 'I know he had a partner. I know he kidnapped that woman. I know taking instructions from a dead soccer coach isn't cheating.' What's it like, knowin' everything?"
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Medium / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Medium / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: The Dubois ladies seem to have a disproportionate number of sleepwear.
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Medium / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Medium / int_d54f84cb	comment	Dream Within a Dream: In "Twice Upon a Time," Allison has a vision of her life if she had become a defense attorney and married someone else instead of Joe, and has a psychic dream within that vision that shows her that her client was indeed a murderer. She also meets Joe and, feeling that she really belongs with him, goes to bed with him. She then has a dream about her grandmother, and then wakes up from both that dream and the original vision at the same time. She tells Joe she's going to have to talk to her husband, much to his bewilderment.
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Medium / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Medium / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Joe's (deceased) dad, who occasionally scares Allison in order to get her to do/cause something in a rather roundabout way. For example, he shows her the day he died of a heart attack, which causes Allison to note that Joe is almost the same age as his father and grandfather when they died of heart attacks. Although he's a lot healthier than his relatives, he goes to the doctor who tells him to try meditation, but during his first attempt on lunch break he's interrupted by another coworker who turns out to be the president of the company. He's thrilled to find another person who meditates and invites Joe and Allison to dinner. Joe's dad later reveals that he knew Joe was perfectly healthy and that this was his way of guiding Joe into office politics, which Joe simply doesn't do. While his "help" does lead to positive outcomes, it's also really annoying for Allison when she realizes she's been scared for no reason. Another perfect example: Joe is offered the chance of joining a co-worker in forming a new start-up. It seems like a great opportunity until Joe's dad appears to Allison claiming that Joe leaving his job is a bad idea and tells Allison to say to Joe the words "Versailles is running on fumes", since he will know what it means. Joe doesn't know what it means either, until he finds out that one of the company's investors is called The Versailles Group. He gives up the project... only for Joe's father to appear to Allison again and say he made the whole thing up: he foresaw that the company would become a reasonable success but it would cause Joe to eventually have 70 hour work weeks and not spend time with his family. Joe's dad didn't want him to make the same mistakes he did. Once again, Allison was annoyed, but quickly got over it. Charles Walker is this. In "Doctor's Orders", Walker used Ariel to coerce Allison into hitting her friend's father, who was a doctor, causing her to get locked up, where he reveals that he's working through a butcher instead. He reappears in "Blood Relations" and almost nearly succeeds in killing Allison by manipulating a girl to kill herself, framing his great-great-grandson, causing him to be locked up in jail to keep him from being inebriated, and played the part of him to lure Allison into his trap. If there were some sort of sentient being in control of Allison's visions, they would certainly be this. She goes through unbearable psychological torture because she can't just see the tell-all dream she has at the end of every episode at the beginning. Not to mention the jeopardy this puts other people in as a result. The regular cast has their moments too, perhaps most usually Devalos.
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Medium / int_ea8c9e21	comment	Joe's (deceased) dad, who occasionally scares Allison in order to get her to do/cause something in a rather roundabout way. For example, he shows her the day he died of a heart attack, which causes Allison to note that Joe is almost the same age as his father and grandfather when they died of heart attacks. Although he's a lot healthier than his relatives, he goes to the doctor who tells him to try meditation, but during his first attempt on lunch break he's interrupted by another coworker who turns out to be the president of the company. He's thrilled to find another person who meditates and invites Joe and Allison to dinner. Joe's dad later reveals that he knew Joe was perfectly healthy and that this was his way of guiding Joe into office politics, which Joe simply doesn't do. While his "help" does lead to positive outcomes, it's also really annoying for Allison when she realizes she's been scared for no reason. Another perfect example: Joe is offered the chance of joining a co-worker in forming a new start-up. It seems like a great opportunity until Joe's dad appears to Allison claiming that Joe leaving his job is a bad idea and tells Allison to say to Joe the words "Versailles is running on fumes", since he will know what it means. Joe doesn't know what it means either, until he finds out that one of the company's investors is called The Versailles Group. He gives up the project... only for Joe's father to appear to Allison again and say he made the whole thing up: he foresaw that the company would become a reasonable success but it would cause Joe to eventually have 70 hour work weeks and not spend time with his family. Joe's dad didn't want him to make the same mistakes he did. Once again, Allison was annoyed, but quickly got over it.
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Medium / int_f6cc8758	comment	Ellen Hollman, when she appeared in the episode "Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?". Also, pretty much a Star-Making Role invoked for her in the United Kingdom.
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Medium / int_fe9a3c3f	comment	We Would Have Told You, But...: Scanlon does this to Allison when the psychic Serial Killer reaches her house, by making it look like the cop-cars meant to protect her were backing off. Then, after telling Allison it'll still be another ten minutes before he can come help her, Scanlon arrives seconds later to her rescue, revealing the whole squad had been waiting for the right time to do so all along and that telling her would have jeopardized their plan.
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