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Last week, Sam was getting suspicious about Melinda disappearing all the time and not being completely honest about what she does.

Melinda and Delia are at the antiques shop where Melinda is getting ready for a date with Sam (obviously still giving her the benefit of the doubt).  Melinda says she can feel Sam pulling back and she knows it's because she keeps running out on him. Delia pretty much says "Duh" and that Mel has to be honest and tell Sam everything. Mel is afraid Sam won't be able to accept it the way Jim did, but promises to tell him what she does.

Sam and Melinda are on their date, walking down the street when they spot a crazy looking hearse with "Supernatural Paranormal Investigations" painted on the side and a bunch of lights on top, which kinds of reminds me of a certain movie from years back... oh, very punny, show. Now where is Slimer? A young man gets out of the car and introduces himself as Linus Van Horn of SPI. Sam is highly skeptical and it's all he can do not to laugh right in Linus' face. Melinda decides that maybe this isn't the best time to be honest with Sam after all, and makes a hasty excuse to leave. Anvil of foreshadowing, anyone?

Melinda and Eli can't rule out that maybe Linus really can detect ghosts, but she doesn't approve of the way he treats them like a carnival act. Eli goes to see Linus at the house where he's set up shop, which just happens to be owned by some friends of Melinda's. Linus shows Eli his electronic equipment (not the other kind!) and recorded images of ghosts. Linus says that his former girlfriend helped him by loaning him the money to get a new camera, and that he's been seeing ghosts everywhere since he got it. Just then, Eli hears a ghost screaming (and I am amazed that Linus didn't see the face Eli was making just then). Linus picks up the ghost on EVP, while Eli points him in the direction of the screaming. Linus catches the ghost on video and asks Eli how he knew where it was. Eli must have gone poof right before he answered Linus, because...

Eli is back at the shop, telling Melinda and Delia about seeing the ghost on video. He says he didn't talk to it, but he's going back to the house. Melinda tells him that he has to cross this ghost over on his own, because she can't keep ducking out on Sam and doesn't want him to see her there. Eli and Melinda discover that the former owner of the house, an elderly lady named Mrs. Bellsbury, was reported missing and that nobody ever found her. How Melinda's friends ended up living in her house, I have no idea.

Sam is researching Melinda online, but he isn't coming up with a lot. He finds a link with a description saying Melinda is hiding a big secret, but the link is dead when Sam clicks it. He gets frustrated and powers down the computer. Sam may not have found anything, but we get a Sam Sighting. Drink!

Eli pays a visit to the neighbor of the missing Mrs. Bellsbury. His dog is barking insanely the entire time, maybe the dog knows something about Eli that we don't. Or just finds him annoying and also wants Professor Payne back. The neighbor says she was a very sweet old lady who baked all the time, in fact they called her Mrs. Blueberry for her blueberry tarts. I don't know why it had to be tarts and not muffins. Blueberry muffins, yum! Nobody knows what happened to Mrs. Blueberry, one day she just disappeared with a fresh batch of tarts cooling on the window sill that ended up dumped into the yard. I know, who doesn't have screens on their windows these days?