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My name is Melinda Gordon.
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I just got married,
just moved to a small town,
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just opened up an antique shop.
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I might be just like you.
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Except from the time
that I was a little girl,
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I knew that I could talk to the dead.
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It's all right, honey.
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Earthbound spirits,
my grandmother called them,
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the ones who have not crossed over
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because they have
unfinished business with the living.
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And they come to me for help.
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To tell you my story,
I have to tell you theirs.
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Pay new bills or price old furniture?
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Furniture.
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You know, I cannot believe you're
cancelling drinks with my brother.
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Whoa, not cancelling.
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I changed the location to
Lento's on the Square, okay?
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I want Mitch to see your house.
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I don't know
what you're so worried about.
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We can't have visitors.
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We haven't had our chance
to clean up.
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Besides, the place is a mess.
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The man sells real estate for a living.
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He sees all the secrets
in people's homes.
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Rich people. People who have maids.
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I mean, didn't you just say
that he was once named
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one of the 30 millionaires
under 30 to watch?
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Actually, it was 25 under 25,
but who's counting?
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Melinda, you should see
their penthouse in the city.
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And their summer house at the beach.
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His wife, Maya, the ex-model.
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I know. She decorated them both,
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and she has, of course,
impeccable taste.
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Okay. Your brother's definitely
never stepping foot in my house.
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What are you talking about?
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You guys are almost done renovating.
Your house is beautiful!
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Would you mind telling that to Jim?
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Because he now wants
to repaint every room.
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I mean, I swear he likes to live
in a perpetual state of construction.
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Actually, you know what? I better run.
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'Cause I told Mitch
I was gonna pick him up at the hotel.
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Oh, so he's not staying
at your apartment?
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He's way too rich
to sleep on my couch.
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Yeah. And to have drinks on mine.
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Well, too bad,
'cause mean old moneybags
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is gonna be on your porch at 9:00.
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- Bye.
- Bye.
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Can you see us?
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I started calling Andrea
"Squeaky" when we were kids.
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I would follow him
around everywhere and talk constantly
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like a squeaky wheel, and he couldn't
get a word in edgewise.
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How's my little sister
doing at your store?
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- Our store.
- Our store.
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She owns half.
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We're partners.
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I told you that.
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You did, but I wasn't sure
whether this was a vocation
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or another one of your avocations.
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Yes. I am the perpetual student.
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I did actually manage
to learn quite a bit of Latin, though.
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What was that?
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- Oh, God.
- You guys all right?
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I was meaning to replace these frames.
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I can understand why you'd want to
keep the original wooden ones.
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I mean, you can't beat
that quality of craftsmanship.
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Yeah, Jim did...
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All the renovations himself.
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So what are your plans for this house?
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Besides living in it?
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I've been thinking about
repainting all the rooms.
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Why do you ask?
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If I had a house like this, I'd flip it.
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I mean, with the remodelling
that Jim's already done,
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put this back on the market
for $600,000 or $ 700,000.
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That much?
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Yeah. If you guys are interested,
I could show you how.
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You could end up
with a much bigger and better place.
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It couldn't hurt to find out, right?
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What are you doing here?
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This is my home.
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Who are you?
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Is that you?
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Are you dead, too?
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No.
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What is that?
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It's your energy.
You have a lot of pent-up anger,
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and I would calm down
before you short out the whole block.
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Yeah, that's me.
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With my mother. I have to talk to her.
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Where is she?
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I'm not even sure where I am.
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Melinda.
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Friend or foe?
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Friend. I think.
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Be up in a minute.
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- Hi.
- Hi!
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You're outside the store.
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- Yes, I am.
- Why?
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Because inside the store,
it's gotten a little creepy.
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No offence if it's like
a friend of yours or something like that.
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I just thought I'd enjoy the day out here
until you came.
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- My friend.
- Yeah.
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Right.
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What's all my furniture doing here?
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I bought it at an estate sale.
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What's your name?
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Jason. Jason Shields.
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How come you can
see me and hear me?
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It's this thing. It's complicated.
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The best part is that
I can help you cross over.
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I mean, you really
don't want to stay here.
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You need to get to the next place.
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No. I don't wanna go anywhere
until I find my mother.
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Picture.
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See the tattoo on her arm?
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And if you look real close,
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you can see that
she bites her fingernails.
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What's her name?
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I don't know.
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I don't know what she looks like,
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where she lives or anything about her.
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The last time I was with her
was when we took that picture.
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I was only a day old.
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So she put you up for adoption.
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I was gonna start looking for her
as soon as I turned 18
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'cause then my mom and dad
couldn't stop me.
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Your adoptive parents?
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So, what happened?
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I would have been 18 this week.
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How did you find out
you were adopted?
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My mom and dad were moving
Grandma into a nursing home.
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Her mind was starting to go.
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I found the picture.
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I asKed my grandmother
who the baby was,
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and she said it was me
with my mother,
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except my mother
doesn"t have a tattoo.
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That's when I knew.
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If you won"t tell me who she is,
l"m gonna find her!
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I don"t Know who she is.
She abandoned you!
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How do you Know?
How do you Know what happened?
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L"m gonna find my mother!
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I am your mother!
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They denied it. And then
they weren"t even gonna talK about it.
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They weren"t even gonna
tell me that I was adopted.
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I'm sorry.
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I can't go anywhere
until I find my mother.
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I have to know why she gave me up.
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Maybe if I talk to
your adoptive mother...
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No! She won't help.
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Even if she could.
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She'll have nothing to do with this.
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Will you help me?
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You know, these adoption
searches take years,
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and that's with some information.
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And you don't know
anything about this woman.
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Not true.
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I know that she bites her nails
and I know that she has a tattoo.
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Can you imagine finding out
that your parents are not your parents?
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Sounds like
every angst-ridden teenager's dream.
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I know it was mine.
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Yeah, mine, too.
But the reality must be devastating.
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I mean, this is Jason's only connection
to the woman who gave him life.
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No wonder he's attached to it.
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Wait. That's Haliston County.
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You see?
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She's got a hospital ID bracelet on.
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I can't see the name,
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but that's the symbol
for Haliston County Hospital.
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- Are you sure?
- Yeah, yeah.
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We had a resident from Mercy
just take a job there.
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So that's where Jason was born.
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I'm off work tomorrow.
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- Me, too.
- Hmm?
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Well...
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Now that that's solved...
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Someday we'll have one of our own.
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I'm thinking more like four or five.
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Ouch!
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We'll definitely need a bigger house.
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- Jimbo!
- Hey!
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Hey, good to see you again.
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Dr Dennis Nakamura.
Hey, meet my wife, Melinda Gordon.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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I really appreciate your help
in finding my friend's birth records.
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No problem.
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Maybe I can ask you
for a favour in return.
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This is where we keep babies
that have been abandoned
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or are being put up for adoption.
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This is where Jason
must have been after he was born.
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You ever heard of FTT?
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Yeah. It's a failure to thrive.
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It's a condition babies develop,
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due to emotional neglect.
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Yeah. Basically,
if an infant isn't being held enough,
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looked at, touched,
or given enough emotional attention,
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it stops growing.
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That's why we get
volunteers like yourself
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to come in and hold them.
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Hi, little one.
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While you're doing that,
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we'll look for your adopted friend's
birth records.
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Shh.
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Adoption, huh?
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Tricky business.
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Although, from what I've learnt
over the years,
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you can always count on the courts
to have adoption records on file.
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Getting to see them is another matter.
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What are you doing here?
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Waiting.
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Won't be long now.
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Oh, is this one yours?
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She will be soon.
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I don't understand.
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I have a calling, just like you.
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I'm a guardian for little children
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who don't have anyone
to meet them on the other side.
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I take care of them.
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So, she isn't gonna make it?
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It's okay.
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She's not meant to make it.
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We have a better place for her.
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She's suffered long enough.
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Waiting in line
is worse than being dead.
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Why are you ignoring me?
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I'm not. I just can't talk
with all these people around.
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Hi.
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Okay, Miss Gordon.
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I found Jason Shields'
adoption records.
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Do you have
a judge's signed order for a release?
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Not yet. I just need to know
if the record is complete.
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Well, I can't let you look at it
without a release.
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- What do you want me to do?
- Are you okay, miss?
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Stand behind the counter.
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I am behind the counter.
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That's what I meant, like that.
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You know, you wouldn't be
breaking any rules
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if you just told me
that the documents were all there.
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Well, what kind of documents
are we looking for today?
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Well, can you list what's there?
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Petition to adopt, finalisation papers,
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adoption consent...
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Hey, get her to slow down.
I can't see anything.
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Could you slow down,
just for a minute?
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All right, here's something
that says my mother was 17,
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Italian-Catholic, unmarried.
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That's it. That's it?
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Is there anything else?
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Only the orders to
terminate parental rights.
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No, this can't be right.
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What is it?
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Dissolves the birth parents
from any legal right to the child.
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Right.
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Are you okay?
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She gave me up willingly.
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I thought she had to give me away. I...
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I thought someone was forcing her.
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My mother didn't want me.
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She gave me away
when I was a day old.
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What's wrong with me?
260
00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:33,900
Nothing. We don't know
what her situation was.
261
00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,200
I can't tell you how many hours
262
00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,200
I studied that picture looking for clues.
263
00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,300
I was psyched she had a tattoo.
I mean, how cool is that?
264
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,400
And the fingernails.
265
00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,200
I figured they were bitten down
'cause she was all upset about
266
00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,600
having to give me away.
267
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,400
Like, maybe she was too young
268
00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,100
and her parents were forcing her
to give me up.
269
00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:56,500
Pretty stupid, huh?
270
00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,600
"Willingly relinquished"
is just a legal term.
271
00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:02,400
We don't know what
other kind of battle she was fighting.
272
00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,200
I don't know who I am.
273
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,200
Or who I was.
274
00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:08,400
Hey, I know how hard this is,
275
00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,200
but you're forgetting
about the two people who did want you.
276
00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:14,800
They chose you,
they loved you, they raised you...
277
00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:17,100
You don't keep secrets
from people you love!
278
00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:18,500
How could they not tell me?
279
00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:20,900
How could they let me
find out like that?
280
00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:22,900
Let's ask.
281
00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:24,500
I can't.
282
00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:26,400
I don't wanna talk to her.
283
00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,100
I mean, if we're gonna
find your birth mother,
284
00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,000
I have to see
if they know anything that can help us.
285
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,300
Can't you just, like,
read minds and stuff?
286
00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:35,600
Can't you just look into the past
and see what happened?
287
00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,600
No. I'm not a fortuneteller,
and I'm not a psychic.
288
00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:41,200
I have my hands full as it is,
believe me.
289
00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:45,800
Where can I find your mother?
290
00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:53,900
Hi. I'm looking for Diane Shields.
291
00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:55,600
Look no further.
292
00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,600
You found her.
293
00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,700
My name is Melinda Gordon.
294
00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,300
I'm a friend of Jason's.
295
00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:07,300
Forgive me for being so blunt,
296
00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:10,100
but there's really
no easy way to say this.
297
00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:12,400
Jason's passed away.
298
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,100
Last year. I know. I'm very sorry.
299
00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:16,900
Has it been a year already?
300
00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:19,700
Shoot. I've got something in my eye.
301
00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:22,200
Excuse me for a minute, would you?
302
00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,500
I plant trees for him.
303
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,300
I planted one at the high school,
one at the skateboard park,
304
00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:40,100
and two in the giris' soccer field.
305
00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:42,300
It's a beautiful thing to do.
306
00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,400
What can I do for you, Melinda?
307
00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,800
Well, this isn't
such an easy thing to say either.
308
00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:53,600
I've seen Jason.
309
00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:55,700
I spoke with him this morning.
310
00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:57,600
I have an antique store in Grandview,
311
00:17:57,700 --> 00:17:59,600
and somehow I ended up
with Jason's furniture.
312
00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,300
You've seen Jason?
313
00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,500
Spirits are sometimes
very attached to their personal things,
314
00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:04,900
furniture, jewellery.
315
00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:06,300
You're talking about ghosts.
316
00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,600
I can see them. And help them.
317
00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:13,300
Oh, my dear girl.
318
00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,000
People say I have
a twisted sense of humour,
319
00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,400
but this is in incredible bad taste,
even for me.
320
00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,400
Who put you up to this?
321
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,700
I found a picture of him when he was
a baby with his real mother, and...
322
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,900
I'm his real mother.
Who in the hell are you?
323
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,300
Sorry. I didn't mean it that way.
324
00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:31,100
I really took him home from the hospital
325
00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:33,100
and I was really there
when he was crying
326
00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:36,500
and when he was laughing and
I really lived through his loud music
327
00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,100
and then I really had to bury him.
328
00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,100
And now I have to endure
a very real silence
329
00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,400
because the crying
and laughter and music has stopped.
330
00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,400
So don't tell me I'm not his real mother!
331
00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:50,300
I didn't mean to offend you.
332
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,200
I'm just trying to find
his biological mother.
333
00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:55,200
Jason wants to know where she is.
334
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,300
You're telling me
335
00:18:57,700 --> 00:18:59,400
that from beyond the grave,
336
00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,400
my son wants to find out
who gave him up?
337
00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:06,100
Pretty much, yeah.
338
00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:08,500
He needs closure.
339
00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:12,800
My son is dead.
340
00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:15,600
And that's hard enough to live with.
341
00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:17,700
Leave me alone.
342
00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,400
You know I missed you, Squeaky.
343
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,800
And the giris are
always asking about their Aunt Andrea.
344
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,800
Next time, you have
to bring them and Maya.
345
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000
Yeah, yeah. I mean, everybody's
schedules are so crazy, but okay.
346
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,300
So, what are you gonna
do with this place? You gonna flip it?
347
00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:37,300
Well, I mean, I could.
I mean, I got a waiting list of clients
348
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,600
looking for homes just like this.
349
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:41,600
Do you like it?
350
00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:44,800
Are you kidding?
I'd love to live in a place like this.
351
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,300
Good. 'Cause I just made
an offer on it this morning.
352
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,900
You're moving to Grandview?
353
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,700
Well, I wanna open up a second office.
354
00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:52,300
Part-time, of course.
355
00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:54,100
So I'll live in one of the bedrooms,
356
00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:56,300
and that leaves the rest
of the house for you.
357
00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:58,400
Oh, but I have a place.
358
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,400
With all due respect, Squeaky,
what you have is a shoebox.
359
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,100
I like my place.
360
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,800
You just said you'd love to live here.
361
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,400
It'll be fun, just like when we were kids
362
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,600
and spending summers
at the beach house.
363
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,100
Jason?
364
00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:21,600
Are you...
365
00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:29,100
Are you here?
366
00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:48,500
I know it must have taken a lot
367
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,800
for you to come and see me.
368
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,400
He was there with me in the house.
I can't deny it.
369
00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,200
And it was not just the music, either.
370
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,300
I felt him.
371
00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,400
He feels a lot of anger and confusi�n.
372
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,200
The last thing
I ever wanted to do was hurt him.
373
00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:06,900
Why didn't you just tell
Jason he was adopted?
374
00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:08,200
Well...
375
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,300
We meant to...
376
00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:12,400
Every Mother and Father's Day,
377
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,400
every birthday,
378
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,400
but the moment just didn't seem right.
379
00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,200
We were afraid of how he would react.
380
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,500
He was bound to find out.
381
00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:24,800
When I brought him home
from the hospital,
382
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,300
I held on to him for two days.
383
00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:31,800
I was terrified the woman who
gave birth to him would want him back.
384
00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:33,800
You know who she is, don't you?
385
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,700
When Jason first found out,
386
00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:42,900
I wanted to know who she was.
387
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,600
I tracked her down.
388
00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:47,200
Her name is Fran Vaughn.
389
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,600
This is her address.
390
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,300
If it means that much to Jason,
391
00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:56,600
I'm not going to stand in his way.
392
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,200
I'm not gonna try
to protect him any more.
393
00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:01,800
Protect him from what?
394
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,000
From his birth mother.
395
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,600
She's not the little �ngel
he thinks she is.
396
00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,400
I like what you've done with the yard.
397
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000
Thought I'd touch up a few
little things so, you know,
398
00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,100
Mitch could start showing the place.
399
00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:33,800
You know, I'm glad that
Andrea invited Mitch over.
400
00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,100
I mean, if he sells this house
for as much as he says,
401
00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:38,200
we'll have quite
the little nest egg for our future.
402
00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:39,900
Yeah, it's a smart move. It's just...
403
00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:41,700
A lot of work's gone into this house.
404
00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:43,800
That's the problem.
You've been too busy working
405
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
when you could have
been playing with me.
406
00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,800
You know,
I think I got a little time right now.
407
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,600
Later, tiger.
I have to catch a train to the city.
408
00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:54,400
I'm going to go talk
to Jason's birth mother.
409
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,300
Wait a minute. Whoa.
410
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,000
She's gonna be in shock.
Shouldn't you call her first?
411
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,200
I have to tell a woman
the baby she gave away
412
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,600
18 years ago wants to meet her.
413
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,400
Then I have to tell her that he's dead.
414
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,900
Not the kind of conversation
you want to have over the phone.
415
00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,400
Or in person?
416
00:24:08,500 --> 00:24:09,600
Yeah, well,
417
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,500
welcome to my worid.
418
00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:16,800
That woman looks like
she could be my mother.
419
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,500
Her, too.
420
00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:22,500
- Look out!
- Hey! I'm walking here!
421
00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,700
Do you believe these people?
422
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,600
What are you doing? Someone
might think you're talking to yourself.
423
00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:28,900
Yeah, and wouldn't care.
424
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,400
Half the people in this city
talk to themselves.
425
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,000
What do you think she's like?
426
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,100
You're gonna know in about
10 seconds. That's her address.
427
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,200
What's the matter?
428
00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:43,300
What if she doesn't remember me?
429
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,600
Well, I've never given birth,
430
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,800
but from what I hear,
it's not something you forget.
431
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,700
What if she doesn't
want to remember me?
432
00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,500
Hey, it doesn't matter what she wants.
433
00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,000
You need to meet her. Come on.
434
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,700
No, I can't.
435
00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:58,900
Look, you go on without me.
I'm not ready.
436
00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,100
Yeah?
437
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,700
Is Fran Vaughn in?
438
00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,000
I'm here on behalf of your son.
439
00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:15,700
Don't have a son, just a daughter.
440
00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,500
Well, someone took
this photo of you and your new baby
441
00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:19,800
18 years ago.
442
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,000
How do you know that's me?
443
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,600
Tattoo, amongst other reasons.
444
00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:32,100
Look, I can't be doing this.
445
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,200
Your son's name is Jason Shields,
446
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:35,600
and he'd like to make contact with you.
447
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,000
I was a different person back then.
448
00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:41,800
I got sent to juvie upstate
because I was young and stupid.
449
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,200
I had no idea
what I was doing half the time.
450
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,400
Well, you knew good enough
to try to make a better life for your son.
451
00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:50,100
My husband's inside,
452
00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:52,800
and my daughter's
going to be home any minute.
453
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,900
They have no idea I had a kid,
and I don't want them to.
454
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,400
They don't have to know.
455
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,500
But Jason wants to make
contact with you.
456
00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,200
No. I can't. I'm sorry.
457
00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:04,500
Your son is dead.
458
00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,000
What?
459
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,800
He died a year ago.
460
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:12,200
Jason was allergic to bees.
He got stung and he died.
461
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,000
But you said
he's trying to make contact with me?
462
00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:17,500
He is.
463
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,000
What the hell is this? Who are you?
464
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,600
My name's Melinda Gordon.
I'm from Grandview
465
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,400
and I have this gift
to speak with and see...
466
00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:27,800
Dead people?
467
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000
Yes.
468
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,100
People who have died
and not yet crossed over.
469
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,800
Wow.
470
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,000
Wow. You really had me
going there for a minute.
471
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,200
We're not buying at this house.
472
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,200
Please, at least take my card.
473
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,500
You can reach me at my store.
474
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,400
Sure, sure, look,
475
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,900
you're a nut job, lady.
476
00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,300
Get off my stoop,
and don't bother me again.
477
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:51,800
Right.
478
00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:11,500
I thought you liked
living in your apartment.
479
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:12,800
I do. I love my apartment.
480
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:14,100
So much that you're moving?
481
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,100
Into a house. Hello!
I'm the only person I know
482
00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,000
who has a smaller place here
than they did in the city.
483
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,200
Oh! There you are.
484
00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:20,600
There who is?
485
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,000
Be right back.
486
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:23,900
Okey-dokey.
487
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000
What's she like?
488
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,600
I'm sure she's a nice person.
489
00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,400
- She blow you off?
- Pretty much, yeah.
490
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,800
So, Melinda,
491
00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:34,100
either I'm running a fever
or I'm starting to see ghosts myself.
492
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:39,400
Hey, I'm Sybil,
Fran Vaughn's daughter.
493
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,000
We need to talk.
494
00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:45,500
My mother would have a kitten
if she knew I was here right now.
495
00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:47,300
You weren't supposed
to hear our conversation.
496
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,000
I'm glad I did. I have a half-brother,
497
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,800
and he's dead.
498
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000
But I think it's so cool
that you can talk to ghosts.
499
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,700
How rad is that?
500
00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:58,700
I love this kid.
501
00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,100
What does my brother look like?
502
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,400
He's handsome.
You guys have the same eyes.
503
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,200
Wait a minute. He's here?
504
00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:10,200
Oh, my God!
505
00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:14,900
What's it like to be dead?
506
00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:18,000
It's kind of like
freshman year all over again.
507
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,400
You're there,
but nobody pays any attention to you.
508
00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:24,800
He says it's kind of like freshman year.
509
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,400
Oh, the banality of being invisible.
510
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,500
Oh, that sucks.
511
00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:34,200
What do you miss most
about being alive?
512
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,700
Lots of things.
513
00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,700
He misses you and your mother.
514
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,700
He wants to know what she's like.
515
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,700
Oh, she's a pain in my butt.
516
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,900
Everything has to be done
her way or no way.
517
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,100
You know, she always wants
to know what I'm doing, who I'm with.
518
00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,500
But when you need to talk to her,
519
00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,100
she doesn't have time.
520
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,500
I can't stand her. I just...
521
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,000
Sometimes I won't even
go inside when I get home from school.
522
00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:12,600
I'll just hide out under the stoop
and put on my headphones
523
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,200
and listen to some Morrissey
so I don't have to deal.
524
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,100
Tell her I'd give her anything
to be in her shoes.
525
00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:21,200
He wishes he could
trade places with you.
526
00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,400
Oh, yeah, I wish he could, too.
527
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,200
Right now, I'd rather be dead.
528
00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,300
Hey, Sybil,
529
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,200
it's not good to say stuff like that.
530
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,500
It's true.
531
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:34,100
You don't know what it's like.
532
00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:37,000
I don't have anyone to talk to.
533
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,600
You have me.
Tell her she can talk to me.
534
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,500
He wants you to talk to him.
535
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,500
Really "talk" talk?
536
00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:47,200
Go ahead.
537
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:55,300
I'm in trouble and I don't
really know what to do.
538
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,200
I'm pregnant.
539
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,700
Jim, you asleep?
540
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,900
Well, that depends
if you're coming to bed.
541
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,600
I can't stay.
We have company downstairs.
542
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,200
Living or dead?
543
00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:25,600
One of each.
544
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,900
Oh, hey, Mitch called.
545
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:29,900
He might have a buyer for the house
546
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,300
and he wants to know
if he can show it next weekend.
547
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:33,700
You okay with that?
548
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:34,900
So soon?
549
00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:36,900
Well, yeah.
I told him you wanted to move out.
550
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:38,200
- Me?
- Yeah.
551
00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:39,600
You're the one
that said we should try and flip it.
552
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,200
Only because you said
you were interested, you know?
553
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,700
Now that I know
you're not happy here any more.
554
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:45,000
Not happy?
555
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:47,600
Yeah, you're always tired of me
trying to fix things up all the time.
556
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,600
Well, yeah, I am,
but that doesn't mean I wanna move.
557
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,700
I love that the doors are crooked,
and the banister's broken,
558
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,400
and the windows won't stay up.
559
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,000
I mean, I know that we can make
a lot of money if we flip it...
560
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,000
Just because we could
doesn't mean we should.
561
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,200
Hey, I don't care about the money.
562
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,700
This is our home.
563
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,100
All right, I agree.
But then why are we trying to sell it?
564
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:09,800
Well, because we're so stupid in love
565
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,900
that we'd do anything
to make each other happy.
566
00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,300
All right, okay. This is like an
O. Henry story told by Donald Trump.
567
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,300
Look, does that mean
that you will tell Mitch
568
00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:22,100
that we don't want to sell?
569
00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,500
No. It means I'll get
Andrea to tell him for you.
570
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,000
- Sleep.
- All right.
571
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,900
I don't know if you can hear me.
572
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,500
Man, I don't know what I'm doing.
573
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,700
I don't want to mess this up
any more than I already have.
574
00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,100
She's so young.
575
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,700
One year older
than your mother when she had you.
576
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,100
Jason, I'm so scared.
577
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,500
Where's my daughter?
578
00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:54,900
Living room.
579
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,200
Come on, Syb.
Get your things. We're going.
580
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,600
You know, it's late.
581
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,000
I mean, why don't you sit for a minute?
582
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:03,800
I'll make you some coffee
for the drive back.
583
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,800
Thanks for letting me know
that she's here, but we need to go.
584
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,200
If you've got something to say,
say it now.
585
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,500
Mom.
586
00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:18,800
I'm pregnant.
587
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:21,700
Say something.
588
00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:25,300
Mom, talk to me.
589
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,600
Get in the car.
590
00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:30,000
No. Not until you talk to me.
591
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,500
I have been trying to talk to you
about this for the last two months.
592
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,600
You've been pregnant for two months
and you didn't tell me?
593
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,700
You didn't tell me about
your pregnancy either.
594
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,300
It was a mistake, Sybil.
A terrible mistake.
595
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,800
Mom, Jason can hear you, okay?
You're hurting his feelings.
596
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,400
Stop it! There's no Jason.
597
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,200
Listen to me, Sybil.
598
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,600
Giving up that baby
was the best thing I could've done.
599
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,900
And when I got pregnant, I knew
I had to walk away from that baby.
600
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,400
But it forced me to grow up.
601
00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:06,100
I finished high school. I met your father.
602
00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:08,000
I had you.
603
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,300
And that's what you'll do, too.
604
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:12,500
You'll put this baby up for adoption,
605
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,900
and everything will be
fine again, okay?
606
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Now, come on. Let's go home.
607
00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:17,600
No!
608
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:25,100
It's getting late.
609
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,700
Maybe she should just stay here.
610
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:29,400
You, too, if you want.
611
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,500
What's the point?
She'll still be pregnant in the morning.
612
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:35,600
I have to deal with this now.
613
00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:39,400
And frankly, none of this
is any of your business.
614
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:41,600
But I know someone.
615
00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:43,300
Someone she should meet,
616
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,700
someone who knows
a lot about adoption.
617
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:50,700
Fine.
618
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,200
One night.
619
00:33:58,500 --> 00:33:59,800
Come on in.
620
00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:03,800
I'll be right out.
621
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:08,800
I don't understand why we're here.
622
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,100
Look, if you still want
to leave in 10 minutes,
623
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:13,000
I'll take you back to your car.
624
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:48,800
Come on, Sybil.
625
00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:55,500
My name is Diane.
626
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,700
I raised your son.
627
00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,600
I owe you an apology.
628
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,200
I never told him he was adopted.
629
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,100
But he found out
and he wanted to meet you.
630
00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:08,500
I wouldn't let him.
631
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,500
That's what we argued about
the day he died.
632
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,300
His name was Jason.
633
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,800
He was a wonderful kid, Fran.
634
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,100
He was smart and funny,
635
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,600
and he cared about people.
636
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,400
It's the one thing
you can't teach, isn't it?
637
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,200
And he was kind,
638
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,800
and he was gentle,
and you would have been proud of him.
639
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,900
Please stop now.
640
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,000
Mom, please talk to me.
641
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,200
Fran, Jason's here.
642
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:53,900
He wants to talk to you.
643
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,100
I didn't believe it either, Fran.
644
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:01,000
But it's true.
645
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,300
Jason is here.
646
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:07,200
And Melinda can talk to him for us.
647
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,200
Okay. That's it.
648
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:14,900
Come on, Syb.
649
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:19,900
Sybil, right now!
650
00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:57,700
He looks just like his father.
651
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,000
You know, why is it that families
keep so many secrets from each other?
652
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:15,700
Well, because family's so important.
653
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,800
It's the hardest love to lose, you know?
654
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,300
And that's why it's so difficult
655
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,000
to tell your family how you really feel.
656
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,300
And your friends.
657
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,600
Jim and I decided
we don't want to flip our house
658
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,100
and we need you to tell him.
659
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,400
Absolutely.
660
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,400
Right after I work up
the courage to tell him
661
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,400
I'm staying in my shoebox
of an apartment.
662
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:33,400
Whoa! Why the change of heart?
663
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,500
I've changed.
I'm not Squeaky any more.
664
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,700
You know, I wasn't loving Squeaky.
665
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:41,200
I have a really hard time
being myself around my brother.
666
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,000
You'll always be his little sister.
667
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:45,100
You're just not a little girl any more.
668
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaking of not being
a little girl any more...
669
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,100
So how do I do this?
670
00:37:57,500 --> 00:37:59,100
Do I look at you?
671
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,200
You can.
Or you can just look at the picture.
672
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:04,400
Just say what's in your heart.
673
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,100
She looks so sad.
674
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,200
Yeah. This is hard for her.
675
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,700
He's here?
676
00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:17,300
Jason,
677
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,100
when I was at your house
678
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,300
and I saw those pictures
679
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,300
and I heard the way
Diane talked about you,
680
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,400
I was...
681
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,900
I am so proud.
682
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,100
I know I don't have
a right to feel that way,
683
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,700
but I am.
684
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,600
And I'm so sorry for me
685
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,300
that I didn't get to know you.
686
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,000
You may not believe this,
687
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:48,400
but there's always been
this empty place in me,
688
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,600
and now that I've seen
how you grew up and where
689
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,500
and how much you're loved,
690
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,200
it feels a little less empty.
691
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:01,600
What's gonna happen to Sybil's baby?
692
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,000
He wants to know
what's gonna happen with the baby.
693
00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:07,900
I don't know.
694
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,900
We have a lot to work out.
695
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,500
But whatever Sybil...
Whatever your sister decides,
696
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:18,800
we will be a part of this baby's life.
697
00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:23,800
And the baby's gonna
know about Uncle Jason.
698
00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:25,600
And Diane.
699
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,400
Can he hear us?
700
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,900
Yeah, he can.
701
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,200
He's smiling.
702
00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,500
He has a lot of questions for you.
703
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:41,200
I thought I did,
704
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,200
but there's only
one thing I really need to know.
705
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:50,500
Did you ever think about me?
706
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,300
Did you ever say a prayer
for me at Thanksgiving?
707
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,000
Or wonder what kind of
presents I was getting at Christmas?
708
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,500
Did you even remember my birthday?
709
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,200
Do you love me, Mom?
710
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:06,900
He wants to know...
711
00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:08,800
No, wait.
712
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,400
Don't ask.
713
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,100
I don't want to know if the answer's no.
714
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,200
What is it?
715
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:22,500
This is hard for him. He...
716
00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:25,600
wants to ask you something,
but he doesn't know how.
717
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,100
Tell him he can ask me anything.
718
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:30,900
He's my son. I love him.
719
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,100
He would love to hear you
say that again.
720
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,500
He's my son.
721
00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:50,200
I love him.
722
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,100
Give them the picture?
723
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,100
Oh, right.
724
00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:09,600
That's your brother.
725
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:18,100
It's okay, baby.
726
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,600
I still have one more person to see.
727
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,800
He wants you to know that he was
so hurt and angry over being adopted,
728
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,100
that he took it out on the one person
who was always there for him.
729
00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,700
All you ever tried
to do was protect me and love me.
730
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:52,900
No matter how hard I tried
to push you away,
731
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,500
you never gave up on me.
732
00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,600
He feels lucky to have been your son.
733
00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:00,000
I was the lucky one.
734
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,800
For 17 years,
735
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,200
you made my life shine.
736
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,100
You were the greatest gift.
737
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,600
He's sorry that he got mad
738
00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:12,600
and that it ended that way.
739
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,100
But it's not ended.
740
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:17,100
And it never will be.
741
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:19,000
I will always be with you.
742
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:22,300
And you will always be with me.
743
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:28,700
What's that light?
744
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,200
That light's for you,
745
00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:33,000
if you're ready.
746
00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,300
I'm ready.
747
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,400
Bye, Mom.
748
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:50,700
He's crossed over.
749
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:53,300
Good boy.
750
00:42:58,500 --> 00:42:59,700
Shoot.
751
00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:02,900
I've got something in my eye again.
752
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,600
I'll walk with you.
753
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:08,900
I'd like that.