SPOILER ALERT
Ghost Whisperer - "Head Over Heels"
The show begins with Melinda packing up pumpkins for Aiden's school. When it is time to leave, she goes to Aiden's room. Aiden is sitting at his table and having a conversation with no one. Melinda doesn't see a ghost and she's upset that she can't see what Aiden sees. Jim, who always takes things in stride, tells her not to worry – all little kids have imaginary friends.
When Melinda drops Aiden off at school, she asks his teacher, Caroline Mayhew, if Aiden has been speaking with imaginary friends. Caroline says she hasn't noticed, but she mentions that Aiden knows everything about ghosts. Caroline takes “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” away from a young student. Aiden sees the imagine of the headless horseman and it torments Melinda. If the idea of the headless horseman on a book isn't scary enough, she then sees it walking down the hall of her home. She follows it out on to the front lawn. The horse rears up above here, before riding off into the dark night.
Caroline's father has passed away and she has settled her mother in another place. Caroline and and her younger sister Dana want to sell off their parents' things. Melinda agrees to take some things into her shop and sell them. Halloween was always a big deal at the Mayhews' house. They would throw a big shindig and everyone was required to wear a costume. Thus, they had quite the collection of costumes. While going through the costumes, Melinda has a vision of a party. As if she's viewing the scene from behind a mask, she spots a couple kissing.
A little stop for interesting trivia. The woman who plays Dana – the younger sister – is Amy Davidson. She played Kerry Michelle Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules from 2002 until the show went off the air in 2005.
When Melinda stops by the Mayhew home to look at more items for sale, she learns that Mr. Mayhew died of early onset Alzheimer's. She doesn't understand the fit between a death from Alzheimer's and a headless horseman. While at the house, she has a vision of Mr. Mayhew being haunted by the same headless horseman that she has been seeing.
That night, Melinda has a visit from the headless man without the horse. The visit comes complete with the feeling that a steel rod has been inserted into her neck and that she couldn't move. The ghost tells her that he doesn't know how it got there. Jim tells Melinda that in some spinal injuries the head becomes detached from the body and a steel rod is inserted into the spine to hold everything together.
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