Miracles - E07

You are My Sunshine
First Aired: Friday November 14, 2003 (Canada)

When an old girlfriend has an accident in her rental home, Paul goes to help her recoup. Things aren't as they seem. Paul begins a decline into madness that is somehow tied with the house.

The episode begins with a woman in a home alone. She believes she hears something coming from the cellar, so she decides to investigate (why God?) and falls down the stairs after being scared of the door shutting. It appeared like her neck snapped. Back in Boston, Paul and Alva are not talking still after three weeks, even when Evelyn tries to help. Paul receives a call from a hospital because he is still the emergency contact for the woman, who turns out to be an ex-girlfriend. He volunteers to help her around the house because she had only harmed her leg (wow, that's it?). At the home, strange things begin to happen along with a man watching and smoking. The next day, Paul and the woman sleep together. Afterwards, Paul goes into the cellar to check the breakers, but starts to become different when he comes back up. When Evelyn calls to check up, he reems her out and she becomes concerned enough that her and Alva decide to come. Paul has steadily become more and more agitated with his ex-girlfriend, leaving for the night in a huff. When Alva and Evelyn show up, he returns, apparently normal. When the two decide not to stay in the guest room, Alva tells Evelyn in the car that something is not right with Paul. They investigate and find out that a woman had died their the previous year. Turns out her husband had apparently ran off with his lover years previously. Evelyn goes to the home after meeting Paul and ends up in the cellar with the ex-girlfriend as Paul waits for Alva to show. He does, and the two get into a fight. In the cellar, Evelyn finds a wall hiding a door where the bodies of the husband and lover. Alva is able to subdue Paul, but when his ex-girlfriend tries to scald Paul with water and misses, the house catches on fire. Paul returns to Alva's organization thinking they would want him to leave, but they ask him to stay nonetheless.

This was an above average episode; the thing that saves it from mediocrity for me was Skeet's acting of being out of his mind. He was amazing. I think the story was a bit jump/complex for the normality of the show. Wedged in between two fantastic episodes, this one was a little disappointing.

Score: 7.7 / 10