Miracles - E13

Paul is Dead
First Aired: Friday December 26, 2003 (Canada)

The group is commissioned to check the validity of a television psychic. When he touches Paul, he has a prophetic vision. When this eventually comes true, Paul loses Mattie, Evelyn's child, and tries to enlist the help of Tommy to find him.

The episode begins with a devout religious man seeking the help of the organization. His wife has come to believe a television psychic who has told her about their dead child. When Paul, Evelyn, and Alva got to investigate, the man touches Paul and gives a prophetic vision. A day or two later, while watching after Mattie in a park, the vision comes true. Distracted by the occurences, Paul does not notice anything wrong until he turns to see Mattie is not there anymore. A police search ensues. Alva tries to get the help of the "psychic", but he reveals that there is nothing psychic about him, that he can only tell people what they want to hear. However, he did feel something when he touched Paul. Eventually, he relents and touches Paul, saying he sees a vision of Paul dead. Paul takes this and interprets it that he must kill himself in order to converse with Tommy, who he has been seeing recently and who was at the park. Alva at first advises against it, but does agrees and gets the help of an old medical acquittance. Lowering Paul's body temperature, he dies for four minutes and talks with Tommy, who reveals that Paul is the one keeping him from moving on. When Alva and the man revive Paul, he tells how Tommy mentioned something about a woman not wanting to let go. Paul and Alva go to Evelyn and the police to tell them to focus on women who had recently lost their own children. They may be looking to replace their loss. Following on this lead, the police do find the child. The episode ends with the psychic outing himself. Outside, in a dumpster, Paul's blood did indeed write something, but not what it was to start with. Instead of "God is now here", it now reads "God is nowhere".

So ends the run of this little series. It was a good episode to end on, I guess, but I would have liked a little more resolution. For some reason, I thought that the final scene of the show was with Paul talking to Poppi and the prophecy from previous episode would come true to reveal he was Paul's father. It is also curious that Paul's hemography message seems to have changed to what Tommy said was the wrong interpretation. This was a good acting episode as well and it was good to finally see Evelyn get some more of the dramatic work. Like I mentioned, I would have liked a little more resolution with the Darkness, but they probably didn't know this would be the final episode. I think I will have to go back at some point and listen to the commentary to see where this show might have gone if it continued.

Score: 9.0 / 10