Continuity mistake: The lights over Melinda's shop appear and disappear all through the entire show.
On the Wings of a Dove - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Joseph wants proof that Melinda sees Julian, the boy asks Melinda to describe the tattoo behind his father's right ear, and we see a close-up of the white dove tattoo that Julian got after his son's birth. Then, while Julian whispers to his son, there is no tattoo behind his left ear, but as Julian walks backwards toward Jim the white dove tattoo is now visible. (00:37:40)
On the Wings of a Dove - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Melinda and Andrea are sitting on the couch in the antique shop talking Andrea's hand keeps moving back and forth between on her cheek and on the back of the couch.
Continuity mistake: When Melinda is driving to Kirk's house she is in a Jeep Cherokee, but when she arrives she is in a Jeep Liberty.
Continuity mistake: At the end of the show when Jim is making toast they show him through the window taking the toast out of the toaster and putting it on the plate. In the next shot he is walking towards the kitchen table and the plate is empty. Then while talking to his mother he picks up a piece of toast to put jelly on it.
Continuity mistake: When Melinda is driving to Clark's house when she is shown from a distance she is wearing a red hat. When they show her close up she is not wearing a hat.
Continuity mistake: When Melinda's hair is caught in the garbage disposal, she reaches for the switch and it is in the down position. When it switches back to her and then back to the switch, it is now in the up position.
Fury (a.k.a. Condemned to Repeat) - S1-E19
Continuity mistake: When Melinda is lying in bed talking to her husband her hair keeps moving from all lying on the right side of her pillow to completely under her head.
Continuity mistake: When Melinda is talking to Kyle, her mole moves around several times.
Continuity mistake: While Melinda is driving to New England, her car switches from being a Jeep Cherokee to an Isuzu and back again.
Continuity mistake: When Melinda is walking to Andrea's apartment and is stopped by a news crew for an interview, she gives her interview and says "We're going to be okay" at the end of it. In the scene in Seattle where someone that knows her sees her interview on TV, her interview is different in that her manner is completely different and happier and she says "we'll be okay" at the end instead.
The Walk-in - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Jim brings a new body to the morgue there's a "John Doe" already lying there, and in the close up we see that the corpse's right foot is missing the middle toe. We see this again later when Jim's ring is stolen from his locker, with the bloody right footprint on the floor. However, when Melinda shows up the close-up shots of the bloody footprints have been flipped so it's the left foot with the missing toe, but what's funny is that in the audio we hear Jim say, "The middle toe is missing on the right foot."
The Prophet - S2-E21
Continuity mistake: Melinda calls Deliah early in the morning. Her husband just said it was 4:10 and she called her friend who also said it was 4:10. Deliah looks at the clock and confirms the time. But as the camera pulls back, the minutes on the clock are visible, showing 22.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode when Jim and Melinda are watching the last of the movie, at one point Melinda takes a drink of her beer and crosses her arms twice but from a different angle.
Continuity mistake: When Jim joins Melinda on the bench to discuss the treatment records from Gabriel's institution, the heart locket on Melinda's neck keeps vanishing and reappearing repeatedly, depending on the angle of the shot. (00:07:50)
Continuity mistake: After Delia and Melinda are at the house in the countryside the episode cuts to a scene at Same As It Never Was Antiques. In this shot out the front we can see Melinda's 2005 Jeep Liberty Limited edition parked, but Melinda hasn't had this since the first episode of season 3. From Season 3 episode 2 Melinda can be seen driving a 2007 Saturn Outlook XR. (00:04:50 - 00:39:51)
Imaginary Friends and Enemies - S4-E6
Continuity mistake: In the scene in the woods where we first see Owen's ghost, as the camera cuts back and forth between Melinda talking to Owen and what her friend sees, the two women are alternately closer and then significantly farther apart. They're supposed to be standing basically in the same spots, only taking maybe one or two small steps during Melinda's conversation with Owen.
Heart & Soul - S4-E8
Continuity mistake: After Sam reads the newspaper article about Jim's death it cuts to him dropping in to see Melinda, and when he's looking at the framed photographs on the sideboard two of the closeups of the photos are flipped shots - the positions of the frames are reversed.
Continuity mistake: While Melinda's trapped underground with the rising water flooding the utility vault, when Eli and Jim go down below Eli takes off his shoes and jacket, the camera pans up from the churning water and we briefly see Eli's bare feet. The next shot we see him taking the socks off.
Continuity mistake: When Eli tries to use a card to open Zoe's door, the card breaks. He is holding on to the larger piece of the card in his right hand when this happens and the smaller piece is in the frame. He gets the other piece and the shot changes to him suddenly holding the smaller piece in his left hand, as well as the card having been flipped around (the strip is seen in both shots, and the two shots face in opposite directions).
Answer: This "spirit" appears in several episodes throughout the rest of the season including the season finale. He's a "bad spirit" that is intent on keeping souls trapped on Earth. With the death of Andrea (her business partner) he wanted to make a deal with Melinda, to give him HER soul to release everyone else including Andrea to cross over.
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