Medium (season 1)

Medium (season 1)
Region 1 DVD cover art
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	16
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	January 3, 2005 – May 23, 2005

The first season of Medium, an American television drama series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between January 3, 2005, and May 23, 2005. The show was created by Glenn Gordon Caron and based on the experiences of real-life medium Allison DuBois, a suburban wife and mother who uses her ability to communicate with the dead to assist law enforcement officials in criminal investigations.

The season introduced regular cast members Patricia Arquette, Maria Lark, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, and Jake Weber. David Cubitt was a recurring star.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Patricia Arquette as Allison DuBois
• Miguel Sandoval as Manuel Devalos
• Sofia Vassilieva as Ariel DuBois
• Maria Lark as Bridgette DuBois
• Jake Weber as Joe DuBois

Recurring cast

• Madison and Miranda Carabello as Marie DuBois
• Tina DiJoseph as Lynn DuNovi
• David Cubitt as Lee Scanlon
• Arliss Howard as Captain Kenneth Push
• Ryan Hurst as Allison's Half Brother Lucky

Episode list

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Glenn Gordon Caron	Glenn Gordon Caron	January 3, 2005	16.09[1]
Wife, mother, and suburban housewife working part-time for the D.A.’s office, Manuel Devalos, Allison Dubois is a medium and self-professed psychic who has the ability to foresee and witness past and current events in her dreams and mediate as a messenger between the living and the spirits of the dead. Her first case is put to the test when she tries to convince her rocket scientist husband, Joe Dubois, about her dreams being extremely specific and realistic…one in particular about a middle-aged man suspected of murdering his wife…and during this she also has visions about a case she’s currently working on with the D.A…where a little girl goes missing from a parking lot. On the case of investigating the home invasion, she with the aid of a coworker visit, a woman named Catherine a psychic with the same level of ability as Allison to find information on a little girl's whereabouts. In this scene, Catherine tests Allison's acceptance of her special abilities and she claims although she has been in connection with the dead since she was six years old she is not denying who she is. However, Allison doing everything she can to get past her husband’s skepticism and other doubters in the justice system about her dreams and connections she has with the dead…..is put to the ultimate test when she gets a call from the Texas Rangers to investigate a pedophiliac murder involving two minors and the suspect’s dead sister who witnessed the event.
2	2	"Suspicions and Certainties"	Vincent Misiano	Glenn Gordon Caron	January 10, 2005	16.34[2]
Allison has sickening dreams revolving around a serial killer who practices necrophilia with his deceased victims. Meanwhile, Allison and Joe are invited to dine with friends where Allison foresee events as they really occurred as the wife of the other couple tells a story, testing Joe’s patience when she tries to get him to believe in her special gifts. Back on the serial killer case, as Allison is slightly in the process of gaining everyone’s trust, she aids Devalos in an attempt to place the predator behind bars. With Allison's help, Devalos is able to select a jury that decides to give the serial killer the death penalty. By the end of the episode, Allison makes a shocking discovery when the man they’ve been searching for all along, the same man who confesses to the murders...is not the man who has been appearing in her dreams. It turns out the man Allison was seeing in her dreams as the serial killer was just a man on the cover of a menu at the restaurant Allison, Joe, and their friends had gone to earlier that week.
3	3	"A Couple of Choices"	Jeff Bleckner	Michael Angeli & Glenn Gordon Caron	January 17, 2005	14.44[3]
Allison has an eerie dream in which a marriage counselor encourages a young couple to commit a murder-suicide. These dreams begin to make sense when Allison and the D.A. realize they are on a case involving a serial killer who targets young newlyweds when each scenario the husband is given the option to shoot his wife or else they will both be killed. With more and more support from her recently skeptical husband Joe and employer Devalos, Allison begins working with Detective Lee Scanlon who is extremely outraged the Phoenix D.A.’s office is allowing somebody like Allison to collaborate her gifts with the Phoenix D.A.’s office on cases, not only does this drive Devalos and Allison’s patience, but also Allison is shocked to find out one in a series of the couple victims was Lee’s sister and his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, Allison has dreams appearing to her in crime scene shots, which becomes strikingly relevant when Detective Lee Scanlon realizes the couples all used the same wedding photographer. In end, the wedding photographer turned out to be the serial killer. The episode concludes with Detective Lee Scanlon gaining, if only slightly, respect for what Allison does.
4	4	"Night of the Wolf"	Artie Mandelberg	René Echevarria	January 24, 2005	15.78[4]
If Allison’s dream could only be more confusing, mimicking the storyline of “Little Red Riding Hood”, a snarling wolf chases her through a Phoenix airport where she has no choice but to jump from a rooftop. She wakes up believing her dream was just an ordinary dream until she begins to see these messages coming to her in her sleep having a connection with a young fiancée’s witnessed to a murder…that of her engaged boyfriend…and she proceeds to give an inaccurate description to a police sketch artist worrying her boyfriend’s killer will come after her. Meanwhile, Bridgette Dubois, Allison and Joe’s middle daughter, has been afraid of returning to school and to find out their daughter is a bit of a social outcast upsets both of them. However, things turn out okay when she makes a new friend Bobby…a young boy same aged as Bridgette…only to Allison’s horror to realize he is a lost soul who was once a victim in horrific schoolyard tragedy. However, Joe is more upset by the fact his daughter has inherited Allison’s gift of seeing dead people…which in turn hurts Allison. Allison explains to Bridgette and her new friend Bobby that Bobby needs to let go and will always be able to watch out for Bridgette. Towards the end, Allison discovers their witness actually had a history with her late boyfriend’s murderer, Detective Wolf, a dirty cop who is willingly to bend the rules and work on the wrong side of the law…Allison thinks she has their killer once the crime matches up with the pieces of evidence she has been receiving in her dreams.
5	5	"In Sickness and Adultery"	Aaron Lipstadt	Michael Angeli	January 31, 2005	15.85[5]
Allison has an extremely explicit dream where she makes love with husband Joe only to find herself winding up in a dead police officer’s open casket, with Joe mysteriously out of sight and the dead officer sending her a subliminal message regarding Joe’s health being in crisis…the message is “Australia”. Allison wakes up to find her dream coming true when Joe goes to have a biopsy and this angers her believing he was going to keep it a secret. She returns to Catherine, another just like Allison, to heed her advice on her husband’s health. To Allison’s surprise his health is just fine…it’s their marriage they need to look out for and this scares Allison to point where she believes Joe’s late evening work extensions are actually just to buy time so he can rendezvous with a secret admirer. If her life could only get more up and down, she battles with her conscience when Devalos asks her a favour to testify in the murder of the police officer she has been seeing in her dreams but to remain distinctly discreet about her special abilities she has with the paranormal phenomena tying into her profession. She has the same debate with Joe who insists Allison willingly agrees with Devalos…believing exposing her gift will complicate their work and family life. In this sequence, she comes face to face with rival opponent Larry Watt, an attorney who was very close at attempting to destroy Allison in court. In the end everything behind Joe’s secret admirer and their marriage being in trouble is revealed to be a mistake both Catherine and Allison initially believed.
6	6	"Coming Soon"	Vincent Misiano	Moira Kirland	February 7, 2005	13.97[6]
Allison starts having very spooky dreams in which a man breaks into the Dubois family home and tries to kidnap her daughters insisting he is a very bad man: “a golem, a devil and a monster” simultaneously. However, she wakes up believing her dream was not based on any specified event because of a talking doll that intercepted the dream. But to Allison’s horror she discovers the bad man from her sleep is actually a real man…however she is very disappointed to find out that not only are her dreams wrong…but he is a Good Samaritan and currently working with her boss, Devalos to solve a witnessed robbery. But after a short encounter she learns all she needs to know…he is a serial murder and rapist who victimizes good girls and then disposes of their bodies in the desert and so she urges Devalos to run a check. Unfortunately he is still a clean man…but despite the evidence proving so, she is still not convinced. Still haunting her dreams…Allison’s preoccupation with this man interrupts her daily pregnancy tests so greatly that she even follows him to work and inadvertently accuses him of a murder he didn’t commit. Meanwhile, Joe starts tutoring, Ariel Dubois, in math believing he takes after her….but to Joe’s dismay their eldest daughter has also seemed to have inherited Allison’s gift when she picks up the license plate of the same man who is disrupting Alison’s sleep. In the end, Allison confronts him before he leaves, although he is not a murderer now, a license plate evidently will be present in the next seven to ten years where in Allison’s visions he is proven to be a killer.
7	7	"Jump Start"	Artie Mandelberg	Melinda Hsu	February 14, 2005	14.52[7]
Allison dreams a young woman commits suicide by jumping off a cliff. The advisorial attorney from a previous episode and his son are both involved with this young woman.
8	8	"Lucky"	Peter Werner	David Folwell	February 21, 2005	13.77[8]
Allison dreams her half-brother Michael is dead, but the next day he appears at her door with an army colleague. Michael is known in his regiment as "Lucky" because he guesses when to dodge lethal explosions. Allison has trouble communicating with a girl who died in a house fire. Michael helps her out but is in denial about the gift he has apparently inherited. Meanwhile, he is being blackmailed by an army colleague involved in something illegitimate.
9	9	"Coded"	Bill L. Norton	Moira Kirland	February 28, 2005	15.28[9]
Ariel has a dream about a girl that she thinks is real, however Allison believes that it is just a dream—at first.
10	10	"The Other Side of the Tracks"	Eric Laneuville	Chris Dingess	March 14, 2005	15.35[10]
A recurring dream about two boys trying to cross train tracks has been keeping Allison awake. Desperate for some sleep, she visits a doctor who researches mediums and psychics.
11	11	"I Married a Mind Reader"	Duane Clark	René Echevarria	March 21, 2005	11.68[11]
Sick with a cold, Allison's medium abilities go a little whacky and she receives a dream that leads her to investigate an old 1960s murder. The husband from a husband/wife team of an Ozzie and Harriet-style show was imprisoned for murdering his wife. But there is more to the story than meets the eye.
12	12	"A Priest, a Doctor and a Medium Walk into an Execution Chamber"	Bill L. Norton	Chris Dingess	March 28, 2005	13.71[12]
Allison, Devalos, and Scanlon investigate a murder perpetrated by the 'ghost' of a man whose execution they witnessed. Meanwhile, Allison discovers information about a troubled mom's past.
13	13	"Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow"	Ronald L. Schwary	Melinda Hsu	April 25, 2005	14.43[13]
Allison wrestles with turning in a man who killed his wife when her visions reveal that he will prevent a plane from crashing in the future.
14	14	"In the Rough"	Duane Clark	René Echevarria	May 2, 2005	12.74[14]
When a case from ten years ago is reopened, Allison finds out that the accused was framed for the crime by someone she trusts, but sees that he is guilty of another instead.
15	15	"Penny for Your Thoughts"	Aaron Lipstadt	Moira Kirland	May 9, 2005	12.79[15]
Allison encounters a psychopathic doctor who raped and murdered numerous teenage girls years ago. After learning that an evil soul has been possessing people, she sets forth to stop it before a new victim is found. Meanwhile, Ariel's math teacher accuses her of cheating and Joe steps up to her defense.
16	16	"When Push Comes to Shove (Part I)"	Aaron Lipstadt	Chris Dingess	May 23, 2005	11.79[16]
After seeing Capt. Kenneth Push in a vision at a murder scene, Allison calls upon his assistance to find a serial killer. However, the only way Capt. Push can help is by literally putting his life on the line.

Reception

Awards

Patricia Arquette won the 2005 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

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External links

• List of Medium episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Medium season 1 episodes at TV.com
• Medium at epguides.com