Medium

Patricia Arquette plays Allison DuBois, who works the the District Attorney’s office in Phoenix. Her medium abilities allows her to be able to crack cases, by seeing future events, seeing past events in greater detail and even having conversations with this dead.

In the episode “You Give Me Fever”, she foresees an accident of a man driving a car filled with gasoline. As it turns out, the man was exposed to a deadly virus that has her agency on the defensive for a bio-terrorist attack..

Although an interesting and compelling script, it gets sabotaged by a substory that takes from the urgency of the fear of a rather painful death caused by this virus. However, one doesn’t feel things were put in to pad the script. It still makes for some entertaining and thought-provoking viewing as we see swhat she endures to solve or resolve the crime.

How can you prove something when there is no credible or compelling evidence to link person to crime?

Not to pick nits, but she isn’t a true medium, but more of a seer, much like Edgar Cayce, who saw things while asleep. But I would assume calling the series “Clairyovant” would be confusing.

Patricia does a credible job as a harried working mother of three, with a kind of world-weariness of having this ‘gift’ and, this late into the series, her talents are not poo-pooed as they probably were in the early episodes. Still, one gets the feeling that she would have been happier not having her powers.