When a dead body goes missing from the morgue, Melinda investigates, and finds out that the deceased body is not a zombie, but a walk-in—an earthbound spirit inhabiting the empty body of another. Melinda must help both the body’s owner and the ghost who stole his form finish what they started.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: It was hinted at all episode that the reason Jason jumped into Bryan's body was so he could kiss the homecoming queen. At the end, he revealed that his real unfinished business was to reconnect with his friend Alyssa, who was the only one who treated him as an equal, to tell her to not give up on her dreams.
- Broken Pedestal: Jason idolized Bryan in high school, watching him achieve all the things Jason could only dream of. After Jason dies, he stays behind and witnesses Bryan fail in the real world and become a Jaded Washout. Finally, Bryan, thinking that his Glory Days are truly behind him, is Driven to Suicide. Jason is disappointed in Bryan for giving up so easily when he still had so many more opportunities than disabled Jason ever had in life.
- Disappointed in You: Jason looked up Bryan for doing all the things Jason wanted to do in high school, but couldn’t because of his disability. When Bryan commits suicide out of shame for being a failure in his adult life, Jason is upset that he threw away all his chances like that, when Jason would have given anything for just one of them.
- Future Loser: Bryan was the Big Man on Campus in high school, was dating the homecoming queen, and even got a scholarship to college. But college was tougher than high school, and he couldn’t juggle his schoolwork and sports like he could before, and ended up flunking out. Ten years after high school, he’s a broke, single, unemployed loser.
- Jaded Washout: Bryan was a big deal when he was in high school. But when he got to college, he found it harder to balance his schoolwork with his football games. He ended up flunking out, and his life went further and further downhill as he became a struggling broke flunky. When his Class Reunion draws near, Bryan is reminded of how far he’s fallen since his high school years, and terrified at the thought of facing all the schoolmates who looked up to him back then. He resorts to imploring a stranger at a bar to be his date to the reunion, and fails. Believing that things cannot get better, he is Driven to Suicide.
- Jerk Jock: Subverted with Bryan. Even though he was the football star and the Big Man on Campus, with the homecoming queen as his girlfriend, he was actually a really nice guy, which makes learning of his decline from his Glory Days and how depressed he became as a result a real tear jerker.
- Woobie of the Week: This episode actually gives us TWO Woobies.
- The first is Bryan, who was Driven to Suicide after realizing he peaked in high school.
- The second is Jason, one of Bryan’s old classmates who idolized him in high school. Jason died shortly after graduation due to an illness. After Bryan kills himself, Jason possesses his empty body to give himself a chance to really live, something he never got as a wheelchair-bound kid.
