Penhall: So you, like, sense psychic energy, like, coming from us?
Dori: Not exactly. I don't want to sound like an actress on a talk show, but, I feel... energies... images, I guess. I don't know what they are, but they happen.
Penhall: Then you are a psychic.
An arsonist is trying to burn down a high school. Hanson and Penhall go undercover to prevent this. A student there, Dori, has (alleged?) psychic powers which enable her to see what the arsonist is about to do; Hanson and Penhall work together with her.
Also, Penhall thinks he had an encounter with aliens and that these aliens moved his belly button. And a corpse is found buried beneath Jump Street chapel, which makes the main characters wonder what the backstory behind this skeleton is. And all of this happens against the backdrop of Halloween.
This episode provides examples of:
- Agent Scully:
- Hanson is totally skeptical of Penhall's claims that he encountered aliens (and this story is soon revealed to have a different explanation); and he's the one who doesn't believe the "medium" the team hires really channels the spirits of the dead, and quickly exposes him as a fraud.
- Also Captain Fuller, when the team starts to use ouija boards and hire spirit-channeling mediums, is very disbelieving of this, and basically calls the rest of the team idiots for hiring/believing the medium. Lampshaded by Penhall when he says to Fuller:Penhall: You know, you're the type who doesn't think that there's anything... out there.
- Break the Believer:
- Penhall starts out the episode believing Dori really has psychic powers (while Agent Scully Hanson is very sceptical of this), but by the end of the episode it has become clear that Dory's alleged "powers" are very flawed at best, or maybe don't even exist at all at worst—Penhall comes to terms with this at the end of the episode.
- Also in this episode there's the much more Played for Laughs story-line of Penhall first (seriously) believing that he was kidnapped by aliens, who also moved his belly button. Hanson is of course having none of this story, and at the end it turns out there weren't ever any aliens at all, and Penhall accidentally mistook something else for "aliens". Penhall is utterly embarrassed when this comes out, and preemptively says Hanson will never let this live him down.
- Halloween Episode: This episode coincides with Halloween and has a spooky, supernatural theme.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Dori—she sees/draws things that she shouldn't have any way to know, but she's not infallible either. Psychic, or lucky guess?
- Mistaken for Aliens: Doug is convinced he has encountered aliens, and that they moved his belly button. But turns out the lights he saw was just an advertisement by normal humans, not aliens.
- Ouija Board: When a skeleton (of a person who died centuries ago) is found beneath Jump Street Chapel, the team is so curious to know how the person died that when initial police investigation doesn't provide an answer, they use an Ouija board to communicate with the (supposed) spirit of the dead person. It turns out the name they receive through using the board is not true or relevant, though.
- Spooky Séance: After a skeleton is found in the Jump Street chapel, the team (except for Hanson) use an Ouija board and hire a medium, who supposedly channels the spirit of the dead body. He quickly is exposed by Hanson as fraud though.
- Willing Channeler: The medium the team hires lets his body be possessed by the spirits of the dead and lets them talk through him. Subverted once he's exposed as a fraud so no real possession was happening.
