Melinda: Do you want me to kick down the door?Professor Rick Payne: Yes!!! Forever a classic Mrs. Gordon-Professor Payne moment.I'm starting to get the feeling that the relationship between Melinda and the quirky teach may be forming a bizarre Gordon-Payne love triangle. Melinda often seems irritated with the professor, but nobody — not even Melinda, I believe — can deny the tangible chemistry between them. It even seemed as though, when she confessed to Jim that she'd told Payne about her gift, Jim's "wow" had a tinge of green to it — and it didn't come from the Amazon jungle. Or am I reading into things just a little too much? I did find it odd that she would tell Rick before Delia.... Then again, the fact that he had a connection to this ghost did make it inevitable. Is this a new plot device to get somebody in there to shake things up a bit in the Gordon marriage? I guess that time and further hauntings requiring the knowledge and advice of a prolific, cynical ...
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