Last night’s Medium certainly wasn’t the best work the series has put out.  In fact, I found the greater part of it to be quite annoying and hated the abrupt ending.

***SPOILERS***

The episode began with a too cutesy for my taste montage of Patricia Arquette lip syncing Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive."  Unfortunately for us and Allison, the song keeps playing where only Allison can hear it; in fact, it turns out to be a musical psychic detector.  Thanks to a great disco song, Allison discovers that a young woman has been kidnapped.  That leads her to the father of the girl and her priest.  Upon shaking hands with the priest, Allison discovers that he knows something about the kidnapping.  Allison confronts and upsets the very Catholic D.A. Devalos, but can’t accept the priest doesn’t know more than he’s saying.

As it turns out — and this is where the annoying part starts to come in — the priest not only knows something more, but he actually knows the name of the person in his own parish who kidnapped the girl.  However, he refuses to break the confidentiality of the confessional so will do little more than preach a fire-and-brimstone sermon aimed at the kidnapper.  Allison confronts the priest, but he still refuses to break the confessional, putting his faith in God to keep the kidnapped girl safe.  Even when the kidnapper commits suicide without telling anyone where the girl is hidden or buried, the priest will say nothing.  God will provide and all that.

While all this is going on, the Dubois family is preparing for a trip to Utah for the wedding of Joe’s sister.  Joe wants to fly.  Unfortunately, Allison and her youngest daughter keep having nightmarish dreams of a plane crash and a bloody, burned Joe hanging from a tree.  So, the family chooses to drive to Utah.  They are forced to stop at some little podunk town because the youngest girl is not feeling well.  Allison decides to find a drugstore, but instead gets stranded on a secluded stretch of road that matches the plane crash site from her dream.  Walking to a barn, Allison comes across a table-top model city, and steps on a small model airplane.  This is what turns out to be the plane crash from the dreams, and nderneath the model city is the kidnapped girl!  Happy endings all around, because the show abruptly ended at that point. Rushing right into scenes of next week’s episode.

The major problem I had with last night’s show was the priest.  What kind of priest would put the confidentiality of the confessional above the life of a young girl.  Would it really happen that way?  I’m not a Catholic, so I can’t be for certain, but something tells me no.  I know the producers were attempting to present a man of strong faith who put everything in God’s hands, even if that meant depending on a modern-day witch.  Instead they made the priest out to be an out of touch, uncaring man who lost sight of what was best for his parishioner.