Medium: Season 5

2009 · 18 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 5 of Medium

Patricia Arquette returns as Allison Dubois, the mother with psychic powers who tries to balance her demanding career with her family life at home. This season brings a certain order back as Allison returns to work with prosecutor Manuel Devalos (Miguel Sandoval) and police officer Lee Scanlon (David Cubitt). Meanwhile, her husband Joe (Jake Weber) founds his own company, funded by a billionaire. But it is Allison's daughter, Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva) - more than her younger sister Bridgette (Maria Lark) - who struggles to accept the gift she has inherited from her mother. This season, disturbing visions of school and boys will trouble this parapsychological teenager.

18episodes

Feb 2, 2009premiered

Jun 1, 2009latest episode

13.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Soul Survivor
Feb 2, 2009 · 43 min
Delavos receives help from Allison when he investigates the murder of his friends sister. But the case is taken into an unexpected direction when when Allison's visions involves the friend's former husband and current spouse. On the domestic front, Bridgette finds herself in trouble at school when she is caught drawing pictures of her teacher in the nude.
Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Screenplay: Craig Sweeny, Robert Doherty · Starring: Kelly Overton, James Urbaniak, Marisa Coughlan, Max Casella
5x02 Things to Do in Phoenix When You're Dead
Feb 9, 2009 · 43 min
Allison dreams of a ghost who was a witness to several murders. Meanwhile, Ariel has a strange reaction to an assignment in health class.
Directed by: Aaron Lipstadt · Written by: Diane Ademu-John · Starring: Michelle Marsh, Amy Hill, Sam Trammell, Emily Bergl
5x03 A Person of Interest
Feb 16, 2009 · 43 min
While working on a 17 year-old-crime, Allison exhibits unusual behavior that may be pivotal in solving the case, but at the same time puts her family at risk. Meanwhile, Joe's dinner invitation to a colleague yields surprising results.
Directing: Patricia Arquette · Writing: Craig Sweeny, Robert Doherty · Starring: Kevin Corrigan, Xander Berkeley, Enzo Rossi, Eileen Gonzales
5x04 ...About Last Night
Feb 23, 2009 · 43 min
Allison wakes up under a freeway overpass, not knowing where she is or how she got there. Her lack of recent memory causes her to start thinking she may have killed someone with her car.
Directed by: Aaron Lipstadt · Written by: Ken Schefler · Starring: Cecilia Suárez, Nestor Serrano, Marc Gomes, Luis Carazo
5x05 A Taste of Her Own Medicine
Mar 2, 2009 · 43 min
Allison is asked to help find a missing daughter and her visions seem to incriminate her father, but Allison believes this is wrong after a chat with the woman's mother. Meanwhile, Joe is suffering from sleep deprivation, while Scanlon and Lynn's relationship is severely tested.
Directing: Ronald L. Schwary · Writing: Moira Kirland · Starring: Tina DiJoseph, Blythe Danner, Jonno Roberts, Georgia Hatzis
5x06 Apocalypse...Now?
Mar 9, 2009 · 43 min
A horrific apocalyptic dream has Allison shaken, as does the earthquake which follows. Convinced that the end is near, Allison seeks wisdom from a survival guru and purchasing provisions. Meanwhile, Ariel has a crush on a upperclassman who needs help with his geometry class
Directing: Larry Teng · Writing: Michael Narducci · Starring: Vanessa Lengies, Cody Longo, David Warshofsky, Matt Kaminsky
5x07 A Necessary Evil
Mar 23, 2009 · 44 min
Allison is visited once again by the ghost of Agent Cooper, who tries to help her figure out who the real murderer is in a confusing case. Allison begins to question Agent Cooper's motives though and is unsure whether or not she should heed his advice.
Directed by: Vincent Misiano · Written by: Matt Witten · Starring: Charlie McDermott, Josh Holt, Kurtwood Smith, John Ales
5x08 Truth Be Told
Mar 30, 2009 · 44 min
Allison has a dream about a game show that can detect lies, and upon waking up she hears a buzzer in her head whenever someone tells her a lie. Allison's new talent is put to good use during a murder investigation.
Directing: Ernest R. Dickerson · Screenplay: Travis Donnelly, Corey Reed · Starring: Mark Steines, Enuka Okuma, Matthew Del Negro, Amy Landecker
5x09 All In the Family
Apr 6, 2009 · 43 min
Allison investigates when a brother and sister report the disappearance of their mother. Meanwhile, Joe's sister moves in with Joe and Allison after walking out on her husband Ryan, but Joe's father has advice from beyond the grave about her relationship.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Diane Ademu-John, Gary Tieche · Starring: James Van Der Beek, Amanda Detmer, Morena Baccarin, Dahlia Salem
5x10 Then... and Again
Apr 13, 2009 · 43 min
Allison and Devalos are shot and Allison awakens in 2004, five years earlier and now nine months pregnant with her third child, Marie. Allison's dreams informs her about an innocent man who will be convicted of murder, and she works to clear his name.
Directing: Larry Teng · Writing: Travis Donnelly, Corey Reed · Starring: Scott Holroyd, David Barry Gray, Ginifer King, Kevin Brief
5x11 The Devil Inside (1)
Apr 20, 2009 · 43 min
Allison comes face-to-face with her stalker from her dreams. He believes he is doing God's work and must stop her. Allison and her family must remain under house arrest until they capture him. Meanwhile, Joe agonizes over whether or not to make a big gamble that could potentially save his company.
Directing: Peter Werner · Screenplay: Diane Ademu-John · Starring: Tony Curran, Rachael Cavenaugh, Andrew Thacher, Regi Davis
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5x12 The Devil Inside (2)
Apr 27, 2009 · 43 min
Allison’s possessed stalker, Lucas Harvey, continues to torment her by infiltrating her dreams and causing her to be less than reliable to Devalos and Scanlon during an investigation of serial killings.Meanwhile, Joe tries to use Marie's new gift of picking the right stock as a way to save his company.
Directing: Peter Werner · Screenplay: Michael Narducci · Starring: Tony Curran, Mozhan Navabi, Sarah Hudnut Brody, Neil Schwary
5x13 How to Make a Killing in Big Business (1 & 2)
May 4, 2009 · 85 min
Allison leaves her job at the D.A.'s office after she's recruited to work for the Lydecker Corporation by another psychic who works there. While enjoying her new job, Allison still regrets leaving the D.A.'s office so suddenly, and has dreams about a serial killer running loose in Phoenix. Meanwhile, extenuating circumstances cause Ariel to start taking pills.
Directed by: Arlene Sanford, Peter Werner · Written by: Craig Sweeny, Robert Doherty · Starring: Tina DiJoseph, David Morse, Erin Chambers, Tracy Pollan
5x14
5x14 How to Make a Killing in Big Business (3)
May 11, 2009 · 43 min
Allison struggles with her decision to switch jobs. When continues to have visions about a serial killer she is forced to choose between honoring the contract with her new job and sharing her information with the police.
Directed by: Miguel Sandoval · Written by: Davah Avena · Starring: David Morse, Erin Chambers, Tracy Pollan, Ben Feldman
5x15 The Man in the Mirror
May 11, 2009 · 43 min
After falling into a coma during an investigation, Allison's spirit finds it's way into the body of a man named Todd Emory. Joe and the kids have to adjust to living with Allison's spirit in the body of Todd, who insists on living with them.
Directing: Patricia Arquette · Screenplay: Travis Donnelly, Corey Reed · Starring: Anastasia Griffith, Charlayne Woodard, Jeffrey Tambor, Joshua Rush
5x16 The First Bite Is the Deepest
May 18, 2009 · 43 min
Allison turns to Cynthia Keener (who is now in jail) when she starts dreaming of a former kidnap victim who Cynthia had once rescued.
Directing: Patricia Arquette · Screenplay: Diane Ademu-John · Starring: Rumer Willis, Balthazar Getty, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Anjelica Huston
5x17 The Talented Ms. Boddicker
May 25, 2009 · 43 min
While Allison is coping with Joe's job relocation to San Diego, she dreams about and then subsequently meets a bank teller named Mrs. Boddicker who predicted a robbery at her bank.
Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Screenplay: Michael Narducci · Starring: Tina DiJoseph, Shane McRae, Cameron Dye, Allyce Beasley
5x18 Bring Me the Head of Oswaldo Castillo Season Finale
Jun 1, 2009 · 44 min
Allison finds out she has a brain tumor and must get surgery to get rid of it, but then has a dream that the surgery will take away her dreams after dreaming that Castillo is going to kill Joe and the girls.
Directed by: Arlene Sanford · Written by: Robert Doherty, Craig Sweeny · Starring: John Ortiz, Deirdre Lovejoy, José Zúñiga, Efrain Figueroa