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| Jim Clancy (David Conrad) David Conrad as Jim Clancy
Jim Clancy is Melinda's husband. The character is portrayed by David Conrad. As a star of the series, he has appeared in all the episodes. Jim and Melinda get married and move in at the start of the first season. Jim was a firefighter, and the two met when he rescued her from her burning apartment complex. Jim knew of Melinda's unique ability to communicate with ghosts at the start of the series; he helped her as much as he could, though Melinda's good friend Andrea Marino provided most of the aid until her death at the end of the first season. It was revealed in the pilot episode that Jim witnessed his older brother, Dan, die when they were young. After having seen Dan die and being unable to save him, Jim decides to become a paramedic. Dan attended Jim and Melinda's wedding as a ghost and conversed with Melinda during the reception. After Melinda's near death experience during the season two finale, "The Gathering", Jim becomes worried about what else could happen to Melinda because of the ghosts. Jim also helps try to find information about Melinda's father, Tom Gordon, who might or might not be dead, as well as try to find any information about Melinda's brother. In "Haunted Hero", Jim and Melinda welcome a returning soldier from Iraq, Matt, back to Grandview. When Matt becomes paranoid due to being haunted by his dead comrades and post-traumatic stress disorder, Jim confronts Matt in the town square and talks Matt out of trying to kill himself. Jim delivered some of his convincing argument with Matt's gun pointed at him. In "Weight Of What Was", Gabriel returns to Grandview and Jim warns him away, though not before Gabriel reveals that he is Melinda's half-brother. Jim, Rick, and Delia go in search of Melinda, who is trapped in old Grandview, which is buried under present day Grandview. Tessa, the ghost of Melinda's maternal ancestor who was also a Ghost Whisperer, helps them find Melinda by communicating with Delia and Jim. Jim also begins thinking of moving out of Grandview while attending Medical School; at first, Melinda does not like the idea, but she later agrees to it. In "Deadbeat Dads", Jim admits that he would like to have children someday; Jim and Melinda have recently tried for a baby with no success. Nearing the end of "Imaginary Friends and Enemies," Jim is shot in the shoulder and is rushed to the hospital. Relieved to hear his surgery went well, Melinda is taken to his room and asks if she could stay with him until he wakes up. It's implied she waits several hours and is shown to eventually fall asleep next to her husband. She wakes up to find Jim next to her, and believing him to be awake she tells him she loves him. When Jim tells her softly that he suffered an embolism she tries to get a doctor, but he tells her not to and tells her he wants her to remember him like he is appearing to her. This triggers her to realize that Jim is appearing to her as a ghost, and Jim flatlines in the background. His ghost then disappears. His death was foreshadowed in the season premiere, when a ghost warned Melinda that death might rub off on those she loves (the ghost did not, however, specifically name Jim as the victim). After his death, Jim soon took over the body of Sam Lucas after refusing to go into the light and at this point, Jim/Sam appears and has no memory of his past life expect for occasional flashes. Jim as Sam, begins to start dating Melinda after Sam's ex girlfriend Niki leaves town. When Melinda reveals her gift to Jim/Sam, his response to the situation is unexpected. It is only when Sam took a daring leap of faith as Melinda was trapped, Jim had flashes of his past and Jim starts to remember who he was. Jim asks Melinda why she keeps calling him Sam, Melinda then realizes that Jim has regained all his memories and there are no longer any memories of Sam. Melinda breaks down and hugs Jim, saying over and over again "You're back." After adjusting his new identity as Sam Lucas, Jim decides to pursue his lifelong dream to become a medical doctor, which he discovers it was also Sam's goal as well before his death after Jim reviewed his college transcripts. Jim learns Melinda is preganant with their first baby and Melinda is 8 weeks along, meaning that she got pregnant just before Jim died. Shortly after discovering they were going to become parents, Melinda began to have visions and nightmares about her pregnancy, She believed she was having a girl from the things she was told, But Jim reveals to Melinda that he had seen her chart accidentally and knew they are going to have a boy. He knew they agreed not to find out, but he told her to ease her mind, so she'd see her visions and dreams were wrong. Jim and Melinda remarried at the same place they met. | |||||||||||||||
