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* TheyDo: She eventually marries Scanlon.

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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Allison keeps a lot of guilty secrets, especially like the WellIntentionedExtremist FBI profiler played by [[Series/That70sShow Kurtwood Smith ("Red")]] who lets his prey go only to kill them later himself.]]

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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Allison keeps a lot of guilty secrets, especially like the WellIntentionedExtremist FBI profiler played by [[Series/That70sShow Kurtwood Smith ("Red")]] [[Creator/KurtwoodSmith]] who lets his prey go only to kill them later himself.]]



* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Scanlon allowed his rapist brother to be killed by Vigilante Woman [[Series/That70sShow Laura Prepon ("Donna")]], although no one knew at the time. Later, driven to the edge of sleep deprivation by his brother's ghost, he beats up an abusive father in front of his family and later threatens to reveal the wife's dark past to the DA (though that ''might'' be the brother talking).]]

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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Scanlon allowed his rapist brother to be killed by Vigilante Woman [[Series/That70sShow Laura Prepon ("Donna")]], [[Creator/LauraPrepon]], although no one knew at the time. Later, driven to the edge of sleep deprivation by his brother's ghost, he beats up an abusive father in front of his family and later threatens to reveal the wife's dark past to the DA (though that ''might'' be the brother talking).]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: {{Averted}}, or possibly even ''{{Inverted}}''. The real Alison Dubois is actually very attractive, and Patricia Arquette, while certainly not bad-looking, made an effort to present the ''character' Allison as just an average, unglamorous mom.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: {{Averted}}, or possibly even ''{{Inverted}}''. The real Alison Dubois [=DuBois=] is actually very attractive, and Patricia Arquette, while certainly not bad-looking, made an effort to present the ''character' Allison as just an average, unglamorous mom.



* EmergencyBroadcast: The season 7 episode "Where Were You When?" contains an instance of it, inside of one of Allison DuBois' [[CatapultNightmare catapult nightmares]]. Allison is standing in the kitchen where her daughters are having breakfast while watching cartoons on television, when an Emergency Action Notification interrupts the programme. It causes Allison to have an OhCrap moment: her reaction is a SlowMotionDrop of the glass of milk she was holding, followed by a horrified scream.

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* EmergencyBroadcast: The season 7 episode "Where Were You When?" contains an instance of it, inside of one of Allison DuBois' [=DuBois=]' [[CatapultNightmare catapult nightmares]]. Allison is standing in the kitchen where her daughters are having breakfast while watching cartoons on television, when an Emergency Action Notification interrupts the programme. It causes Allison to have an OhCrap moment: her reaction is a SlowMotionDrop of the glass of milk she was holding, followed by a horrified scream.



* IsThatAThreat: In "Penny for Your Thoughts," when Ariel's math teacher tells Joe that she believes Ariel cheated on an estimation problem because she got exactly the right number and must have looked in his book on his desk where he'd written it down, Joe points out that the odds of someone having done so, with 25 kids in the class, were 1/40. When the teacher continues to insist that she must have cheated, Joe says that if she's penalized, he'll go over his head and the teacher asks "Are you threatening me, Mr. Dubois?"

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* IsThatAThreat: In "Penny for Your Thoughts," when Ariel's math teacher tells Joe that she believes Ariel cheated on an estimation problem because she got exactly the right number and must have looked in his book on his desk where he'd written it down, Joe points out that the odds of someone having done so, with 25 kids in the class, were 1/40. When the teacher continues to insist that she must have cheated, Joe says that if she's penalized, he'll go over his head and the teacher asks "Are you threatening me, Mr. Dubois?"[=DuBois=]?"
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** She also hears a cheerful song while watching [[spoiler:her IllGirl friend from therapy being killed by the doctor.]]

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** She also hears a cheerful song while watching [[spoiler:her IllGirl ill friend from therapy being killed by the doctor.]]
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* HappilyMarried: Allison and Joe, who have very few marital problems despite the intense stress that Allison's career and powers put upon them.

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* HappilyMarried: Allison and Joe, who have very few marital problems despite the intense stress that Allison's career and powers put upon them. [[spoiler: Even after his death in the finale, Allison spends the remainder of her life single, reuniting with Joe when she dies herself.]]
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* RapunzelHair: She apparently [[ImportantHaircut cut it off]] after her mom recovered. That's a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the actress had already cut it for a movie in which her character underwent chemotherapy.
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* BelatedBackstory: While we did get the gist of his crimes and death in his first appearance, it was not until his third and final one that we got to see glimpses of his life, including his StartOfDarkness.

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* BeleagueredAssistant: The Mayor is a total flake, something that is most apparent in "Four Dreams."
* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: While she did keep her job as the Deputy Mayor for the entirety of the show's run, as the series wore on, it became less and less prominent while Lynn herself became little more than "Scanlon's wife."
* MouthOfSauron: She does all of the talking for the Mayor, who is TheGhost.
* TheyDo: She eventually marries Scanlon.


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* VillainousBreakdown: After Allison thwarts one of his murders, Charles completely loses it, and is left impudently screaming and raging at people who cannot even hear him.

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An assistant to the Mayor of Phoenix who begins dating and eventually marries Scanlon.

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* TheAlcoholic: In his first appearance, he was almost perpetually drunk, out of a combination of attempting to suppress his abilities and guilt over being a party to a fellow soldier's fragging of their CO. He is a bit dryer in subsequent appearances.
* BackForTheFinale: He reappears in one of the show's final episodes after being absent since Season 3.
* BoisterousWeakling: When caught ransacking a hotel room, he boasts about being a highly-trained soldier who has seen a lot of active combat... right before getting beaten up.
* GrandTheftMe: He makes a deal with the ghost of a businessman named Carson Churchill, who gets Michael's life back on track and turns him into a success, in exchange for Michael allowing Churchill to take him over every so often so that Churchill can complete his GhostlyGoals. Unfortunately, Churchill neglected to inform Michael that his plans involved bumping other people down a heart transplant list so that his sick wife can be moved up it.
* InSeriesNickname: "Lucky."
* InterruptedSuicide: In his final appearance, his life has gone to crap again, leading him to nearly jump off of a bridge before being interrupted by the ghost of Carson Churchill.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Michael can be very crude and obnoxious, but at the end of the day he will do the right thing, he just needs a bit of a nudge in the right direction sometimes.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Joe very clearly dislikes him, seeing him as as a loser and a bad influence, and only just barely tolerates him for Allison's sake.
* PhonyPsychic: While he does have actual powers, the advice that he gave people who called his psychic hotline tended to just be whatever random crap that popped into his head.

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* RapunzelHair: Ariel, who apparently [[ImportantHaircut cut it off]] after her mom recovered. That's a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the actress had already cut it for a movie in which her character underwent chemotherapy.


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* LittleMissSnarker: When she was younger.

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* ISeeDeadPeople: Allison does, and eventually, so do her daughters.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In the season 2 finale "Twice Upon a Time," Allison dreams what life would be like if she married her old childhood friend instead of Joe after being throughly embarrassed at a court hearing [[spoiler: which turns out to also be part of a dream]], which gives her a clue as to how the impossible appeared to be possible.
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Allison dreams of [[TalkingAnimal talking pigs]], and after being tortured by [[{{Squick}} squealing sandwiches]] feels compelled to save a pig named Barney from the slaughterhouse. [[spoiler:It turns out that what could happen to Barney isn't as important as ''who was fed to him.'']]
* LivingLieDetector
** In one episode where [[spoiler:Allison hears a buzzer sound in her head]] whenever someone tells a lie.
** There are times when Allison sees what really happened in her head when someone is lying to her face.
* MamaBear: Allison Kung-fu's a bunch of muggers: "Don't you dare mess with my kids' pictures." [[spoiler:Sadly that wasn't even just a dream -- she was knocked out by the muggers.]]
* ModestyBedsheet: Pretty much every other time Allison wakes up. If you pay close attention, whenever she and Joe get "friendly" as they're going to bed, when she later wakes up from a dream, the bedsheet will be the only thing covering her.
* MuggleMageRomance: The titular medium is married to an ordinary man.
* MurderByInaction: In one episode, a young Allison has visions about one of her friends. She sees that, by knocking on his door, she will stop him from killing himself, and many years later he will rape and murder teenage girls. So a few days later, she decides to not interrupt his suicide.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Played with. Allison appears to have much more powerful abilities than even she anticipates given how much her psychic nature branches out into lie detection, seeing the future, and even body-swapping. However, this is usually given some variant on thematic significance, which suggests that is how she got those powers.
* NightmareDreams: Allison's visions are standard examples.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Sometimes Allison's powers lead her to irrational/illegal courses of action... e.g. [[spoiler:when she shows up at a woman's house in the middle of the night, ''maces her'', and kidnaps her baby. Though Allison was just following a vague GutFeeling at the time, it later turns out that because she kidnapped the baby, the cops were there to arrest a second set of kidnappers who were planning to ransom and sell the baby. As a result, the mother decides not to testify against her.]]
* OrganAutonomy: In one episode, Allison gets a skin graft on her hand and wrist after burning herself. It turns out the skin came from a murdered woman who wants to help Allison solve the crime, although her "help" usually takes the form of doing things with the affected hand without Allison having any idea why (including, at one point, ''undoing the pants of a dead man laying in a coffin'').
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In one of the episodes it was revealed that Alison [[spoiler: was pregnant with a baby boy and had a miscarriage]]
* PolicePsychic: The main character, Allison, can talk with the dead and often has dreams of the past or future. Once she convinces the D.A.'s office that her gift is real, she is allowed to tag along on police investigations.
* PropheticFallacy: It would be easier to list the episodes where this trope doesn't come into play. Allison's dreams are usually vague at first, and she has a tendency to jump to conclusions about their meanings.
* RapunzelHair: Ariel, who apparently [[ImportantHaircut cut it off]] after her mom recovered. That's a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the actress had already cut it for a movie in which her character underwent chemotherapy.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
** Any dreams where time travel or alternate futures appear to be involved, such as Allison's vision of a post-apocalyptic world [[spoiler: actually what a kidnapper/CrazySurvivalist wants his young victims to think]], or Ariel [[spoiler:suddenly finding herself 10, then 17 years in the future after her teacher is murdered]].
** Or a literal episode where she's working on a murder and just so happens to reacquaint with a childhood friend and at the same time begins dreaming about when she first met him [[spoiler:she quickly finds out he's likely behind the murder and others and in a dream alters time to stop herself from interrupting his suicide attempt.]]
* ShoutOut: Allison finds a [[Film/TheyLive pair of sunglasses]] that show [[Manga/DeathNote how long a person has to live]].
* SnapBack: Between Allison's visions and her normal everyday life.
* SoundtrackDissonance:
** When Allison hears the stirring opening strings of Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" when she [[spoiler:sees items that can be the components of a bomb.]]
** She also hears a cheerful song while watching [[spoiler:her IllGirl friend from therapy being killed by the doctor.]]
* TerribleTicking: In the beginning of the Season 2 episode "The Song Remains the Same", Allison hears a loud song in her head. The song repeats itself over and over until it subtly guides her to [[spoiler: the iPod of a missing college student who was listening to the song before her abduction.]]
* TogetherInDeath: The SeriesFinale [[spoiler:has Joe die in a plane crash and Alison joins him 41 years later, after seeing the girls grow up and have families of their own; in death, they both appear in their mid-thirties and share a happy hello kiss.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: Inverted, since Allison's abilities are widely accepted as completely normal even though she's the only one (in earlier seasons) with these abilities. Anyone who knows about her secret, including her own husband, still makes wise-cracks about it.
* WeWouldHaveToldYouBut: Scanlon does this to Allison when the psychic SerialKiller reaches her house, by making it look like the cop-cars meant to protect her were backing off. Then, after telling Allison it'll still be another ten minutes before he can come help her, Scanlon arrives seconds later to her rescue, revealing the whole squad had been waiting for the right time to do so all along and that telling her would have jeopardized their plan.
* WhatIf: "Twice Upon a Time" shows Allison's life if she had become a defense attorney and married, not Joe, but an earlier boyfriend who turned out to be career-minded and unsupportive.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Allison keeps a lot of guilty secrets, especially like the WellIntentionedExtremist FBI profiler played by [[Series/That70sShow Kurtwood Smith ("Red")]] who lets his prey go only to kill them later himself.]]



* IsThatAThreat: In "Penny for Your Thoughts," when Ariel's math teacher tells Joe that she believes Ariel cheated on an estimation problem because she got exactly the right number and must have looked in his book on his desk where he'd written it down, Joe points out that the odds of someone having done so, with 25 kids in the class, were 1/40. When the teacher continues to insist that she must have cheated, Joe says that if she's penalized, he'll go over his head and the teacher asks "Are you threatening me, Mr. Dubois?"
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Joe in the series finale (which kind of doesn't seem fair to the real-life Joe) and eventually Allison.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: The titular medium is married to an ordinary man.
* OnlySaneMan: His wife has these crazy dreams, to which he generally makes reasonable suggestions, only to have them ignored.
* TogetherInDeath: The SeriesFinale [[spoiler:has Joe die in a plane crash and Alison joins him 41 years later, after seeing the girls grow up and have families of their own; in death, they both appear in their mid-thirties and share a happy hello kiss.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: Now that [[spoiler:Allison's children have abilities too]], Joe has become this.



* KarmaHoudini: Devalos breaks attorney-client privilege, an offense that could get a defense lawyer not only fired but ''disbarred for life'', by submitting to the prosecution evidence against his client, a serial rapist. He not only gets away with this, but goes on to become an assistant district attorney. As it turns out, [[spoiler: ItsPersonal, the client had raped his daughter]] and she ended up [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself out of guilt]] for not reporting the assault, which could have spared his later victims.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Devalos' revenge for his daughter on ''his own client''. Lucky to not get disbarred for that...]]



* HotForStudent: Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for Ariel: [[spoiler:her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so, but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen.]]\\\
''The very next episode,'' Ariel starts losing time ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''-style, jumping hours, then ''years'' into the future where she's HappilyMarried to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. [[spoiler:She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years -- where her mother is ''dead'', killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's ''the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband '''who's about to kill her''''' -- and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage babydaddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover). Also, despite now knowing it was all just a dream, Ariel really loved her daughter.]] Needless to say, after all that Ariel really, really needs a hug.
* JumpCut: Used fairly cleverly: a boy offers Ariel the use of his car as a napping area between exams; she begins to turn him down but in mid-sentence we cut to her waking up in the car. It's then revealed that this wasn't a jump-cut, is was literally how she experienced the moment, and her life starts jump-cutting further and further and further, well into her twenties. [[ForegoneConclusion Naturally]] it turned out to be AllJustADream.
* LittleMissSnarker: When she was younger.
* SiblingYinYang: [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Bridget and Ariel]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Bridget and Ariel, in a very downplayed and normal case of TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry.



* MediumBlending: It turns out that [[spoiler:Bridgette has Mommy's abilities, too]], but all of her premonitions are in the form of extremely chilling (and violent) cartoons.
* SiblingYinYang: [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Bridget and Ariel]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Bridget and Ariel, in a very downplayed and normal case of TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Scanlon delivers one of these to an abusive father [[WhatTheHellHero in front of his (the abuser's) terrified wife and son]].
* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler:Scanlon is shot in the gut to his dead brother's delight, but Scanlon (being dead at the time) can see the future a bit farther then his brother and knows he'll be revived.]]
* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:Detective Scanlon and his rapist ex-con older brother.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Scanlon allowed his rapist brother to be killed by Vigilante Woman [[Series/That70sShow Laura Prepon ("Donna")]], although no one knew at the time. Later, driven to the edge of sleep deprivation by his brother's ghost, he beats up an abusive father in front of his family and later threatens to reveal the wife's dark past to the DA (though that ''might'' be the brother talking).]]




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* RefusalOfTheCall: Allison's half-brother Michael a.k.a. "Lucky" is in denial about his powers, though that doesn't keep the plot from finding him. Allison herself used to drink to block her powers when she was younger. In an episode from the final season, he ends up straightening his life out with some help from a ghost who takes over his body, but has to work with Allison to defeat the ghost's sinister agenda.




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* VigilanteMan: [[Series/That70sShow Kurtwood Smith ("Red") and Laura Prepon ("Donna")]]'s characters, [[spoiler:an FBI profiler and a rape victim-turned-self defense instructor (who haven't met, seeing as Red died before Allison met Donna), kill serial killers and rapists, respectively.]]




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* BadSamaritan: This was his InUniverseNickname, derived from his habit of preying on women while they are alone and in distress (one broke her ankle while out hiking alone while another's car broke down on the highway in the middle of the night, for examples).
* CouldntFindAPen: After murdering one victim, he used her blood to taunt Allison with the message, "Wrong roommate, Allison."
* DramaticIrony: In his debut, he is unaware that his car has a bad oil leak, and by the end of the story, it conks out, leaving him stranded, alone and in distress, on the side of the highway in the middle of the night, just like one of his victims.
* EvilCounterpart: One of the show's two evil psychics, he used his powers to harm people in need, in contrast to Allison, who uses her powers to help people in need.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He has glasses in his second appearance, and they make him look kind of like Jeffrey Dahmer.
* GreatEscape: After foreseeing that a passenger airplane will crash into the prison that he is currently being held in, Sonny uses the chaos caused by the crash to escape, after dousing his cell and everything in it with rubbing alcohol before swapping clothes with another prisoner.
* HarassingPhoneCall: He makes two of these to Allison, one of which ends with the reveal that he is right outside of her house, while the other unnerves her to the point that she is unable to sleep, which allows Sonny to claim another victim without having to worry about Allison dreaming about him or her.
* HiddenDepths: He has a thing for accents, something that we learn in "We Had a Dream."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In his first appearance, he was just called "The Bad Samaritan" and credited as "Caller."
* SerialKiller: He had at least six known victims at the time of his death, all of them women that he had raped and usually strangled.
* SerialRapist: He rapes his victims orally, vaginally, and anally.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: After Allison foils one of his murder attempts, Sonny calls her from right outside of her house.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He was the show's most frequently appearing antagonist, but also just an unscrupulous attorney, and thus a far cry from the usual rapists, killers, kidnappers, gangsters, etc. (he did defend those types of people in court, though).
* AmoralAttorney: His schemes include having a murder victim's twin sister impersonate her, and having a mole in the DA's office leak information to him.
* AntagonisticOffspring: His own son tried to frame him for sexual impropriety and murder, and it is hard not to feel at least a little sorry for Watt when this is revealed to him by Allison and Devalos.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: While prominent in the first two seasons, he was dropped without much fanfare afterward, making only one further appearance in Season Five.


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* BelatedBackstory: While we did get the gist of his crimes and death in his first appearance, it was not until his third and final one that we got to see glimpses of his life, including his StartOfDarkness.
* TheButcher: In life, he was known as "The Butcher of Wichita."
* TheCorrupter: After finding a psychically sensitive person, usually a male doctor, he spends anything from weeks to years acting as the Devil on their shoulder, encouraging them to rape and disembowel a young girl before abandoning them and moving on to another proxy.
* DespairEventHorizon: His wife, Maude, was his MoralityChain, and after she died, Charles gave in to his darkest impulses, which helped to suppress his pain and grief over losing Maude.
* DraggedOffToHell: The unseen spirit of his wife Maude pulls him out of their descendant, Jack, and into the afterlife. While it was implied that Charles could return, he never did.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: While he did assault his mother during a moment of blind emotion, when he snapped back to his senses, he looked shocked, and apologized. Later, when his mother visits him in jail, the two hold hands as Charles tries to console her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His mother and his wife, Maude. This only extends to them, though, as he was wholly indifferent to his son and his descendant, Jack.
* FalseFriend: For Ariel in "Doctor's Orders." He acts as her confidante while pretending to be a new librarian at her school, but only as part of a plan to manipulate Allison.
* FamilialBodySnatcher: He possesses his own descendant, Jack, in "Blood Relation."
* FauxAffablyEvil: He almost always has a polite veneer, and at one point even refers to Allison as his "old friend."
* GrandTheftMe: He usually just acts as a voice in a person's head, but he is capable of full on possession, performing it on Doctor Kenneth Holloway, Elisha, and Jack Walker.
* GuttedLikeAFish: His preferred method of murdering someone was by disemboweling them, with a blade or just his bare hands.
* IdenticalGrandson: His descendant, Jack, looks exactly like him, due to also being played by Mark Sheppard.
* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: When his wife Maude died giving birth, Charles ignored his newborn son in favor of cradling and weeping over Maude's body. He apparently abandoned his son afterward.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Though it is implied that he is not a real doctor, and that he just pretended to be one to lure in victims and because he has a medical fetish.
* SerialKiller: He murdered fourteen girls in life, and several more through proxies as a ghost.
* SerialRapist: He rapes, or sometimes just molests, his victims before killing them.
* WouldHurtAChild: He targets adolescent girls, with the youngest being 12.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He abandons his proxies after finally making them snap and rape and kill someone, and coerced one girl into killing herself because, even though she was more or less completely under his control, she was simply too "stupid" to be of any further use to him after Charles used her to get close to his descendant, Jack.

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The protagonist, a would-be lawyer turned psychic consultant for Phoenix's District Attorney.



An aeronautical engineer, and Allison's husband.



The District Attorney of Phoenix, and Allison's boss.



The eldest of the three [=DuBois=] daughters.



The middle [=DuBois=] daughter.



A slightly gruff Phoenix PD Detective who frequently works with Allison and Devalos.



The youngest of the [=DuBois=] daughters.



A hebephilic serial rapist and killer who was lynched in 1902.

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An assistant to the Mayor of Phoenix who begins dating and eventually marries Scanlon.



->'''Played By:''' Creator/RyanHurst / Creator/DavidArquette

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Allison's loutish half-brother who has also inherited the [=DuBois=] family's psychic gift.



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A Captain of the Texas Rangers who has helped Allison on a few cases.



One of Ariel's school friends.



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Joe's deceased father, a businessman who never had much time for his family, something which he is trying to make up for in death by acting as an occasional SpiritAdvisor to Allison.



Joe's doting mother.



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Devalos's devoted wife.



->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnProsky

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An out-of-state District Attorney who replaces Devalos in Season Four.



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The head of a crime hotline called ''Ameritips'' that Allison works for in Season Four.



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Ariel's high school friend.



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->'''Played By:''' Creator/TonyCurran

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DeanNorris

Detective Lee Scanlon's older brother, and a SerialRapist.

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Detective Lee Scanlon's older brother, and a SerialRapist.

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->Played by: Creator/MiguelSandoval




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->Played by: Creator/RyanHurst / Creator/DavidArquette




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->Played by: Creator/JohnProsky




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->Played by: Creator/AnjelicaHuston




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! Main Characters:



!!Allison [=DuBois=]



!!Joe [=DuBois=]



!!Manuel Devalos



!!Ariel [=DuBois=]



!!Bridgette [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/MariaLark

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!!Bridgette [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/MariaLarkMaria Lark



!!Lee Scanlon



!!Marie [=DuBois=]



! Recurring Characters:



!!Lynn [=DiNovi=]
->Played by: Creator/TinaDiJoseph

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!!Lynn [=DiNovi=]
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!!Michael Benoit



!!Kenneth Push



!!Hannah



!!Mr. [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/BruceGray

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!!Mr. [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/BruceGrayBruce Gray



!!Marjorie [=DuBois=]



[[folder:Edward Cooper]]
!!Edward Cooper
->Played by: Creator/KurtwoodSmith
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[[folder:Julian Pierce]]
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Zak Lee Guarnaccia



[[folder:Julian Pierce]]
!!Julian Pierce
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!!Lily Devalos
->Played by: Creator/RoxanneHart

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!!Tom Van Dyke



!!Cynthia Keener



!!Ashley Whitaker
->Played by: Creator/AnnamarieKenoyer

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!!Ashley Whitaker
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[[folder:Larry Watt]]
->Played by: Creator/ConorOFarrell

An unscrupulous defense attorney who has frequently butted heads with Allison and Devalos.

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[[folder:Doctor Charles Walker]]
->Played by: Creator/MarkSheppard

A hebephilic serial rapist and killer who was lynched in 1902.

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[[folder:Sonny Troyer]]
->Played by: Jim Holmes / Creator/EricStoltz

An evil psychic who uses his powers to prey on women as "The BadSamaritan."

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[[folder:Edward Cooper]]
->Played by: Creator/KurtwoodSmith
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A famed FBI profiler who leads a double life as a VigilanteMan.

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[[folder:Lucas Harvey]]
->Played by Creator/TonyCurran

A mechanic and religious fanatic who believes that psychics are blasphemous and tools of the Devil.

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[[folder:Paul Scanlon]]
->Played by: Creator/DeanNorris

Detective Lee Scanlon's older brother, and a SerialRapist.

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->Played by: Maria Lark

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->Played by: Tina [=DiJoseph=]

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->Played by: Bruce Gray

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->Played by: Zak Lee Guarnaccia


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->Played by: John Prosky

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->Played by: Annamarie Kenoyer

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->Played by: Arliss Howard

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->Played by: Holliston Coleman

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[[folder:Allison [=DuBois=]]]
!!Allison [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/PatriciaArquette
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* ActionGirl: Subverted. In one episode, Allison seems to be fighting off a group of muggers as if she were [[{{Series/XenaWarriorPrincess}} Xena]]. But in fact everything after the initial confrontation was a dream she had after actually getting beaten up.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: {{Averted}}, or possibly even ''{{Inverted}}''. The real Alison Dubois is actually very attractive, and Patricia Arquette, while certainly not bad-looking, made an effort to present the ''character' Allison as just an average, unglamorous mom.
* BilingualDialogue: Allison gets a case of faulty TranslatorMicrobes that make everyone sound as if they're speaking gibberish (she can still speak and read English) except for a professor who speaks Navajo. [[spoiler:It turns out that she and her assistant killed a pair of Navajo bank robbers after hearing them brag in Diné. [[KarmicDeath She gets hers later]] when she escapes to a foreign country and doesn't notice someone paying attention to her while she's bragging to Allison in English.]]
* BlatantLies: Allison claiming to sleeping normally in the episode she had to be slapped out of sleepwalking at a highway by Joe.
* TheCassandra: Subverted, by this point everyone who matters (except Joe and his wrecked sleep cycle) takes Allison's visions seriously.
* CatapultNightmare: How Allison frequently awakens from her psychic dreams.
* CirclingBirdies: In "A Changed Man," Allison falls and hits her head. Bridgette asks if she saw stars, or planets, or these. Ariel tells her that they're only cartoons, [[DiscussedTrope Bridgette insists that they could be in real life too]].
* DeusExMachina: Aside from Allison herself, "divine intervention" for already-dead foes has appeared twice [[spoiler:against the mad doctor and Allison's psychic-hating stalker]].
* DisguisedHostageGambit: Allison manages to avert one thanks to her dreams.
* EmergencyBroadcast: The season 7 episode "Where Were You When?" contains an instance of it, inside of one of Allison DuBois' [[CatapultNightmare catapult nightmares]]. Allison is standing in the kitchen where her daughters are having breakfast while watching cartoons on television, when an Emergency Action Notification interrupts the programme. It causes Allison to have an OhCrap moment: her reaction is a SlowMotionDrop of the glass of milk she was holding, followed by a horrified scream.
* HappilyMarried: Allison and Joe, who have very few marital problems despite the intense stress that Allison's career and powers put upon them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joe [=DuBois=]]]
!!Joe [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/JakeWeber
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Joe's extreme skepticism and inhumane insistence that Allison think things through almost fall into irrational... except for the numerous times he is ''dead right'', which ironically gives him just enough credibility to insist on doing the same when it will not work.
* BeardOfSorrow: Joe appears to grow a lovely example at the start of Season Six. Naturally, it's all a dream.
* DeadpanSnarker:
--> '''Bridgette''': What's a 401K plan?
--> '''Joe''': About half of what it used to be.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Joe first meets Captain Push, his first comment to Allison is that he thought the great Captain Push would be taller. He later admits that he got taller as the night went on.
* HappilyMarried: Allison and Joe, who have very few marital problems despite the intense stress that Allison's career and powers put upon them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manuel Devalos]]
!!Manuel Devalos
->Played by: Creator/MiguelSandoval
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* AmbitionIsEvil: When Devalos is tapped to become mayor of Phoenix, he wants to know his wife's best friend's husband Benito, a very ambitious but politically weak councilman, won't use their wives' personal information against him. Benito implies that he will (he knows about both Ariana's suicide and [[spoiler:Mrs. Devalos's subsequent pill addiction that she later beat (thankfully he doesn't know why Ariana killed herself)]]) so Devalos counters with [[spoiler:$25,000 in stolen funds for an abortion for Benito's comely campaign worker.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ariel [=DuBois=]]]
!!Ariel [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Creator/SofiaVassilieva
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* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "Night of the Wolf," Ariel and Bridgette have a very loud and extended one regarding whether not Bridgette's friend Bobby is real. (Bobby ''is'' real, but he's the ghost of a boy who died five years before, thus why most people can't see him.)
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Ariel is pregnant seven years in the future.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Only some of the time, though. Allison and Joe are clearly happy that she's turning into such a mature, responsible young woman.
* HeelRealization: Who's about to leave for college, is annoyed with Bridgette apparently not caring and even seeming somewhat glad she's going to be leaving. When Ariel confronts her about it, Bridgette bluntly explains that all Ariel has ever done is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech relentlessly tease or bully her..and that's whenever she wasn't outright ignoring Bridgette]], causing Ariel to realize that she's missed out on forming any kind of meaningful or loving bond with her eldest younger sister up to this point.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bridgette [=DuBois=]]]
!!Bridgette [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Maria Lark
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mediumbridgette_dubois.jpg]]

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* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "Night of the Wolf," Ariel and Bridgette have a very loud and extended one regarding whether not Bridgette's friend Bobby is real. (Bobby ''is'' real, but he's the ghost of a boy who died five years before, thus why most people can't see him.)
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: The mantle has long since been passed to her after Ariel.
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[[folder:Lee Scanlon]]
!!Lee Scanlon
->Played by: David Cubitt
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lee_scanlon_s1.jpg]]

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* AbusiveParents: On a more regular level, are.
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[[folder:Marie [=DuBois=]]]
!!Marie [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Madison and Miranda Carabello
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: [[spoiler:In the future, she's angry that her dad never visited after he died (this was a dream, unfortunately it was sent from the afterlife).]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lynn [=DiNovi=]]]
!!Lynn [=DiNovi=]
->Played by: Tina [=DiJoseph=]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Michael Benoit]]
!!Michael Benoit
->Played by: Creator/RyanHurst / Creator/DavidArquette
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kenneth Push]]
!!Kenneth Push
->Played by: Arliss Howard
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[[folder:Hannah]]
!!Hannah
->Played by: Holliston Coleman
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. [=DuBois=]]]
!!Mr. [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Bruce Gray
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marjorie [=DuBois=]]]
!!Marjorie [=DuBois=]
->Played by: Kathy Baker
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edward Cooper]]
!!Edward Cooper
->Played by: Creator/KurtwoodSmith
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Julian Pierce]]
!!Julian Pierce
->Played by: Zak Lee Guarnaccia


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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lily Devalos]]
!!Lily Devalos
->Played by: Roxanne Hart
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tom Van Dyke]]
!!Tom Van Dyke
->Played by: John Prosky
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cynthia Keener]]
!!Cynthia Keener
->Played by: Creator/AnjelicaHuston
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ah1.jpg]]

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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ashley Whitaker]]
!!Ashley Whitaker
->Played by: Annamarie Kenoyer
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