Afterlife session 1

Psychic medium Alison Mundy arrives in Bristol and,at her first public session,communicates with the mother of student Veronica Vass,who died in a suicide pact with her husband. Veronica's tutor,psychology lecturer Robert Bridge,is cynical of fake mediums and goes to see Alison to tell her she is not helping Veronica. He is not prepared for Alison's disclosure that she knows he accidentally killed his little boy. Veronica kills herself but Alison sees her shade and tells Robert she is happy to be reunited with her parents. As Alison tells Robert she feels her gift is a curse he relaxes his attitude towards her.

After schoolgirl Carly Tufnell goes missing her shade appears to Alison in a supermarket. From the information Carly gives Alison the police are able to locate the corpse but Alison asserts that Carly will not be at peace until her killer is punished. Working with D.I. George Alison obtains photos of suspects for Carly to identify and an arrest is made though the speculative opinions of a medium have no legal power and the man is released. However Alison is vindicated when Carly's ghost takes revenge on the murderer. Robert's ex-wife meanwhile accuses him of being unable to move on following the death of their son Josh and he is unsympathetic when Alison tells him that Josh needs to speak to him before he can pass over.

Allison becomes involved with a young man diagnosed with schizophrenia, but she suspects he is not insane, but haunted.

Allison gets a job at a local assisted living home and discovers one of the other staff is being haunted by a recently departed resident.

Alison is approached by Sandra Petch who believes her flat is haunted,so Alison moves in with her and witnesses the shades of a man and wife,the husband smothering the woman with a pillow. Robert also shows up to observe and sees Alison living through the murder but is convinced she is having a nightmare. Later Sandra proves to be an investigative journalist out to show Alison up as a fraud though the 'ghosts' will have the last word. Angry with the journalist for tricking Alison Robert nonetheless refuses to believe his son Josh is trying to reach him and argues with ex-wife Jude,who suspects he is seeing Alison to get in touch with Josh.

Alison is contacted by a group of people led by Irene Moser,all of whom lost relatives in the 7.59 from Manchester train crash in 1999. Alison was also on board,her womb was damaged,making her barren but it was after this event that she gained her psychic powers. She consents to a seance at which the survivors will try to contact the deceased loved ones and Robert,ducking out of Jude's party with her new man,goes too. Here he receives a message from Josh to shake his cynicism but the pressure on Alison sends her into unconsciousness.