Afterlife

Robert's skepticism has been severely shaken by what he witnessed at the séance, and he is unable to reconcile what he saw with what he has always believed. Confused, he asks Alison for answers but she is still weak and can't cope with Robert's relentless demands for explanations about the afterlife.

When a series of prison suicides seem to have a supernatural cause, Robert and Alison try to help. Among the inmates they meet serial murderer Ian Garland. He thinks he has found a kindred spirit in Alison and delights in telling her all about the Rat Man, the malevolent spirit who urges him to commit his horrendous crimes.

Martin is worried about his baby son. While his wife Ruth is at work, Martin stays at home looking after him. But he has started to hear a disembodied voice over the baby monitor, a sinister presence whispering nursery rhymes to his child. Risking his wife's ridicule, Martin contacts Alison for help. Back at Alison's house, Robert witnesses her increasingly odd behavior.

Jonathan is worried when his fiancée Lucy begins to suffer from a mysterious skin disease, the same illness that killed his first wife. When doctors cannot provide a diagnosis Jonathan searches out Alison, desperate to avoid Lucy dying the same painful death. But as Lucy's condition deteriorates, Alison struggles with a spirit of her own - the ghost of her dead mother who is taking over her life.

Post-graduate student Gemma is still mourning her friend Beth who died when an intruder broke into their flat. She asks Alison to help her talk to her friend, but after Alison makes contact a more sinister and unexpected figure begins to haunt Gemma - the ghost of Beth's attacker. Robert's illness has forced him to focus on how best to spend the time he has left.

No longer having the strength to fight against it, Alison is now re-enacting the same madness her mother experienced before her death and is on the verge of a complete breakdown. Knowing that Alison hasn't seen her father since she was ten years old, Robert tracks him down, believing that he holds the key to understanding why Alison thinks her mother is coming back to haunt her.

Having helped Alison confront her past, Robert is now able to make the final preparations for his own death. But there is still one person who doesn't know about his tumor - Alison. Since laying her mother's ghost to rest, Alison is experiencing a new sort of peace - she hasn't sensed any spirits at all. So when sixteen-year-old Harry comes to her for help, she is not sure what use she will be.

Alison is trying to recover from the trauma of the night before, when she believes she was visited by Robert's sprit. Assuming he must be dead, she tries to track him down and ends up at the local hospital. There, Alison discovers that Robert has collapsed and is in the intensive care unit, his heart having stopped momentarily the night before, precisely at the time she was visited by his spirit.