Afterlife

Though deeply skeptical of psychics, Robert takes his students to an 'evening of clairvoyance' where he meets Alison Mundy. When Alison's readings provoke an adverse reaction in one of Robert's students he begins to study her with the intention of writing a book about her. But Robert is completely thrown when Alison claims to the see the spirit of his own dead son.

Eight-year-old Carly Tufnell has gone missing and the police have no leads whatsoever. Her distraught parents make an emotional televised appeal, desperate to know whether their daughter is alive or dead. At the supermarket the next day, Alison is frozen to the spot when she sees Carly's ghost standing in front of her, dripping wet and shivering…

Robert and Alison are visiting a hospital psychiatric unit where they meet Daniel who has been there since his girlfriend was attacked. He desperately tries to persuade Alison that he wasn't the one responsible for the assault, that it was the other Daniel, Daniel Two. The doctors have diagnosed Daniel as a pathologically violent schizophrenic, but Alison isn't so sure.

Desperate to regain some kind of balance in her life, finds work at an old people's home, relishing in the normality of a nine to five routine. But escape from the spirits isn't so simple. Alison befriends fellow nurse Connor, who is clearly troubled by a former patient, Ellen, who asked him to help her die a peaceful death. When he refused she took her own life, jumping from her bedroom window.

Sandra Petch is desperate for Alison's help. She thinks her flat is haunted and is petrified by the sights and sounds that surround her. When Alison comes round to try and help, she witnesses the terrifying tableau of a husband smothering his wife to death, two spirits locked in a repeated loop of domestic violence which Alison can do nothing to stop.

The survivors of the train crash which nearly killed her six years ago beg Alison to help them contact the spirits of those they lost. Terrified she won't survive returning to a moment of such great trauma, she asks Robert for his help. In a terrifying and emotional climax to the season, both Robert and Alison come into contact with the afterlife in a way that will change their lives forever.