She comes to find that she is not alone, gains acceptance into the quirky family, and begins to harness her raw powers. By the end of the episode, she has taken a trip to the spirit world, danced with Diane's corpse, and become Diane for a spell. Thanks for finding me. This movement from skepticism to faith is a reliable source of dramatic tension and, therefore, a staple of the show. Marian's colleagues are hip to the cheesy, crackpot reputation of psychics.
Survey research is also apparently on their side.
But the fantasies it provides are telling. The Others may be a series of ghost stories, and pretty fun ones at that, but it takes its place much less in the genres of horror and science fiction than in the genre of New Age pop spiritualism. It's keeping me here. Meanwhile, a house turns out to be haunted and set on fire by its owner's late husband, but only so he can lead his widow to a hidden pile of money. On another episode, Satori goes to visit a woman whose husband and baby have been in an auto accident.