The movie starts off with ominous music and a glimpse of what seems
to be a cramped up, dusty space. The walls get torn open by a couple of people.
They use hammers to tear down the wall of the place and plan to make something out of it.
The next scene is Sam and Carl, friends and co-workers who enter their place of work.
In the elevator, a lot of people get cramped up in a small space and the two
friends play a little prank, by talking about the contagious sickness and rash
around the private area that Carl has. They cheekily laugh about it while getting out.
Molly, Sam’s girlfriend and his and Carl’s friend is at her place of work,
when Sam comes in and offers her a hand. He has also invited Carl to help them.
Turns out, it’s not Molly’s place of work, she is renovating her and Sam’s house with various
statues that she crafted herself. At night, Molly and Sam lay in their
beds together. Sam seems to have a lot on his mind, and he confesses that he is afraid that
something bad is going to happen. Molly sits alone in her office,
making pottery while some music plays. Shes there because she couldn’t sleep.
Sam comes to sit behind her and watches her make the pottery with wet clay. He ruins
the shape of it and they giggle, then he offers to help her.
Their fingers intertwine as she playfully teaches him the craft. He seems to have other
motives as he runs his fingers along her arms and they kiss, full of lust and make love.
The next morning, Sam tells Carl about a secret that he figured out,
about some accounts having too many funds. When Carl offers to help, Sam says he should
do it instead because its like a vendetta. When Carl asks what him and Molly are doing tonight,
Sam tells him they're going to see Macbeth. On the way back after the play,
Molly tells Sam that she really wants to marry him and they should just go for it.
Molly asks him why he never says he loves her, instead he always says “ditto” but
Sam tries to tell her that even if people say it all the time, it hardly means anything.
Just then, a shady man comes up behind them and points his gun at Sam,
asking for his wallet. The man slaps Molly in the face, causing Sam to fight the armed man.
Molly screams from behind to stop, but seeing his girlfriend hurt infuriates
Sam to the point where he has to fight. There is a sound of a gunshot and the thief
runs away. Sam runs after him but after losing him he goes back to Molly to see
her crying over his lifeless body! He cannot believe his eyes as he watches
Molly hold his own bloody and lifeless corpse, sprawled on the ground.
Molly hysterically calls someone to help while holding her husband’s dead body.
Sam’s spirit seems to be in turmoil, he seems to be hallucinating. Seeing Molly in bed, and then
seeing a white light over him, but he soon regains consciousness and watches his wife take his body
to the hospital where the police and detectives approach her gently for questioning.
An old man comes up to Sam and tells him to get used to this new feeling.
They both sit down and watch as another man loses his life at the hospital.
A nurse walks right through Sam, he shrieks thinking he will bump into him but he does not.
Later, he goes to his own funeral, seeing Molly and his friend Carl cry.
The ghost of an unknown woman beckons him closer but he ignores it.
Later on, while sadly doing pottery, Molly talks about Sam,
and how she can still feel him. She is too much in pain and cannot get over her lover’s death.
Sam tries talking to her, but the cat shrieks at him. Animals have this ability to feel spirits,
and Sam can tell his and Molly’s cat can see him. The cat runs away after awhile,
causing Molly to call it crazy. The next day, Carl and Molly sort
through Sam’s things, and Carl advises Molly to go out sometime. She, in her
distress slaps him and then apologizes. He accepts it and they walk outside.
Sam tries to follow them by walking through a door for the first time, but his nerves get the better
of him. Just then, the same man who killed Sam enters Molly’s house using a key! It is a mystery
how he had it in the first place. Just then as he is roaming the house,
Molly walks back in. Sam tries to warn her but h is unable to.
So he does what he thinks is best, he scares the cat into scratching the thief’s face,
who runs out quickly. Sam musters up the courage and
runs through the door, after the thief. He follows him into the subway but gets
attacked by a scary looking man. The weird man throws Sam around,
screaming at him to get out of the subway because it is apparently his.
After the train stops, the thief and him both exit and Sam follows him into a run down old building,
noticing that his name is Willie Lopez. Willie sits on his bed and calls someone,
notifying the person on the phone that he “wasn’t able to get it.”
Sam tries asking him what he wants from their house, but of course Willie cannot hear him.
Sam leaves the building and walks around, coming across a board that reads ‘spiritual advisor.’
He walks inside and into a room. There, an old woman, Mrs. Santiago sits,
wanting to talk to her dead husband. The spiritual advisor, a black woman in shiny yellow clothing
who introduces herself as Oda Mae. Oda Mae tricks the Mrs. Santiago
into believing that she really has power to talk to dead spirits.
Sam, who is witnessing all this scoffs and calls Oda Mae a ripoff. Surprisingly,
his comments make Oda Mae’s head turn, who thinks it is her assistant making the snide remarks.
Oda Mae gets freaked out by the voice she can hear and runs around in her room, hiding in
her closet. But she hits her head and faints. Back in her apartment, Oda Mae’s assistants tend
to her while thinking peculiarly of the distressed woman, who is now talking easily to Sam.
Sam asks her to help Molly by warning her of the man who broke into their house. Reluctantly,
Oda calls Molly but after hearing that Sam has a message for her, she hangs up the phone.
Sam tells Oda to go to Molly’s house, but she refuses. While she is trying to sleep,
Sam keeps pestering her by singing loudly. Finally have had enough,
she agrees to go to Molly’s. The next day, Oda and Sam arrive at their
building and ring the intercom, but Molly still doesn't answer, probably thinking its a scam.
Funnily, Oda stands downstairs on the road and screams secrets only Sam and Molly would know,
like the green underwear that Molly wrote her name on.
Molly finally opens the door for Oda Mae and invites her in.
They sit at a restaurant, but Molly still has a hard time believing Oda. That,
and she is so distressed after Sam’s death that she doesn't wanna be fooled again.
As Molly is leaving, Sam hurriedly tells Oda to say “ditto.” Hearing the
work he always used to say to her, Molly stops in her tracks. She takes Oda to
her apartment. There, Oda Mae and Sam have a little argument,
which Molly finds really weird because all she can see and hear is Oda arguing with herself.
After calming down, she relays Sam’s message to Molly. Which is basically
that he was murdered and he knows his killer. After hearing these details, Oda Mae gets a little
freaked out about everything and rushes out. Later that evening, Molly calls Carl and meets up
with him, but he calls everything fake. He tells Molly she is out of her mind.
Carl seems to be really against the idea of her taking any sort of action for the sake of Sam.
Carl offers to check it out himself and kisses Molly’s cheek, asking her to get some rest.
At night, Carl, followed by Sam heads to Willie Lopez’s house. Sam is disturbed
by the fact that Willie already knows Carl. He listens to their conversation with wide eyes,
realizing that it was his best friend Carl who got him killed! It is revealed that Carl’s intention
was only to steal Sam’s wallet, he apparently got greedy and wanted Sam’s money for himself.
Carl tells Willie to take care of the psychic woman, and leaves the building. Sam tries
punching Carl, screaming that he had a life too, but Carl doesn't hear him and drives off.
The next morning, Molly is at the police station telling the police everything,
but they do not seem to believe her. One of them agrees to check out Willie Lopez’s
record. The policeman finds nothing on Willie, but he does find a lot of record on Oda Mae,
including forgery and theft. Molly tears up at the station,
denying Oda Mae to be a liar, but the police officer consoles her, telling her
that dealing with the death of a loved one is indeed hard. Molly thanks him and leaves.
Back at his office, Carl Bruner tries several pass codes to Sam’s dealing and finally gets it
right. He calls someone who asks him to transfer the funds to an account by the
name of Rita Miller. Sam watches his friend
commit fraud with disappointment. At her house, Molly lays alone while Sam walks
in the apartment, wishing that Molly could hear him because he really needs her right now.
At that moment, there is someone at her door; its Carl. He apologizes for not believing her,
and assures her that he is still here as her friend. He brings her Japanese pears as a
peace offering and asks if he can have a cup of coffee at her place, she gladly lets him in.
Molly and Carl talk and he opens up about being tense, while Sam listens, calling him a snake.
On purpose, Carl spills coffee onto his shirt and takes it off. Sam watches disgustingly at
what his old friend is trying to do. Carl talks a bit with Molly before coming
close to her, sitting right beside her and touches her inappropriately.
Molly pushes him away while Sam does everything he can to stop what he is witnessing. She tells
Carl its too soon and asks him to leave, to which he obliges but asks her for dinner.
The next scene is Sam running across the subway and through to another to find the
weird man who beat him up before. The man can somehow move things,
and Sam asks him to teach him how to do it. The man takes Sam to an empty subway station and
gives him a reality check, that Sam is dead and will not be able to move things with his hands,
but he can with his eyes, through his brain. Sam attempts it but fails, causing the man to
laugh. Agitated, Sam tries again and this time, he gets it right! The sad looking man congratulates
him and then has him practice more. Sam asks the man how he died,
and he tells him he was pushed. Sam questions him further but the man grows hysterical,
breaking a cigarette machine and then running into a moving subway train,
screaming at Sam to leave him alone. The whole way back, Sam practices moving
objects with his mind. He goes to meet Oda Mae to find several people at her shop.
Turns out, after Sam talked to her, she can now somehow talk to ghosts,
they can even take over her body. A black man named Orlando takes over her body and speaks to
his wife. Oda Mae forces him out of her body and angrily tells everyone to get out.
After everyone is out, a man comes and sits across from her. Its Willie! He has come to
kill her. Oda Mae flips over her table and runs into her closet, while Willie
shoots at the door. She hides in a corner. Willie leaves, and Sam tells her to do something
for him, if she does it, she’ll be left alone. She agrees and he asks her if she has a good dress.
The next day, a dressed up Oda Mae goes to the bank with the ghost of Sam,
and sneaks under the name of Rita Miller. The receptionist asks her to sign a card and
Oda accidentally signs the wrong name. She asks for another card, to which the receptionist finds
weird, but nevertheless she does her job. Next, they go to see a man named Lyle Ferguson.
Oda once again sneaks with the name of Rita Miller. The whole time,
Sam advises her on what to say and what to do. They seem to make a good team!
Sam fills Oda Mae in on what type of guy Ferguson is, he calls the man stupid. The police officer
comes back to where they are standing and further questions Oda. Sam has already told
her the answer she should give him. Oda elaborates to the security guard that she
spent Christmas with Ferguson and his lovely wife. She seems to be chatty though, she over-elaborates
by talking of presents and tree ornaments. Sam, using his new powers pokes Oda on her waits.
She jumps a bit, something the security guard finds weird, but she covers it up
saying she gets a little gassy sometimes. Sam assures Oda that talking to Ferguson would
be a piece of cake, because apparently he was so drunk at the party where he met Rita Miller,
he would have talked to Tina Turner and not remembered it.
Ferguson gets up from his seat and smiles at Oda, beckoning her over. He greets her
and pretends to know her. Sam, from the back tells Oda to ask how Bobby and Snooky are doing,
to which Ferguson’s eyes light up and he answers that they are fine, thanking her for asking.
Next, Oda asks how he did on the Jibraulter’s securities and the man replies with a smile,
telling her they topped out on that. Ferguson asks what brings ‘Rita Miller’
here today, and Oda tells him she is closing an account today. He asks for her account number,
and Oda repeats the numbers after Sam. Ferguson’s eyes widen as he reads the total
balance in Rita Miller’s account, which is a whooping $4,000,000. He looks back at the face
of the woman with surprise, and then tells her she will be withdrawing 4 million dollars today!
Hearing how much money it is, Oda temporarily drops the act of Rita and screams the amount
available in the bank. From her back, Sam tries calming her down, to no avail.
He prompts her to say yes so that it doesn't seem suspicious to Ferguson. She
says yes again and again in a squeaky voice. Ferguson then asks how she would want the money,
Oda first tells him she would like it in 10’s and 20’s, which confuses him, but Sam tells her
to ask for the money via cashier’s cheque. Of course, while closing a bank account and
withdrawing that much money, every bank asks to confirm identity, and Ferguson asks for hers.
Oda rummages through her bag for her fake ID, spilling the contents of her
purse onto the banker’s table. He annoyingly stares at her, putting on a fake smile.
She finally gives it and he goes to check it out, leaving her and Sam to wait. He comes back
with a few documents that Oda needs to sign in order to officially close her accounts.
She carefully signs the name as Rita Miller this time, learning from her past mistakes.
Just then, Molly walks into the bank, surprising Sam, who tells Oda he’ll be right back.
With much uncertainty, Ferguson hands the cashier’s cheque to Oda Mae,
who receives it with open hands and a wide, gaping mouth. For her, 4 million dollars is more than she
AND her ancestors have ever made, and to have that much in her hands is surely a big deal.
Sam throws down a box of envelopes to diver Molly’s attention so that she doesn't see
Oda Mae at the bank. If she were to see the eccentric woman, surely Molly would frame her
for the crime she is committing. Oda chats animatedly with Ferguson,
making up a history of her family and how they acquired that much money,
when Sam tells her to say goodbye because they have to rush out.
When she takes too long, Sam pushes her seat up, causing Oda to rise up with a jerk.
The ruckus causes Molly to look up from picking up envelopes and she sees Oda!
Right as she is about to approach the woman, Oda closes the elevator door.
Molly rushes back to Lyle Ferguson, introducing herself as Molly Jensen and asks who the woman who
just left was, asking if it was Oda Mae Brown. He denies that and says her name was Rita miller.
At this information, Molly’s eyes widen and she thanks Ferguson before running out.
Back at his job, Carl enters the pin code for Rita Miller’s account, but the system shows her
account as closed. This makes Carl exasperated. He bangs his hands on the keyboard and has an
extremely distressed look on his face.