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Hello. You've reached the Psychic Advocate Web.

I'm your phone psychic, Simeon Nye.

Our time together will be $4 .95 a minute with a 40 -minute maximum.

Do you accept these terms?

Yeah.

May I have your 10 -digit credit card number, please?

4308 -5525 -99.

Thank you.

Allow me a moment while I summon my spirit guides.

Thank you, kind spirit.

There's a lot of green before me.

You're worried about money.

No. You are, because your job is stressful.

No.

Well, yeah, it is, but... And your love relationship.

Well, yeah, that's right. Oh, I see where you're going now. It's kind of

how you knew so fast. May I ask your name, caller?

My name's Nick.

Nick Chaput.

C -H -A -P -U -T.

Thank you, Nick.

They want me to consult the cards.

All right.

Hmm.

The moon is in the seventh house.

And Jupiter aligns with... Simeon?

Simeon, what is my future?

By three o 'clock today, you'll be paralyzed from the neck down.

What?

Paralyzed? I don't understand.

Simeon?

What? Simeon, is this some kind of joke?

Hello?

You got a pulse? I'll call 911.

I'm talking to the spirit known on this side as Joe Polak.

I wish to communicate with you on this day, on this side.

It was five years ago to this minute

that you left this side.

And on this anniversary...

I wish to receive the communication that was pre -established by you and your

daughter before either crossed over, which would

serve as a signal that their spirit had arrived safely on the other side.

I wish to receive this communication now.

I am open in any way.

Any way this communication is desired to be sent.

In any way, I wish to receive the communication now.

Daddy, why won't you talk to me?

We'll know much more in the next 24 hours.

He's failed to execute any request to move his toes or fingers.

However, there is a possibility that this is a reaction to the shock of the

accident.

Does that mean the prediction could still not come true?

Prediction? Nick had called me, upset that a phone psychic, someone named

Nye, had told him he'd be paralyzed by 3 o 'clock.

Any way to find this, Simeon and I?

No, we'll find him.

And I have a prediction.

We're going to sue him into the afterlife.

That's, of course, after we'll be suing you, Mr. Mannheim.

Okay.

Did you bring an object that belonged to the departed?

Just like you asked, Madam Satori.

Oh, it's just Satori.

Okay, I'm seeing an L. It was Lonnie?

I'm Lanny. I'm Leonard. I'm seeing like a large nail.

It's a spike.

Is there a spike?

There sure is.

Has he passed over?

Yes.

He's with Uncle Joe now.

And Joe says spike understands.

Do you know what this means?

Wait, it's like you should not feel guilty for what you did.

Spike says he knows that you feel like you... like you let

him die.

Was Spike a lover?

We loved him.

He was our dog.

We're brothers.

Yeah.

I failed to communicate with my father for five years and... I'm able to

your dog?

We had to put him to sleep, and we felt really awful about that. And then Simeon

and I told us that Spike was angry for putting him to sleep, and he could help

rectify these feelings.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who?

Simeon and I?

Our phone psychic.

Okay, then. Did you come here for a second opinion, or would you like an

read? Oh, no, no.

Simeon is very honest.

In understanding, he'll, like, talk to us for 40 minutes just to ease our

heartbreak. No, he'll talk to you because he's charging you five bucks a

No, $4 .95.

Gentlemen, the only thing he's going to ease is the contents of your wallets.

Phone psychic or fraud.

Is that coming from Spike or Joe?

No, that's coming from me.

This is Simeon Nye on the psychic advocate web. I'm currently in

If you leave a number and a brief message, I'll return your call.

Troy, I know you're there.

The number is 500 a month spousal support.

I swear I'll drag your loser clown ass back into court. Don't think I won't.

Doesn't take Simeon Nye to see my future.

Simeon Nye on the Psychic Advocate Web.

I'm currently in consultation.

If you leave a number and a brief message, I'll return your call.

Hello, Simeon. This is Lanny Owens. I'd love to talk to you. I hope you're not

mad, but we consulted with another psychic.

Really mad today. I had a couple of clients consult a phone psychic.

Simeon Nye, by any chance?

Yeah. How do you know that?

We have a patient at St. Joe's who's in...

critical condition because a phone psychic made a prediction that upset him

much that he walked blindly into a crosswalk.

Why does that ring a bell?

Probably because you know somebody else's clown is ripped off.

Miles, we have to get this guy.

Well, okay. Psychics have to be licensed so we can check that out. If enough

people have been hurt, we can always help file a class action suit.

The prediction came true.

I suppose.

We may not like some predictions.

But we can't sue because they became true.

This guy's a phone psychic.

He charges innocent, desperate people $4 .95 a minute.

And what are your hourly fees up to, Satori?

Well, that's different.

I think my abilities are real.

Maybe they're not. Maybe they're not.

Maybe they're not, I mean... Been trying to reach your father again?

Yeah.

I've been trying to, though.

He's choosing to be silent.

We never know if they even have anything to communicate.

Perhaps he's at peace with you now.

I'm not with him, so... Then he knows that.

And he will communicate.

We just have to accept it when they do.

This is Lanny. This is Leonard.

Neither myself or his brother can get to the phone.

Please leave a message.

Thanks.

Hello, Lanny.

This is Simeon Nye.

I got your message, but I have something else to discuss.

I don't know how to put it.

I'd rather not do it over the phone.

But it's very important that I speak with you.

Again, this is Simeon 9. I know you have my number, but it's 555.

Wait, wait.

Simeon, it's Lanny.

I need to speak with you.

Hang on. Let me just turn the shower off.

Lanny, no!

I registered with the Psychic Advocates Web.

However, they wouldn't give me the real name. They're quite protective of their

employees and their clients' privacy.

Did you at least complain about this guy?

Oh, yeah. First complaint they ever had about him. Most clients apparently love

him. He was Psychic of the Month in April, the very first month he started

working as a phone psychic.

He must be good.

You get Employee of the Month based on the average number of minutes you keep

clients on the phone.

They couldn't give recognition to their psychic forecast because they're crap.

Recognition?

That's the way I know that name.

There used to be a Simeon Nye in the old days, back in the late 20s.

Folks thought he was a con man, too.

He had a rival, a talented medium called Argus Collins.

Everybody went to Argus for a reading.

Movie stars, politicians, football players.

Well, to prove that he was more gifted,

Simeon Nye made a prediction that Argus Collins would die a horrible death.

A week later, Collins drowned off the coast of Long Island.

But instead of everyone believing that Simeon Nye was indeed the better

Most people believe that Simeon was involved in Colin's drowning.

Yeah, I'll grant that.

Well, Armand, do you think there was a connection between the two?

Oh, couldn't have been the same one.

Simeon and I was in his 40s when I was 11.

He became so angry and bitter, he just disappeared and was never heard from

again.

Hey, Victoria.

Yeah. How's Mark? He wants you to get down to the hospital right away.

Troy Manheim.

A friend.

I'm Leonard.

We're brothers.

I have a patient in that room who is a client

of yours.

Lanny Owens.

He received a phone message last evening from Simeon Nye, of course, flipping in

a bathtub.

We have to find Simeon Nye.

You just missed him.

Who?

Simeon Nye.

He said his name was Troy Manheim.

But you don't talk to a guy every day and not get to know his voice.

Ain't funny anymore, Mannheim.

I took your first month's late rent out of your first month's deposit.

Your second late month, out of your cleaning deposit.

And last month, out of your last month's deposit.

There's no more deposits.

I understand.

What are we going to do?

Mr. Eckerly, I don't have anywhere else to go.

What can I do?

You're a phone psychic, right?

You give me next week's Powerball numbers, I'll let you slide for another

And if I win, you can stay another month after that.

It's not that easy.

You got no choice.

You turn me down, you're out.

I can't do it anymore.

What are you telling me?

Simeon Nye's a fake?

You gotta get out of here.

Me get out?

I'm seeing horrible things if you stay.

I do too, but they ain't gonna be happening to me.

You'll burn if you stay here.

Don't threaten me.

Are you Troy Mannheim?

No. Are you one of his psychic friends?

Uh, I'm a sensitive, but no, I'm not one of his friends.

Do you know where he might be?

Are you Simeon Nye?

No, no, no, no, no.

Well, sometimes I go by that.

Would you like to sit down?

You're just hanging out in this dive because you know you're a fraud.

I'm hiding out here because I'm scared.

You don't even have the sense to leave town.

I don't have the money to leave town.

Who are you?

Why are you so mad at me?

My name is Satori.

I'm a true sensitive.

Sensitive to what?

A psychic.

Never heard a call that before. Of course you haven't.

You would know the first thing about parapsychological phenomenon except all

bells and whistles needed to reel in suckers.

That used to be true.

I was a fraud. But now, I'm seeing things.

Awful things.

That scare the hell out of me.

From nowhere, I'm seeing them.

And then they're coming true.

I don't know the first thing about this psychic stuff, and I don't want to know.

I just want it to stop.

You take me for a sucker?

Come in and buy into this performance the way desperate people, people in

trouble, people in need of spiritual guidance, people who have nowhere else

turn except the infomercial they happen to see during the late hours on a dark

night of the soul will buy into that performance?

It says right at the bottom of the screen, for entertainment purposes only.

You want it to stop?

What did I just say?

Just stop.

Stop playing psychic.

Okay? Stop hurting people's lives for the sake of your wallet.

It's not that anymore.

Make Simi and I go away and never come back.

Kermit?

In my head, I'm hearing, Kermit?

I'm being told to say Kermit to you.

Is this some code you have with your father?

Does this mean anything to you?

Titanic.

End of days.

Up and comers.

43.

I don't...

I got my gift from my father's side of the family.

And on his deathbed in the hospital, we agreed to have a code word.

It must have been close.

We weren't.

The Muppets just happened to be playing on the hospital television.

So Kermit kind of became that word.

And after five years, you, of all people, communicated to me.

I just need to know more.

I just need him to speak to me again.

But the reason we met, the reason I'm here, you came looking for me because

not a psychic. I'm not a medium.

If you are, can't you just talk to him yourself?

Well, I would if I could.

Sometimes spirits that were family members speak through other mediums.

We were too close.

You said you weren't close.

I appreciate the offer, but maybe we'd both be more comfortable if I just

borrowed 40 bucks and went to a motel.

You've no problems taking money from desperate people.

What makes me think I would ever get my 40 bucks back again?

You can keep my paintings as collateral.

Oh, but that wouldn't be fair, now, would it?

I mean, they're obviously priceless masters.

Well, at least I won't be stealing any of your stuff.

I don't even know what any of it is.

That's a Peruvian whistling vessel.

And this, uh... This must be the common raw zippo of Babylonia used to summon

the spirit of the flame.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

That was my father, okay?

My dad's in Vietnam.

He carried it during intense periods of life and death.

At least I know some of the techniques and tools to help people reach the other

side. I mean, I don't just make things up over the phone.

tools when I was a phone psychic.

I didn't make things up.

I didn't need to be as sensitive.

The caller guided me, not some goofy psychic tool.

And when I picked up the phone, I had a head start.

I knew the call was either going to be about love or money.

And whichever the two subjects, what they were really looking for was an edge

making life go the way they want it.

Right?

Isn't that why people come to you?

Don't look at me like that. Has life gone the way you want it?

No.

That's why you have some stranger that you don't even like in your house so you

can talk to your dead father and fix what didn't go the way you want it.

These people who called me, they weren't looking for much.

They were just wishing life would go the way they wanted.

Well, I'm hearing this really...

Bad music right now.

It's really awful music.

It's connected to you. Does this make sense?

Like this scene from Peyton Place or something.

A summer place.

Yeah. Was that tab or rock?

Troy. Donahue.

Your mom's favorite.

Yes, this makes you happy.

But it also breaks your heart.

Does this mean anything to you?

What can life go the way I want it?

I wouldn't ask him for much.

Well, I'm seeing this man.

He's been drinking.

Yeah, he's drunk.

And he's looking for... Whoa.

Okay, no, he's looking for his... His penis.

Yeah, do you understand what this means?

I use it in my routine.

The only thing I ever really wanted.

couldn't turn out the way I wanted.

I just wanted to be a clown.

It's all right.

It's going to be okay.

My wife didn't get it, so she left me and took all my money for a quick easy

buck. I found the name Simeon Knight in an old book about psychics I found at

the library.

I found Simeon and I.

Yeah. Hard to misplace at that distance.

He needed some comforting.

Strange. A few days ago, you wanted to put him out of business.

Looks like he's in business now.

Are you a doctor at St. Joe's?

Yeah, and you're keeping me busy.

Mr. Chaput, Lanny Owens, your landlord.

He was rushed to the trauma center with third -degree thermal burns over 15 % of

his body.

Troy was with me.

Then who was Simeon and I with?

No, come on. There's no such person.

He only saw what would happen. He didn't do it. Saw?

He hit Mr. Shabu with his car.

That was an accident, Mark.

How could I make him walk into a crosswalk?

Listen, he was on the phone at the moment of Lanny Owen's injury.

He told his landlord he would be horribly burned an hour before it

Now you tell me, what the hell is going on? Yes, tell me.

Tell me what's going on so I can stop it. I didn't do these things, I just saw

them. And you made sure you told everyone you saw them before they

I was trying to help.

You were making sure they knew. So when you made these predictions come true,

everyone would believe you were a great psychic.

I don't want to be a great psychic.

Simeon Nye is a fraud.

This isn't us.

This is Simeon Nye.

Troy has unknowingly called up an angry spirit that Simeon Nye Elmer was talking

about. Make him go away before I hurt anyone else. We have to take him to

I'll do anything to make these psychic abilities go away.

If you get rid of Simeon Nye, I'll never have another psychic experience again.

Never.

Kermit.

No.

Never again.

This is me and I.

He looks guilty.

He was a very bitter, mean man.

Yes, he still is.

Sounds like you think he was a fraud.

Doesn't matter anymore.

He is very for real on the other side.

We're all set in here, Elmer, just like you asked.

Okay.

Why me?

Why do I suddenly have these abilities?

Well, the others here understand that there is no way

of knowing when or how.

A psychic ability could be turned on. I believe you're being used as a portal by

Simeon Nye.

He started hearing people say that Simeon Nye was a fraud.

Again. Even though they thought they were accusing me.

Even when we move to the other side, our spirits can remain unsettled. So your

predictions are actually coming from his spirit, who I believe is causing these

tragic incidents.

If we can get rid of him tonight, then your abilities should go away.

Elmer.

My father reached me through him.

And you should be happy.

I can't take away the abilities of the only medium who connected him to me.

Satori, I want to help you.

I wish I had the ability to call your father at will, but I can't.

Now, whether Troy's abilities are acute because of Simeon's presence and

tapped into your father's spirit, he's reached you.

He's safe on the other side.

And people are being hurt on this.

Let's get started.

Too bad Miles couldn't see this.

He's got some job interview out of town.

Found it.

Take each other's hands.

Form a circle.

It must not be broken.

No matter what you see, no matter how anxious you get, the

circle must not be broken.

Now, Troy, it is important there be no

doubts floating about.

They build a wall between this world and the spirit world.

In order to help, you must believe.

Cast all doubt aside.

Developing photographs?

What did I just say?

Sorry. Now the dim lights allow us to see any materialization.

I knew that.

I'm speaking to the spirit that was known on this side as Simeon Nigh.

Simeon Nye, I'm asking you to be with us here at this moment.

Simeon Nye, I'm asking you to be with us here at

this moment.

One of us is clouding.

No, I'm with you. I swear.

One of us is clouding the focus on Simeon Nye, directing thoughts

elsewhere on the other side.

Remove the lighter from the table, Ellen.

We're not calling him.

I'm speaking to the spirit that was known on this side as Simeon Nye.

I'm asking you to be with us here at this moment.

Roy, stay with us.

I'm speaking to the spirit that was known as Simeon Nye on this side.

I'm asking you to be with us here at this moment.

If the spirit of Simeon Nye is present.

Acknowledge your presence.

I smell smoke.

Candles blew out.

No, this is cigarette smoke.

I smell it, too.

My father?

The Tory.

I'm speaking to the spirit that was known as Simeon Nye on this side.

I'm asking you to be with us here at this moment.

Come on, Nye, you fraud.

Get your ass in here.

Troy.

I am one. So are you.

Go!

You belong on the other side.

Go on to the other side.

Leave him alone.

You don't belong here.

I know how you feel.

Life didn't turn out the way you wanted.

Better luck next time.

Leave me alone!

He's gone. He's moved on.

You're free of him.

I'm happy for you.

I'm seeing... a frog.

Kermit the Frog.

Never stop searching.

How could you do this to her?

Haven't you learned anything?

I heard a voice in my head that told me to say that. Just like Simeon Nye.

No matter what side it's on, you have the spirit of a fraud.

I appreciate it, Troy.

Maybe you heard what you wanted me to hear.

Now that Simeon Nye's gone, I have no way of knowing that came from the other

side.