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These episodes are listed in airing order, with summaries written by Laurel. I will eventually put longer, spoiler-filled summaries up too. These are the spoiler-free summaries. "Deejay's Alva-centric Episode Summaries" were written by Deejay (AlvaFan). They are meant to be taken in good humor for all you Alva fans who can't get enough of him. "The Puppy" she often refers to is Paul; a little nickname she has for him, heheh. (See The Miracles Fen Glossary.) WARNING: The Alva-centric summaries are a little spoilery in places.
01 "The Ferguson Syndrome"
Paul Callan, a young man who investigates the authenticity of miracles for the Catholic church, is disillusioned by his career. He wants to see evidence of the real hand of God in our daily lives. Eventually Paul is sent to check out the reports that a little boy, Tommy Ferguson, can really heal the sick and dying, and here is given the evidence he seeks. Be careful what you wish for.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva gets sopping wet in the rain after showing up at a car wreck of a Puppy who doesn't know how to stop/look/listen at train crossings.
02 "The Friendly Skies"
Sodalitas Quaerito is called in to investigate why Flight 134 disappeared from the radar for 64 seconds. They find that each passenger experienced something significantly different: one saw her future, another miraculously recovers from a profound brain injury, and the flight attendant delivers a lecture on the physics of destruction in ancient Aramaic. Can they make sense of it all?
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva endures embarrassment with U.S. government officials because his new employee (The Puppy) can't seem to obey orders.
03 "The Patient" AKA "Mr. Friendly"
A brilliant doctor receives a medical breakthrough from one of his own patients, a patient who cannot move or speak. Meanwhile, his concerned daughter becomes romantically involved with Paul.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva has to personally take out a Puppy-bonking demon - that The Puppy can't seem to handle due to his being distracted by dating a ghost.
04 "Little Miss Lost"
A creepy little girl with a green balloon keeps appearing to Paul just before devastating, fatal accidents. SQ must figure out why the girl is causing them before more innocents die.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva has to rescue The Puppy from being haunted by some dead kid; in the process, he personally takes out two railroad security workers and loses his hat.
05 "The Bone Scatterer"
A troubled teen boy calls SQ claiming that he has had prophetic dreams of vicious killings in his home town. Are they the work of "Bigfoot," or are they somehow connected to the boy?
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva visits a library with The Puppy and later watches as a Puppy-bonking sheriff get his just desserts in a jail cell.
06 "Hand of God"
The people who have seen, "God is Nowhere" written in their own blood are being murdered one by one. While researching the possible reasons why, Paul finds out that Alva has been keeping potentially devastating information from him.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva keeps classified information from the snooping Puppy - who has the nerve to object; he then has to fly to Denver to rescue The Puppy (again).
07 "You Are My Sunshine"
An ex-girlfriend of Paul's is injured. While caring for her, he is overcome by the negative vibes of the house in which she is living, and Alva and Evie are the only ones who can save him from himself.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva has to drive out into the middle of nowhere to rescue the ghost-distracted Puppy (again) by bonking the crap out of him against a kitchen appliance.
08 "Battle at Shadow Ridge"
The "spirits" of Civil War soldiers are seen in the woods of a Virginia town, leading SQ to investigate. Alva and Paul become caught up in a timeslip which they must resolve, or there will be dire consequences for all.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva feeds The Puppy junk food in the car late at night and the two chase ghosts in the woods and in a local convenience store.
09 "Mother's Daughter" AKA "Wakey Wakey, Rise and Shine"
SQ take on the case of Hannah, a teen Amish girl who seems to have stigmata. But they soon find out that the girl in fact does not have stigmata, she is somehow "channeling" the spirit of another girl who committed suicide.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva rips up laundry as The Puppy plays the 'Which Ghost is Which?' game.
10 "Saint Debbie"
A waitress in a California city has her throat slit during a robbery, but gets up and walks away with no injuries. Is she a saint? This is what SQ must figure out, but Alva's judgment is clouded by his mutual attraction to her.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva gets laid; The Puppy seems oddly irritated by this.
11 "The Ghost"
A real estate firm is being haunted by a very mischievous ghost. Or is it?
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva wears black silk pajamas; The Puppy has a dream about Alva in a diner; The Puppy gets his bonked (again) head tended to by Alva.
12 "The Letter"
A friend of Paul's from the orphanage, Georgia, has been given letters written to her by her father every year on her birthday, the letters being kept for her by Poppi. On her 27th birthday, she receives the last letter. Strangely, Georgia receives a new letter the next day, in the mail, from someone claiming to be her dead father. This new correspondence is far too personal to be a hoax, and so SQ takes the case.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: Alva isn't in this episode much, so nothing actually happens.
13 "Paul is Dead"
A man hires SQ to prove that a tv psychic is a fake. What they find out is that the psychic does have actual powers, as he predicts the kidnapping of Evie's son, Matty. Paul's guilt over Matty being taken while under his care drives him to do whatever it takes to gain the clues he needs to find the child.
Deejay's Alva-centric Summary: After personally taking out a heartless bitch of a TV producer, Alva supervises as The Puppy doesn't stay dead.
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