Still doubting Allison

I don't know to what extent the NBC series Medium reflects the real-life experiences of police psychic Allison DuBois. Certainly some names have to be changed, some characters composited, some things explained more often than they would have to in real life. Still, for the hour that I watch the show, I buy into the idea that psychics are real and that they can help the police. But what has me wondering is the continued skepticism Allison gets from Devalos and Scanlon.

When Allison goes up to someone she's never met before and warns them about something they wouldn't even think to worry about, it's completely understandable that they would be very skeptical. But Devalos and Scanlon ought to know bettter by now. In episode after episode, Allison starts out making improbable-sounding claims that are proven to be exactly right at the end. In too many episodes Scanlon says things along the lines of "I don't know what to tell you" and "We already have the perp." Devalos fares a little better, saying things along the lines of "Even if that's true, I can't do anything about it without more information." Still, it gets tiresome to see them in episode after episode acting as if Allison is completely crazy and then at the end not thanking her for leading them to perp and/or victim.

Granted that in last night's episode, "The Devil Inside" (Part I), Scanlon was right to call Allison's identification of the dentist as the jogger's killer a mistake. But he couldn't possibly know that the now-dead Lucas Harvey is interfering with the veracity of Allison's dreams.