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Bernadette feels awful about Raj, she wants to help him so bad, but the thing is you can not help someone who does not want to be helped. After he revealed what he did to her, she begged him to break it off with Emily. Raj , remained resolute, that he was in love with her and what ever problems she had they would face together, that he could heal her. Raj ended up leaving that night in a huff, telling her that this was the last time he would come to her for advice. Bernadette does not know what to do , this girl is making her sweet kind friend so crazy. She was really abusing his trusting and almost nurturing nature. However Raj and his insane gal pal are not the only thing Bernadette has to worry about right now.

This remodel his putting a lot of stress on her and Howard's relationship. The more she tries to change the more he resists, he want to keep the house a shrine to his mother. Refusing to part with anything, wanting to keep even the most dated and dreadful of knickknacks. Then to cap it all off he has latched onto this crazy idea that his mother his now a spirit haunting the house. The most mundane of occurrences he blames on the undead specter of Mrs. Wolowitz, cup break, must be Ma, lost your keys, Ma did it, walk into the kitchen and the fridge is left open, you hungry Ma?

As the two most important men in her life are breaking down and she has to be the one to fix them back has to be the strong one, the rock for these two lost souls. That is the way it ahas always been, it is an oldest child thing. Bernadette was born and breed to be the strong one despite what her small stature may lead you to believe.

Although just once Bernadette wishes that someone else could be the rock, this stress is starting to get to her too. Bernadette is used to being able to fix things, that's what she does she is a leader. People tend to listen to what she has to say, maybe that's what she needs just a kind ear listen to her. Bernadette's first instinct is to call Penny, but she does not think she would be much of a help here. First Penny would form a lynching mob to go get Emily. Penny does not need any more ammo to hate Emily with. Then she would probably side with Howard, and suggest that they get a Ouja board and try and contact Mrs. Wolowitz and see what she wants.

Bernadette calls Amy, the more eThank you agaiven keeled of the two, plus she just spend the evening with Emily. Maybe Amy can fill in some of the gaps that Bernadette is missing.

"Hey Amy." Bernadette says as Amy's face pops up on screen

"What's up." Amy asks not used to her friend calling so early on a Sunday.

"I was just wondering how your night went last night it seemed very interesting." Bernadette asks having heard about how her night came to an end from Raj and Leonard.

"Interesting to say the least, if Raj ever needs another play date for Emily he can ask you or Penny, I am not doing it anymore."

"Why what did she do?" Bernadette asks

"With out telling me where we were going she dragged me to a tattoo parlor all the way in Van Nuys."

"We heard about Sheldon's brave rescue." Bernadette chortles

"Yeah his 'rescue' then I had to drive him back home and walk to my car that was still parked in the parking garage." Amy sighs.

"Other then, that did you have fun was Emily nice?" Bernadette asks.

"When she was not grilling me with deeply personal questions yes. Emily actually opened up to me a little, I feel like I know her better. I don't know if Raj told you, but she gets night terrors and she told me that they stem from a traumatic experience she had when she was a child." Amy tells her not sure how much Raj has revealed to the protective Bernadette.

"Did Raj, tell you that during those night terrors she attacks him?" Bernadette asks not wanting, Amy to feel to bad for her.

"No, how do you mean attack him?" Amy asks.

"He scratches up and down his arms from where she launched herself at him like a feral cat during one of her bad dreams."

"No wonder Raj wants me to figure out how to stop them so bad…" Amy trails off before saying "I don't know, she is very odd, and that is coming from me! I cant prove it but I think that she not only checked the messages on my phone but she also turned it off so that I would not receive them."

"Why would she do that?" Bernadette asks.

"I know that this sounds crazy, but it was like she was trying to isolate me. Dragging me all the way out to that tattoo parlor, making sure none of my friends could get in contact with me. Playing little mind games with me , I did not like it, there is something about her I do not trust."

"Me… either… you know I wish we could get her in the room with all of us. Really get the bead on her." Bernadette says picturing them all confronting her intervention style

"Get the bead on her? What are we a buddy cop team now? I am the brains you are the muscle?." Amy says laughing.

"I say we invite Penny and be like Charlie's Angels." Bernadette giggles then Howard yells in the background and her expression gets serious.

"Okay, Ma! Not funny where did you put my favorite belt buckle? I know I left it on the night stand!" Bernadette shakes her head and Amy scrunches up her face.

"Ma?" she asks and Bernadette, sighs heavily.

"Howard is convinced that his mother has come back from the grave and his now haunting the house. Anything that goes wrong, he blames on his mother, he says she is angry about all the remodeling."

"You know this is not so uncommon, Howard was extremely close with his mother.."

"That's an understatement!" Bernadette huffs.

"Okay,Howard was grossly attached to his mother, and when she passed he did not get a whole lot of closure. Not only was she not even in the same state when it happened, they were not on the best of terms. Howard was upset at her for forming a close bond with Stuart and he never confronted her about his feelings."

"I guess that is true but Howard is an intelligent man, he knows there are no such thing as ghosts."

" Well unlike the Bible, Jewish texts like the Talmud are full of ghosts and other things. Ghosts in Judaism are spirits disturbed by the living or souls of the dead that wander the earth in limbo before proceeding to the 'world-to-come.'So perhaps his belief is more grounded in religion than in science." Amy muses.

"Do you believe in ghosts?" Bernadette asks, almost immediately regretting the question Amy is sure to give her some long winded answer grounded in facts.

"Let me answer you with an example of a study that I read recently. Have you ever heard of tHe phenomena called shadow people?" Witnesses all over the world have claimed to have seen the shadow people. Dark beings are glimpsed out of the corner of the eye only to vanish completely. Many believe them to be demons, some say they're time travelers, here for a second and gone. However, there has been been some research done .A couple Swiss scientists electrically stimulated an epileptic patient's brain..The patient reported a shadow person sitting behind her, copying her every move. What happened was the scientists had stimulated the left temporoparietal junction, the part of the brain that defines the idea of self. By interfering with the area that helps us tell the difference between ourselves and others, the doctors screwed up the brain's ability to understand its own body, thus leading to the creation of a copycat shadow person."

"So long story short, no you don't." Bernadette says.

"No,I don't, but I do belief in grief and its effect on the mind and body when brain imaging studies are done on people who are grieving. There is increased activity is seen along a broad network of neurons. These areas are not only tied up with mood but also with memory, perception, even the heart. The impact loss or even disappointment can have is profound."

"Thank you Amy, I feel better now that my husband is not losing his marbles. In your professional opinion is there anything I can do to make him feel better?"

"You know the saying 'time heals all wounds' it is going to take time. There is no quick fix for this, however maybe some closure would make him feel better."Amy tells her.

"How am I supposed to do that? I cant bring her back from the dead, I cant take back all the things he said." Bernadette says sadly.

"Can you keep an open mind?" Amy asks.

"Of course." Bernadette tells her.

"I say we hold a séance, make him feel like he is communicating with her one last time. I personally believe the whole thing is complete hokum but, it might assuage his guilt to feel like he got to say his one last piece to her."

"So you are saying hold a fake séance so that Howard feels like he is talking to the ghost of his mother and he stops blaming his missing socks on her? Amy I don't know that sounds kind of devious." Bernadette says.

"Seance are fake by nature, as they are not real, the only ruse we would be perpetuating would be on the part of Howard's brain that can't let his mother go." Amy points out "Plus, think about it we were just discussing wanting to get Emily in the room with all of us. Do you really think a girl like her could resist something like attempting to bridge the communications between the living and the dead."

"You know what, I think you have something here…" Bernadette says thinking that this could really be something.

"Of course I do, you convince everyone to go and I am going to do some research." Amy tells her.

"Amy I am sure that there is a Wikipedia page about holding one, all we need is some candles and, some incense…"Bernadette tells her.

"No,not just that with any luck the ghost, of Howard's mom won't be the only one we resurrect." Amy says evasively before disconnecting

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When Amy was younger she had been a huge fan of Nancy Drew books, throughout her childhood and adolescence she must have read almost every single one. Something about that girl and her sleuthing spoke to her, she would often imagine herself as the titular character. Solving mysteries around the house Amy Farrah Fowler and the case of the yarn thief had been her best case (it was the cat). Now she found herself on the threshold of a real mystery

In her school days she had sat quietly watched her classmates and the way they interacted. It reminded her of watching the monkeys her her lab now. Amy noticed everything, , it was in her nature to be quiet and observe There were several thing that made Amy question the mental health of Raj's girlfriend. The night terrors were one, the violent outbursts that accompanied them were another. Then there was the way her moods had switched so rapidly last night. Emily seemed to switch from mad, sad, and happy with barely break between. The way she had asked those questions and seemed to delight in they way they were making her squirm. How when she had gotten upset her first instinct was to mark her skin , the way she had spoken about the pleasure and pain of getting the tattoo. Then the way she had looked at Sheldon when he called her a red haired she devil, had made Amy's blood run cold.

There was something off about Emily. It was not just that she had tattoos, liked horror movies, and joked about knifes. In her graduate work Amy had done a research study working with psychopaths. She had learned that they had extreme antisocial behavior, low empathy and remorse and disinhibited behavior. Of course those qualifiers alone Sheldon could be a psychopath but was not, Emily however Amy was starting to have her doubts about. Psychopaths weren't just the serial killer ones in movies and books. No, Amy learned Psychcopathia was more disturbing than even movies depicted.A psychopath could look like anybody, function in the real world and you would never know any different, unless you looked at a brain scan. Amy briefly contemplates ways to coerce Emily into a brain scan but decides it is too risky.

There were other things too, Raj had told her that she did not remember her dreams afterwards. Yet she had told Amy her dreams were about a traumatic event in her life, one so terrible she had trouble distinguishing the dream from the event, Emily was lying to one of them, Amy was sure but, who? And why?

If Emily did have some sort of psychological problems then it is possible that they might be documented somewhere. Amy knows it could be crossing a professional line but if she could get her hands on her medical records then maybe she could hypothesize a diagnosis. Yet how would she do that, there was only so much she could access through her computer at the university. What she needs is someone who is good at breaching computer systems and would not mind a little amoral snooping. Amy thinks she knows just the person to help her,if she can manipulate him into thinking that the snooping is justified.

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Monday at work Amy is antsy in her lab,she is anxious to speak to Sheldon and court his help. She has a whole dialog worked out to try to sway him to her cause. At eleven she can wait no more and she and heads down to his office and knocks on the door.

"Come in." he calls, and Amy walks in he is standing in front of his grease board. One hand on his chin the other nervously tapping his marker against his desk. Look at him she marvels, contemplating the mysteries of the universe, it makes the uterus quiver, that is until she realizes he is looking at a giant drawing of a train. He looks up at her startled like he just realized that she was standing there.

"Amy, it is not lunch time yet." he says confused

"No, I am not here about lunch, I am here to ask you for a favor." Amy says walking over and sitting on his desk. "Nice train." and he looks over at her wearily.

"Coming to cash in my little transgression a little early aren't you? What do you want? Let me guess is it to drag me to a fellow co-workers tedious wedding? " he sighs setting his marker down.

"No,I told you I was not even mad at you,about that." Amy tells him. "What I need is your knowledge and expertise."

"I'm listening…go on…" he tells her crossing his arms.

"How opposed are you to breaching HIPPA laws and accessing someones personal health information?" Amy asks raising her eyebrows.

"I suppose that would depend on whose information I was accessing and how I intended on using it." Sheldon says evasively but moving to sit in his desk chair behind his computer.

"I want to look Emily up and see if she has ever been treated for any psychological disorders." Amy tells him and he looks up at her his expression inscrutable. "I would do it myself ,but my computer can only access so much, and since she is not an employee here there is only so much information available to me."

"Alright." he says simply as he begins typing on his computer.

"So you'll do it?" Amy clarifies and he nods his head still typing at his computer.. "I thought I would have a lot bigger of an argument, I am impressed. Do you know how to access the information I need?" she asks and he looks up at her with an 'oh please' expression on.

"Amy at the age of eleven I was able to break into the CIA's mainframe. This little operation will be as easy as logging on to Facebook." He sniffs "Just out of curiosities sake, why do you want to check Emily for possible metal problems?"

"Well, I was discussing it with Bernadette and we both agree that she has been acting rather odd. Raj is worried about her too, I want to see if there is anything I can do to help." Amy tells him.

"Well,while it is clear tome the woman is as crazy as a jay bird. Did you see that tattoo she was getting? Who would want a giant eye staring at them all the time?"

"It is the evil eye, with a charm symbol around the border that is supposed to ward off the evil eye. Emily mentioned it was supposed to help stop bad dreams, she gets night terrors." Amy explains to him and he snorts.

"You know what wards off bad dreams? An early bedtime and a glass of warm milk." Sheldon muses and then he cocks his head to the side and stares at his computer. " Well that is odd."

"What?" she asks moving around the desk to look at his computer.

"Emily Sweeney simply did not exist until about five years ago." Sheldon says tapping his computer.

"Maybe those records just don't go back that far." Amy muses looking at the information displayed, which is just routine physicals,nothing alarming.

"No by all accounts, using this system I should be able to look all the way to her birth records. That's how I know your mother was in labor for thirty-six hours, you were born breech and were breast feed."

"My mother will tell you that too." Amy says thinking about her mother loved recounting the tale of her harrowing arrival in the world. "What are possible explanations for the missing information."

"Emily is alien pod person and was just sent to this planet,a fire gutted the records before they were digitalized, she formerly went by another name." Sheldon says ticking off explanations on his fingers.

"Let's go with the last one as the most likely explanation,how would we find out what her former name was?"

"Do we know anything about her? Where she was born, where she grew up? where she went to college?"

"No,all I know is that she s Raj girlfriend and she is a dermatology resident at Huntington has not really told me much more about her."

"If you could find out more of her background information, then I could perform a more accurate search on her." Sheldon says, and Amy thinks that is exactly what she is going to do, maybe if they all corner her they can get her talking, which reminds her.

"Sheldon how opposed are you to rituals performed to speak to the undead?"

Coming up next Emily and Penny together again