Medium's seventh and final season premiered on CBS on September 24, 2010, and concluded on January 21, 2011, after CBS cut the episode order from 22 to 13 due to ratings erosion and officially canceled the show. The season follows Allison (Patricia Arquette) and Joe (Jake Weber) as their marriage frays, Ariel leaves for college, and Joe's mother passes away, while Allison's half-brother Michael (played by David Arquette) makes a return. In the poignant series finale, Joe dies in a plane crash, and seven years later, Allison—now an assistant DA—experiences vivid visions that he survived with amnesia. Joe wakes her from the dream to confirm his death, revealing he wanted to give her hope for a future without him, and they are ultimately reunited in the afterlife after Allison dies. The finale drew 7.87 million viewers, the show's highest audience in over a year, giving the long-running series a proper and emotional conclusion.