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Oct 30, 2003 · Pilot: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis, A.J. Cook. Tru Davies starts working on a morgue before she can start studying Medicine.
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- 2003-10-30
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"Pilot" is the first episode in the first season of the FOX supernatural drama Tru Calling. It originally aired on October 30, in 2003.
After graduating from college, hopeful medical school student Tru Davies is forced to take a job with the city morgue after finding out that her planned internship at a local hospital was no longer available. When a woman arrives at the morgue who died before her time, Tru sees the woman seemingly awaken and ask for Tru's help. The entire day rewin...
The episode begins with a flashback to Tru's childhood, where she attended her mother's funeral. It was a dream, however, and it's revealed that Tru accidentally slept in, almost missing her graduation at Hudson University. Tru expected her parents to arrive, but they didn't show up. Tru goes out for drinks with Lindsay, but leaves early because she has to begin an internship in the morning.
Harrison calls Tru the next day and reveals that he is in a financial debt because he's been playing cards all morning. When Tru arrives at the hospital to begin her internship she finds out that budget cuts mean her internship was de-funded and no longer available. The doctor, however, has a lead on a new opportunity: an attendant at the city morgue. She meets Davis, who hires her right away. Since she needs the experience in any medical field to get into medical school, she takes the job. Davis also reveals his oddly specific knowledge of eyeliner.
Tru goes to visit her sister Meredith for the anniversary of their mother's death, and after looking in her purse she finds out that her sister is doing coke again. Tru confronts Meredith about her drug use and she storms out. Tru gets a phone call alerting her to Harrison being brought to the hospital. When Tru arrives she finds out that Harrison was beaten badly by the bouncers at the club he was playing cards at.
Tru goes to work and finds Rebecca Morgan's corpse was just brought in with a bullet wound in the back of her neck and the coroner believes she was shot around 10 PM. After they admit her into the crypt, Tru is left alone in the morgue and starts hearing whispering. She thinks it's a joke, but when she opens Rebecca's crypt, the corpse's eyes open and asks her for help, rewinding the day for the first time.
Tru slowly comes to the realization that the day is replaying, by knocking over the same picture and having the same conversation with her boyfriend. They have a discussion about her new job at the morgue, but her boyfriend reveals that today is the day she starts her internship. When Harrison calls again, and has the same conversation, she also notices the lottery numbers on the television are the same. She warns Harrison to not go back to the poker table. On her way to the hospital, she grabs a newspaper and notices that the date hasn't changed. Davis says they never met, either.
Tru asks Davis if anyone named Rebecca Morgan came in, but Davis tells her it never happened. She looks at the clock and realizes that Rebecca is about to be shot and calls Meredith for help, who looks up her address. Tru follows Rebecca to work at a bar and confronts her about her impending death. When Tru says that Rebecca "asked for help", Rebecca becomes belligerent and throws her out of the bar. Reaching over the bar, she looks inside her purse and finds Rebecca's cellphone, finding an ex-boyfriend called. She meets up with the ex but doesn't think he is the one who shot her.
•Pilot introduces the series and sets up the plot.
•This episode was the second pilot; the original unaired pilot maintains a nearly identical story.
Tru Calling 's unaired pilot was the original pilot and followed a similar story to the final Pilot episode. While the episode was never aired, it was released as apart of the complete first season and complete series DVDs as a bonus feature. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
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Tru Calling is an American supernatural drama television series which aired on Fox. Original episodes aired between October 30, 2003, and April 21, 2005; however, the final episode was shown in other territories before it was aired in the United States due to lower-than-anticipated ratings. [2] [3]
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleDirected By11"Pilot"22"Putting Out Fires"33"Brother's Keeper"44"Past Tense"- 26
- October 30, 2003 –, April 21, 2005
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Tru Calling: Created by Jon Harmon Feldman. With Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis, A.J. Cook. A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
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- 2003-10-30
- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
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Nov 16, 2003 · In the series premiere episode of TRU CALLING, "Pilot," we meet Tru Davies, who suddenly discovers she can save lives. She is a smart and sexy recent college graduate who lands a job on the midnight shift at the city morgue. On her first night, Tru questions reality when she hears a beautiful murder victim asking for her help.
Episode 1 Aired Oct 30, 2003 Pilot Cadavers appeal to morgue worker Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku) for help; after a murder victim speaks to her, Tru wakes up 12 hours before the woman is killed ...
