Tru Calling
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
Episodes
Pilot
Tru Davies 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.
Putting Out Fires
When the corpse of a handsome young man asks for Tru's help, she quickly learns he's a determined firefighter killed trying to save two children trapped in an apartment building fire. As Tru tries to change the man's fate, the day gets even more complicated when she develops feelings for him in the episode.
Brother's Keeper
When Tru's brother, Harrison, falls in love with a beautiful young woman, only Tru knows that he could be implicated in the death of the woman's estranged husband. Tru must race against time in order to keep her brother from committing murder or being killed himself
Past Tense
When five bodies arrive in the morgue and ask for her help, Tru's mission is five times more difficult. After learning that the victims died at a bachelor party, Tru poses as a bartender to gain access. As she tries to systematically determine if one of them is the killer, her curiosity raises their suspicions, putting her in jeopardy.
Haunted
When The body of medical student, Paige Sanders shows up at the morgue its up to Tru to change the events.
Star Crossed
Tru gets asked for help by a young couple who died in a car accident. As she tries to save them she realizes its not a simple crash.
Morning After
When Tru's ex-boyfriend Mark ends up dead in her bed she has to get closer to him to prevent it from happening.
Closure
Jake, an overseas hero wounded in battle, has been placed in a military hospital while his wounds heal. However he is determined at any cost to leave the hospital to find the girlfriend he left behind before he shipped out. He desperately needs an explanation for the cold letter she sent him while he was overseas.
Murder in the Morgue
When a dead bride comes into morgue, her devastated financé comes into the morgue. Tru lets him to have some time alone with his loved one. When Davis comes in, he's mad at Tru for letting the man near the body. He finds him removing the bullet from the body. Davis tries to call the security but the man shoots him. He shoots at Tru, but the dead bride asks for help right before the bullet hits Tru. Tru has to find out who was the man, did he kill the bride and why was she killed, and ultimately she needs to save her life.
Reunion
Tru is stressed after being prompted by Davies to attend her high school's reunion. But disaster strikes in the midst of the reunion, sacrificing Tru's former bestfriend. When Tru was forced to relive the day, she finds out that more than one person could have done the deed.
The Longest Day
Tru is forced to relive a day to rescue a man from getting his heart shot. But her rescue mission takes a dangerous turn when she accidentally sacrifice a shopowner in order to save the man, and she finds herself caught in a loop of rewinding days, and it won't end unless she, herself, find an end.
Valentine
Tru goes on a romantic get-a-way with Luc only to run into Harrison and Lindsey and a serial killer.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
When a beauty contestant turns up dead backstage, Tru has a rewind and finds herself entering the contest to try to prevent the same events happening. Luc however has a new date and Tru has to face facts about their relationship.
Daddy's Girl
Tru's father comes into town, and she is forced to help her step-mother, after she asks for help. Also, Jack Harper comes to the morgue looking for a job.
The Getaway
When the reporter who has been trying to expose Tru's secret gets shot by a gunman on a crime spree, Tru is torn about saving her. To complicate matters, Tru's attempts to enlist the police in capturing the shooter before he strikes are hampered when his actions don't repeat exactly what he did before her day rewound.
Two Pair
Tru faces a new dilemma when her day fails to restart after a body asks for help. Fearful that her gift has deserted her, Tru is shocked later that day when a different body's plea forces the day to restart. Now, she must race against the clock to save two people on the same day in different parts of the city. Jack reveals a bit about his sinister intentions.
Death Becomes Her
Tamyra Gray, who competed in the first season of AMERICAN IDOL and had a recurring role on BOSTON PUBLIC, plays Carly Anders, an actress who befriends Tru when she visits the morgue to research her next movie role as a forensic attendant. But when Carly's car goes off a bridge and sends her plummeting to her death, Tru's day restarts. As she pries into the private details of Carly's life, Tru makes a shocking discovery about her past. Meanwhile, against Tru's wishes, Jack continues to become fast friends with Harrison.
Rear Window
When a male corpse with the same name as a female neighbor of Tru's comes into the morgue, Tru suspects identity theft. When the day restarts, Tru's investigation takes an unexpected turn that makes it difficult to sort out just who is the victim and who is the criminal. Meanwhile, Tru and Davis piece together some information about Jack, who hasn't been forthcoming about everything in his past.
D.O.A.
Tru and Davis remain stunned by the revelation that Jack can relive days like Tru. Excited to have a new partner, Tru teams up with Jack to ensure a doctor's dying wish to help others in his life, but as the day progresses, Tru becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack's intentions. And when Jack attempts to stop Tru from saving an innocent victim, she comes to the startling realization that he isn't her ally but her enemy.
Two Weddings and a Funeral
In the first season-finale episode, Tru and Jack--her sworn nemesis--find themselves on a collision course with the stakes as high as they can be after the body of Tru's brother, Harrison, asks for help. Despite his friendship with Harrison, Jack vows to ensure Harrison's death when the day rewinds. Tru struggles to protect her brother, and the game is on as an epic battle of life and death between Tru and Jack is set in motion. But Tru's attempts to save Harrison will lead to the shocking death of someone very close to her.
About Tru Calling
- Creators
- Jon Harmon Feldman
- Cast
- Eliza Dushku, Zach Galifianakis, Shawn Reaves, Jason Priestley
- Genres
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
- Content rating
- NR
- Original language
- English
- Production countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Canceled
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