Eliza Dushku

Cast
Eliza Dushku - Tru Davies
Shawn Reaves - Harrison Davies
Jessica Collins - Meredith Davies
A.J. Cook - Lindsay

Guest stars
Hudson Leick - Rebecca Morgan
Heath Freeman - Cameron

Crew
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television and Original Television
Executive Producers: Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz, Dawn Parouse
Executive Producer/Writer: Jon Feldman
Director: Phillip Noyce

Summary
The series premiere starts off ten years earlier, with ten year-old Tru Davies at her mothers memorial service. We hear the deceased Elise assure her daughter that everything is all right before Tru returns to her family, where Tru informs her older sister, Jessica, that she had spoken with their mother. She is dismissed as having an active imagination, and we learn that Tru witnessed her mothers still unsolved murder.

Fast forward to the present. Tru is now twenty two years old and late for her college graduation. Her best friends, Lindsay and Cameron, are already present and awaiting her arrival, and the scenes cut between the former track star running through New York City and the ceremony. She arrives just as her name is called, and while she’s up at the podium accepting her diploma, her family is noticeably absent.

After the ceremony, Tru, Cameron and Lindsay head out to a bar to celebrate their graduation, where Tru is teased for having a crush on Professor Mark Evans, who also is present. Tru denies any attraction and the friends bid one another good night.

It’s now Sunday and Tru is awakened by The Donnas "Take it Off" at the strike of seven. Professor Evans has spent the night in her apartment. Since she is no longer a student, Mark suggests going public with their yearlong relationship at a meeting that night, and although Tru is obviously hesitant, she doesn’t argue, either.

Shortly after Tru receives a phone call from her brother, Harrison, and he asks for money to pay of a gambling debt. Tru informs him she doesn’t have that type of money and the two siblings disconnect on a sour note, but Tru has other things to consider today. When she goes to the hospital expecting to begin an internship, she discovers that the funding has fallen through and it’s no longer available. The doctor suggests another job that he admits may not be what she was looking for, but she takes the offer, anyway.

The job in question is the graveyard shift at the New York City Morgue. After a quick tour given by Davis, she is hired as an entry level forensics attendant and is to begin that night. Monday is also the anniversary of her mothers death, so before she starts work, Meredith and Tru meet at a restaurant, expecting Harrison to join them as well. Tru finds cocaine in her sisters purse and reminds her she’s already been in rehab once, but Meredith insists she isn’t falling back into old habits. It’s remarked how their mother’s death damaged them all and how the killer was never caught, and then the conversations returns to Meredith’s drug problem, where Meredith then promptly gets up and leaves Tru alone.

Trus cell phone rings. It’s Harrison and he’s at the hospital after getting beaten for not coming up with gambling money. Tru goes to see him but is told that there is nothing she can do, that she already had her chance to help him and opted not to.

Dispirited, Tru returns to the morgue to begin her shift. A body is brought in, listed as the thirty second but Trus first, and she is informed that the victims name is Rebecca Morgan, a young women that was shot in the back of the neck at approximately ten that night. Her body is stored in the crypt until an autopsy can be performed, her death ruled as unnatural, and then Tru is left alone.

There’s no one else present but her, and as the night progresses Tru begins to hear a voice murmuring indistinctly. She follows it into the crypt where she starts frantically opening the vaults, and when she opens Rebecca Morgan’s crypt, the voice ceases. Cautiously, she pulls out the body, where Rebecca then turns to Tru and whispers urgently "Help me."

The digits of the click turn to seven and she is awaken by the same song as she was the previous morning. Mark sits down on the bed and talks about going public with their relationship, where Tru then cuts in that they had this conversation yesterday. Mark looks perplexed and Tru remarks how her new job really freaked her out, leading him to remind her that her internship begins today. It’s Monday, and she graduated yesterday.

When Tru picks up the phone it’s Harrison asking her for money, and as she’s talking with him, she’s watching the lottery numbers on TV. They’re the exact same numbers as the day before, and when she goes to the hospital, she is once more told that she no longer has her internship, but that another job is available. Disconcerted, Tru picks up a newspaper and the date reads the same as it did the day before, and as she glances up she sees Rebecca Morgan crossing the street. She’s alive, and Tru is reliving the previous say all over again.

Tru follows Rebecca to work, unsure of how to approach her. Rebecca receives a call from an ex who won’t accept the breakup and Tru ends up bluntly warning her that she’s going to die today, much to Rebecca’s shock. Rebecca tells her to leave and goes into the back to get help, but Tru is able to reach over the counter before she returns. She finds a bottle of folic acid and Rebeccas cell, then gets the number of the last incoming call.

The number leads her to Aaron, a former boyfriend of the fated women. She claims to work with Rebecca and expresses concern for her safety. She finds out that Rebecca is a dancer and has several other ex’s who may have a grudge against her, and Aaron suggests she talks to Elliot Winters, who is the father of one of her students. Tru confronts Elliot at his office, and while looking at the photos on the windowsill, Tru notices that his wife is wearing the heart necklace that Rebecca was wearing when she was brought into the morgue. Elliot catches up to Tru in the elevator when she tried to and holds her against the wall by her throat, threatening to do everything in his power to stop Rebecca if she insists on telling his wife about their affair. As the elevator stops, he collects himself and smiles cordially as he passes by a co-worker, leaving Tru startled but unharmed.

Next on her list of averting potential disasters is preventing Harrison’s trip to the hospital. When he refuses to check out of the game while he’s ahead he refuses, and she advises him to slow down so that she may find a way to help him. She leaves him and picks up a deck of cards, then makes a quick stop to her sisters office to intervene with the delivery of an envelope of cocaine. After successful preventing Meredith from receiving the coke, she returns to Harrison to slip him a ten of clubs, the card that had been his downfall.

Tru still has a little more than an hour to prevent Rebeccas death, and she finds her at a party held at Elliot Winters company. Rebecca is walking up to Elliot and his wife to expose their affair when Tru steps in, pulling her safely aside. She tells her that Elliot will kill her if she says a word, and Tru accompanies the shaken Rebecca back to her apartment. When they arrive, Aaron is waiting for Rebecca, hoping to talk to her. She asks him to leave and he refuses, then draws a gun. He insists that the gun is for her to protect herself although he’s aiming it at them, and Tru draws the conclusion that Rebecca is pregnant with Elliots child, which was why she had the folic acid in her purse. Tru is able to kick the gun from Elliots hand and Rebecca recovers it, pointing it at Elliot until he exits the apartment.

Tru tells Rebecca to lock her doors but that she’ll be all right, then, believing her safe, goes out to dinner with her brother and sister. Meredith is going a line of cocaine in the bathroom of a restaurant when Tru gets a call from Davis. She had asked for his advice earlier about the specifics of a shooting, and he’s now realized that since there was no exit wound, it is possible that Rebecca committed suicide. Tru runs back to Rebeccas apartment and finds her with the gun Aaron gave her in her lap, pondering the thought of putting it in her mouth and pulling the trigger but nevertheless still alive. She tells Tru how she had believed she was more than merely Elliots mistress, but that after she told him about the pregnancy, she realized that was all she had been. Thinking there no reason to exist without being able to have the family she desired, she had planned to kill herself. But, as Tru assures her, she has plenty to live for. She’s going to be a mother, and she can still have that life she wanted, even if it doesn’t include Elliot.

Eventually, Rebecca hands over the gun, and when Tru glances at the clock, it’s after ten. She returns to the morgue and anxiously awaits the next body, fearing that it may once again be Rebecca. When another women is finally brought in, it turns out to instead be a women whom died of a natural cause, cancer.

Cut to the next morning, and it’s now Tuesday. Tru is standing at her mothers grave and, in a voice-over, thinking that her mother is the one that has blessed her with this gift to save people, which, in turn, may very well save herself.