1.1. Pilot
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Episode Information:
 

Episode Number

1

First Aired

October 30, 2003

Production Code

101

Writer

Jon Harmon Feldman

Director

Philip Noyce

Guest Stars:

  • Hudson Leick (as Rebecca)
  • Kristoffer Polaha (as Mark Evans)
  • Callum Keith Rennie (as Elliot Winters)
  • Vincent Laresca (as Marco)
  • Woody Jeffreys (as Gary (uncredited))
  • John Haymes Newton (as Aaron McCann)
  • Ingrid Tesch (as Carol Winters)
  • Robert Wisden (as Dr. Green)
  • Heath Freeman (as Cameron)

Notes
 
  • Heath Freeman was originally supposed to play Cameron, but his character was axed after a negative reaction from fans. He is however, in the Unaired Pilot episode.
  • Differences between the Pilots (from trucalling.cjb.net): Mark Evans was recast; the bar scene is over when Tru leaves; new music when she wakes up; Tru says a different name when she asks who is in the morgue; Lindsay does some reseach on Rebecca; Tru accepts the job before leaving the morgue; new fonts for the date; new score music; random flashbacks throughou the episode; Cameron is only in the graduation and bar scenes; the bike messanger says who the blue envelope is for at the front desk; new scene with Davis doing Cameron's old lines and more talking about work; Lindsay and Cameron's lines wondering where Tru is at graduation are cut; finally, a bit more of a conversation between Tru and Harrison at the restaraunt before Meredith arrives is added.
  • The date on the newspaper says May 26, 2003.
  • The Tru Calling theme song is dont by a group called Full Blown Rose. The song name is "Can Somebody Help Me".

Goofs:

 

·          Rebecca came into the morgue to begin with as the only death for that night. Why when Tru managed to save her, a woman who died with cancer came in the second time around? Shouldn't she had come in with Rebecca to begin with? I can see how it was done for suspense, but still, it doesn't make sense.

·          Graduation ceremonies almost always have a check-in list so that they specifically don't sit there and calling off the names of people who aren't there.

·          Why are there three empty chairs for Tru's family at graduation? There's her sister Meredith, her brother Harrison, and her dad...but they say her dad remarried. Even if he decided to come, would he really leave his new wife behind?

·          It's a standard TV/movie cliche, but Tru's presumably been turning off her alarm clock for days/months/years. Yet she manages to knock off her mother's picture right next to it. Why would she put a picture of her beloved mother where it could easily be broken? And if for some reason she had to leave the picture there, after a reasonable amount of time wouldn't she habitually hit the alarm without knocking it over?

·          What state the heck has an early morning lottery drawing?

·          Is there some reason they would take a recently-traumatized 12-year old girl to a morgue to viewer her dead mother? Not bloody likely. And yet Tru says she was in a morgue once when she was 12.

·          Conveniently, there's only one "Rebecca Morgan" in the entire city so Tru can find her quickly.

·          In the original timeline, Rebecca kills herself with Aaron's gun. But...how'd she get his gun? The only reason she has the gun the second time is because Aaron went to Rebecca's apartment because Tru told him that Rebecca was having problem with Elliott. If Tru wasn't around the first time then by everything we see here, Aaron would have had no reason to visit Rebecca and giver her the gun she uses to kill herself.

·          How the heck do you shoot yourself in the mouth and have the bullet come out the base of the neck? Try this at home with your finger. You have to twist your hand upside down and raise it up almost to the level of your eyebrows to pull this off.

·          Rebecca managed to get a complete new hairstyle between the night of the replayed day when she tried to kill herself, and the next morning when Tru watches her grocery shop.

·          Apparently it's going to be a motif for the show, but...why doesn't Tru call a cab? Just to take one example, she's racing against the clock to keep Rebecca from shooting herself and...she runs. A lot. Why doesn't she just call a cab? Or place an anonymous 911 call?

·          Rebecca leaves a suicide note in her lap when she kills herself (as we see in the second timeline) but there's no indication of it when they found her body in the original timeline. Surely the morgue delivery guy would have mentioned that she was a suicide (as determined by the note) if it had been found at the scene.

·          Folic acid has several uses, including taking it before you're pregnant but trying to get pregnant so as to avoid birth defects in the unborn child. It's also used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. There's no rational reason for Tru to see it and automatically conclude the person taking it was pregnant.

·          Meredith is eating immediately after taking coke - that's pretty non-standard behavior for cokeheads, who are usually hyperactive and can't sit down long enough to eat much (although they do get thirsty).

·          Response to last two points above. Folic acid is taken by pregnant women during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to prevent birth defects. Taking it specifically on its own is a pretty good indicator that someone is pregnant. Habitual drug users don't necessarily display the signs that occasional users do. Its likely that her body is so accustomed to it (and she is accustomed to hiding it) that she would have no problems sitting and eating with the others.