Tru Calling

Tru:
Have a little faith in your sister.

Jack Harper:
Have a little faith in your sister.

Tru:
My friend Lindsay works in public relations.

Davis:
So do we, except our public happens to be dead.

[operating on a live woman, to try and save her life]

Davis:
I can't do it.

Tru:
Why not?

Davis:
The living creep me out.

Geoffrey:
You can't get mad cow from a bull, that's why they call it "cow".

Tru:
It must be nice living in your world, Harrison.

Harrison Davies:
What, do you got some kind of death wish?

Jack Harper:
Harrison, death isn't something you have to wish for. It's coming anyway.

Tru:
C'mon, I'm taking you somewhere safe.

Harrison Davies:
Safe? What's safer than a morgue?

Davis:
[to Harrison] I'm so sorry. Please, accept my condolences. You were so... young.

Harrison Davies:
Dude, I'm still alive. I died yesterday.

Harrison Davies:
[to Davis] See ya later, Morgue Man.

Jack Harper:
You know, Daivs is a nice guy, but why do I get the feeling that we're gonna come in here one morning and all the corpses are gonna be dressed up for an imaginary tea party?

Davis:
Pretty girl is nothing but trouble...

Jack Harper:
I thought a change of location would help. It didn't. I'm hoping a change of vocation will.

Jack Harper:
No one should die on an empty stomach.

Lindsay Walker:
My note, turned one guy into a liar... and another one... *gay*!

Tru:
The power of the written words!

Glenn Carpenter:
There is something I always wanted to tell you, I always thought that you were the most beautiful girl in school... then you left that note in my locker...

Lindsay Walker:
I left that note in your locker?

Glenn Carpenter:
That note changed my life.

Lindsay Walker:
It did?

Glenn Carpenter:
It made me realize some very important thing... I couldn't have feelings for you, I couldn't have feelings for any girl.

Lindsay Walker:
Are you telling me that my note, made you... gay?

Glenn Carpenter:
A note made me gay! Let me tell you something, at 10th reunion... then the tiara is mine!

Lindsay Walker:
Oh.

Glenn Carpenter:
Hello, can I have your attention please? It's now time to announce the class of '99's five-year reunion-queen... The queen is - Candace Aimes!

Candace Aimes:
Wow! Thank you so much, this is such a surprise!... Okay, not that much of a surprise.

Tru:
I can't stop thinking about Candace Aimes, could you think of anyone who still are holding a grudge against her?

Lindsay Walker:
Strange question, let me think... I know! The entire graduating class.

Jeremy:
[pickup line] You're not Tru. You're too good to be Tru.

Tru:
[Jensen just lit a candle] Who is that one for?

Jensen Ritchie:
[blows it out] Nobody.

Jack Harper:
Good people has to die too, Tru.

Tyler Li:
Okay, so you get eight days of Christmas?

Avery Bishop:
Tyler look, for the last time it's called Hanukkah, all right? If you call it Christmas one more time, I swear I'm gonna shove a menorah up your...

Jack Harper:
[Jack excuses himself when Tru gets to the body that's been dead for six months... ] For the record, she was dead when I got here.

Tru:
Duly noted. Now, get out.

Jack Harper:
Already on my way.

Jack Harper:
Oh come on Tru, I just want to hear you say it one time! [whispers] Help me.

Tru:
Would you settle for 'Bite me'?

Tru Davies:
I'm 22 years old. And one way or another, I've lost everyone I've ever loved. Our mother to a bullet. Our father to lack of interest. Meredith to coke and ambition. Don't you see? I can't lose you too. Otherwise I'll have no one left. I'm cursed because I can see the future. And if you go there right now, I'll have no one. Without you, I'm all alone.

Harrison Davies:
You will never lose me Tru. But I have to go. I gotta go!

Davis:
Here's what I-I think, Tru. We're all some place for some reason. Just sometimes we need to accept what that reason is.

Sarah Webb:
He tried to pick me up.

Harrison Davies:
I did not try to pick you up.

Sarah Webb:
What would you call it?

Harrison Davies:
It was a diner. You were alone. I was alone. I was just trying to make conversation.

Tru Davies:
He tried to pick you up.

Lindsay Walker:
God, I hate people in love. They always act so superior. Just because they found someone that will *actually* put up with them.

Harrison Davies:
But she believes in me, Tru. Damn, I don't believe in myself half the time. But here's this girl - this -this. No. No. This woman who thinks I'm someone special.

Tru Davies:
Listen I really need to reach Harrison. You haven't heard from him by any chance?

Meredith Davies:
Actually I have. He's under arrest.

Tru Davies:
For what?

Meredith Davies:
They haven't filed yet. But my guess is Murder One.

Tru Davies:
[to a corpse] Not that I'm not cool with the whole concept of corpses talking to me. But if you're gonna ask for my help. Now would be a good time.

Davis:
[to Tru] You know for someone who doesn't like it here, you sure are around a lot. You ever think that you just... belong here?

Harrison Davies:
Well, I'm a big boy, Tru. If I get my heart stomped. I get my heart stomped. You can't protect me forever.

Tru Davies:
No. But I can protect you for today.

Harrison Davies:
Why do you always have to do things the hard way, huh?

Tru Davies:
Because I can.

Harrison Davies:
You relive days?

Tru Davies:
People ask for my help. Dead people. I know I already told you that. But then the day restarts and I have a chance to save them from dying. It doesn't happen everyday. Not that it makes it any less strange.

Tru Davies:
[to Davis] Just once. Just once I'd like to go somewhere and have everyone stay alive. Is that too much to ask?

Michelle Carey:
That's not what I'm calling about. I've been looking through police reports over the past several months. All sorts. An attempted murder for hire schemes. Attempted mass poisoning. And so on. And the only thing all these very different crimes have in common is, well... you.

Tru Davies:
Yeah. I'm sure I understand.

Michelle Carey:
In all the cases I've look at, you were cited by the would-be victim as the reason he or she is still alive. It's really quite remarkable.

Lindsay Walker:
Now I need to find a replacement. Someone fabulous to fill in. Someone *fabulous* like...

Tru Davies:
Not a chance!

Tru Davies:
Okay, let me ask you: if you don't pay this guy, what would he do to you?

Harrison Davies:
Let me put it to you this way: I may be asking you for help tonight... from beyond.

Tru Davies:
Harrison!

Harrison Davies:
I am joking. Geez. Start saving dead people, all of a sudden you lose your sense of humor.

Harrison Davies:
So she's uh...

Tru Davies:
Dead.

Harrison Davies:
They just always seem to find you, don't they?

Tru Davies:
Unfortuneately, yes.

Harrison Davies:
[Hoping to see a corpse ask for help] Sorry but I have *got* to see this.

Tru Davies:
Look there's no gurantee it's gonna happen. And even if it does, you won't remember when you wake up tomorrow because it wouldn't have happened yet.

Harrison Davies:
...Yeah... I think I'll just go wait outside.

Tru Davies:
Oh, hey, if a reporter named Michelle Carrey comes looking for me, just don't answer any questions.

Davis:
Questions? What kind of questions?

Tru Davies:
The kind we don't want to answer.

Davis:
Oh, that kind. Right.

Tru Davies:
Fixing az beauty pageant for your loan shark? What were you thinking?

Harrison Davies:
I...

Tru Davies:
You know it's hard enough saving these people without *always* having to bail out your ass out of trouble.

Harrison Davies:
But... that's like our thing. You know?

Michelle Carey:
Well, then let me tell you something else that I have imagined. I did a little research. And it turns out that Tru isn't the first young woman to mysteriously pop up in the nick of time and save the lives of total strangers. There was another... before her.

Davis:
I asked you to leave.

Michelle Carey:
Tell Tru, I'm sorry I missed her. But I'll be sure to catch her next time.

Luc Johnston:
Well, maybe I overreacted, all right? Maybe I could learn to live with those things.

Tru Davies:
No, you didn't. And you couldn't. Because as much as I'd like to, I'll never be able to change. That's who I am. That's who I'll always be. And because of that, I'll have to give up things, sometimes really great things. I'm sorry Luc.

Luc Johnston:
Don't be.

Tru Davies:
No. I'm sorry for me.

Davis:
[Speaking of Michelle] She does know something that I've known for a long time. Not that she'll ever be able to prove it, mind you. And maybe I should have told you sooner, but I didn't want to confuse you even more.

Tru Davies:
Davis.

Davis:
...Before you, there was someone else. A woman. She relived days. She could prevent death. Once you asked me why I believed you, how readily I accepted what you can do. And that's why. Because I met her. And as many times as you read her file, it's never going to be in there. It was your mother. What you can do, she could do too.

[talking about a financial situation Harrison has gotten himself into]

Tru:
What happens if you don't pay?

Harrison Davies:
I'll be in trouble.

Tru:
How much trouble?

Harrison Davies:
Let's just say I may be asking for your help at the end of the night... you know, from beyond.

Tru:
HARRISON!

Harrison Davies:
I'm just kidding. Man, talk to a few dead people and lose your sense of humor...

Harrison Davies:
[after punching Jack] That's for yesterday... I think.

Paige Sanders:
I give myself more credit than that. Because pretty soon the truth is going to come out, and when it does. I can promise one thing. I'm not the only one who was to deal with it. You are daddy.

Tru Davies:
You think I won't pass? I nailed every question you asked, plus the ones you made up.

Davis:
No. No. That's not what I meant. I'm sure you'll ace them. I just - I just meeant that sometimes - I get the feeling that some people don't belong here... and some people do.

Tru Davies:
So which am I? I belong here or not?

Davis:
What do you think?

Luc Johnston:
Dress code?

Tru Davies:
Blind date.

Luc Johnston:
Oh.

Tru Davies:
Bad one. [Tru chuckles]

Luc Johnston:
Well, is there any other kind?

Tru Davies:
You ever have, like, one of the greatest days of your life, I mean, a really great day, and then you feel like the whole thing got erased.

Davis:
You're assuming I've ever had a great day.

Steven:
[after reviving] Now that was a trip.

Paige Sanders:
Did it work for you Steven?

Tru Davies:
So let me get this straight: you've got a little hobby. You kill yourselves?

Dan Taggart:
For starters.

Tru Davies:
And then you resusitate.

Paige Sanders:
That's the plan.

Tru Davies:
What's the point?

Steven:
The point, Jessica, is that when you come back, you're not the same. You know that Urban myth about how the moment of your death, your whole life flashes before you. It's true.

Dan Taggart:
It's amazing, isn't it? How thin the line the line between life and death can be? The nearly instant recovery time. See that's the reason I designed it the way I did.

Tru Davies:
Taht's great Dan. What would you have done if I couldn't revive her?

Tru Davies:
I'm sorry I have to go. But I can reschedule, right?

Professor Coleman:
Oh sure. Sure. Just be here bright and early... next year.

Tru Davies:
...So I'll see you next year.

Paige Sanders:
I thought remembering would be the end. But it isn't. It's just the first step.

Lindsay Walker:
But still, Tru. I'm *telling* you, the perfect guy is out there. You just haven't met him yet.

Tru Davies:
That or I've met him too many times.

Lindsay Walker:
Exactly. - Wait. How's that work?

Tru Davies:
See ya,Linds.

Davis:
It's not easy, is it? Carrying the burden you do.

Tru Davies:
Excuse me?

Davis:
Some would call it a blessing, others a curse. I see it more as a... calling.

Tru Davies:
Davis?

Davis:
I know more than you think I know, Tru. About what you can do. About how you help the dead get another chance at life. Have a seat, Tru. It's time I tell you what I know.

Harrison Davies:
What if tomorrow is just today all over again?

Tru:
Bite me, Harrison.

Harrison Davies:
Maybe you should just try and leave the past alone.

Tru:
I can't. Because it won't leave me alone.

Harrison Davies:
And you're telling me this because.

Tru:
Because I need info. And you're much more familiar with this world than I am.

Harrison Davies:
Listen Starsky, you're asking me to your Hutch. I'm gonna have to say "Thanks but no thanks."

Tru:
[Indicating the door she's about to enter] Strippers, Harr.

Harrison Davies:
Okay, I'm in!

Tru:
Why does everyone think I look like a stripper?

Concierge:
It's a bachelor party. Who else would you be?

Clayton:
You know as a rule, the best man should not be late.

Blake:
No one ever said I was the best. Just better than the rest of you idiots.

Tru:
You guys haven't seen each other since college, right? I mean, shouldn't this be one big happy reunion?

Ethan:
Right. Everyone says they're the best years of your life... Doesn't always work out that way.

Davis:
I've been listening to your mildly entertaining stories all day. Obviously, something's going on in your life, I don't know if your in trouble or what. I just hope that one day you realize you can be honest with me.

Blake:
I'm sorry for not trusting you, but with everything, I - barely trust myself.

Tru:
You did the right thing.

Blake:
Five years too late.

Harrison Davies:
Look Tru, this thing you're dealing with. Maybe for you it's more than just saving people, see these guys had a secret. And they put it to rest. Maybe, I don't know, you can try and do the same.

Tru Davies - Age 12:
[At their mother's funeral] I just wish...

Meredith Davies - Age 15:
You just wish what?

Tru Davies - Age 12:
That I could go back to that day and help her.

Mark Evans:
[to Tru] Congratulations. Yesterday, you were an ethics violation. And today *you* are faculty girlfriend!

Dr. Green:
There was this other job I heard about. Now don't get excited. It might not be the exact right fit. You were a track star, right? Why don't you run down and see this guy as soon as you can. Tell him I sent you.

Tru Davies:
It's a good job?

Dr. Green:
Trust me. People would *die* for it.

Davis:
Are you sure you're interested in working here? Because, I'll be honest. Most girls as pretty as you, they come here - well, they're - they're dead. [Davis chuckles]

Tru Davies:
I'll be applying to medical school in the fall. And... my advisor said it would be a good idea.

Davis:
It's call the crypt. It's where every unnatural death in the city comes to rest. Waiting for an autopsy.

Tru Davies:
You said "unnatural" death.

Davis:
Most of them. Because if there's even a *hint* that a death might be unnatural: murder, suicide. They come here.

Tru Davies:
[as Harrison's being taken into surgery] I'm coming with you.

Harrison Davies:
No Tru.

Tru Davies:
Harrison, look at you.

Harrison Davies:
You had your chance, Tru. You can't help me now.

Tru Davies:
You said - I mean someone said - that the bodies brought here, they're unnatural deaths.

Davis:
Some of them, yes.

Tru Davies:
So those people, they shouldn't actually be dead, not yet anyway.

Davis:
Is it hard to see people dead before their time? Yes. But Tru, if you're going to work here, you've got to accept the fact that there's nothing you can do about it... That was a job offer in case you missed it.

Rebecca Morgan:
[Meeting Tru] You okay?

Tru Davies:
Yeah, just having a strange day.

Tru Davies:
[Speaking to Meredith on her cellphone] Are you sure you're okay?

Meredith Davies:
My God, that actually sounds like genuine concern. Wait a second! Who is this and what have you done with my sister?

Tru Davies:
And I heard another voice.

Harrison Davies:
Wait. I don't understand. You mean, like - you mean like mom?

Tru Davies:
No. Not her. Someone else.

Harrison Davies:
Dead. [Tru nods] Oh boy.

Tru Davies:
And that's not even the half of it. Believe it or not, that's the half that makes sense. I-I just don't get it. Me, of all people, why do they come to me?

Harrison Davies:
Maybe because they know that you'll listen.

Davis:
A pretty girl's nothing but trouble.

Tru Davies:
[Standing over her mother's grave] It's been the strangest day. And understatement, I know. Did you have anything to do with it? I don't know. I only know that I wish this day had come 10 years earlier. Then maybe I could've saved you too. Instead, I'll wait, for others. Some who have needed me more than most. So maybe, I couldn't save you. Maybe, just maybe, this is your way of saving me.

Tru:
No fires here today.

Nick Kelly:
Well, not in the building anyway.

Lindsay Walker:
Okay, Tru. Ooo. Okay, let's be honest here. You're cute, you're 22 years old. There are better career opportunities out there for you.

Tru:
I think I might be able to do some good by working here.

Lindsay Walker:
How? Everyone's already dead.

Davis:
Look Tru. I know the morgue is not exactly party central but - don't worry. Things will pick up. [Davis leaves]

Tru:
...That's what I'm afraid of.

Tru:
I know it sounds a little crazy but [Harrison spills some sugar] Smooth move.

Harrison Davies:
A little crazy? No. The run with the bulls is a little crazy. Sky diving. Dating an actress is a little crazy. This - *this* is certifiably insane!

Tru:
Harrison, I'm not lying and I don't think I'm nuts either.

Lindsay Walker:
Okay, um, you caught your boyfriend in the act, and you froze? God! You know what I would have done? I would have humiliated him. I would have made him wish he'd never ever met me. Hey Tru, you just blew the perfect opportunity to put that jerk in his place.

Tru:
I don't know if I can take this.

Marco:
Well, believe it or not, it actually gets easier... Besides I like to think they're going to a better place.

Tru:
You believe that?

Marco:
Well, if you're gonna work here, you gotta believe. Course the dead get off easy. It's the ones left behind that gotta deal with all the pain.

Tru:
Don't you worry about how dangerous your job is? I mean, you see it on the news all the time, a firefighter goes into a building and...

Nick Kelly:
I don't really think about it. Sometimes a job just chooses you. You know what I mean?

Tru:
Yeah, I do.

Tru:
Listen I'll make you a deal.

Nick Kelly:
I'm listening.

Tru:
Wait until tonight, and I'll tell you anything you want to know and a whole lot more.

Nick Kelly:
You're very lucky I have a soft spot for strange women.

Tru:
[There's a fire in the building] Let's go.

Nick Kelly:
No. No. No. I can't leave!

Tru:
Why not?

Nick Kelly:
I'm a firefighter.

Tru:
[Nick starts to re-enter a burning building] Whoa. Where are you going?

Nick Kelly:
I'm going after her.

Tru:
She's hiding under her bed. But send someone else please!

Nick Kelly:
It's my job, Tru. And I'm as stubborn as you are.

Mark Evans:
Tru, I wish that I could rewind the day and have it back. I would do everything differently. I would show you how much you mean to me.

Tru:
You had your one day. You only get one.

Tru Davies:
Why isn't this completely freaking you out?

Davis:
I've seen a lot of strange things here. Very little shocks me.

Davis:
You're saving lives. It's - it's a gift.

Tru Davies:
No, candles are gifts. Boots, bath salts maybe, but this - this is - I don't know what this is. Do you?

Davis:
I don't. Not yet. But tell me Tru, how does it feel to know that somewhere out there someone's about to die and they're going to ask you for help?

Lindsay Walker:
[to Tru] You're already planning to breakup and you haven't even gone out with the guy yet?

Davis:
You memorize the license plate?

Tru Davies:
I memorize everything I can. Once they ask for help, I lose the body, any evidence. Only thing I can go on is what I can remember.

Harrison Davies:
I just want her back. That's all.

Tru Davies:
Without a scratch.

Harrison Davies:
No, no. Not the car. My sister.

Davis:
Just becasue it looks like an accident doesn't mean that it is. You should know Tru, in our business, things aren't always what they appear to be.

Tru Davies:
Thanks Davis... I've never had anyone help me before.

Davis:
I've never had anyone to help.

Adam Whitman:
Look, have you seen Amy? I can't believe she just took off like that.

Tru Davies:
Here's a hint: Girls in the movies like guys for their cars. But girls in real life like guys for who they are.

Luc Johnston:
[as Tru is leaving on their date] Are you okay?

Tru Davies:
No. Really, I'm insane. Because I'm about to walk out on a date that's actually *working*. But it's just there's someplace I have to be.

Davis:
Well, if it weren't for you, they wouldn't even have that.

Tru Davies:
If it weren't for *us*... Sometimes just being able to talk to someone makes it a lot easier, you know?

Tru Davies:
You know a friend of mine was saying that real life can't be like the movies. That maybe sometimes things are better left to mystery.

Luc Johnston:
Well, what good is mystery, if you don't try and figure it out?

Harrison Davies:
I gotta get a job... nah.

Tru:
[after Jack let Megan slip off the building] I wish it was you.

Jack Harper:
That makes two of us.

[last lines]

Tru Davies:
So, you were right. Someone was supposed to die.

Davis:
Well, he just had to die differently so someone else could live.

Tru Davies:
I should have been able to save them both.

Davis:
You can change events, but you - you can't change fate, Tru.

Tru Davies:
I can do things that probably no one else can. Sometimes, even that doesn't feel like enough.

Davis:
Sometimes, it isn't.

Tru:
That woman just asked for my help.

Harrison Davies:
What?! This is a do-over and you made me lose $200.

Tru:
It's not a do-over...

Harrison Davies:
Huh...

Tru:
Someone just asked for my help and nothing happened.

Harrison Davies:
What... You got fired?

Tru:
You have to get into this girl's life, Harrison. Whatever her plans are for today you've got to change them. You can do it, just be yourself.

Harrison Davies:
I was myself!

Tru:
Ya hit on her?

Harrison Davies:
Wha? No!... Well not in so many... Ya.

Tru:
Well then be your other self.

Harrison Davies:
Lie?

Tru:
Bingo.

Tru:
[to Jack] It's MY turn to talk, so listen up! My mother had the calling, and she passed it on to me, and if you think you one minute that I am EVER going to stop, you are saddly mistaken! So you just better watch your back, cause its on!

Harrison Davies:
Unbelievable. A serial killer, here.

Tru:
That's right. So I want you and Lindsey to pack your things. We're all going home, and I won't take no for a...

Harrison Davies:
Relax, you had me at serial killer. I'm outta here.

[last lines]

Davis:
You have a calling.

Tru:
A calling is something you're destined to do. Something that gives your life meaning. Something that makes you happy. What I do, it feels more like a curse.

Davis:
[sighs] Look, you were chosen for a reason. Whoever gave you this - this gift knew what they were doing. They saw the same things in you that I see in you: strength, compassion, conviction. Curse or calling, love it or hate it, you are the right person for the job. There's no doubt in my mind.

Lindsay Walker:
How sweet are our guys? I mean, Valentine's Day rolls around and they both put together fabulous weekends for their respective hotties.

[Davis enters and heads towards a computer]

Tru:
Don't you just love this time of year?

Davis:
Valentine's Day is a sham perpetuated by the floral and greeting card industries to move product. [clears throat as he looks at the computer screen]

Tru:
You'll have to excuse Davis. He's... very single.

Lindsay Walker:
Shocker.

[first lines]

Lindsay Walker:
Ah! Valentine's Day. Somehow, even the morgue seems more romantic.