The worst episodes of Tru Calling
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Death gets personal for Tru when her love interest is slain. Now she seeks to undo the killing, but the victim never asks for help. Who does? An escaped con killed in a car crash. Jack, of course, figures in the mystery.
- 02
Reversing an attack on Davis in the morgue preoccupies Tru, who seeks to identify the assailant, also linked to the killing of a bride-to-be on her wedding day.
- 03
Peril awaits Tru's impetuous brother, swept up in a whirlwind romance with a disarming woman who's estranged from the husband she says beat her.
- 04
Serial killings stymie Tru, whose search for the slayer at a rustic hideaway over a Valentine's Day weekend is complicated by romantic dilemmas in her relationship with Luc.
- 05
A shot coed asks for Tru's help, but there's no rewind until a suicide also speaks, so Tru farms out one assignment to Harrison; Jack explores Davis's past.
- 06
The simultaneous murders of five college buddies who attended a bachelor party stymie Tru, who seeks to unravel the mystery by posing as a bartender at the shindig.
- 07
Mysteries surrounding emotionally conflicted teens preoccupy Tru, who poses as a high-school student to unravel events that led to a tragic car crash. Elsewhere, Harrison intervenes in Lindsay's disastrous date with her boss.
- 08
Murder awaits Tru's ex-lover, whose destined slaying she investigates with the help of Davis, now a believer in her supernatural gift. Trouble is, evidence points to Tru as the killer.
- 09
A soldier's story touches Tru, desperate to undo the fate of a young veteran whose combat injuries conceal a deeper wound: a romance that broke his heart.
- 10
Intrigue at a high-school reunion entangles Tru, seeking to undo a mysterious murder: the slaying of a sexy, arrogant alumna who was once Tru's closest friend but betrayed her trust five years ago.
- 11
Multiple crises beset Tru on a "redo day" that plays over and over, complicating her efforts to help a desperate father, who resorts to robbery to save his critically ill child.
- 12
A mysterious drifter enters Tru's life, but taking center stage is Tru's relationship with her estranged father and her attempts to undo his second wife's slaying, which awakens dark memories.
- 13
A film actress seeks help from Tru on a "redo day" that exposes the star's secret past, her deceitful ploys and an extortionist's plot. Meanwhile, Jack mysteriously manipulates Harrison, whose relationship with Lindsay suffers as a result.
- 14
A cry for help baffles Tru, who can't ID the victim. She thinks the source is a med student's secretive finacée, but Davis's choice is a new friend, a psychologist with secrets of her own.
- 15
A blaze of suspicious origin in an apartment building alerts Tru to the plight of a daring fireman, braving flames to save residents. Also, Tru learns of her lover's deceit and dalliance with one of his students.
- 16
A dogged reporter vexes Tru, who later seeks to undo the journalist's murder in a botched robbery that yields surprises. So, too, does the new morgue assistant, who bonds with Harrison at the race track.
- 17
Identity theft sires intrigue in a "Rear Window"-style scenario linked to Tru's apartment view, from which she sees a woman imperiled by a man who's later murdered. Meanwhile, light is shed on Jack's secret past.
- 18
The plight of a heart-attack victim and his tangled relationships set the stage for Tru's "redo" day, during which she discovers startling revelations concerning her mysterious associate.
- 19
Police suspect Tru of murder on a complexly plotted "redo" day that involves a duplicitous psychiatrist and an ingenious scheme hatched by Tru's dad and her nemesis, Jack.
- 20
Beauty-pageant intrigue envelops Tru, who's posing as a contestant to foil a murder plot that's linked to a blackmail scheme. Meanwhile, a reporter probes Tru's ties to crime scenes.
- 21
A cry for help rattles Jack, who struggles with his role in the fate of a suicidal loner he's grown fond of, on a complex day that also pits him against Tru and her conspiratorial father.
- 22
'Twas the Night Before Christmas... Again
A mystery binds combatants Tru and Jack, uneasy partners in a help call centering on a homicide that goes back some six months and involves an adulterer. Another storyline reveals the darker side of Tru's dad.
- 23
Flatliners embattle Tru, who stumbles upon bizarre afterlife experiments conducted by a clique of med students that includes a vulnerable young woman with a troubled past who's in grave danger.
- 24
In the series pilot, Tru seeks to reverse the dire fates awaiting her younger brother, a compulsive gambler; and a woman entangled in messy romances.
- 25
Engulfed in a furious squall, a harbor-patrol officer's fate hinges on Tru's guile and her clash of wills with the evil Jack Harper. Harper's now in league with Tru's father, a devilish lawyer manipulating Harrison.
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