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Received some information on Episode Three today from my TC source. While I know that we're expecting Episode Three to be "Brother's Keeper", this one is called "Past Tense". Two considerations. Either the Pilot will air as the episode one, and the numbering of the episodes after that will start with number 1. The other possibility is that the episodes are being filmed out of order or swapped around by the network planners (ala 'Firefly') to give the show the best bang for it's buck during Sweeps. The episode is pretty straightforward and it does appear that the show is going to trend more towards being a 'Mystery' series versus a 'Drama'.

Tru Calling: Past Tense

The show opens with young woman being killed by a faceless man. However, she's the not the one Tru needs to save. In this episode, Tru has to save not one, but five lives. Five men in their mid-20's come in one evening, having been poisoned by a drug/chemical. It appears that they died of alcohol poisoning, but one of them had no alcohol in his system. That's how they detected the chemical. Her job is to figure out who killed them as the day resets.

The five men were all at a bachelor party for their friend John. John is about to marry Robin, and Tru first thinks that they may have accidentally been poisoned. Tru finagles her way into the hotel suite where the men are partying, somewhat convincing them that she's the bartender the hotel provided. Tru's trying to figure out what in the room killed them, until Blake (the Best Man) arrives. So now with five bodies and six people, Tru has to figure out which one is the killer.

Lots of false leads abound, as Tru first suspects one guy who's acting suspicious, but it turns out he's in AA, so it's more the fact that he doesn't want his friends to know he's sober. Tru also realizes that he's the one that didn't have any alcohol in his system, so she crosses him off the list. However, it turns out that all of them are hiding a secret. One of them killed the girl we saw in the teaser, back when they were in college.

Tru narrows it down to either Blake or John who's the culprit, but then discovers another secret thanks to some sleuthing from Harrison. There really isn't going to be a wedding, as John and Robin broke up weeks before. It's all a ruse that John concocted, because one of the other five sent him a letter, stating that they were going to speak with the police.

It turns out that John killed the girl in college. The letter was sent by Blake, but not signed, so John didn't know which one of them sent it. He decided to take out all five, by putting the chemical into the ice used for the party. John naturallly avoided using any ice, but Tru uses a little subterfuge to convince John that she put ice in his drinks. He goes for the antidote, only to discover that Tru has already explained to the other five what John was up to. The day ends as John is being led away in handcuffs.

One other thing to note, and it's the only bit of continuity from a previous episode. Tru warns Meredith that her company is about to conduct a random drug test, which comes to pass.

Strangely enough, of the four episodes that we've gotten detailed summaries on, none of them feature the mysterious 'Luc'. It would seem that we're not going to see him before Sweeps is over.