For those that don't already know - Tru Calling is returning to Fox on Thursday 31 March at 8pm for a two hour second season premiere. The episodes are great (especially the second one) so don't miss them!


"I can't believe I had to find out what I did yesterday from him," Harrison complained as Tru hurried out of the gym and after Meredith.

"Harry, I don't have time for this right now."

"You apparently had time to interfere yesterday," Harrison pointed out.

"That was different," Tru replied. "Yesterday was different."

"Only because you decided it should be."

"Can we just talk about this later and concentrate on finding Meredith?"

"Why? Is she slipping back into her old habits again too?"

"No," Tru replied. It was a relief that at least that was one thing she didn't have to worry about. "But she spent yesterday with Jack and I want to make sure that this time she doesn't."

"Why are you so sure that was a bad thing?" Harrison asked finally succeeding in stopping Tru in her tracks. "Think about it. She can't tell him anything about you and the rewinds since she doesn't know about them. And he can't be 'preserving fate' if he's busy with Meredith. She can keep him occupied all day, leaving you to save the victim."

"I don't think Jack can be that easily distracted," replied Tru after considering her brother's words for a few minutes. "He isn't that interested in Meredith, it's only because she's my sister. Just the same as he only keeps tracking you down because you're my brother."

"Not because of my great fun personality," Harrison joked.

"You know what I mean," Tru said, rolling her eyes at her brother.

"Yeah, I know. It's pretty obvious anyway since he only turns up on rewind days."

"Where do you think Meredith would have gone?" Tru asked, attempting to get back to the problem at hand.

"One of the bars?" Harrison suggested. "How about we go check them all out and see if she's there?"

"You're barred," Tru pointed out without thinking. Sometimes it was a little hard to keep track of what was happening on what day especially when she was as distracted as she was now.

"Not today," Harrison grinned, leading her into the nearest one.


Thirty minutes later Tru decided they would have more luck if they split up and whilst Harrison went back to check their cabins she headed down to the poolside to see if she could see Meredith anywhere in that area. They were on a ship for goodness sake, there weren't that many places she could be.

Tru soon saw that Meredith was not anywhere around the pool but she did spot the young woman who had asked for help relaxing, reading a book, at the side of the pool.

Tru felt a twinge of guilt at the fact she had not even tried to track down the woman before now. Deciding that Meredith and Jack could wait a while Tru walked around the pool to introduce herself.

"Good book?" she asked, sitting down beside her.

"Not bad," the woman replied, smiling at Tru as she looked at her over the top of her sunglasses. "Just bought it from the shop on board. I knew I'd forgotten to pack something yesterday but only remembered when I reached for something to read out here."

"Happens to all of us," laughed Tru. "You here on your own?"

"No, there's a whole crowd of us, eight in total."

"Family?"

"Friends. Though there are two brothers amongst us."

"Brothers," Tru said, rolling her eyes. "Mine is around here somewhere looking for our sister."

"Family vacation?"

"Yeah, the three of us, plus our father." Tru frowned, wondering where their father had disappeared to again. For some reason he had vanished once again and for someone who wanted a family vacation he had shown even less interest in his children today than he had on the previous one.

"I take it there's a bit of tension between you all?" the woman asked.

"Not really," Tru replied, shaking her head. "Just the usual dysfunctional family troubles. I'm Tru Davies by the way."

"Stacey Sheldon," replied the woman, setting her book to one side and stretching. "I think I'll go for a swim. You?"

"Sure," Tru said, standing up. "I'll just run back to my cabin and change."

Stacey dived into the pool with a splash and Tru hurried back to the cabin to change and check if Meredith had surfaced. Once again the room was deserted, neither Meredith nor Harrison were anywhere about. Tru quickly changed into her swimsuit, and deciding Meredith and Harrison could take care of themselves for a while, she hurried back to the pool.

She couldn't see Stacey in the water and looking across to the other side Tru saw that she was standing near her seat, talking to Pete, the same lifeguard Tru had arranged to have dinner with the following evening. Groaning inwardly, Tru realised that in her determination to keep Harrison out of trouble she had once again lost out. Putting on a bright smile Tru walked over to Stacey and Pete, resolving not to let what had happened the previous day prey on her mind.


"Looking for someone?" Jack asked Richard as he approached the bar. He had already checked that Tru and Harrison were nowhere about and reasoned that it was safe to approach Richard and update him as to what was happening. From the look on Richard's face, Jack wondered if perhaps he had made a mistake.

"Not you," Richard replied with a glare at the entrance. "I'm waiting for Harrison to put in an appearance."

"How do you know he's going to?" Jack asked.

"Because you haven't told me enough about what I did yesterday to cause me to make any different choices. I'm just doing what I would normally do, so from your reasoning Harrison should turn up sooner or later to enable me to give him to the poker table."

"But that was yesterday," Jack pointed out with a sigh. Sometimes he wondered if Richard had been out of the game for too long; that or he was underestimating his daughter again. "Tru has Harrison sticking to her like glue today."

"That's not what I want to hear," Richard replied, taking a drink of whiskey and signalling the barman to pour him another. Jack frowned when he realised that Richard was not even going to offer him a drink; at least now he knew whom it was that Tru got her lack of manners from. "You should be ensuring things go the same as they did yesterday…in all respects."

"I thought I just had to make sure that the person who died stays dead?" Jack muttered, just loud enough for Richard to catch his words.

"You know nothing," Richard snapped. "You think only of today, only or what is right in front of you. You've no concept of the bigger picture, of what we are trying to achieve here, no concept at all."

"Then why don't you fill me in," Jack said as he ordered himself a drink. "You're so sure that having Harrison rewind is a good thing, why don't you explain that to me for starters."

"He's my son, in more ways than you can imagine," Richard replied, as cryptically as ever and as annoying as ever.

"He's also Tru's brother and a good kid. He's not going to automatically ignore cries for help, and I don't know why you're so convinced that he will."

"Because unlike Tru, Harrison is not the self sacrificing type. He's not the sort of person to give up his life to save strangers."

"It's not like Tru is giving up her life," Jack reasoned. "Who's to say that Harrison won't try to play things just like she does, the best of both worlds?"

"Because no one can do that. You know as well as I do that Tru won't be able to live in both worlds for much longer, the strain will become too much for her and something will have to be sacrificed. Tru will give up her dreams of medical school to answer the calling."

"You're sure about that?" Jack asked. From what he had seen Tru was balancing things pretty well. She had dreams of a career as a doctor, friends and family, a job in the morgue and her calling, and despite his best efforts to make her see sense there was no sign as yet of her giving up anything.

"I know my daughter, she's just like her mother, the calling will become everything to her, just like it did with Elise."

Jack looked away at that and took a long drink from his own shot. The bitterness in Richard's voice was more than he had ever heard from him before and he didn't like it, it was too close to home. He wondered, not for the first time, just exactly what had happened between Richard and his wife, what it was that had forced Richard to have his wife murdered. But if there was one thing that he had learned in recent months is was that Richard only told him what he wanted him to know and he was particularly closed mouthed about what had happened with his wife.

"And Harrison?" Jack finally asked, "You're so sure Harrison won't make the sacrifices?"

"Are you sure you've met my son?" Richard laughed before finishing his drink and leaving the bar without so much as a farewell.


Harrison too had given up looking for Meredith, who had apparently vanished without a trace. Deciding that it might be a good idea to spend some time with his father he set about retracing his steps to see if he could locate him.

He stood outside of the bar looking at Jack and Richard sitting together in the bar and wondered whether he should go and interrupt them. It looked like Tru was right and Jack was prepared to go to any lengths to get to Tru, even going through the formidable Richard Davies. He had still not made up his mind whether to go join them when his father stood up to leave, stepping out of the way he waited until Richard was outside before making his presence known.

"Hi Dad," he called in greeting. "Just been looking for you."

"Harrison," Richard replied with a nervous glance back towards the door. "Did you want something?"

"Just a chance to spend some time with you," Harrison replied with a grin. "I didn't like to interrupt you," he nodded towards the door and saw through the glass that Jack was still in the same seat.

"You wouldn't have been interrupting," Richard replied, his composure returning as he realised that Harrison hadn't actually heard any of the conversation. "Just a fellow passenger angling for a free drink."

"Got the wrong man then, didn't he?" joked Harrison and the mood lightened considerably.

"Well let me prove you wrong by buying my favourite son one," Richard suggested, leading Harrison back inside.

"Well if you're paying," Harrison laughed as they approached the bar.

He wondered if Jack would say anything as they sat down in close proximity to where he was sat on one of the high stools. When Richard moved to the other end of the bar to get the attention of the barman, Harrison took the opportunity to warn Jack off.

"It won't work," he hissed at Jack after checking that his father was not close enough to hear him.

"What won't work Harrison?" Jack replied in mock innocence. "I don't know what you're talking about. You're getting as suspicious as your sister."

"Using dad to get to Tru," Harrison whispered. "It won't work. Dad doesn't know about Tru and even if he did the Davies family stick together. If he knew what you were, what you are doing to Tru, he'd eat you for breakfast."

Harrison watched Jack intently as he waited for him to respond, but instead of Jack speaking he merely grinned, shook his head as though contemplating a private joke, finished his drink, and turned to walk away.


For those that don't already know (and in case you missed it above) - Tru Calling is returning to Fox on Thursday 31 March at 8pm for a two hour second season premiere. The episodes are great (especially the second one)so don't miss them!