Haunted (Tru Calling)

Template:Infobox Tru Calling episode Haunted is the fifth episode of the first season of Tru Calling. Tru tries to help a young med student who dies after participating in a secret experiment in which her heart is temporarily stopped.

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A young, second year medical student, Paige Reynolds, shows up in the morgue with track marks on her arm.

Tru has a date with a guy named Jeremy at a restaurant.

It's also the day Tru has to take her MCATs (the Medical College Admission Test), which is the exam you take to get into medical school.

During the repeat, Tru poses as Harvard medical student Jessica Hanson, to hang out with Paige and her med school friends- Dan and Steven.

She goes to one of their class and watches them. She sees track marks on Dan's arm. She introduces herself (as Jessica) and says she's a new student and wants to hang out with them. She offers to buy them lunch. Steven and Dan say they're busy. Tru asks them what they're so busy doing, by they says it's none of her business.

Paige and Tru sit at a booth, discussing relationships and Dan and Steven. Paige says she's between relationships. Tru says Paige needs a break, since she's pushing herself so hard. Paige says that's the way thing is for med students. Tru nearly blows her cover, but catches herself.

Tru turns the conversation to Paige's friends. and says that she shouldn't have to hurt herself to keep up with the other students. Paige wonders what Tru is talking about, but they're interrupted by Paige's cell phone ringing. She tells someone she'll be right there and has to leave.

Tru blurts out that she knows about the drugs, which Paige denies. Tru tries to prove she's right by grabbing Paige's arm and looking for track marks. But there aren't any. Paige thinks Tru is crazy, tells her to keep away from her and leaves.

Tru follows Paige from a distance to an abandoned building. Inside it's empty. She goes down the basement and hears an electronic humming noise. She follows the noise until she finds a room with medical equipment. She sees Steven strapped to a table with IVs in his arm. Paige and Dan are there, in surgical gear, are watching monitors. The heart monitor shows that Steven has flatlined.

Dan and Paige monitor Steven's condition, telling him death looks good on him. He convulses. After 20 seconds, they try to revive him with electronic paddles. They have to repeatingly shock him. Finally the heart monitor shows that Steven has a pulse. Steven regains consciousness and tells the other that it was a real trip.

Tru walks in and asks what's going on.

Back on campus, they explain that they kill themselves as a hobby, because to be able to remember things. They're lives flash before their eyes by releasing chemicals in their brains.

Tru tells them that they're experiment kills them. But they insist it works. Steven says he remembers his father, who left him when he was 2 1/2. Paige wants to be next. Tru tries to stop her.

Luc (the crime scene photographer) and Tru are talking on the phone and Tru apologizes for something that happened earlier. Tru has to go - Iit's 2:30 and it's about time for Paige's "death".

Tru sees Steven and tries to catch up to him. She tries to convince Steven to talk Paige out of it. Tru admits to Steven that she knows Paige is going to die. He wants to know how she knows. Tru makes a last ditch effort to convince him to help her, and finds out that Paige is doing it right now. Tru might be too late to stop Paige from dying.

Lindsay's at the restaurant and tells Tru she'll cover for her on the date. Jeremy is there sitting alone. Lindsay tells him Tru can't make it. Jeremy says Lindsay is too good to be "Tru". They start to hit it off.

Tru goes to her medical school entrance exam trying to reschedule, but it's too late. She'll have to wait to take it next year.

Tru finds out that Paige made it through her flatlining experience, but she's remembered things. Tru goes and confronts Dan about where Paige is. Dan says she remembered about a man hurting her, and something about the moon and stars.

Tru goes to Paige's house and across the street she spots a stained glass window with the night sky. She realizes that it's the moon and stars.

Inside the house, the neighbor is having an argument with Paige. The neighbor abused Paige when she was 9, and now Paige remembers exactly what happens and wants to press charges. The neighbor tries to get her to settle down, and she yells at him not to touch her. They start pushing and shoving. Paige slaps him. He grabs her. He's about to push her down the stairs when Tru arrives on the scene.

Paige and Tru talks about the situation on the front porch of Paige's house. Paige finds out who Tru really is. They hug and Paige tells Tru she's going to make a hell of a doctor.

Back at the norgue, Tru is on the phone with Lindsay discussing the MCATs. Tru tells her they didn't happen and finds out that Lindsay's stole Jeremy away from her. Lindsay insists that there's a guy out there for Tru.

Davis brings in the autopsy report on Tru's mother from ten years ago. He asks if she's going to open them, she replies later...she wants to live in the present for a little while. Davis starts commenting on how hard it must be for Tru. Some would see it as a burden, some as a curse, but he sees it more as a calling. Davis tells Tru that he knows that she can help dead people, and that he thinks it's time to share with her...what he knows.