B.A.

"Daddy's Girl", Episode #114.



Cast: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Jessica Collins, A.J. Cook, Heath Freeman, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Priestley, Laura Leighton, Wade Williams, Cotter Smith, Jennifer Halley.
Producer(s): Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Jon Feldman.

Original Airdate: March 25, 2004.

raven56706

still sucked...

mrpayroll

What are you talking about? It has suddenly gotten very interesting. Many questions were answered tonight and many more are needed to be answered in future episodes.

It looks like Jason Priestley will do well in his new character. He's got some secrets in his past that should be interesting.

All in all, the show is getting stronger as we head toward the season finale.



Chris

movielib

I agree with you. The show has steadily improved throughout the season and has lately been playing variations on the main theme that keep it from getting stale.

Buck Turgidson

Agreed. Unlike some other shows w/ problematic writing, they've obviously made an effort to remedy it and move in a new direction, over the last month or more.

One thing: if he was hired to kill her mother originally, and (I think it follows) her father's version of the backstory was so much BS, why did he keep coming back for "revenge"?

mookiemeister

I thought he came back because he wanted more money from him. He got greedy and want to keep squeezing money from Tru's dad.

Buck Turgidson

True, but he seemed to have every intention of killing her father's neo-wife and then Tru herself, a little later. His revenge motive was shown to be a lie, so why would he be so relentlessly homicidal?

It seems (and I could be wrong) to be one of those cases where we're essentially cheated with a "gotcha" surprise that's inconsistent with previous events, not just revealed truth that emerges from earlier mistaken belief.

rfduncan

So we got Jason Priestly and Lara Leighton, now all we need is someone from Models Inc. and we could have a trifecta of the Melrose/90210 universe.

I like where this show is headed...

raven56706

good .... glad to see people liking the show.....



Phew.... a negative comment can sure bring some good positives for the show.

mookiemeister

I wonder if the writers have something else planned for this killer. Also, perhaps more will be revealed about the true motives behind Tru's dad and this killer. Maybe we will see another episode on ths stuff later.

mrpayroll

I'm sure we haven't seen the last of this guy. It will probably be a season ending cliffhanger!

Chris

ChrisHicks

fixed.

I'm hoping Fox doesn't pull another John Doe.

I think the whole "he keeps coming back for more money" is a mislead. the dad actually paid him to kill the wife and now he's looking at taking out wife #2.

mrpayroll

You know, I was thinking the same thing right after I typed that. They had better not cancel the series.

The networks wonder why fewer and fewer people are watching their shows. Well cancelling a series after a couple of episodes or 1 season (remember The Fugitive with it's cliffhanger that was never resolved), has been causing more people to watch HBO and the cable networks, who give their series more chance to succeed.

Chris

Rogue588

Quote:

Originally posted by Buck Turgidson
True, but he seemed to have every intention of killing her father's neo-wife and then Tru herself, a little later. His revenge motive was shown to be a lie, so why would he be so relentlessly homicidal?

Well, before the day started over, he did kill her. Once the day started over, it was merely an attempt and then Tru became his target. This would've given Tru's "father" more initiative to pay more $$$. 'Sides, he's already killed Tru's mother and gotten away with it, what's the big stretch with killing someone else?

Quote:

Originally posted by ChrisHicks
I'm hoping Fox doesn't pull another John Doe.

Ya know, while I was watching this episode I was thinking "Wow, I miss John Doe."

ChrisHicks

I'm hoping Fox releases a DVD set of the first season (like they did with 24) this summer in hopes of increasing viewers for a second season.

Amel

Anyone know a site that has detailed recap of last night's ep. It's the first episode I was really looking forward to watching and I freakin missed it.
Thanks.

Edge

That's exactly what I was thinking. I think the guy was later sent by the dad to go after Tru in her apartment and make it look like he was going to kill Tru. The dad probably wanted to erase any doubts that Tru may have had about the "he keeps coming back for money" story. It seemed kind of convenient that the dad comes to save the day right at the moment when the guy was going to kill Tru.

das Monkey

I've enjoyed the show from the beginning, but I'm growing tired of it. That Tru's mom had this ability and that Davis knew was obvious from the first episode, and it's just been annoying to watch them drag it out. All the misdirection is annoying too. Each episode is like a bad episode of Murder, She Wrote with all the false suspects. I enjoy when the show doesn't take itself so seriously, but these recent overly dramatic episodes are falling flat to me.

das

xDareDevilx

i missed the show as well...can someone explain to me what happened, I don't understand what this whole killer thing is and how it is related to tru's mom i guess? Thanks

Jason X.

mrpayroll

Well we see a flashback when Tru's mom is murdered. Tru is hiding in the closet and cannot see the murderer, but she hears his distinctive voice. Back to the present. Tru's fathers new wife is found dead and she asks for Tru's help. So Tru stays with her and this guy trys to attack her step mom in the park and Tru stops him. Later he goes after Tru and she hears him speak and remembers his voice, as the voice of the person that killed her mom.

The rest of the story is pretty complicated and I'm not sure any of us understand it at this point. It will probably be explained in future episodes. I doubt that we have seen the last of the killer. But somehow Tru's dad is involved in all of this.

Chris

B.A.

Smallville could learn a thing from this show - and it's called progressing the storyline bit by bit every ep.

Obviously, I enjoyed this ep, too. And I always like to see how Tru wil save Harry - whether it's his relationship w/ Lindsey or w/ his gambling problem.

xDareDevilx

thanks for the synopsis mrpayroll!