There are three main ingredients that make "'Twas the Night Before Christmas....Again" unique in the general pattern of the series: 1) The body that asks Tru for help (at her autopsy classroom) is six months old, but she only goes one day back; that means that she cannot prevent the death, and she must figure out in what other way she can help. 2) Jack and Tru are working together - Jack has valuable information about the victim in his head, and since there is nobody to fight over on this particular day, they agree to make a temporary truce. 3) In a chilling scene, we get a glimpse of what might happen if Harrison ever found out about his father's secret teaming with Jack. That was one of the plot threads being set up for the future - others involved a possible new role for Jensen (who, after all, had not asked for help as a corpse on the previous episode but Tru saved him anyway, therefore he is truly not supposed to be alive), and Carrie's infiltration of Davis' life. Of course all these theories are for naught, because the series was very unfortunately cancelled at this exact point. A shame, as it was a consistently engaging, intriguing and well-made program. *** out of 4.
