Cory Monteith and Lea Michele, his Glee co-star and real-life girlfriend, film a scene from Glee on location in Central Park in New York on April 26, 2011. Monteith died in July.
There was a subtle, sad reminder of late Glee star Cory Monteith in the TV show's fifth-season debut episode.
The hour began Thursday with Lea Michele's character, Rachel Berry, at a callback audition for a Broadway production of Funny Girl.
After she overhears the director and star (Peter Facinelli, Ioan Gruffudd) suggest she might be too green, a dejected Rachel walks through Manhattan singing the Beatles' melancholy Yesterday.
At one point, she pauses to gaze at a photo on her cellphone: It's a group shot of her old high school glee club pals, among them Monteith's Finn Hudson.
"Oh, yesterday, love was such an easy game to play. Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday," she sings.
Monteith, 31, died in July of a drug and alcohol overdose. He and Michele's real-life relationship was mirrored by their characters' on-screen romance.
"Couldn't have picked a more beautiful & perfect song to start the year with," Michele tweeted in August, as production on the Fox show got underway.
The new season of Glee is beginning with a two-episode salute to the Beatles' songbook. A tribute to Monteith is planned for episode three, airing Oct. 10, titled The Quarterback after his character's high school football role.
Monteith was among a handful of stars given an individual remembrance at Sunday's Emmy Awards.
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