Query scope descrepancy between tag and script

I'm fairly certain I found a scope bug. I'm using CF11 and FW/1 and I have the following query -- the tag works, the cfscript equivilent triggers a "Table named rc.qSignerLinks was not found in memory" exception:

/* works*/

<cfquery name="local.qResultSet" result="local.qResult" dbtype="query">

    SELECT

        *

    FROM

        rc.qRSRecipient

    where

        [email] = <cfqueryparam value="#session.user.getEmail()#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" maxlength="50" />

</cfquery>

/* exception */

<cfscript>

    local.qObj = new query();

    local.qObj.setDBType("query");

    local.qObj.setSQL("

        SELECT

            *

        FROM

            rc.qRSRecipient

        where

            [email] = :email

    ");

    local.qObj.addParam( name="email",value="#session.user.getEmail()#",cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR",maxlength="50" );

    local.qObjResult = local.qObj.execute();

    local.qResultSet= local.qObjResult.getResult().recordCount NEQ 0;

</cfscript>