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  • Nov 14, 1998
The Pretender

Summary The Pretender is the story of Jarod, a boy-genius taken from his family as a child. Jarod possesses the ability to quickly learn and impersonate different jobs and occupations. His abductors, a facility simply known as The Centre, tested his abilities through various simulations. But after years of these performances, Jarod becomes ...

Directed By: Terrence O'Hara

Written By: Mark M. Dodson, Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle

  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Nov 14, 1998
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Nov 14, 1998
The Pretender
S3 • Episode 5
Betrayal
Air Date: Nov 14, 1998
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Summary The Pretender is the story of Jarod, a boy-genius taken from his family as a child. Jarod possesses the ability to quickly learn and impersonate different jobs and occupations. His abductors, a facility simply known as The Centre, tested his abilities through various simulations. But after years of these performances, Jarod becomes ...

Created By: Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 17, 1998
Crazy
Episode 2 • Oct 24, 1998
Hope & Prey
Episode 3 • Oct 31, 1998
Once in a Blue Moon
Episode 4 • Nov 7, 1998
Someone to Trust
Episode 5 • Nov 14, 1998
Betrayal
Episode 6 • Nov 21, 1998
Parole
Episode 7 • Dec 12, 1998
Homefront
Jarod takes on the identity of an arms dealer to help a mother get her children back from her gangster ex-husband.
Episode 8 • Jan 2, 1999
Flesh & Blood
Jarod becomes an ATF agent to help Sydney's son after an Appalachian militia kidnaps him and other educators helping at a local village for ransom. Sydney arrives to help but so does the Centre.
Episode 9 • Jan 9, 1999
Murder 101
Jarod becomes a professor of a criminology class whose former professor has mysteriously gone missing leaving behind his pregnant wife. He leads the class to explore and reveal the sinister truth of his disappearance.
Episode 10 • Feb 6, 1999
"Mr. Lee"
In this clip show, a blind mystery man called Mr. Lee interviews seven people whose lives Jarrod had touched in the past for better or worse in order to find him. Parker and her team try to find out who Mr. Lee is working for.
Episode 11 • Feb 6, 1999
The Assassin
Jarod encounters a woman who seems in fear for her life. When he tries to help she tells him to back off which he doesn't.
Episode 12 • Feb 13, 1999
Unsinkable
Episode 13 • Feb 20, 1999
Pool
Jarod learns pool to take on a racist pool hustler suspected of killing the brother of a pool club owner.
Episode 14 • Feb 27, 1999
At the Hour of Our Death
Jarod's survival skills are put to the test when he crash lands in the Yellowstone wilderness. Miss Parker collapses and struggles to survive internal bleeding from a perforated ulcer.
Episode 15 • Mar 20, 1999
Countdown
Jarod tries to locate a career criminal who happens to be the biological father of a boy in desperate need of a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, Miss Parker and Broots continue their efforts to locate Jarod.
Episode 16 • Apr 3, 1999
PTB
Jarod replaces a missing talk radio host to track down a violent caller with ties to an Army program that used dangerous chemical agents on unwitting human subjects. Meanwhile Thomas invites Miss Parker to move with him to Oregon.
Episode 17 • Apr 10, 1999
Ties That Bind
After foiling a young boy's desperate attempt to rob a shop, Jarod returns the boy to his father, only to see his yacht explode, with his father on it.
Episode 18 • May 1, 1999
Wake Up
Miss Parker wakes up to find Thomas brutally murdered. At first she's a suspect, then the murder is pinned on some junkie patsy. As usual, all roads lead back to The Centre when it comes to the real culprit(s).
Episode 19 • May 8, 1999
End Game
In this crossover episode FBI profiler Sam Waters and her VCTF team from Profiler (1996) join Jarod, who poses as a cop, to solve a child prodigy kidnapping case which reminds Jarod of his own past. The story ends in Grand Master (1999).
Episode 20 • May 22, 1999
Qallupilluit
In an attempt to find his father, Jarod poses as a climatologist and journeys to an arctic research station, unaware that it's operated by the Centre. Shortly after his arrival, murders begin to occur.
Episode 21 • May 22, 1999
Donoterase: Part 1
Jarod continues to follow a trail to find his father, but Brigitte always appears to be one step ahead. Meanwhile Miss Parker investigates a revived center project ominously called "Gemini" that her mother had opposed.
Episode 22 • May 22, 1999
Donoterase: Part 2
Conclusion. Jarod and his father (George Lazenby) team up to rescue the clone created by the Centre's project. Meanwhile, Miss Parker learns more about her mother's murder.

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