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Though Jarod learns more about his family, there are still unanswered questions when the series ends after four seasons. The series finale closed with Jarod and Miss Parker being nearby an exploding bomb. The ending did not reveal whether either survived the blast. The next year, the telemovie The Pretender picked up directly from this cliffhanger, leading into Jarod's next adventure.

Loyalty is a recurring theme in the series. During the first season, Jarod sends Miss Parker evidence that she too has been manipulated by the organization, which is led by her father "Mr. Miss Parker discovers that she has been lied to about her mother's death, and The Centre was actually involved in her death which she had been told was suicide.

Although her loyalty wavers on her quest for answers, and some specific periods — most notably during early season two, when her father disappears and is replaced by Mr. Lyle and Brigitte — it never completely falters. Similarly, Sydney's loyalty to The Centre wavers upon its actions. Having raised Jarod, Sydney feels a unique bond to Jarod, and is unwilling to harm him to recapture him.

This rift increases when he discovers truths about what the organization — specifically Mr. Raines — has done to Jarod, other Pretender children, and his twin brother, Jacob, who is his only family. Having been kidnapped as a young child and raised in The Centre, Jarod has little memory of his life before being taken by The Centre. He yearns to find the identity The Centre kept him from having, and to reunite with his family.

Similarly, Miss Parker struggles with her identity throughout the series, after The Centre's dark secrets affect her own family, such as learning she has a twin brother, and the circumstances surrounding the death of her mother. She learns from Jarod that she was lied to about how her mother Catherine Parker had died. Further revelations are made concerning Miss Parker's origins and her brother.

This puts her in a parallel to Jarod's quest of discovery, and at times her loyalty wavers, though it never falters. When she and Jarod do share a romantic moment, Jarod questions if this will change things and Miss Parker replies it will not. The pilot was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario , Canada. Harris Water Treatment Plant. Following the pilot, the series moved production to Los Angeles , California.

After the series was cancelled in May , a fan campaign for the series to continue prompted negotiations involving the show's creators and both NBC and TNT. The creators of the show, Steven Mitchell and Craig van Sickle, stated that an ending was written for the series; they just needed financing to create it. They also noted that the storyline would continue digitally on the World Wide Web.

On July 8, , it was announced through The Pretender Creators Facebook page that the series would be reborn. The first Pretender novel, Rebirth , was released on September 22, , in eBook and paperback through Amazon. Golden Satellite Award :. All episodes from the first two seasons are available for purchase online through Amazon.

When Dark Skies was cancelled before the —97 television season was over, NBC attempted to keep the Thrillogy block intact for the —98 season by inserting the new series Sleepwalkers. At the midseason point of the — season , NBC reintroduced the Thrillogy lineup with the addition of paranormal series The Others. The Thrillogy concept aired for less than the equivalent of two full seasons over a four season period.

Michael T. Originally a cleaner associated with Lyle, and hired along with him to help capture Jarod, Brigitte immediately became the bane of Miss Parker's worklife inside the Centre. To Miss Parker's further frustration, Brigitte was married to Mr. Parker in February , later becoming pregnant and giving birth to a son in prior to her dying from a medical condition that caused her to bleed to death during the birth of her baby.

After the gun that was used to shoot Matumbo, the leader of the Triumvirate , in Africa was planted on her body by Mr. Cox, Brigitte's body was then burnt in her cabin. A computer genius, he works at the Centre with Miss Parker and Sydney to track down Jarod, and return him to the Centre. According to the episode, "Road Trip" season four , when he was 12, Broots had the measles and had to be kept in quarantine in the hospital during that summer, and that he has a brother.

Despite both the unsettling atmosphere of the Centre and unsavory nature of his work, Broots is a fairly hapless, yet emotionally stable individual, who while being somewhat lacking in actual relationships with women, is devoted to his daughter, Debbie, whom he raises alone. Despite the goings-on at the Centre, he 'sold [his] soul' to work there, and continues to work there, all for Debbie's sake.

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He is divorced from Debbie's mother, who is a gambling addict, and has sole custody of Debbie as of the events of "Past Sim" in season two. Despite her outward contempt for him, Miss Parker does have a certain respect for Broots she will allow nobody but herself to abuse him , especially after he stands up to her in the season-one episode "Bomb Squad".

To his surprise, he has worked with Jarod three times: to find the missing Miss Parker and Sydney season one: "Jaroldo" , to repay Jarod for helping him gain custody of his daughter season two: "Past Sim" , and to stop Damien when Broots was on the run after having witnessed Damien's slaughter of the personnel at a Centre information annex season three: "Betrayal", in which both Jarod and he admit to having respect for each other.

Younger sister to Jarod and Kyle and older half-sister to Ethan, she is constantly on the run from the Centre and searching for her brothers. Emily is alluded to as a Pretender like her brothers. According to "The World's Changing", season four , Emily "adores yellow tulips, she hates cruelty to animals , she's smart, she's funny, she's tortured by the tragedies of her family", and that she has a little tattoo.

He was conceived when Catherine Parker was artificially inseminated unbeknownst to her when she was sedated during an operation. She was told about her pregnancy by Raines and that it had been done on her husband's orders, looking to cultivate an individual with both Catherine Parker's "inner sense", a form of sixth sense , and the rare Pretender genealogy from Major Charles; due to this heritage, Ethan is referred to as Project Mirage.

His mother, Catherine, was murdered by Raines minutes after he was born. He was taken and given to a couple named Clausen, who were under the control of Mr. Raines, who tries to turn him against his inner sense to manipulate and control him. Jeremy, a year-old clone of Jarod, is younger by about 20 years. He was the result of the project called Gemini, and is on the run with Jarod's father, Major Charles.

A deceased twin brother to Sydney, he was once a "special expediter" at the Centre. He was who signed off on the paperwork that transferred Jarod to the custody of the Centre, but Mr. Fenigor was who actually had Jarod abducted. Jacob was put into a near-permanent coma after he attempted to complain about his duties at the Centre.

He revived briefly on two occasions, and survived an assassination attempt by the Centre in , but eventually died of a brain-infesting virus in Whether this is his first or last name is unknown. He is the father of two sons, Jarod and Kyle, who were both abducted by the Centre, and a daughter named Emily, who was born after the boys were kidnapped.

In addition, he is the father of Ethan by Catherine Parker, although he is unaware of this fact. He is married to Margaret, and was once a pilot for the Air Force. Only known as Margaret, she is the mother of two sons Jarod and Kyle, who were both abducted by the Centre, and a daughter named Emily, who was born after the boys were kidnapped. She is married to Major Charles.

She is on the run from the Centre and is looking for her family. Catherine E. Jamieson was a Roman Catholic who spent some time in a convent before marrying Mr. Parker, the head of the Centre. Catherine Parker and Mr. Parker have twins, a boy and a girl. Catherine is told later that her young son died, but in fact he grows up to become the operative Mr.

Catherine's daughter is raised by the Centre and eventually grows up to be the operative known only as " Miss Parker ". Catherine is said to possess an "inner sense" shared by a select few. This extrasensory ability involves her hearing voices at times that guide her and help her in different situations. Catherine Parker is more moral than her husband and attempts to rescue some of the Pretender Project children.

She also adopts a young girl named Faith, who is dying of leukemia. Later on, Catherine becomes the subject of Project Mirage, wherein she is impregnated with the sperm of Major Charles, father of the Pretender named Jarod. The result of this is a boy named Ethan, half-brother to Jarod and Miss Parker. For reasons unclear, Catherine Parker places her trust in Mr.

Raines when she is pregnant again, despite disagreeing with his amoral attitude towards the Pretender children. Raines delivers Catherine's baby Ethan, then executes her minutes later. The young Miss Parker is told that her mother died by suicide and Raines has Catherine's remains cremated. The adopted daughter Faith dies soon afterward. Miss Parker grows up to be the spitting image of her mother.

As an adult, Miss Parker learns from Jarod, and then confirms it through further investigation, that she has been lied to about the nature of her mother's death. Miss Parker's boyfriend, he is only person to make her happy since the death of her mother. She was planning on leaving the Centre with him for Oregon when he was murdered by someone within the Centre because she was "losing her focus".

The murderer turned out to be Brigitte, but is hinted to have been on the orders of Mr. A love interest of Jarod's, she appears in several episodes. Actress : Lisa Cerasoli. In the franchise, the second motivating factor in Jarod's life is atoning for the deaths he inadvertently caused by working for The Centre; because of this, he identifies himself with Onyssius.

Onyssius is identified as an angelic -winged figure with bent wings, and that he " defends the weak and abused ". NOTE: Onyssius is an original deity unique to the franchise, and not a deity that appears in real-life Classical Greco-Roman mythology. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. March Learn how and when to remove this message. Parker and Broots arrive in Vegas early. Broots imagines the two having a secret affair. Wayne Newton and Kenneth Mars guest star.

Meanwhile, Miss Parker and Broots investigate Raines' religious conversion, and believe him to be planning to kill oxygen-dependent Baby Parker. Jarod goes undercover to stop a white supremacist group in Georgia from destroying a local Unity rally organized by a black pastor Thomas Mikal Ford. Angelo senses Jarod is in danger from a past villain, forcing the trio to try and figure out who it is.

Jarod becomes a Government agent and helps a visually impaired Cambodian woman who accidentally encounters the person responsible for the killing of her family. Jarod becomes a drug addict to help a mother who was once addicted and is now in rehab, but doesn't understand how she got there. Jarod becomes a sixth-grade teacher to help a young murder witness.

Miss Parker is reunited with a woman from her past. Jarod becomes an agent with the TXBI and poses as a gang member to find a little girl's killer. Miss Parker tries to learn about a project concerning her late mother. After buying a camcorder at a pawn shop, Jarod tries to find the mother and daughter on the tape, which ends with them in peril, while Miss Parker keeps digging for the truth about her mother's murder — literally.

Jarod is contacted by his father, who tells him he has located his sister Emily as a reporter in Philadelphia ; Emily has been looking for Jarod herself. When Jarod arrives to the newspaper offices, Emily has been pushed out of a window, seemingly by a stalker. Miss Parker goes to confront Mr. Lyle about their mother's empty grave, but stops short when she sees a memo to him from Mr.

Parker regarding Project Mirage. Lyle attempts to stop Miss Parker from finding out more, while also looking for Emily after reading she is still alive. Realizing that Mr. Lyle is Emily's stalker, Jarod and Major Charles are able to rescue Emily from the hospital just as he and a team of Centre sweepers arrive. In her belongings, Jarod finds that she was following a young man she believed to be Jarod named Ethan.

After discovering Raines did her mother's autopsy, Miss Parker and Broots trail him to a secret home in the country; Sydney attempts to convince Miss Parker to drop her investigation into Project Mirage to no avail. In Raines' secret home, Miss Parker and Broots find a disc documenting a discussion in the home between Raines and Catherine in June — meaning that Catherine was not killed in the elevator.

An address given by Emily leads Jarod and Major Charles to Ethan's lair, where they discover he was creating a bomb. When Jarod and Major Charles arrive at the home of Ethan's parents, they've been murdered; Ethan arrives and believes Jarod shot them, but escapes as the police come. Major Charles hacks into the records of NuGenesis, and discovers the clinic sent some of his sperm samples to Raines' secret home.

They search the home, and see that Raines had built a birthing room. After being confronted by Miss Parker, Sydney confesses he knew Catherine had not died that day; she had told him in their final therapy session of her plan to fake her death, after discovering someone close was planning on murdering her. As Jarod searches the home, Miss Parker sees another clip from the found footage of Catherine talking with Jarod inside the home.

The two parties draw the same conclusion: Catherine had another baby, with the father being Major Charles; Jarod deduces the baby is Ethan, who has now been taken in by Raines. Miss Parker confronts Jarod on the phone, but he doesn't remember being at the home or talking with Catherine. The investigation is further complicated when the end of the clip is of Catherine unplugging the security camera to talk with Jarod privately.

Miss Parker and Jarod separately follow Raines and Ethan to a meeting for the final parts to make the bomb. Jarod tries to assure Ethan he didn't kill his parents, but he fails. Miss Parker manages to capture him; instead of bringing him to The Centre, she, Sydney, and Broots interrogate him about his meeting with Catherine Parker. A hypnosis session helps Jarod remember his conversation with Catherine: she was impregnated with Major Charles' sperm unknowingly during a surgical procedure ordered by Mr.

Catherine believed she would die, and wanted Jarod to tell Miss Parker to "complete her plan. Lyle feigns interest in joining the plan to double-cross him, with Mr. Parker imprisoning him. Raines reveals Ethan will detonate the bomb in a Washington, D. Parker shoots him. Lyle and Mr. Cox kidnap Zoe to distract Jarod from interfering with the project.

The two expect Jarod to save her, but she's saved by Major Charles, who attacks the team and brings her to safety. Jarod arrives to confront Ethan on the train, and sways him to help. However, the train and the bomb can't be stopped, as the bomb is on the undercarriage. Jarod is able to redirect the train away from a busy station to an abandoned one.

Miss Parker emerges as they try to leave, and the three race to jump off the train before it explodes. Television films [ edit ]. This section needs a plot summary. Please add one in your own words. August Learn how and when to remove this message. External links [ edit ]. The Pretender. Episodes Characters. The Pretender: Rebirth Category : Lists of American action television series episodes.

Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Wikipedia articles without plot summaries from August Toggle the table of contents. List of The Pretender episodes. September 19, May 17, November 1, May 16, October 17, May 22, September 25, May 13, January 22, December 10, Michael Zinberg.

September 28, James Whitmore, Jr. October 19, October 26, Gabrielle Beaumont. Javier Grillo-Marxuach. November 2, November 9, Fred K. November 16, Thomas J. December 14, January 4, Anson Williams. January 11, Terrence O'Hara. January 18, Van Sickle. February 1, February 8, February 15, March 8, Charles Siebert. March 22, April 5, April 26, May 3, Joe Napolitano.

May 10, November 8, November 15, November 22, December 6, December 13, January 3, January 10, January 17, January 31, February 7, March 7, March 14, The events that are similar to the Pilot episode have more to do with The Centre's hunt for Jarod than with Jarod's own activities on the outside of The Centre, as he resides in Harlem, New York.

There are a number of new characters with whom Jarod interacts in this story, who have no bearing on the plot of the original Pilot episode. In general, the characters in the novel are similar to their TV incarnations however there are slight differences in Jarod and Miss Parker and some of the minor characters have been renamed. This article about a s science fiction novel is a stub.

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