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The Pretender
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
- Created by:
- Craig W. Van Sickle, Steven Long Mitchell
- Cast:
- Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries
- Language:
- English
- Network:
- NBC
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Season 4
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E01
Episode 1
★ 8.7The World's Changing
1999-09-25 · 43mOnce again a prisoner of the Centre, Jarod discovers a plot to murder a team of nuclear researchers, giving him even more motivation to escape. Meanwhile, Sydney and Broots try to find Miss Parker and Miss Parker tries to find her father -- and figure out who to trust.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 8.0Survival
1999-10-02 · 43mJarod joins the Army CID to investigate the suicide of a soldier in POW survival training. Meanwhile, he gives Mr. Lyle and Miss Parker a taste of that training by trapping them together in a shipping container.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.7Angel's Flight
1999-10-30 · 43mJarod infiltrates a Goth con game to locate a missing girl. Meanwhile, a faceless wax head sent by Jarod leaves Miss Parker and company trying to fill in the pieces.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 8.3Risque Business
1999-11-06 · 43mJarod pretends to be a sex therapist to investigate a brutal assault on a doctor. Meanwhile, Broots tries to summon up the courage to reveal his feelings to Miss Parker.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 8.7Road Trip
1999-11-13 · 43mJarod finds himself on a road trip to help a mysterious young woman, whom he falls for. Meanwhile, he tells Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots to 'follow the yellow brick road'.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 8.3Extreme
1999-12-04 · 43mJarod Pretends to be an extreme sports enthusiast in order to learn what happened to a comatose young man. Meanwhile, Miss Parker, Sydney, and Broots follow Jarod's "game show" clues, and find themselves investigating Mr. Lyle.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 8.7Wild Child
1999-12-11 · 43mJarod Pretends to be a psychologist to help a young girl found living alone in the wilderness. Meanwhile. Miss Parker finds out a Centre contract has been taken out on her father's life, leading her to look more closely at Mr. Cox.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 8.3Rules of Engagement
2000-01-08 · 43mJarod tries to stop a hostage situation in a hospital. Miss Parker is confused by an encounter with her father.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 8.7'Til Death Do Us Part
2000-01-15 · 43mOn the anniversary of Thomas' death, Jarod challenges a haunted Miss Parker to resume her hunt for his killer. But the search leads back to her father and Brigitte, who is close to giving birth.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 8.7Spin Doctor (I)
2000-02-05 · 43mJarod tries to track down the killer of a man who helped him escape from The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tries to help Sydney deal with his past. The crossover continues on Profiler S04E10 Clean Sweep (II).
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.7Cold Dick
2000-02-12 · 43mLAS VEGAS, NEVADA - After being contacted by Argyle, Jarod becomes a Las Vegas private investigator to save a showgirl in trouble with with the mob. Meanwhile, Broots and Miss Parker try to outwit Jarod by posing as a newlywed couple and checking into the honeymoon suite. But come sunrise, they find they've gotten more involved with each other then they ever have chasing Jarod...
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E12
Episode 12
★ 8.3Lifeline
2000-02-19 · 43mJarod becomes a bodyguard to reunite an undercover ATF agent and her daughter. Meanwhile. Miss Parker sets out to prove Raines' religious 'conversion' is nothing of the kind.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.0Ghosts From The Past
2000-02-26 · 43mJarod infiltrates a white supremacist group to stop the bombing of a Unity event. Meanwhile, Angelo fights his way through Jarod's past to find the old enemy currently threatening Jarod's life.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.7The Agent Of Year Zero
2000-03-11 · 43mJarod tries to help a Cambodian woman avenge the death of her family at the hands of a war criminal -- who is also an ally of Mr. Lyle. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tracks that connection from the Centre.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.7Junk
2000-03-25 · 43mJarod goes undercover as a junkie in a rehab clinic to help a woman regain custody of her son. Meanwhile, Miss Parker and company find Jarod's connection to the woman through her father and the Centre.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 8.0School Daze
2000-04-22 · 43mJarod poses as an elementary school teacher to protect a young witness in a murder trial. Meanwhile, Miss Parker encounters a ghost from the past.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 8.3Meltdown
2000-04-29 · 43mJarod infiltrates a gang of burglars to discover which of them killed a little girl. Meanwhile, an email that isn't there leads Miss Parker to someone who might have answers about her mother's death.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 8.3Corn Man A Comin'
2000-05-06 · 43mJarod follows the trail of a kidnapping, documented by a camcorder he finds in a pawn shop. Meanwhile, Miss Parker continues her search for Edna Raines, with Jarod's help.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 8.7The Inner Sense (1)
2000-05-13 · 43mJarod finally locates his sister Emily, just in time to see her nearly assassinated by The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker's search of the secrets behind her mother's death lead her and Jarod to the same place -- and a mysterious young man named Ethan.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 8.7The Inner Sense (2)
2000-05-13 · 43mJarod finally locates his sister Emily, just in time to see her nearly assassinated by The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker's search of the secrets behind her mother's death lead her and Jarod to the same place -- and a mysterious young man named Ethan.
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Michael T. Weiss
Jarod
Andrea Parker
Miss Parker/Catherine Parker
Patrick Bauchau
Sydney/Jacob
Jon Gries
Broots