The Pretender

- Season 3

(1998)

Everyone survives the bomb blast that ended the season 2 finale. There is no rational explanation given as to how everyone survived. Sydney is temporarily blind as a result of the explosion. Gar's body is planted in the rubble so he ends up being blamed for the blast instead of Sydney. Jarod fakes psychosis to gain admission to a psych hospital where he tries to solve a murder. The Triumvirate sends someone to assist in Jarod's capture. Miss Parker learns the identity of her twin brother.

Jarod is contacted by a Native American with information to help him in his search for his father, but soon finds himself in a race to find him before a gang of bounty hunters track him down, and then help him resolve a case of local land corruption. Miss Parker's attention also shifts to searching for Jarod's father, but for a less benevolent reason. Sydney's sight begins to return.

Jarod recognises the MO of a new kidnap case from one he worked on years ago at The Centre. He becomes a criminal behaviourist from the justice department and enlists the assistance of the convicted psychopathic killer from the earlier case to help rescue the kidnapped girl before she is killed by the copycat killer. Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots continue to peruse Jarod under the continued interference from Mr Raines.

Jarod falls for a wealthy restaurant owner who shows compassion for an out-of-work family, but their paths cross again when the corrupt business man he is there to expose turns out to be her husband. Things become even more complicated when the business man is killed in a house fire. Meanwhile, Jarod sends a clue to Miss Parker at The Centre leading to a new discovery about Mr Lyle's past.

When Broots is sent to The Centre Data Annex to investigate an information leak The Annex is attacked by a masked gunman who kills all the staff. Broots manages to escape but soon becomes a hunted man as Mr. Lyle takes steps to seal the leak - no matter who it really is. Jarod races to protect Broots from The Centre and from the gunman "Damon", who has a history of stealing Centre secrets for evil use.

Jarod is pretending to be an ex-convict to find out what happened to another parolee. And it might involve a parole officer who makes his charges commit crimes. Sydney also learns that the husband of the mother of his son is dying and goes there for support.

Jarod takes on the identity of an arms dealer to help a mother get her children back from her gangster ex-husband.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jarod goes to Atlantic City to help Argyle pay-off a debt to Sonny Faddis, a local loan shark. Argyle has been trying to fund a trip for his father to see the Pope. But they soon get drawn into a turf war between Faddis and another local loan shark, Dennis "The Cuban" O'Quinn. Miss Parker, Sydney and Brooks, returning from Hawaii on a Centre jet, get delayed in a storm and Miss Parker tells Sydney about her feelings for Thomas, the man doing some work on her house.

Jarod learns pool to take on a racist pool hustler suspected of killing the brother of a pool club owner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

In this crossover episode FBI profiler Sam Waters and her VCTF team from Profiler (1996) join Jarrod, who poses as a cop, to solve a child prodigy kidnapping case which reminds Jarrod of his own past. The story ends in Profiler: Grand Master (1999).

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.

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.

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.