Jarod is a Pretender - a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer. Taken from his parents at an early age, Jarod was brought up in the Centre, a think-tank facility where he believed his computer-like mind was being used to benefit mankind. But when he learned the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest-bidder no matter what their intent, Jarod escaped. Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was.
Jarod poses as a doctor to help a boy whose spinal cord was severed.
To help the widow and daughter of a drowned fisherman, Jarod joins the Coast Guard.
While posing as a test pilot, Jarod tries to find out the circumstances surrounding the death of an Air Force lieutenant killed in a crash.
In Las Vegas, Jarod uncovers a casino's cash leak, becomes security chief and tries to learn the facts behind a showgirl's assault.
Jarod poses as a lawyer in order to help a wrongly convicted, mentally challenged janitor who's serving time.
To solve the killing of a security guard in a robbery, Jarod poses as a policeman.
In the guise of a virologist, Jarod tries to find a missing scientist.
Posing as a medical examiner, Jarod tries to solve the murder of a homeless person.
While posing as a sky-diving instructor, Jarod investigates the death of the company's co-owner.
Jarod poses as a fireman to uncover an arson plot and the true circumstances surrounding a firefighter's death.
As a member of a bomb squad, Jarod attempts to piece together clues to identify the "fax bomber."
Jarod poses as a penitentiary guard in order to try to prove the innocence of a prisoner scheduled to be executed for killing another inmate.
Lt. Cdr. Jarod goes to Long Beach, where he investigates a petty officer's death aboard a destroyer.
Posing as a forest ranger, Jarod joins the search for a missing ornithology student and also finds himself falling in love for the first time.
While posing as a TV-news cameraman, Jarod discovers the true details of a shooting that left his predecessor incapacitated.
In Atlanta, Jarod is an ambulance attendant who uncovers an insurance scam between a driver and a doctor.
Miss Parker catches up to Jarod in Florida---during a hurricane---and winds up involved in his efforts to thwart a corrupt marine-patrol officer and tend to an orphaned girl with a high fever.
Jarod is a U.S. Marshal trying to ensure the safety of a witness in a drug case.
Posing as a hit man, Jarod is hired to kill a jazz-club owner and his wife. Meanwhile, Sydney and Miss Parker attend a twins convention.
After finding a baby in a dumpster, Jarod cares for the child while trying to determine why he was left there.
Jarod poses as a Federal agent to help his childhood friend, Kyle, who's now a fugitive.
While helping an old friend, Jarod finds a link to his mother and discovers that he's not an only child.
Jarod poses as a professor to solve a murder.
In order to help a parolee who wants to go straight, Jarod takes the place of a safecracker.
Jarod investigates an apparent suicide attempt by a member of a search-and-rescue team.
Jarod is confined to an asylum and Miss Parker learns the identity of her brother.
Jarod gets closer to learning his father's identity after he meets a man whose life Jarod's father once saved.
In order to try to find a kidnapped girl before she's killed, Jarod launches into a battle of wills with a kidnapper whose capture he caused without managing to save the victim.
Jarod is a prisoner of the Centre, but he escapes to try to save the lives of two researchers. Meanwhile, Miss Parker is recovering from being wounded.
As Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle struggle to survive in a trap that he set for them, Jarod investigates a soldier's supposed suicide during isolation training.
Jarod poses as a San Francisco police detective, in order to try to find a teen who has disappeared; meanwhile, Miss Parker wonders about a Centre newcomer.
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Posing as a photographer, Jarod tries to track down a stalker who harasses models. And Miss Parker discovers more about her parents.
Working as a plastic surgeon, Jarod discovers the truth about a singer's botched operation.
After Jarod realizes that one of his simulations has been used to kidnap the only witness in a trial against a crime lord, he tries to rectify matters.
Jarod poses as an Army Ranger to investigate the 25-year-old death of a Vietnam vet whose daughter wants his name cleared.
Following a deadly chemical accident, Jarod saves the life of a suicidal engineer who blames himself for three co-workers' deaths.
Jarod poses as a special-effects coordinator to try and learn the truth about an explosion that injured a stunt driver.
Jarod poses as a race-car driver to learn about a crash that injured a racer. Meanwhile, Sydney brings his brother home from the hospital.
While working as an escort, Jarod uncovers a wealthy woman's past, learns the truth about an 8-year-old's death, and plays Cupid for an estranged couple.
Jarod warns Miss Parker that someone is going to kill her father. He also tries to help a teen who blames himself for a friend's death.
Jarod poses as a counterfeiter working with mobsters in order to learn the facts about an FBI agent's murder. Meanwhile, Miss Parker goes after Mr. Lyle, who was thought to be dead.
While an eccentric holds Jarod captive, the Centre interrogates Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots.
SWAT officer Jarod tries to find a lieutenant's killer; Sydney searches for someone close to him.
As a DEA psychiatrist, Jarod tries to get a traumatized 5-year-old murder witness to speak.
Jarod investigates the crash of an airplane on which he'd given his seat to a student.
Jarod takes the place of a millionaire whose son has been kidnapped, in order to negotiate with the kidnapper.
A message supposedly from Jarod begins an adventure that sees him taken prisoner and soon reveals that two people who were believed killed are alive.
Jarod and Miss Parker become hostages in a bank robbery, and among the other customers is a stranger who holds a key to their pasts.
Jarod tries to prevent the Centre from taking a boy to be trained to be another pretender.
As Jarod tries to protect a boy, Miss Parker discovers that she has a twin brother.
Jarod poses as a professional arsonist to expose a corrupt lawyer, only to find himself falling for the lawyer's wife.
Jarod and Broots team up to try to prevent an act of terrorism that's being planned by an old enemy of Jarod's.
Jarod poses as an ex-con in order to find a parolee's killer. Meanwhile, Sydney is reunited with some people from his past.
Jarod poses as an arms dealer, in order to try to reunite two children with their mother.
Jarod tries to rescue Sydney's son and three others who are taken hostage by a militia group.
Jarod poses as a psychology professor in order to learn what happened to his predecessor.
A visually impaired man insists that he will find Jarod if he's able to speak to seven people who have crossed paths with the elusive quarry.
Jarod helps a woman whose children have been abducted. Meanwhile, Miss Parker is attracted to a stranger.
Bound in chains and thrown off a pier, Jarod recalls the Atlantic City events that led to his current predicament.
Jarod becomes a pool player in order to help a young singer and to settle a score with a wealthy bigot.
Jarod and Miss Parker each face life-threatening experiences after his plane crashes and she's rushed to an ER.
Jarod goes to a Mexican prison, in order to arrange for an inmate to donate a kidney to a son he didn't know existed.
Jarod tries to help a radio talk-show host, who's on the run from a mysterious stalker. Meanwhile, Miss Parker must decide whether to leave the Centre and join Thomas, who's moving to Oregon.
Jarod befriends a runaway youth. Meanwhile, Miss Parker announces her intentions concerning the Centre.
Jarod and Miss Parker meet---more than once---in order to try to find the "missing pieces" involved with a murder.
While posing as a police detective, Jarod investigates the abduction of a teenage chess expert, and Sam of "Profiler" is called in to assist on the case.
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 and his father are finally reunited. However, assassins from the Centre are hot on their trail.
Jarod and his father team up to rescue the clone created by the Centre's project. Meanwhile, Miss Parker learns more about her mother's murder.
Jarod poses as a sex therapist, in order to try to find out the circumstances surrounding an attack on a female therapist.
While Jarod befriends a woman on the run, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots embark on a movie-inspired expedition.
Jarod investigates the events that left a bungee jumper in a coma; meanwhile, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots follow a "Let's Make a Deal" series of clues.
Jarod poses as a psychiatrist, in order to try to learn the identity of a "wild child" found in the forest and the circumstances surrounding her ordeal.
While FBI hostage negotiator Jarod deals with two brothers who have taken over a hospital, Miss Parker tries to help her father, who's in hiding.
Jarod gives Miss Parker information that may help her solve Thomas's murder; meanwhile, a killing at the Centre casts suspicion on Mr. Parker.
A crossover episode with "The Profiler" finds Rachel and Bailey working with Secret Service agent Jarod to solve the murder of the man who helped in his initial escape from the Centre.
In the style of old detective movies, Jarod poses as a Las Vegas PI searching for a missing showgirl.
Jarod becomes a bodyguard for a gunworks owner and his fiancée, who's hiding a couple of secrets.
While Jarod poses as a member of a racist group, Angelo is convinced that someone from Jarod's past is out to kill him.
Jarod poses as a Government agent in order to help a visually impaired Cambodian woman who accidentally encounters the colonel responsible for the killing of her family.
Jarod poses as 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 poses as a sixth-grade teacher to help a young murder witness; in another plotline, Miss Parker is reunited with a woman from her past.
While Jarod plays gang member, attempting 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.
The fourth-season finale has Jarod being contacted by his father, who tells him where to locate his sister.
Facts become clearer concerning Ethan and Mr. Raines; Zoe is kidnapped.