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The Pretender Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Crazy
Sat, Oct 17, 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.
Episode 2
Hope & Prey
Sat, Oct 24, 1998
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.
Episode 3
Once in a Blue Moon
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
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.
Episode 4
Someone to Trust
Sat, Nov 7, 1998
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.
Episode 5
Betrayal
Sat, Nov 14, 1998
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.
Episode 6
Parole
Sat, Nov 21, 1998
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.
Episode 7
Homefront
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
Jarod takes on the identity of an arms dealer to help a mother get her children back from her gangster ex-husband.
Episode 8
Flesh & Blood
Sat, Jan 2, 1999
Sydney's son, Nicholas, is with a group of educators in a small village in the Appalachian Hills fighting illiteracy when they all get taken for ransom by a small but dangerous local paramilitary group led by a man named Eldridge Hailey. Jarod becomes an ATF agent and joins a lieutenant named Jenkins and his rescue team to help Nicholas. Meanwhile, Sydney travels there as well to help but it turns out that the Centre got there first.
Episode 9
Murder 101
Sat, Jan 9, 1999
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
"Mr. Lee"
Sat, Feb 6, 1999
A man named Mr. Lee is hired by someone at the Centre to locate Jarrod. After looking through all of Jarrod dsa's and notebooks, he tells the one who hired him that he needs to speak to 7 people who were in contact with Jarrod. So the Centre brings 7 people to him and that's when he speaks to them and eventually gets a line on Jarrod.
Episode 11
The Assassin
Sat, Feb 6, 1999
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
Unsinkable
Sat, Feb 13, 1999
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.
Episode 13
Pool
Sat, Feb 20, 1999
Jarod learns pool to take on a racist pool hustler suspected of killing the brother of a pool club owner.
Episode 14
At the Hour of Our Death
Sat, Feb 27, 1999
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
Countdown
Sat, Mar 20, 1999
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
PTB
Sat, Apr 3, 1999
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
Ties That Bind
Sat, Apr 10, 1999
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
Wake Up
Sat, May 1, 1999
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
End Game
Sat, May 8, 1999
Jarod, who's currently pretending to be a cop, was about to leave, when word gets out that a boy has been kidnapped which sparks Jarod's thoughts of his being taken away from his family. So he decides to stay on to work the case. Jarod then learns the FBI is getting involved cause it seems the boy's abduction is similar to a couple of abductions that occurred years ago. So the VCTF team from Profiler (1996) arrives and Jarod finds himself working with Profiler Samantha Waters, who doesn't get a good vibe of Jarod. The story of this crossover episode ends in Grand Master (1999).
Episode 20
Qallupilluit
Sat, May 22, 1999
When the Centre learns where Jarod's father will be, they send someone to take care of him. Angelo who overheard the conversation gets word to Jarod who then races to save his father. Only problem is the place is an arctic station and once he arrives, they're trapped and one of the people there is the Centre's assassin and he starts killing off everyone.
Episode 21
Donoterase: Part 1
Sat, May 22, 1999
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
Donoterase: Part 2
Sat, May 22, 1999
Jarod and his father team-up in a bid to rescue his clone from the center. A senior representative from the triumvirate makes his presence felt at the center, the balance of power falters, old secrets are revealed and lives are in jeopardy.