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The Pretender

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The Pretender	comment	The Pretender is a television series, which ran for 86 episodes over four seasons from September 1996 to May 2000. Boy genius Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) was raised in a secret science-with-a-capital-$ laboratory (known, in a further example of the series' remarkable reticence with full names, only as "The Centre") where his talents were put at the service of the highest bidder. As an adult, he discovers that the information gained from some of his simulations has been used for evil, so he escapes The Centre. Once out, he also discovers bit by bit that that pretty much everything he's been told about his (supposedly long-dead) parents is a lie, and makes it his goal to find his real family.Jarod is a mental chameleon: he can "become anyone he wants to be". This doesn't just cover language, culture, mannerisms; given a well-stocked library and a week, he can teach himself the skills needed to pass as anything from a janitor to a brain surgeon. In addition to his own search, each episode sees him using his abilities to uncover some crime or injustice. When he finds the person responsible, he puts them through a non-lethal version of what their victims endured, attempting to convey what his abilities allow him to grasp intuitively. (Sabotaged that safety line? Set up that industrial accident? Buried your enemy alive? Let's see how you like it...)Jarod has a relatively mild case of No Social Skills. Although he functions normally in social situations, his secluded upbringing means that popular culture largely passed him by. In early seasons, every episode contains a sequence where Jarod discovers and gleefully explores something — Slinkies, Twinkies, Mr. Potato Head, Curious George — that everyone around him takes for granted. This thing is then incorporated into Jarod's plan for teaching the Villain of the Week a lesson, or used to send a taunting message to the Centre agents trying to track him down and take him "home".The remaining regular characters are the team trying to track Jarod down. They come across as relatively sympathetic characters themselves; the recurring villains of the series are their superiors and colleagues, who threaten them as much as they do Jarod.The core members of the team are: Snarky team leader Miss Parker (Andrea Parker), whose issues with her own parents (her emotionally distant father is the head of the Centre; her mother's murder when she was a girl was never solved) form an ongoing part of the series. Sydney (Patrick Bauchau), a psychiatrist who was Jarod's handler and surrogate parent, and is often caught between his duty as he sees it and his genuine affection for Jarod. Broots (Jon Gries), The Lab Rat and Punch-Clock Villain. A basically ordinary guy who somehow wound up working in this insane asylum, Broots is the audience's surrogate in reacting to the Centre's oddities; perhaps for this reason, he manages to remain normal to the end, the only regular character with no Mysterious Past and no previously unknown relatives suddenly appearing from the woodwork.Miss Parker gets her own nemesis in the second season, as her team's lack of success in catching Jarod prompts the creation of a rival team under the charming sociopath Mr. Lyle (James Denton). (Renewed menace to Jarod also, since Mr. Lyle has considerably fewer scruples than Miss Parker.) In addition to being her professional rival, Mr. Lyle's presence eventually squishes Miss Parker's personal hopes as it's revealed that he is, literally if fraternally, her Evil Twin, and therefore the son her father has always wanted, rendering moot Miss Parker's attempts to fill that gap which shaped her adult life.Family is a Central Theme of the series. Many episodes explore fatherhood in various ways. Also, that whole thing with the unexpected relatives.Early seasons of The Pretender are marked by a real sense of playfulness. Later seasons, when the series loses its humour and becomes increasingly more like The X-Files, are weirder but not as fun.The canon has been continued by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle with a series of novels and graphic novels, the first of which came out in October of 2013.Not related to the Argentinian series Los Simuladores (which kinda translates to The Pretenders)note Coincidentally, the basic premise of the show is almost the same with the exception of the character drama down to a bare minimum and no conspiracy plot whatsoever, or the band the Pretenders, or for that matter to the Filipino novel The Pretenders.
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The Pretender / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Justified in Jarod's case; the whole point of his character is that he's so much of an expert in so many things that he can step seamlessly into any profession at will, be it a doctor, a firefighter, or a Naval Commander.
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The Pretender / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
The Pretender / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Miss Parker claims to Raines, as well as to others on several occasions, that if she'd been the one to shoot him, she wouldn't have missed.
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The Pretender / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
The Pretender / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Jarod meets an older man in jail in the episode where he's trying to help a wrongly convicted murderer.
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The Pretender / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Pretender / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy:
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The Pretender / int_1c662a5d	type	LongLostSibling
The Pretender / int_1c662a5d	comment	Long Lost Sibling: At the end of the second season, Miss Parker learns that not only did she have a twin brother who was Separated at Birth, he's somebody she's met frequently in her adult life.
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The Pretender / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Pretender / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Sydney does want Jarod back at The Centre, but he also wants him safe and alive. As he tells his brother Jacob:
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The Pretender / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
The Pretender / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	He can smell a conspiracy from across a continent — because his assessment of Who Shot JFK? was that a single gunman couldn't have fired enough shots.
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The Pretender / int_1fbee9cb	type	Tricked into Escaping
The Pretender / int_1fbee9cb	comment	Tricked into Escaping: Jarod is re-captured by Centre operatives in one episode. Knowing him to be a master of escape, they anticipate him breaking out through ductwork leading to a manhole on the edge of the property and set up a cage above it. When he does indeed attempt to escape that way, they're waiting for him around the cage's perimeter. Cue him screaming, "NOOOO!"
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The Pretender / int_2022e66d	type	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers
The Pretender / int_2022e66d	comment	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: The Centre is very aggressive in its adoption practices.
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The Pretender / int_204fb326	type	Yubitsume
The Pretender / int_204fb326	comment	Yubitsume: Mentioned in "Past Sim", and one of the yakuza is shown to have his pinky finger missing. The particular yakuza leader is established to up the ante to thumbs when somebody really pisses him off, setting up a plot point where Mr. Lyle cuts a deal with him, Jarod interferes, and Mr. Lyle spends the rest of the series minus a thumb. (Which is more dramatic than a little finger, but also, to be churlish about it, much easier for the makeup people to fake on an ongoing basis.)
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The Pretender / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Pretender / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Miss Parker and Broots meet for the first time in the second episode. She starts out considering him beneath contempt, but after two seasons of hunting Jarod — and, perhaps more importantly, watching each others' backs when Centre internal politics get nasty — it's reached the point in "Betrayal" where she's taking serious risks to protect him and describing him as like a brother to her actual brother.
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The Pretender / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Pretender / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Jarod wants to find his family; the Centre wants to recapture Jarod; Miss Parker wants to earn her way out of the Centre. The dynamic of the series depends on none of these goals being permanently achieved.
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The Pretender / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Pretender / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Mr. Raines, the disgraced doctor in charge of the Centre's less ethical research, is entirely bald.
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The Pretender / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Pretender / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Several episodes have Jarod conducting conversations with people in their own language, with no subtitles. In the pilot he speaks Greek with a woman keen to avoid surgery for something that can, lucky for her, also be fixed by some tea and a foot massage. In "Flyer", he converses with a deaf woman in sign language. In "Curious Jarod", he speaks with a Hispanic woman in Spanish.
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The Pretender / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
The Pretender / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: Jarod moves from town to town as he goes about dishing out vigilante justice, giving people who have wronged others a taste of their own medicine by making them go through what they did to their victims... to a point, he doesn't resort to murder.
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The Pretender / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
The Pretender / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: "Island of the Haunted". It's exactly what it sounds like. And the series finale to boot.
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The Pretender / int_2c620f20	type	Cleanup Crew
The Pretender / int_2c620f20	comment	Cleanup Crew: The "Sweepers". In "A Stand-Up Guy", we see them in action cleaning up one of the Centre's branch offices after a rogue Centre executive kills everybody there and steals an important file. There were also Centre mooks called "Cleaners", which Brigitte actually was and what Miss Parker used to be. They seem to be more active assassins, going after people the Centre wants kept quiet permanently.
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The Pretender / int_2d9e89f7	type	We Help the Helpless
The Pretender / int_2d9e89f7	comment	We Help the Helpless: Jarod considers it his duty to do provide justice for someone who has been wronged, as just about every project he did for The Centre was ultimately used to help some megalomaniac profit at the expense of innocent people.
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The Pretender / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
The Pretender / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: In "End Game", Jarod works a case involving a kidnapped boy. Looking at the devastated parents, an agent assisting on the case remarks he doesn't even want to think about what they're going through. This leads to Jarod having an Imagine Spot of his parents reacting to his abduction.
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The Pretender / int_2e10c4ab	type	Missing Floor
The Pretender / int_2e10c4ab	comment	Missing Floor: Officially, the Centre has 26 sub-levels. There is another, secret sub-level — SL-27 — which doesn't appear on the Centre's floor plans and is accessed through a hatchway that's supposedly for sewer access.
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The Pretender / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
The Pretender / int_313d7228	comment	Previously on…: Flashbacks are presented at the beginning of part two of two-part episodes; also at the beginning of some arc episodes, recapping previous points of the arc.
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The Pretender / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Pretender / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Three out of four season finales, plus various in-season episodes include explosions.
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The Pretender / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
The Pretender / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Used with Miss Parker's father, whom she calls "Daddy" and everyone else calls "Mr. Parker" or "Sir". When he gets married again in "Pool", the show makes a point of not revealing his name during the exchange of vows. This trope is usually done with the parents of child characters, but perhaps it's a metaphor for how much Miss Parker is still stuck in a child's role when it comes to her father.
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The Pretender / int_37d2818	type	Title In
The Pretender / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: Frequently used to indicate where Jarod is this week.
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The Pretender / int_3855ceed	type	Searching for the Lost Relative
The Pretender / int_3855ceed	comment	Searching for the Lost Relative: Jarod was abducted by the Centre as a child, and told that his parents had died in a plane crash. At the beginning of the series, he discovers that the plane crash victims couldn't have been his parents, and escapes from the Centre to go in search of his real family and find out who he really is.
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The Pretender / int_3892655c	type	Magical Security Cam
The Pretender / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: The surveillance footage of Jarod at the Centre which serves as flashbacks is prone, except in a few early episodes, to include dramatic pans, zooms, cuts, etc. Probably the high point is in the episode "Exposed", in which footage of Jarod complaining to Sydney about being watched by a camera all the time is punctuated with a shot of the camera itself.
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The Pretender / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Pretender / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Mr. Parker, the head of the Centre, starts out as the Big Bad, then the first season finale shows that there's someone above him who treats him as peremptorily as he treats his subordinates. The second season elaborates that Mr. Parker answers to an international conspiracy of Corrupt Corporate Executives called the Triumvirate.
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The Pretender / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Pretender / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident / Noodle Implements: Jarod drops hints concerning Pretends he did off-camera, usually answering someone's question about his abilities with a version of, "No, but I did/was X once."
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The Pretender / int_3cb9ed4d	type	Bulletproof Vest
The Pretender / int_3cb9ed4d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Jarod does the "fortunately, I'm unharmed, because I was wearing a bullet-proof vest under my clothes" trick a few times.
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The Pretender / int_40f032ae	type	Raised in a Lab
The Pretender / int_40f032ae	comment	Raised in a Lab: Believing that some children were born geniuses at "pretending" to be other people, the mysterious laboratory Centre raises up and educates promising youngsters to be Pretenders, geniuses with the ability to become anyone they want to be. Then one day, their star pupil escaped...
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The Pretender / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
The Pretender / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Miss Parker's legs are often accentuated with high heels and miniskirts.
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The Pretender / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Pretender / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Any recurring character who didn't have one to start with gained one sooner or later, except for Broots.
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The Pretender / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
The Pretender / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Mr. Raines has wheezy, labored breathing (and is permanently hooked up to an oxygen tank he wheels around behind him).
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The Pretender / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Pretender / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture:
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The Pretender / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Mr. Raines is shown to have done terrible things to the children who were his study subjects; for example, making Jarod pour actual acid pellets (not fake like Jarod thought) on Kyle's hand, which is extremely painful and leaves him scarred for life, both physically and psychologically.
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The Pretender / int_47f95750	type	Separated at Birth
The Pretender / int_47f95750	comment	Separated at Birth: Miss Parker, thought to have been an only child, is revealed at the end of the second season to have had a twin brother who was separated from his family at birth.
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The Pretender / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Pretender / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In 2001, while the pursuit team grills Raines about Alex.
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The Pretender / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Part of Jarod's motivation is to try to balance the harm he unknowingly did in his years at the Centre. Sydney takes on this role in seasons two, three, and four, most explicitly in "Donoterase", when he mentors Gemini, Jarod's clone, to keep the Centre from abusing Gemini the way they abused Jarod.
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The Pretender / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
The Pretender / int_50cc01e1	comment	Mr. Lyle is an interesting case, as that's an alias he adopted, and he may not even have a first name. One episode does reveal his full childhood name — Bobby Bowman — but he would probably argue that that's not his name any more, if it ever really was.
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The Pretender / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Flashbacks to Jarod's time at the Centre appear frequently for plot or theme reasons.
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The Pretender / int_541e7371	type	But I Read a Book About It
The Pretender / int_541e7371	comment	If anybody asks Jarod how he learned some impressive skill, he will tell them; since he usually learned it by reading books and MacGyvering training aids, his reply is always taken as a joke. It gets better when he is called on a skill in a later episode; when one of his "projects" asks him how he leaned to drive so well, he honestly answers, "Indianapolis!" (It turns out he learned how to race at an ARCADE in Indianapolis...)
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The Pretender / int_56d8c375	type	Nostalgic Music Box
The Pretender / int_56d8c375	comment	Nostalgic Musicbox: Miss Parker has a music box that used to belong to her late mother.
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The Pretender / int_56f127dc	type	Stereotypical Nerd
The Pretender / int_56f127dc	comment	Stereotypical Nerd: Broots — he's good with computers, bad with social interaction and dress sense. In "Exposed", he reminisces fondly about the Thunderbirds merch he used to own. In "FX" he identifies one of the lesser Frankenstein sequels from a single line of dialogue. In "Once in a Blue Moon" he voluntarily admits to having wanted to be Aquaman when he was a kid.
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The Pretender / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
The Pretender / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: This seems to be the main way of infiltrating and escaping the Centre, especially during the first season finale. The air vents may have been made for this very purpose, considering how big they are: large and sturdy enough for a grown man to stand upright in and run through.
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The Pretender / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
The Pretender / int_63499260	comment	Villain of the Week: Every episode centers around Jarod giving some criminal a taste of their own medicine.
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The Pretender / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Pretender / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Miss Parker's mother was murdered in an elevator in the Centre when Miss Parker was a girl, and the shooter never captured. It's an ongoing background mystery that eventually gets fully explained near the end of the final season.
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The Pretender / int_676a6e39	type	Never Had Toys
The Pretender / int_676a6e39	comment	Never Had Toys: Jarod never received toys in the Centre, to the point their discovery is part of major Character Development due to discovery of the outside world.
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The Pretender / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
The Pretender / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: Jarod's briefcase hides a video monitor and discs.
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The Pretender / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Pretender / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: According to one of the later episodes, after the series took its turn for the woo-woo, the formation of The Centre was "foretold", as was Jarod's arrival.
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The Pretender / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
The Pretender / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Jarod and Angelo can just breeze in and out of the Centre at will.
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The Pretender / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Pretender / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Miss Parker's father calls her "Angel". It's explained in "P.T.B." that the nickname dates back to when she was three and her mother called her a 'guardian angel' after she spotted a hazard her father was about to step into.
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The Pretender / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
The Pretender / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Any time Miss Parker meets someone who knew her mother, it's guaranteed that the very first thing they say to her is "You look just like her". (And of course, the mother is played by Miss Parker's own actress.)
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The Pretender / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
The Pretender / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: In "The Better Part of Valor", Miss Parker happens to meet an old flame from college, and they hook up again. It ends badly after it turns out he works for the Centre, and set up their reunion so that he could piggyback on her efforts and grab some workplace kudos by catching Jarod himself. "Bulletproof" introduces Michelle, who was the love of Sydney's life but one day broke off their relationship and left town without saying goodbye. After Jarod arranges a reunion, Sydney learns that she was warned off by the Centre, who didn't want Sydney distracted from his work. Unlike many instances of the trope, it's not used as a shortcut to a relationship; Michelle has moved on too far to pick up where she and Sydney left off, and the three episodes she appears in are more about exploring the consequences of the relationship they had and the way it ended.
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The Pretender / int_7a77418e	type	Catching Up on History
The Pretender / int_7a77418e	comment	Catching Up on History: Jarod has to read up on current information since he had been locked up by the Centre since 1963.
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The Pretender / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
The Pretender / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: Often when he does a pretend, Jarod adopts the surname of a relevant real-life person or fictional character: examples include Jarod Wright, test pilot; Jarod Marley, in the Christmas episode; and Jarod Shatner — in honor of the host of Rescue 911 — when he was working in a search-and-rescue team. And then there's the episode where his boss-to-be is a Dr. Fein, so he adopts the alias of Jarod Howard, leading to a scene with somebody innocently calling out "Dr. Howard! Dr. Fein! Dr. Howard!"
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The Pretender / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Pretender / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Full of many, many memorable quotes, but of particular note are:
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The Pretender / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The Pretender / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Quite a frustrating one in the 2001 movie Island of the Haunted between Miss Parker and Jarod.
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The Pretender / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Pretender / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Jarod begins the series with a rather dorky haircut that suits his initial characterization as someone who's had a sheltered upbringing and is out of place in the real world. As he gets more worldly, so do his hairstyles.
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The Pretender / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Pretender / int_7febc23b	comment	Miss Parker, especially. Her Establishing Character Moment has her reluctantly stubbing out her ever-present cigarette around explosives, then snarking that she's more explosive.
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The Pretender / int_82a3a738	type	Decade-Themed Filter
The Pretender / int_82a3a738	comment	Decade-Themed Filter: Miss Parker's flashbacks to happier days in her home life are in color, but kind of washed-out, like an old home movie.
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The Pretender / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Pretender / int_874176be	comment	Miss Parker is shown to be psychic near the series' end.
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The Pretender / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
The Pretender / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: Angelo was one of Dr. Raines' early attempts at creating a Pretender but the treatments destroyed his mind. Instead of the usual Pretender abilities, it gave him the ability to pick up an object and know what the object's owner is doing right now.note In a case of New Powers as the Plot Demands, the first season had Angelo using a variant of the Pretender ability that allows him to study a specific person's possessions, assume their personality, and instinctively predict their present and future actions. On his first appearance, it takes most of an episode of study before he's ready to start predicting. By the end of the series, this has developed into full-blown psychometry.
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The Pretender / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Pretender / int_8d6d9535	comment	In the pilot he speaks Greek with a woman keen to avoid surgery for something that can, lucky for her, also be fixed by some tea and a foot massage.
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The Pretender / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
The Pretender / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: The actress who plays Miss Parker in the present also plays her mother in flashbacks. Jarod's clone, being considerably younger than him, is played by one of the actors who plays Young Jarod in flashbacks. Sydney and his twin brother Jacob are played by the same actor. Another actor plays both of them in flashbacks.
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The Pretender / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
The Pretender / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: With one notable exception (Miss Parker and her brother Mr. Lyle), all the twins who appear in the series are identical twins (and many are creepy, single-minded, or both).
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The Pretender / int_904f86a7	type	Enigmatic Institute
The Pretender / int_904f86a7	comment	Enigmatic Institute: As a child, Jarrod was abducted and raised in a secret organization called "The Centre" where his mentor/instructor, Sydney, puts him through simulations in which he is able to feel what other people would feel and understand the motivations for their actions under the same conditions.
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The Pretender / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Pretender / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Most of Jarod's plots manufacture some punishment for the Villain of the Week based upon their crimes. Positive examples abound as the people he helps often thwart the Centre's team and help Jarod escape.
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The Pretender / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Pretender / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: A Villain of the Week will inevitably crack and confess, as Jarod enacts some justice.
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The Pretender / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
The Pretender / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Insta-Cheez in "The Better Part of Valor" is actually just about the only example: the show generally makes a point of using the real names of products Jarod gets enthusiastic about (including Pez, Silly Putty, Mr. Potato Head, Cracker Jacks, SPAM, and on and on).
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The Pretender / int_984763bb	type	555
The Pretender / int_984763bb	comment	555: All the phone numbers shown in written form begin with 555.
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The Pretender / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Pretender / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart:
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The Pretender / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
The Pretender / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Miss Parker's determination to be the one to catch Jarod had moments of this. Justified, in that capturing Jarod would ensure her freedom from the Centre, as per the deal she and her father struck. She had to bring Jarod in, and it would be her final case.
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The Pretender / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Pretender / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Sydney shoots out Raines' oxygen tank, immolating him. A subversion, though, as Sydney hit the oxygen tank by accident. He was quite willing to just shoot Raines dead.
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The Pretender / int_9d080c44	type	Ice Queen
The Pretender / int_9d080c44	comment	Ice Queen: Miss Parker, so much that it became her nickname among colleagues.
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The Pretender / int_9ddf598a	type	Mundane Object Amazement
The Pretender / int_9ddf598a	comment	Mundane Object Amazement: Jarod, frequently, in the first couple of seasons. Example include... "Bomb Squad" where he is introduced to "Mr. Potato Head" and is curious as to why the toy is called that when the entire body, not just the head, is a potato. "Bazooka Jarod" where someone gives him some Bazooka bubble gum, he finds the little comics hilarious, and someone else teaches him to blow bubbles... which he keeps practicing and is quite pleased with himself as his technique improves and his bubbles keep getting bigger.
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The Pretender / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
The Pretender / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: If anybody asks Jarod how he learned some impressive skill, he will tell them; since he usually learned it by reading books and MacGyvering training aids, his reply is always taken as a joke. It gets better when he is called on a skill in a later episode; when one of his "projects" asks him how he leaned to drive so well, he honestly answers, "Indianapolis!" (It turns out he learned how to race at an ARCADE in Indianapolis...)
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The Pretender / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Pretender / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: As a child, Jarod had been told his parents died in a plane crash. In the pilot, he discovers the truth by comparing his medical record to his supposed parents'. He has a genetic anomaly in his blood; they don't, meaning he can't be their son. In "Spin Doctor", Jarod investigates the supposed suicide of Todd Baxter. Evidence suggests he was arrested for drugs in college and simply jumped out a window after shooting up, but Jarod learns otherwise. Baxter was murdered because he was about to expose an agent on the take and his good name is being blemished so no one looks into what he had been investigating. After being informed that the campus police officer who busted Baxter doesn't exist, Jarod baits a couple agents leading the investigation. Jarod asks to contact the supposed campus officer for an interview and the one who says he already did so is the dirty agent.
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The Pretender / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Pretender / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Jarod has a number of these moments when he discovers how his simulations were twisted to hurt people rather than help them. Sydney also has his fair share when he contemplates how he contributed to "the theft of Jarod's life."
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The Pretender / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Pretender / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Jarod's not completely asexual, and has had a couple of girls-of-the-week, but his lifestyle doesn't allow long-term relationships and he doesn't go in for casual encounters. Particularly notable is the episode "Gigolo Jarod", in which he spends a week as a gigolo without having sex with anybody, because he's able to figure out what his clients really need and give them that instead. (He's just lucky he never got a client who really needed sex.)
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The Pretender / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
The Pretender / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: The series features frequent flashbacks to Jarod's childhood, so most of the main characters have a secondary actor who plays them in flashbacks. Jarod has two, one who plays him as a young child and one who plays him as a teen. And they spun young Jarod off as a clone. Averted with Jarod's mother, whose appearances are mostly in flashbacks and dream sequences; for her few present-day appearances, she's played by the same actor, aged up.
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The Pretender / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Pretender / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: More like Obfuscating Arrogance, in most of his cases Jarod acts like he's only in it for the money and/or the fame, making it even sweeter when he confronts the Monster of the Week because they don't think he would really do what he's doing.
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The Pretender / int_a836a9b5	type	Character Witness
The Pretender / int_a836a9b5	comment	Character Witness: In several episodes, including the pilot, Jarod takes time out from his mission to help an unrelated somebody in trouble, and they repay him at the end of the episode by helping him evade the Centre operatives hunting him.
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The Pretender / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
The Pretender / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: Mr. Lyle's says only Mr. Lyle
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The Pretender / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
The Pretender / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: In flashbacks featuring Timeshifted Actors as the younger versions of Mr. Parker, Sydney, or Jacob, their lines are looped by the actor who plays the present-day version of the character.
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The Pretender / int_ac448cdc	type	Van in Black
The Pretender / int_ac448cdc	comment	Van in Black: The Centre goes in for shiny black SUVs with tinted windows. In the 90's, no less.
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The Pretender / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
The Pretender / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc: Find Jarod's family. They are remarkably elusive.
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The Pretender / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Pretender / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Jarod being instantly recognized by a Skinhead gang leader, who already knows him from a previous episode.
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The Pretender / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Pretender / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Jarod discovers Pez in the pilot episode and eats them throughout the series. Angelo and his Cracker Jacks, which Mr. Raines gives him as an incentive to do whatever it is he's asking of him. A flashback in "Toy Surprise" reveals that he was introduced to them by the young Miss Parker in a Tastes Like Friendship moment.
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The Pretender / int_ada3f7f3	type	Hunting the Rogue
The Pretender / int_ada3f7f3	comment	Hunting the Rogue: Mr. Lyle joined the Centre but would soon run afoul of the direction, having to hide from the Cleaners before being able to return. Similarly, in Season 4, Mr. Parker had to hide himself from the Cleaners, having been convocated by the Triumvirate over Jarod escaping.
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The Pretender / int_b156a790	type	Evil Sounds Raspy
The Pretender / int_b156a790	comment	Evil Sounds Raspy: The Centre's corrupt leader, Mr. Raines' voice is husky due him being a former smoker who's now on oxygen.
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The Pretender / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Pretender / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: People get knocked out quite a bit, including Jarod more than once. Except in the episode straightforwardly titled "Amnesia", he never seems to suffer lasting ill effects.
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The Pretender / int_b24ce4b2	type	Rearrange the Song
The Pretender / int_b24ce4b2	comment	Rearrange the Song: Four times in as many seasons. Seasons 2 and 3 actually utilized the same intro and theme in general, but a couple late episodes of Season 2 aired with a modified theme that didn't last the season.
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The Pretender / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Pretender / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Jarod really does not like it when someone's misery is caused by the misuse of his own Simulations. In "Past Sim", Jarod's hostage rescue Simulation is used by Mr. Lyle to abduct a murder witness (which also leads to the death of a federal agent) - prompting Jarod to declare war. In "Betrayal", Jarod's work is corrupted for terrorist operations. Jarod is also pushed to the edge when families are in danger, especially if the matter somehow mimics his own experiences.
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The Pretender / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Pretender / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Jarod, Angelo, and most of the Centre kids are awkward with people due to having been brought up in an isolated environment where they hardly ever interact with one another, much less any other children their age, and are mostly only around the few adults whose "project" they are as well.
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The Pretender / int_bdacb848	type	Purely Aesthetic Glasses
The Pretender / int_bdacb848	comment	Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Jarod frequently dons a pair of glasses as part of his various guises, even though he sees fine without them.
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The Pretender / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
The Pretender / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: In the first season, Angelo is said to have a variant of the Pretender ability that allows him to study a specific person's possessions, assume their personality, and instinctively predict their present and future actions; on his first appearance, it takes most of an episode of study before he's ready to start predicting. By the end of the series, this has developed into full-blown psychometry, where he can pick up an object and know what the person it's associated with is doing right now. (At each stage, everybody else acts as if his powers have always been what they currently are.) Miss Parker is shown to be psychic near the series' end.
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The Pretender / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Pretender / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Sydney, Jarod, Miss Parker, and Broots are much like family - a decidedly dysfunctional family.
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The Pretender / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Pretender / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: The Centre's "sweepers".
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The Pretender / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Patrick Bauchau gets the distinction of being credited "And starring Patrick Bauchau as Sydney" in the opening titles.
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The Pretender / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: As ruthless as he can be to his prey (who are almost always guilty as sin,) Jarod is incredibly sweet and kindhearted. This is because Jarod's primary fascination, first and foremost, is people. Human contact and socialization was utterly denied to him.
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The Pretender / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: There are several references to unseen Pretends, where Jarod has resolved an unpleasant situation. The most notable may be the one referenced at the start of "Til Death Do Us Part", where Jarod has dealt with a clown that molested children. According to Broots, the clown was found locked in a tiger cage and with a piece of meat tied to his privates.
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The Pretender / int_c74c35f4	comment	Monochrome Past: Flashbacks to earlier times in the Centre are in monochrome, just like the Centre's surveillance footage. (Some of them actually are surveillance footage, distinguished with a time code in the bottom corner.)
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The Pretender / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Pretender / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jarod's Character Name Aliases often refer to his "pretend" occupation of the week. He uses "Wright" (as in Orville and Wilber) in "Flyer" where he's a test pilot. He uses "Ness" (as in Eliot) in the episode where he's an FBI Agent. One episode features several references to the game "Monopoly" including Jarod using the phrase "the Parker brothers" in a message to the Centre, him having stayed at a roadside inn called "Park Place Motel", and using "Bradley" as his surname. Milton-Bradley originally turned the game down and Parker Brothers manufactured it.
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The Pretender / int_c7aa57f5	comment	Laxative Prank: One episode had Jarod as a school teacher. To help a student who was being bullied, they prepared a laxative brownie, knowing the bully would take it from the kid and eat it. They also locked all but one of the porta-johns on the playground except one, so the bully would have to use that one - which they had rigged so the door would fall off while he was in there.
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The Pretender / int_c89cdd12	type	He Went That Way
The Pretender / int_c89cdd12	comment	He Went That Way: In the pilot episode, Miss Parker and Sydney nearly catch Jarod, but are misdirected in this fashion by somebody he helped earlier in the episode. Happens again in "Keys".
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The Pretender / int_c91dcba1	type	Perma-Stubble
The Pretender / int_c91dcba1	comment	Perma-Stubble: Jarod has a short beard or scruff in some of his roles. Gangster Jarod in "A Stand-Up Guy" is one example.
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The Pretender / int_c9946987	type	Decoy Backstory
The Pretender / int_c9946987	comment	Decoy Backstory: Practically Once an Episode due to Jarod making up a new identity for each of his Pretends. In one episode he pretends to be a doctor at a hospital. The HR Director hounds him for paperwork needed for a background check, payroll, an eventual W-2, etc. Jarod holds him off by responding to various emergencies for a while but eventually gives in. Later, the Director angrily confronts him because the name, education and work history he'd given belong to a Black doctor who had died in the 1970's. Downplayed in many examples where the actual background Jarod makes up isn't given, but where he confesses to having lied. In "Flesh & Blood," Jarod pretends to be an ATF agent so he can help rescue Sidney's son and some other teachers from the Appalachian militia group who'd kidnapped them for a million dollar ransom. When everything is over, Jarod says to the lone surviving militiaman, "Oh by the way, I'm not really an ATF agent. I was just [glances quickly at Sydney and smirks] pretending."
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The Pretender / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
The Pretender / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: When Miss Parker, Sydney, and Broots are exploring the abandoned SL-27 in the last few episodes of the first season, they have only flashlights to illuminate the darkness, but the audience can see the entire scene dimly lit. Among other things, this lets the audience see their reactions to what they discover.
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The Pretender / int_cdfcb368	type	Internal Death Squad
The Pretender / int_cdfcb368	comment	Mr. Lyle joined the Centre but would soon run afoul of the direction, having to hide from the Cleaners before being able to return.
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The Pretender / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
The Pretender / int_cfbd1467	comment	He also did an assessment of Marilyn Monroe's death in which he learned to recognize suicides, but we don't get to hear his conclusions - only that she didn't want to die alone.
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The Pretender / int_d0a09849	type	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
The Pretender / int_d0a09849	comment	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: This conversation between Jarod and Mr. Raines:
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The Pretender / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
The Pretender / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: Miss Parker and her mother look eerily identical.
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The Pretender / int_d36b9a69	type	Precious Photo
The Pretender / int_d36b9a69	comment	Precious Photo: Jarod's photo of his mother.
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The Pretender / int_d46f812	type	Tastes Like Friendship
The Pretender / int_d46f812	comment	Angelo and his Cracker Jacks, which Mr. Raines gives him as an incentive to do whatever it is he's asking of him. A flashback in "Toy Surprise" reveals that he was introduced to them by the young Miss Parker in a Tastes Like Friendship moment.
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The Pretender / int_d89c1e6	type	Longest Pregnancy Ever
The Pretender / int_d89c1e6	comment	Longest Pregnancy Ever: Brigitte provides a curious example. We learn she is pregnant towards the very end of Season 3, and she gives birth about the half-way mark in Season 4 - roughly spanning nine months in real-time. However, because of other continuity it actually has been one year In-Universe. Brigitte gives birth on the anniversary of Thomas' murder, but she didn't learn she was pregnant until one episode after it.
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The Pretender / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
The Pretender / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The evil Mr. Raines is usually seen smoking in flashbacks, which is implied to be the cause of his present-day Vader Breath. Miss Parker, especially. Her Establishing Character Moment has her reluctantly stubbing out her ever-present cigarette around explosives, then snarking that she's more explosive.
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The Pretender / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
The Pretender / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	Handwave: Mr. Raines' lung cancer. He even starts to talk normally.
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The Pretender / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Pretender / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: "School Daze" has a two-fer. Jarod learns a boy is being targeted so he can't testify at a murder trial. In trying to figure out who the child is, Jarod initially believes him to be an introverted boy who just moved to town (unaware the actual kid is already in Witness Protection and lied about where he came from). As for the hired killer, Jarod suspects the school's creepy janitor, but he's actually an undercover federal agent. The real threat is another member of the school faculty that Jarod had met.
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The Pretender / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
The Pretender / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: Originally it's just Jarod searching for his parents, but then he finds he has a long lost brother, a sister, a clone, and a genetically altered half-brother. Said half-brother is also Miss Parker's half-brother, and her Evil Twin brother is Lyle, neither of whom are really sure who their father is. Mr. Raines and Mr. Parker are actually brothers, and could both be Lyle and Miss Parker's father. Both Jarod and Parker regard Sydney as a father-figure, and he may have been sleeping with Catherine Parker as well as being her psychiatrist, thus possibly being Lyle and Miss Parker's father. Sydney also has a mysterious twin brother named Jacob. Basically everyone but Angelo, Brigitte, and Broots are related.
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The Pretender / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Pretender / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Jarod's childhood as a Centre test subject has left him rather ignorant of popular culture, but also privy to a lot of weird history. He recognizes a Magic Eye image immediately — because he unofficially created the underlying technology. He's intimately familiar with the Apollo 13 incident — because he came up with the gravity slingshot used to rescue them. He can smell a conspiracy from across a continent — because his assessment of Who Shot JFK? was that a single gunman couldn't have fired enough shots. He knows the Trilateral Commission is up to no good — because he knows they came to the Centre for a number of projects. He also did an assessment of Marilyn Monroe's death in which he learned to recognize suicides, but we don't get to hear his conclusions - only that she didn't want to die alone. He reviewed the case of Julius Rosenberg, and concluded that Rosenberg was innocent. One of the other Pretenders at the Centre did a review of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. That Pretender and Jarod did a joint re-enactment of the capture of the USS Pueblo during the Korean war. Also: His response to being asked whether he ever made model cars as a kid: "I carved the design for what later became the AMC Pacer out of a bar of soap. It wasn't my best work."
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The Pretender / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
The Pretender / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Miss Parker, complete with the obligatory "What happened to you?" "I grew up" conversation in the first episode.
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The Pretender / int_e36de06c	type	Combat Stilettos
The Pretender / int_e36de06c	comment	Combat Stilettos: Miss Parker is fond of high-heeled shoes. They also don't keep her from running after Jarod, though they also don't really contribute to her success.
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The Pretender / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
The Pretender / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Miss Parker's father for most of the first season. Mostly The Ghost, although his voice is heard on the phone in "Not Even a Mouse" and he is seen as a sinister silhouette in "Ranger Jarod". Finally in "Keys" there's a fake-out Chair Reveal (his chair, but the reveal turns out to be that there's somebody else sitting in it) and then he appears on screen for real, and is thereafter a normally-visible character.
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The Pretender / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
The Pretender / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: The Centre is portrayed more clearly as evil the later on the series gets. In the first season Jarod has a sort of apartment within the Centre and then in later seasons, he's kept in a cell. Also the Centre's use of the simulations becomes more diabolical.
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The Pretender / int_e923c801	type	Did Not Die That Way
The Pretender / int_e923c801	comment	Did Not Die That Way: Jarod was told that his parents had been killed in a plane crash; his discovery that they weren't is one of the things that prompts him to break out and start Walking the Earth.
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The Pretender / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
The Pretender / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: To a ridiculous extent; of the main recurring characters, only William Raines, Debbie Broots, and Catherine Parker (née Jamieson) get full names and only the latter two have their full names mentioned more than once. Jarod, Sydney, Jacob, Brigitte, Sam the Cleaner, Willie the Cleaner, Angelo, Major Charles, Margaret, Emily, and Kyle are only known by their first names, and no last names are ever given. Miss Parker, Mr. Parker, Broots, and Mr. Fenigor are only known by their last names, and no first names are ever given. Mr. Lyle is an interesting case, as that's an alias he adopted, and he may not even have a first name. One episode does reveal his full childhood name — Bobby Bowman — but he would probably argue that that's not his name any more, if it ever really was. "Parole" has a scene where Sydney rather awkwardly introduces himself to someone as "Dr. Sydney" rather than let the audience find out what his surname is. (At this point, the audience begins to suspect that even the writers don't know.)
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The Pretender / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
The Pretender / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: The series did two Cross Throughs with Profiler, which aired immediately after it. "End Game" crossed through into "Grand Master", and "Spin Doctor" crossed through into "Clean Sweep". Outside these multi-part crossovers, Jarod also turned up on a separate Profiler episode, "Pianissimo", towards the end of both series' runs.
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The Pretender / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Pretender / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Jarod and Miss Parker can never hold a private conversation for more than a minute without being interrupted.
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The Pretender / int_ed3a5a30	type	Big Labyrinthine Building
The Pretender / int_ed3a5a30	comment	Big Labyrinthine Building: The Centre seems to have an infinite number of annexes and sub-basements, each more nefarious than the last.
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The Pretender / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
The Pretender / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Jarod discovers a novelty item, food, movie or television show he's never heard of before.
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The Pretender / int_f21d434a	type	New Job as the Plot Demands
The Pretender / int_f21d434a	comment	New Job as the Plot Demands: Every week, Jarod assumes a new job and identity that allows him to save some innocent victims whose plight has caught his eye. Justified in that it's the whole point of Jarod's character that he's literally able to do this almost perfectly.
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The Pretender / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Pretender / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child / Creepy Twins: Several episodes briefly show Sydney engaged in his research before being called away to deal with the latest Jarod situation. Most of his research subjects are creepy twins, creepy children, or both. The pair in "Every Picture Tells a Story" speak in unison, and the pair in "Not Even A Mouse" exhibit Synchronization. It's revealed in the second season that Sydney himself is one half of a set of twins who were experimented on during the Holocaust.
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The Pretender / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
The Pretender / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Jarod gets one in most episodes, setting up his takedown of the villain.
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The Pretender / int_f6507695	type	Everything Is Online
The Pretender / int_f6507695	comment	Everything Is Online / Omniscient Database: Jarod manages to get a great many files from the internet... even things that most likely weren't available online in 1996.
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The Pretender / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Pretender / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Mr. Lyle, with both the Centre and the yakuza out to get him, pulls this in "A Stand-Up Guy", although we're supposed to think he was Killed Off for Real until he re-appears a few months later.
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The Pretender / int_fd6c6983	type	Save the Jerk
The Pretender / int_fd6c6983	comment	Save the Jerk: Jack frequently saves or helps Miss Parker, the hound sent by the Centre and its leadership to capture him back.
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The Pretender / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
The Pretender / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: The (increasingly-wacky) misadventures of Argyle, beginning with "Amnesia" in the second season.
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The Pretender / int_ffa0483f	type	Cut Short
The Pretender / int_ffa0483f	comment	Cut Short: The last episode of the series ends with a shot of a very large explosion. The fate of three characters trying to outrun it was originally left unknown. Not until the first of the two follow-up movies aired, on a different network) did the audience learn what had happened.
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The Pretender	hasFeature	Everyone Is Related / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Evil Cripple / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Exalted Torturer / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Expansion Pack Past / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Expose the Villain, Get His Job / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Fake Action Prologue / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Fake Guest Star / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Fake Identity Baggage / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Firefighter Arsonist / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Flag Bikini / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Flames of Love / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Gas Chamber / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Genius Sweet Tooth / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Genocide Survivor / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Going Fur a Swim / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Handy Cuffs / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Hazmat Suit / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	He Had a Name / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Herr Doktor / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Homage / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys? / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Hunting the Rogue / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	I Know Mortal Kombat / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	I Resemble That Remark! / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Identical Grandson / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	If You Can Read This / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Impersonation Gambit / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Improbable Age / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Incriminating Indifference / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Inspector Javert / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Instant Expert / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Insult to Rocks / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Intercontinuity Crossover / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Intimate Hair Brushing / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Job Title / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Just One Little Mistake / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Land Mine Goes "Click!" / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Laxative Prank / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Leave Me Alone! / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Legally Dead / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Lightbulb Joke / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Line-of-Sight Alias / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Locked in a Freezer / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Magic 8-Ball / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Master Actor / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Master of Disguise / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Maternally Challenged / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Medical Rape and Impregnate / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Missing Floor / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Monochrome Apparition / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Monochrome Past / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Multiple Identity IDs / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Mundane Object Amazement / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Nazi Grandpa / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Never Had Toys / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	New Job as the Plot Demands / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Not in Kansas Anymore / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Not My Driver / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Not-So-Small Role / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Noughties Drama Series / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Only a Lighter / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Opening Scroll / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Post-Treatment Lollipop / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Psychometry / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Raised in a Lab / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Reading Lips / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Rubik's Cube: International Genius Symbol / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Safe Word / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Safecracking / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Save the Jerk / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Scotty Time / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Searching for the Lost Relative / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Serendipitous Survival / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Sextra Credit / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Stern Chase / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Sue Donym / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Swiss Bank Account / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	TV Telephone Etiquette / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Danza / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Drifter / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Handler / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Lab Rat / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Old Convict / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness / int_17024c6d
ThePlayboyClub	seeAlso	The Pretender
The Pretender	hasFeature	The Shut-In / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Three Stooges Shout-Out / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Tricked into Escaping / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	U.S. Marshal / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Undead Tax Exemption / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Unnamed Parent / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Valentine's Day Episode / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Viva Las Vegas! / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Vulnerable Convoy / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Walking the Earth / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Watch the Paint Job / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	We Help the Helpless / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Wealthy Yacht Owner / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	When She Smiles / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	White Shirt of Death / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Wild Child / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Wrap It Up / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Year X / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Yubitsume / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Affectionate Pickpocket / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Locked in a Room / int_17024c6d
The Pretender	hasFeature	Ouroboros / int_17024c6d

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