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| The Pretender: Dragon House Part 1 Synopsis |
The Pretender "Dragon House Part 1" - Season 1, episode 21:
Jarod becomes aware that Kyle, another pretender from The Centre, is on the run from the law. Eager to find him, he becomes an F.B.I. agent to aid the investigation. But he discovers that Kyle may have something to do with his mother. Meanwhile, Miss Parker and Sydney recruit Angelo to go through all of Jarod's red notebooks. They figure he can become Jarod and thus aiding in his capture.
episode summary form Lois' Daily Planet
While in the midst of a pretend as an orthodontist, Jarod sees a news report on TV about an escaped convict who turns out to be his childhood friend from The Centre, Kyle.
At The Centre, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots are giving Angelo all of Jarod’s red notebooks in the hope that once he “absorbs” Jarod’s complete personality from them, he’ll be able to tell them where to find Jarod. When Angelo “absorbs” a blue notebook that was among the red ones, he unexpectedly bursts through a plate glass door and attacks Miss Parker.
Sydney explains to Miss Parker that the blue notebook belonged to another pretender - Kyle. Although Kyle had been "officially" released from the pretender program, he had then fallen into Raines' hands and been kept on SL-27 long enough to have been turned into a sociopath who Raines successfully stripped of all morality and conscience. Eventually, this led to Kyle committing a string of violent felonies that culminated with the kidnaping of a nun (Harriet Tashman), followed by his capture and imprisonment.
Jarod quickly infiltrates the prison from which Kyle escaped, posing as a criminal psychologist, in order to be able to examine Kyle’s cell. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Jarod Ness joins the FBI detail searching Harriet Tashman’s home for clues to determine whether Kyle kidnapped her or she fled on her own. Later, while watching a 10 year old tape of the news report of Kyle’s original abduction of Ms. Tashman, Jarod sees his mother hurrying up to comfort her and is astounded to realize that Harriet Tashman knew his mother.
Using a picture he found among Kyle’s prison cell correspondence, Jarod locates Harriet Tashman’s second residence, a farm in upstate New York. He learns from the caretaker there that his mother and father lived in a room over the barn - hiding. Jarod examines the room, and finds a bookmark in a Bible that matches one that he saw in a book at Harriet Tashman’s house. The bookmarks lead Jarod to Saint Catherine of the Hills Convent, where he arrives just in time to see Kyle repeat history by abducting Harriet Tashman.
When the FBI agent in charge (Agent Korkos) issues a “shoot to kill” order on Kyle, Jarod leads Korkos team on a wild goose chase by making them think that Kyle is in Boston.
Broots is able to reconstruct the DSA’s of two of the sims that Raines had Kyle conduct while on SL-27. The second one, recorded in 1970, shows Mr. Raines teaching Kyle to hate, while the young boy is using a life sized cardboard cut out of Catherine Parker for target practice. Miss Parker begs her father to allow her to bring him “living” proof of Mr. Raines wrong-doing, in the form of Kyle.
After finding a picture of a dragon in a blue notebook left by Kyle at the convent when he abducted Harriet, Jarod calls Sydney and tells him that he needs answers about what it means, now. After he has Broots hack into Mr. Raines computer, Sydney gives Jarod the news that the Dragon House is a Centre safe-house, located in Delphi Shores, New Jersey. He also warns Jarod that Mr. Raines and Miss Parker won’t be far behind him in getting there.
Jarod finds Harriet Tashman at the Dragon House, where Kyle is threatening her with battery cables in order to make her reveal the information that he wants from her. Jarod attempts to free Harriet, but Kyle stops him. Their standoff is interrupted by the arrival of Mr. Raines and his team of sweepers. Kyle creates a diversion by shooting the battery. Both he and Jarod flee in separate directions, only to end up facing each other again - this time outside, on the balcony. Once again, the standoff is interrupted - first by Harriet Tashman, who makes Jarod lower his gun, then immediately afterwards by the arrival of Miss Parker and her team. Miss Parker directs her team to go after Kyle, and Jarod and Harriet Tashman get away.
As the sweepers take Kyle down, and then into custody, Miss Parker sees Mr. Raines standing up on the balcony. Meanwhile, in their car, speeding away from the Dragon House, Jarod asks Harriet Tashman why she risked their lives by making him lower his gun. Harriet tells Jarod that she couldn’t let him shoot Kyle, because Kyle is his brother.
Jarod discovers Highlights, a children's magazine, and two cartoon characters featured in it, who are named Goofus and Gallant.
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