8.043 minSeason 4 • Episode 20
LatestJarod finally locates his sister Emily, just in time to see her nearly assassinated by The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker's search of the secrets behind her mother's death lead her and Jarod to the same place -- and a mysterious young man named Ethan.
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
Acting
Michael T. Weiss commits to every ridiculous disguise fully.
Writing
Ingenious 'job of the week' hooks with serialized mystery backbone.
Production
The Centre sets still feel creepily oppressive decades later.
Creators
Craig W. Van Sickle, Steven Long Mitchell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's creators wrote the pilot in five days after a studio exec bet them they couldn't.
The Pretender predicted the gig economy's 'be anyone' ethos while critiquing the surveillance state—peak 90s paranoia that aged weirdly well.
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