Season 1 → View Guide

	1x01 Pilot (Air Date: Sep. 19, 1996) Being the first episode of The Pretender, we first learn about Jarod and how he escaped from The Centre. Miss Parker and Sydney hunt after Jarod as he pretends to be a doctor, revealing ...
	1x02 Every Picture Tells A Story (Air Date: Sep. 28, 1996) The episode starts out with Miss Parker and Sydney tracking Jarod's whereabouts to a YMCA. Jarod poses being a member of the Coast Guard to find out the truth of what really happened when ...
	1x03 Flyer (Air Date: Oct. 19, 1996) [add summary]
	1x04 Curious Jarod (Air Date: Oct. 26, 1996) [add summary]
	1x05 The Paper Clock (Air Date: Nov. 02, 1996) [add summary]
	1x06 To Serve and Protect (Air Date: Nov. 09, 1996) [add summary]
	1x07 A Virus Among Us (Air Date: Nov. 16, 1996) [add summary]
	1x08 Not Even A Mouse (Air Date: Dec. 14, 1996) [add summary]
	1x09 Mirage (Air Date: Jan. 04, 1997) [add summary]
	1x10 The Better Part Of Valor (Air Date: Jan. 11, 1997) [add summary]
	1x11 Potato Head Blues (a.k.a. Bomb Squad) (Air Date: Jan. 18, 1997) [add summary]
	1x12 Prison Story (Air Date: Feb. 01, 1997) [add summary]
	1x13 Bazooka Jarod (Air Date: Feb. 08, 1997) [add summary]
	1x14 Ranger Jarod (Air Date: Feb. 15, 1997) [add summary]
	1x15 Jaroldo! (Air Date: Mar. 08, 1997) [add summary]
	1x16 Under The Reds (Air Date: Mar. 22, 1997) [add summary]
	1x17 Keys (Air Date: Apr. 05, 1997) [add summary]
	1x18 Unhappy Landings (Air Date: Apr. 26, 1997) [add summary]
	1x19 Jarod's Honor (Air Date: May. 03, 1997) [add summary]
	1x20 Baby Love (Air Date: May. 10, 1997) While hiding from Ms Parker, Jarod finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. Considering his own childhood Jarod iss determined to return him to his mother. Meanwhile, Ms Parker and Sidney ...
	1x21 The Dragon House (1) (Air Date: May. 17, 1997) Jarod becomes an FBI agent to try to track down another pretender originally from The Centre, who is a fugitive from the law. Jaord realizes that Kyle has a connection to his own mother. ...
	1x22 The Dragon House (2) (Air Date: May. 17, 1997) Jarod learns more about his past and parents. With the new information about his family he spends all his power on finding and rescuing Kyle, with some unexpected help from someone on the ...

Season 2 → View Guide

	2x01 Back From The Dead Again (Air Date: Nov. 01, 1997) Jarod poses as a pathology professor trying to solve the disappearance of a young man. He is also trying to come to terms with nightmares from his past. At the Centre Mr Parker has gone ...
	2x02 Scott Free (Air Date: Nov. 08, 1997) [add summary]
	2x03 Over The Edge (Air Date: Nov. 15, 1997) Jarod joins an urban search and rescue squad to try and help a comatosed man and a harassed woman. Mr Lyle has hired a behavioural specialist in an attempt to find out who really shot Mr ...
	2x04 Exposed (Air Date: Nov. 22, 1997) Jarod starts working as a glamour photographer trying to solve the murder of a beautiful, young female model. Ms Parker takes a vacation from hunting Jarod to try and find her father with ...
	2x05 Nip and Tuck (Air Date: Dec. 06, 1997) [add summary]
	2x06 Past Sim (Air Date: Dec. 13, 1997) Jarod finds out that the Centre has used one of his simulations to kidnap an innocent woman and is determined to free her. The woman is also a witness against a Yakuza member. It is apparent ...
	2x07 Collateral Damage (Air Date: Jan. 03, 1998) [add summary]
	2x08 Hazards (Air Date: Jan. 10, 1998) [add summary]
	2x09 F/X (Air Date: Jan. 17, 1998) [add summary]
	2x10 Indy Show (Air Date: Jan. 31, 1998) [add summary]
	2x11 Gigolo Jarod (Air Date: Feb. 07, 1998) [add summary]
	2x12 Toy Surprise (Air Date: Mar. 07, 1998) [add summary]
	2x13 A Stand Up Guy (Air Date: Mar. 14, 1998) [add summary]
	2x14 Amnesia (a.k.a. Unforgotten) (Air Date: Mar. 21, 1998) [add summary]
	2x15 Bulletproof (Air Date: Mar. 28, 1998) [add summary]
	2x16 Silence (Air Date: Apr. 04, 1998) [add summary]
	2x17 Crash (Air Date: Apr. 11, 1998) [add summary]
	2x18 Stolen (Air Date: May. 02, 1998) [add summary]
	2x19 Red Rock Jarod (Air Date: May. 02, 1998) [add summary]
	2x20 Bank (Air Date: May. 09, 1998) [add summary]
	2x21 Bloodlines (1) (Air Date: May. 16, 1998) [add summary]
	2x22 Bloodlines (2) (Air Date: May. 16, 1998) [add summary]

Season 3 → View Guide

	3x01 Crazy (Air Date: Oct. 17, 1998) Miss Parker and Jarod survive the bombing; Sydney survives but is blinded; Jarod goes undercover as a mental patient to expose a murderer; Miss Parker learns her twin brother's identity ...
	3x02 Hope and Prey (Air Date: Oct. 24, 1998) Bounty-hunter Jarod tracks down an American Indian activist who knew Jarod's father; Miss Parker learns more about her mother's death.
	3x03 Once in a Blue Moon (Air Date: Oct. 31, 1998) As a criminal behaviorist, Jarod tries to catch a copycat killer before he sacrifices his next victim.
	3x04 Someone to Trust (Air Date: Nov. 07, 1998) Jarod poses as a professional arsonist to expose a corrupt lawyer, only to find himself falling for the lawyer's wife.
	3x05 Betrayal (Air Date: Nov. 14, 1998) A lone witness to a shooting teams up with Jarod to stop the cuplrit from launching a terrorist attack.
	3x06 Parole (Air Date: Nov. 21, 1998) Posing as a tattooed parolee, Jarod helps an ex-con's widow; Sydney learns a secret from the son of his longtime love.
	3x07 Homefront (Air Date: Dec. 12, 1998) In Venezuela, Jarod poses as an arms dealer to make contact with a weapons merchant who kidnapped his young children away from their mother.
	3x08 Flesh and Blood (Air Date: Jan. 02, 1999) [add summary]
	3x09 Murder 101 (Air Date: Jan. 09, 1999) Jarod pretends to be a criminal psychology professor to catch the killer of his predecessor. Meanwhile, Miss Parker gets bad news from her father.
	3x10 Mr. Lee (Air Date: Feb. 06, 1999) A blind man and his assistant piece together Jarod's personality so they can kidnap him. With Andrea Parker.
	3x11 The Assassin (Air Date: Feb. 06, 1999) Jarod becomes a poker whiz, and skill he uses to help a former CIA computer analyst who must assassinate a U.S. senator to get her children back from a mysterious abductor. Miss Parker's ...
	3x12 Unsinkable (Air Date: Feb. 13, 1999) Jarod takes on an Atlantic City loan shark to help an old acquaintance. Meanwhile, trapped in a circling airplane, Miss Parker talks to Sydney about her relationship with Thomas.
	3x13 Pool (Air Date: Feb. 20, 1999) Jarod pretends to be a pool shark to find the truth about the death of a young singer's father. Meanwhile, Miss Parker faces a fate worse than death -- a family dinner.
	3x14 At the Hour of Our Death (Air Date: Feb. 27, 1999) Their lives endangered by a plane crash and a bleeding ulcer, respectively, Jarod and Miss Parker remember a dying girl they knew as children at the Centre.
	3x15 Countdown (Air Date: Mar. 20, 1999) Jarod heads to Mexico to find the biological father -- a convicted felon -- of a boy critically in need of a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, the boy's mother must confess old sins to her husband, ...
	3x16 P.T.B. (Air Date: Apr. 03, 1999) Jarod is a frequent caller to a radio show about conspiracies. When the radio host disappears he takes over in order to try and find and help him.
	3x17 Ties That Bind (Air Date: Apr. 10, 1999) [add summary]
	3x18 Wake Up (Air Date: May. 01, 1999) [add summary]
	3x19 End Game (Air Date: May. 08, 1999) [add summary]
	3x20 Qallupilluit (Air Date: May. 22, 1999) [add summary]
	3x21 Donoterase (1) (Air Date: May. 22, 1999) [add summary]
	3x22 Donoterase (2) (Air Date: May. 22, 1999) [add summary]

Season 4 → View Guide

	4x01 The World's Changing (Air Date: Sep. 25, 1999) Jarod once again finds himself a prisoner at the Centre, although with help from Sydney he's soon free and helping a couple being targeted for extermination by Lyle and his Sweepers. Also, ...
	4x02 Survival (Air Date: Oct. 02, 1999) Jarod sets a trap for Miss Parker and Lyle, leaving them in a shipping container. Jarod impersonates an officer of the Criminal Investigative Division in order to investigate the hanging ...
	4x03 Angel's Flight (Air Date: Oct. 30, 1999) [add summary]
	4x04 Risque Business (Air Date: Nov. 06, 1999) [add summary]
	4x05 Road Trip (Air Date: Nov. 13, 1999) [add summary]
	4x06 Extreme (Air Date: Dec. 04, 1999) [add summary]
	4x07 Wild Child (Air Date: Dec. 11, 1999) [add summary]
	4x08 Rules of Engagement (Air Date: Jan. 08, 2000) [add summary]
	4x09 'Til Death Do Us Part (Air Date: Jan. 15, 2000) [add summary]

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Season 4, Episode 12