The Pretender, the Saturday-night
NBC drama that ran from 1996 - 2000, is about
a man named Jarod who kidnapped very young and
was raised his whole life in a place called
The Centre, a think-tank facility located in
Blue Cove, Maryland. Jarod, a Pretender, or
genius who has the ability to "become anyone
he wants to be," anybody from a fireman
to a teacher, broke out of the Centre and has
been on the run every since, searching for his
family and his past.
Jarod is on the run, being
pursued by the Centre, and In his travels Jarod
has been avenging the victimized, assuming many
different identities and occupations to suit
his quest. On his tail are a psychologist, Sydney,
a computer geek, Broots, and Miss Parker, a
tough-as-nails woman with a past just as cloudy
as Jarod's.
