Plot
Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) is a child prodigy who was abducted at a young age and raised in a think tank called the Centre, based in the fictional town of Blue Cove, Delaware. Jarod's mentor and father figure is Sydney, a psychiatrist working for the Centre who coached him through a number of complex simulations designed to exploit his intellect for real life application. When Jarod discovered that the Centre was using data gathered from his response to the simulations for nefarious purposes, he escaped. Feeling personally responsible for the loss of innocent lives due to the Centre, Jarod has been on the run, dispensing emotional and poetic justice to criminals who cover up their crimes by putting the criminals through similar (but staged) situations, and the Centre is never far behind. In the show Jarod discovers joys of childhood he was denied such as ice cream and silly putty. The uniqueness of the characters deepens the plot as Jarod searches for his parents and clues to his past. We find out that the Centre has also hidden the facts of the death of Miss Parker's mother. Through the seasons each character has a personal struggle with what the Centre has done to hide information and use personal threats to keep them quiet. Miss Parker is the daughter of the director of the Centre. She is placed personally over the task of bringing Jarod back to the Centre. She becomes conflicted when Jarod finds out details of her mothers death, and has to decide between obeying her father and finding justice for her mother. Sydney becomes less loyal to the Centre when he finds out what the Centre did to his twin brother. The series ends with several unanswered questions about Jarods family and what happened to Miss Parker's mother.
Miss Parker (Andrea Parker), Sydney (Patrick Bauchau) and Broots (Jon Gries) make up the Centre team tasked with recapturing Jarod.
Read more about this topic: The Pretender (TV series)
Famous quotes containing the word plot:
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.””
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
““The plot thickens,” he said, as I entered.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)