The Pretender: Season 4

1999 · 20 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 4 of The Pretender

Season 4 opens with Jarod once again a prisoner of The Centre, though he doesn't take long to escape. After discovering a plan to assassinate a team of nuclear researchers, he has even more reason to run. Miss Parker tries to find her father and, at the same time, decide whom she can trust. Sydney and Broots search for Miss Parker. In each episode, Jarod adopts a different professional identity to investigate a crime that falls on an innocent person and to bring the real culprits to justice. Meanwhile, his pursuers follow leads that point to the organization's dark secrets.

20episodes

Sep 25, 1999premiered

May 13, 2000latest episode

14.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The World's Changing
Sep 25, 1999 · 43 min
Once again a prisoner of the Centre, Jarod discovers a plot to murder a team of nuclear researchers, giving him even more motivation to escape. Meanwhile, Sydney and Broots try to find Miss Parker and Miss Parker tries to find her father -- and figure out who to trust.
Directed by: James Whitmore Jr. · Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle · Cast: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Sam Ayers, Paul Dillon
4x02 Survival
Oct 2, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod joins the Army CID to investigate the suicide of a soldier in POW survival training. Meanwhile, he gives Mr. Lyle and Miss Parker a taste of that training by trapping them together in a shipping container.
Directed by: Terrence O'Hara · Cast: James Denton, Kathy Evison, Michael Dorn, Lombardo Boyar
4x03 Angel's Flight
Oct 30, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod infiltrates a Goth con game to locate a missing girl. Meanwhile, a faceless wax head sent by Jarod leaves Miss Parker and company trying to fill in the pieces.
Directed by: Chuck Bowman · Writer: Tommy Thompson · Cast: James Denton, Sam Ayers, Ryan Bollman, Chad Doreck
4x04 Risque Business
Nov 6, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod pretends to be a sex therapist to investigate a brutal assault on a doctor. Meanwhile, Broots tries to summon up the courage to reveal his feelings to Miss Parker.
Directed by: Terrence O'Hara · Writer: Daniel Truly · Cast: James Denton, Lois Nettleton, Enrique Murciano, Clare Carey
4x05 Road Trip
Nov 13, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod finds himself on a road trip to help a mysterious young woman, whom he falls for. Meanwhile, he tells Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots to 'follow the yellow brick road'.
Writer: Daniel Truly · Starring: Anthony Guidera, Lisa Cerasoli, Phil Fondacaro, Marji Martin
4x06 Extreme
Dec 4, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod Pretends to be an extreme sports enthusiast in order to learn what happened to a comatose young man. Meanwhile, Miss Parker, Sydney, and Broots follow Jarod's "game show" clues, and find themselves investigating Mr. Lyle.
Directed by: Scott Lautanen · Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle · Cast: James Denton, Heidi Lenhart, Ian Paul Cassidy, Howard Hesseman
4x07 Wild Child
Dec 11, 1999 · 43 min
Jarod Pretends to be a psychologist to help a young girl found living alone in the wilderness. Meanwhile. Miss Parker finds out a Centre contract has been taken out on her father's life, leading her to look more closely at Mr. Cox.
Writer: Joel Metzger · Cast: James Denton, E.J. Callahan, Lenny Von Dohlen, David Sawyer
4x08 Rules of Engagement
Jan 8, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod tries to stop a hostage situation in a hospital. Miss Parker is confused by an encounter with her father.
Directed by: Rodney Charters · Cast: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Cali Timmins, Dana Ashbrook
4x09 'Til Death Do Us Part
Jan 15, 2000 · 43 min
On the anniversary of Thomas' death, Jarod challenges a haunted Miss Parker to resume her hunt for his killer. But the search leads back to her father and Brigitte, who is close to giving birth.
Directed by: Craig W. Van Sickle · Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle · Cast: James Denton, Pamela Gidley, Jason Brooks, Lenny Von Dohlen
4x10 Spin Doctor (I)
Feb 5, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod tries to track down the killer of a man who helped him escape from The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tries to help Sydney deal with his past. The crossover continues on Profiler S04E10 Clean Sweep (II).
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto · Cast: Paul Dillon, Jeffrey Meek, Luna Lauren Vélez, Rex Linn
4x11 Cold Dick
Feb 12, 2000 · 43 min
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - After being contacted by Argyle, Jarod becomes a Las Vegas private investigator to save a showgirl in trouble with with the mob. Meanwhile, Broots and Miss Parker try to outwit Jarod by posing as a newlywed couple and checking into the honeymoon suite. But come sunrise, they find they've gotten more involved with each other then they ever have chasing Jarod...
Directed by: Steven Long Mitchell · Writer: Juan Carlos Coto · Cast: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Wayne Newton, Rena Riffel
4x12 Lifeline
Feb 19, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod becomes a bodyguard to reunite an undercover ATF agent and her daughter. Meanwhile. Miss Parker sets out to prove Raines' religious 'conversion' is nothing of the kind.
Writing: Juan Carlos Coto · Starring: Richard Marcus, Peter Onorati, Laura Cayouette
4x13 Ghosts From The Past
Feb 26, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod infiltrates a white supremacist group to stop the bombing of a Unity event. Meanwhile, Angelo fights his way through Jarod's past to find the old enemy currently threatening Jarod's life.
Directed by: Michael T. Weiss · Cast: Sam Ayers, Paul Dillon, Casey Sander, Eric Bruskotter
4x14 The Agent Of Year Zero
Mar 11, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod tries to help a Cambodian woman avenge the death of her family at the hands of a war criminal -- who is also an ally of Mr. Lyle. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tracks that connection from the Centre.
Directing: Rodney Charters · Writer: Tommy Thompson · Starring: James Denton, Brian Tee, Clyde Kusatsu, Ken Kanal
4x15 Junk
Mar 25, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod goes undercover as a junkie in a rehab clinic to help a woman regain custody of her son. Meanwhile, Miss Parker and company find Jarod's connection to the woman through her father and the Centre.
Directed by: Michael Zinberg · Cast: Richard Marcus, Geoffrey Blake, Carrie Hamilton, Kirk Fox
4x16 School Daze
Apr 22, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod poses as an elementary school teacher to protect a young witness in a murder trial. Meanwhile, Miss Parker encounters a ghost from the past.
Directing: Jon Gries · Writer: Daniel Truly · Starring: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Sam Ayers, Paul Dillon
4x17 Meltdown
Apr 29, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod infiltrates a gang of burglars to discover which of them killed a little girl. Meanwhile, an email that isn't there leads Miss Parker to someone who might have answers about her mother's death.
Directed by: Krishna Rao · Cast: Richard Marcus, Thom Barry, Kevin Weisman, Melinda Clarke
4x18 Corn Man A Comin'
May 6, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod follows the trail of a kidnapping, documented by a camcorder he finds in a pawn shop. Meanwhile, Miss Parker continues her search for Edna Raines, with Jarod's help.
Directing: Steven Long Mitchell · Starring: Richard Marcus, Jeff Coopwood, Erika Christensen, Zelda Rubinstein
4x19 The Inner Sense (1)
May 13, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod 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.
Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle · Cast: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Paul Dillon, Tyler Christopher
4x20 The Inner Sense (2) Season Finale
May 13, 2000 · 43 min
Jarod 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.
Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle · Cast: James Denton, Richard Marcus, Sam Ayers, Tyler Christopher