AirDate: November 1, 1997

Episode Notes

• Jarod has memories he cannot account for on his DSAs.
• Three weeks of his life in October were unaccounted for.
• James Denton debut

Episode Quotes

Jarod: Then walk away.

Miss Parker: Thank God you're back!

Miss Parker: Who the hell is Mr. Lyle?

Miss Parker: If she's ever in my office again, I'll kill you.

Sydney: Survival.

Miss Parker: Who knows all the dirty secrets around here?

Miss Parker: Score one for Captain Kangaroo.

Brigitte: Can you believe they raised the price of snack food?

Jarod's Centre Euphemisms

Locations

Cuernavaca

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jarod's Discoveries

• Some very fascinating Halloween customs
• Mr. Lyle
• That he was killed by Mr. Lyle once

Jarod's ignorance

Halloween

Last Name Origin

Howard University?

Aliases

Jarod Howard

Occupations

Qualifications

University of London

First lines

Jarod: Think again

Miss Parker:

Young Jarod:

Young Sydney:

Lyle: (German)

Last lines

Music

Transcript

Detailed transcript coming soon

On Halloween, Jarod impersonates a college professor in hopes of unraveling the mystery behind the disappearance of a med student's brother.

Sydney, Broots and Miss Parker travel to a monastery in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the location where Jarod was last seen. Parker phones the Centre, and learns that her father has not shown up for work in two weeks. Both Sydney and Broots agree that the Tower has been abuzz with peculiar activity of late... ever since Raines was shot. The threesome meet with a monk, who describes how "Brother" Jarod was plague by nightmares before his disappearance. Jarod's room at the monastery contains skeletal icons. Sydney believes that the morbid images clearly indicate Jarod is seeking closure in the loss of his brother.

Jarod turns up at a medical school in Philadelphia, this time in the guise of a college professor. There he introduces himself to three first year med students: Chloe, attractive and caring; Joel, a trouble-maker; and Fernando, a 22-year-old whose brother, a fellow med student, mysteriously vanished. Their discussion is interrupted by Dr. Christopher Fein,M.D., who warns the group not to use cadaver parts for Halloween parties. Jarod tells Fein he joined the college so he could take part in Fein's groundbreaking research with a cardiac resuscitation drug. Later, Jarod meets Fein's brother, Sheldon, a mortician who supplies theschool with corpses.

When Miss Parker returns to the Centre, she discovers a charismatic charmer, Mr. Lyle, in her father's office. Lyle explains that the powers that be have grown tired of the office's inefficiency of its inability to capture Jarod. As a result, he will be filling in for Miss Parker's father for the foreseeable future. But Lyle isn't the only new addition to the office: Brigitte, a stunning blond with an ice cold demeanor, has been chosen as the new Cleaner. Sydney suspects that Lyle is part of the Triumvirate, who, he surmises, are now seizing control until Raines' shooter can be identified.

A bond slowly develops between Jarod and Fernando (both men lost their brothers). During one of their conversations, Jarod experiences a flashback in which he is shoved inside a tubular chamber. Jarod telephones Sydney. He states that every moment of his life is catalogued on DSAs... except for the last three weeks in October during the year before he fled. Later, Sydney realizes Mr. Raines sent him out of the country to attend a symposium on the exact dates Jarod mentioned.

Joel tells Jarod that he and Enrique recruited transients for Dr. Fein's research projects. One night, Dr. Fein gave Joel and Enrique money to locate a homeless man named Broad Street Bill. The pair were successful, but at eleven o'clock that same night, Enrique, behaving strangely, left to bury a dead woman by the name of Marisa Hall. The lateness of the hour strikes Jarod as unusual. He accesses Hall's burial record for further details. By using fingerprint identification, he determines that Hall's body is still in the lab.

Later, Jarod exhumes the coffin at a graveyard. He discovers Enrique's corpse inside... and realizes he was buried alive. Jarod tells Sheldon that a detective stopped by with an exhumation order for Marisa Hall. He then "lets slip" that the detective discovered Hall's corpse inside the lab. Realizing the game is over, Sheldon reveals that Enrique grew upset when Fein asked that thetransient's body be quietly cremated. Shortly thereafter, Enrique disappeared.

Meanwhile, Broots sneaks inside Raines' office and makes off with the DSA files. As he, Miss Parker and Sydney view the footage, Jarod gains access to Fein's lab. Parker and the others realize that Raines and Lyle subjected Jarod to an experiment in which his heart was deliberately stopped and then revived with an experimental medication. Back at Fein's lab, Jarod reaches the same conclusion: he was killed, if only for a moment, by Raines and Lyle.

Jarod tricks Fein into returning to the graveyard. He knocks Fein into a coffin and swings down the lid, trapping him inside. As Jarod begins shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Fein admits he used a homeless man as a human guinea pig for his experiments knowing full well that no one would investigate if he disappeared.
Miss Parker visits Raines at the Centre's infirmary. She begins pulling away his skin grafts, layer by layer, asking Raines to identify Mr. Lyle. In great pain, Raines tells her that Lyle is "the boogie man." Later, Jarod dresses up for Halloween, telling Sydney he is disguised as the scariest creature he could think of Mr. Raines.

Guest stars:

Brigitte Pamela Gidley

Young Jarod Ryan Merriman

Young Sydney Alex Wexo

Young Miss Parker Ashley Peldon

Mr. Lyle James "Jamie" Denton

Creative Consultant Rick Wallace

Produced by Harvey Frand

Producer Marianne Canepa

Supervising Producer

Co-executive Producer Tommy Thompson

Executive Producers Craig W. Van Sickle & Steven Long Mitchell

Written by

Directed by James Whitmore Jr.

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