AirDate: March 20, 1999

Episode Notes

• Jarod fakes death
• Jarod performs a medical procedure

Episode Quotes

Jarod: Technically. But I do enjoy that ER program

Miss Parker:

Jarod's Euphemisms

Locations

Jarod's Discoveries

Jarod's ignorance

Last Name Origin

Aliases

Occupations

First lines

Jarod:

Miss Parker:

Young Jarod:

Young Sydney:

Last lines

Music

Transcript

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Jarod:

(Jarod walks towards a parked sedan and Luther follows.)

Take back roads on the way to Tijuana. Try to blend into the tourist traffic. I have a change a clothes for you in this car and I've made you a fake passport.

Luther:Thought of everything didn't you?

Jarod: No room for mistakes and no time.
(Luther clubs Jarod on the back of the neck with both hands. Jarod goes down with a grunt. He starts to rise but Luther knocks him out with his fist.)

Luther:I appreciate you springing me there Jarod, but the truth is I could give a damn whether that kid lives or dies. (He laughs, then walks towards the waiting sedan, leaving Jarod laying unconscious on the road. Jarod wakes to find himself face down and abandoned. The car is gone. He takes his cap off, with an angry exclamation, throws it on the ground, and turns in circles.)

Jarod:
Dammit! (He runs back to the truck.)

The Prison

Broots: Miss Parker, it looks like they're locking down the whole prison.

(Broots and Parker are waiting in the Warden's office as sirens blare outside and the Warden talks in Spanish on the telephone. She finally hangs up.)

Miss Parker: How long do you think you can continue to hold us here? You've wasted an hour of my time already.

Warden: Nobody enters or leaves until we've completed a thorough search of this prison. For all I know you could be involved in this escape.

Miss Parker: That's ridiculous. I told you already (she raises a photo of Jarod - he did it.

Warden: You arrived in my office asking for Ecksley at the very moment that he was discovered missing. For all I know you could be part of a diversion.

Parker: An incredibly moronic one. Why would we have stayed behind?

Warden:(She indicates Broots.)Why was he found outside, hiding in a car?

Parker: Oh please, he's always hiding, he's like a cockroach. Turn on the light he runs. Broots, (She clicks her fingers.) tell her.

Broots:Oh, it - she's right. Roach city.

Warden:(Sighs as she sits at her desk.)If you'll be patient a while longer.

Parker: One of the guards we talked to overheard Jarod saying something about needing a kidney donor for a little boy. Do you know what boy? Or where?

Warden: (Poker-faced) First I've heard of it. (A guard enters and she speaks Spanish to him, then the guard leaves. She looks at Broots and invites him to sit down in Spanish.)

Broots:Huh?

(The Warden repeats "sit" in Spanish.)
Parker: Sit!

(Broots mouths "Oh" and lowers himself, then falls backwards over the arm of the seat. Parker looks disgusted and Broots shrinks into the chair, acting like the cockroach he's admitted to being.)

Hospital - Ryan's Room

(Ryan is asleep. Cindy gently strokes his hair.)

Cindy:
Hang on baby. (She whispers.)
Mummy loves you. (She kisses him on the cheek then walks out to the waiting room. Ted is sitting in a chair. When he sees Cindy he gets up and walks to the exit. Jarod enters.)

Jarod:
Ted? (Ted waves Jarod off and barges out. Jarod and Cindy talk.)

Cindy:
You didn't get Luther?

Jarod:
Not yet. You told Ted the truth.

Cindy:
Yeah, I don't blame him for hating me. I hate myself.
(She turns to walk away but Jarod takes her arm and stops her.)

Jarod:
He doesn't hate you. It's just going to take him some
time to adjust.

Cindy:
Yesterday I woke up with this near perfect life. Now my son
is dying, and my husband-

Jarod:
Cindy you have to remain strong for Ryan. Everything is going
to work out. I know it is.

The Centre Jet

(Broots is bent over his laptop.)

Broots:
I found him. There are over a dozen emergency cases nationwide
but only one is a young boy in need of a kidney.

Parker:
Where?

Broots:
San Diego.

Parker:
(She picks up the phone connecting her to the pilot.)
Get us back to San Diego. Pronto.

Pool Hall

(Ray has a woman hanging off one arm. He drops some money on the pool table.)

Ray:
Hundred dollars on Earl. (The woman begins to kiss him but his cell phone starts to ring and he pulls it out, shrugging her off.)

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
(on the phone.)This is Ray.

Luther:
Ray my boy, how you doing?

Ray:
Luther? (He's suddenly all attention.)

Luther:
(He sits in the front of a car.)The one and only. I
hear you're doing real good with my operation.

Ray:
Ahhhh I'm doing okay. (He walks away from the woman.)

Luther:
Just okay, huh? I've got some news that will make your day.
You see I took a little vacation from my permanent vacation
Ray. Surprise! I'm out. I'm back, and you're the
first person I thought to call. (Ray screws up his face silently in frustration.)I can't wait to see you buddy.
Ray? Ray? You still there?

Ray:
(Ray puts on a pleasant tone.) Well, yeah, I'm here.

Luther:
Well you and me got to get together. I need to see where we
stand and what our next move should be. How's ah, how's midnight?
Mission Bay Hilton.

Ray:
Tonight? Ah, what's the hurry?

Luther:
Ray, three years ago some son of a bitch tipped off the Mexican
police and got me locked away. Now I'm guessing that same
son of a bitch has my ten million dollars. So you can understand
why I'm a little impatient, can't ya? Bring some old clothes
Ray. We find this bastard, it is gonna get messy. (He hangs up. Ray turns his phone off, stunned.)

Man in Pool hall:
You look like you've seen a ghost Ray. (Ray walks out in a daze, followed by Jarod who had been listening nearby.)

Alley Behind the Pool Hall

(Ray walks past a dumpster but turns back in fright his gun raised as Jarod slams down the lid.)Jarod:
Whoa, you seem a little bit jumpy Ray, but I guess you would be,
being a marked man after all.

Ray:
What the hell are you talking about?

Jarod:
Was that Luther on the phone? What did he want? To tell
you that he was back in town? Wanted to fire up the old partnership?
(He lifts himself up on top of the dumpster sot that he's sitting on top of it.)

Ray:
What?

(At the end of the alley Luther is watches the exchange from his car. He is too far away to hear what is being said though.)

Jarod:
He's setting you up Ray. But I guess that's only fair.
Payback. After all, it was you that tipped off the Federales
and had your old buddy Luther arrested at the border.

Ray:
Screw you. I went down to Hermaseo(?) I was at his trial every
day, like a friend.

Jarod:
Or somebody who wanted to look like a friend. Personally I
think it was overkill. I bet you Luther thought the same thing.
(He gets down from the bin and Ray raises his gun again.)

Ray:
You're out of your mind.

Jarod:
(Jarod grabs the gun and quickly gets Ray in an arm lock.)

Am I? Look over my shoulder down the alley. You see that car down there? That's Luther. He's waiting for you. He's playing you Ray and he knows you're going to lead him straight to the money and when you do he's going to blow your brains out. Now you had better do exactly as I tell you to do or you're never going to walk out of this alive.

(Luther looks out from his hiding spot. He sees Ray suddenly throw Jarod against the bins, then down out of sight in front of a parked red car. Ray fires his gun four times in the direction that Jarod has fallen. Luther gets in his car. Ray looks over Jarod's immobile body. Luther waits until Ray drives out in the red car then follows him.

Guest stars:

Young Jarod Ryan Merriman

Young Sydney Alex Wexo
Young Miss Parker Ashley Peldon

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

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