vilakins | The Pretender 203: Over the Edge

And I've watched the next one!

Yep, after the fathers in the last ep, it's mothers this time.

I loved the reactions of Sydney and Parker to the tepee guy's offer of a hug. Sydney took it readily and smiled, and Parker said, "I have a gun and I will use it." Sydney and Parker, don't ever change.

And ooh, geeky fun with Jarod finding out about Spider-Man--and his nametag reading "Shatner". He's obviously already discovered Star Trek too. :-) I was almost expecting a comment about Peter Parker's name.

Brigitte gets creepier, dressed in tight leather and massaging the creepiest of all, the reptilian Raines. Ewwww. And man, she's arrogant, striding about the place licking her lollipops and firing finger guns at the others. I wonder where she and Lyle were before.

The psychiatrist guy brought in to interview the suspects had some interesting techniques, esp with Broots. Were the little hop-scotching girls experimental subjects, or children of staff coached to behave as they did? And good for Parker, grabbing his camera and pointing out to Raines that if she'd shot at him, he'd be dead.

When he was reporting at the end, I thought it might be to Mr Parker, or possibly Jarod, but I was still quite surprised to see that it was indeed Jarod. I wonder what Jarod has on him. He hasn't been in a previous ep, has he? I suppose Jarod found him doing something very unethical and threatened to expose him unless he did him a favour, but that sounds a little unlike the Jarod we know who is so concerned with justice. Hmmm.

And my money is still on Syd.

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I loved the reactions of Sydney and Parker to the tepee guy's offer of a hug. Sydney took it readily and smiled, and Parker said, "I have a gun and I will use it." Sydney and Parker, don't ever change.

Hee! They're sort of perfect, aren't they? :)

The psychiatrist guy brought in to interview the suspects had some interesting techniques, esp with Broots. Were the little hop-scotching girls experimental subjects, or children of staff coached to behave as they did?

Brrr, that was creepy, wasn't it? Even before Broots cracked there...

And good for Parker, grabbing his camera and pointing out to Raines that if she'd shot at him, he'd be dead.

I'd forgotten the wonderful violence in this episode. Man, Parker is excellent.

I suppose Jarod found him doing something very unethical and threatened to expose him unless he did him a favour, but that sounds a little unlike the Jarod we know who is so concerned with justice. Hmmm.

Jarod has a very idiosyncratic take on justice...

Brrr, that was creepy, wasn't it?

Hell, yeah. DO we ever find out about it? Or who Jarod's guy thought it was, and who it actually was? I don't want to know, just whether we find out. :-)

Jarod has a very idiosyncratic take on justice...

He does usually ensure that the criminals are caught and tried though. I wonder how he got Lyle to pick his guy.

We find out a subset of those answers. :)

He does usually ensure that the criminals are caught and tried though.

He usually gets confessions in a way that makes it completely legally impossible to ever put people on trial! He pretty clearly considers himself both judge and punishment.

Well, in some cases he mails off evidence, but yeah, good point. Maybe what his guy did was more minor than most crimes he punishes (an affair with a patient, using privilieged info about the share market, that sort of thing).

I should now go and make dessert and open the dessert wine and watch something, perhaps animated Star Trek.

perhaps animated Star Trek.

I've been watching that lately while walking on the treadmill. Man, I'd forgotten how much care they'd put into getting the Enterprise visually right.

We watched Get Smart in the end, and man, they had some fun with film tropes, including a few that the Mythbusters jave debunked. :-) Lots of fun but for the Scrubs-like sexist jokes from Hymie at the end. Sigh.

I'll have to get the animated ST out and so it's an easy option. :-)

I haven't seen that, but I've heard several people say it's entertaining. I should check it out.

Sydney and Parker, don't ever change.

They are just great, aren't they? :)

and his nametag reading "Shatner". He's obviously already discovered Star Trek too. :-)

Or maybe he was watching T.J. Hooker or something. :)

I wonder what Jarod has on him. He hasn't been in a previous ep, has he?

I'm pretty sure we hadn't seen him before, no. And we really don't know why he's working for Jarod. Was there a line in the episode about Jarod having something on him, or was that just an assumption? I don't remember, myself. Clearly, I do need to watch these again! RSR's right, though. Jarod's notions about justice and ethics are idiosyncratic, and don't necessarily line up with what's legal. And I think there are really only certain sorts of wrongdoing that he actually cares about, anyway.

The guy implies that. I can't remember the words at all, but they implied that he was paying Jarod in some way, and it didn't seem like it was in return for a favour. Pity there are no transcripts--or are there?

I found this site (http://phq.pretendercentre.com/), and they say:
"TWENTY-FOUR HOURS LATER, in the wharf district in San Francisco, Dr. Curtis brings his finding to a warehouse where a figure is waiting for him in the shadows. He tells the figure that he did what the figure asked him to do: he told Mr. Raines that he was unable to determine, exactly, who had done the shooting in Boston. Curtis then hands the figure a black folder in which, he says, are his REAL findings. Apprehensively, Curtis tells the figure, "So... we're even." The figure steps out of the shadows. It is Jarod -- or someone who looks exactly like Jarod. He answers Curtis with a flat, "...For now..." and withdraws into the dark again. Shaking and sweating, Curtis breathes a nervous sigh before leaving the warehouse."

Looks like Jarod is blackmailing him or something like that.

Ah, thanks! That's handy! I did find another site with some episode summaries somewhere, but I've been avoiding doing too much googling around for info on the show, because it's so easy to accidentally run across spoilers for the darned thing.

But, yes, it certainly seems that Jarod has something on him. What is an interesting question. Maybe it's something involving Centre politics...

That would make sense because he must have been known to Lyle who would hardly use someone random.

Yeah, I'm being very careful what I look at on that site. So far just the summaries for eps I've already seen, some of which are better than others.

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