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First Aired: September 19th, 1996

Status: Ended

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

Network: NBC

Summary: Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

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Season 4

Episode 1: The World's Changing

Air Date: September 25th, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 2: Survival

Air Date: October 2nd, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 3: Angel's Flight

Air Date: October 30th, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 4: Risque Business

Air Date: November 6th, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 5: Road Trip

Air Date: November 13rd, 1999

Summary: 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'.

Episode 6: Extreme

Air Date: December 4th, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 7: Wild Child

Air Date: December 11st, 1999

Summary: 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.

Episode 8: Rules of Engagement

Air Date: January 8th, 2000

Summary: Jarod tries to stop a hostage situation in a hospital. Miss Parker is confused by an encounter with her father.

Episode 9: 'Til Death Do Us Part

Air Date: January 15th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 10: Spin Doctor (I)

Air Date: February 5th, 2000

Summary: 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).

Episode 11: Cold Dick

Air Date: February 12nd, 2000

Summary: 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...

Episode 12: Lifeline

Air Date: February 19th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 13: Ghosts From The Past

Air Date: February 26th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 14: The Agent Of Year Zero

Air Date: March 11st, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 15: Junk

Air Date: March 25th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 16: School Daze

Air Date: April 22nd, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 17: Meltdown

Air Date: April 29th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 18: Corn Man A Comin'

Air Date: May 6th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 19: The Inner Sense (1)

Air Date: May 13rd, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 20: The Inner Sense (2)

Air Date: May 13rd, 2000

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