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While Jarod was a natural pretender, Raines developed a serum to chemically recreate Jarod with a child, Davey Simpkins, who had the same rare genealogy as Jarod and his bloodline. Davey is rescued by Jarod and Angelo, but because the treatments on him had already begun, he is in jeopardy of becoming another Angelo.
The series follows Jarod, a young man who is a "Pretender", a genius impostor able to quickly master the complex skill sets necessary to impersonate a member of any profession. He was kidnapped as a child by The Centre, a sinister think tank located in the fictional Blue Cove, Delaware .
Weiss starred in the NBC-TV primetime drama The Pretender for four seasons as the lead character Jarod. In February 2006, Weiss attended a benefit with his former Pretender co-stars Andrea Parker and James Denton for Cure Autism Now. [3] Weiss joined the cast of Impressionism, a play by Michael Jacobs and directed by Jack O'Brien. [4]
Sydney devises a treatment for Angelo that returns his mind, but removes his empathy/Pretender abilities. Angelo reveals Raines is planning on kidnapping another child to replace Jarod as a Pretender, and warns Jarod of the plan, who in turn warns Sydney. He, Miss Parker, and Broots discover that Raines is rebuilding Sublevel 27.
The Pretender 2001 (also called Pretender 2001) is an American made-for-television action drama film and the first of The Pretender franchise of movies to air after the series was cancelled by NBC. It was originally released on American cable channel TNT on January 22, 2001, written by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle, directed by ...
The film begins with Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) working as a professor and searching for a mysterious artifact.Both he and Ms. Parker (Andrea Parker) received e-mails containing a photograph of their mothers standing side by side at the end of the previous film, and it is revealed that the artifact Jarod is searching for appears in the photograph, engraved on a wall behind the two women.
The Pretender: Rebirth is the first novel based on the cult television show The Pretender, which ran on NBC from 1996 to 2000. Following the series' cancellation, TNT produced two television movies, The Pretender 2001 and The Pretender: Island of the Haunted. The book is the first of an intended new series.
In the TV series The Pretender (1996–2000), the main character, Jarod, is a former child prodigy who, as an adult, is capable of emulating any person within various fields of work or situations with only a minimal amount of research. [41]