The Pretender s03e02 Episode Script

Hope and Prey

- Dad? - Dad? Is that you? - No! - No! No! [Engine Starts.]
Mama! [Miss Parker's Voice.]
Mr.
Fenigor, who killed my mother? Jarod's father.
[Miss Parker.]
Daddy, it's the truth.
Mother's death was not what we thought.
She was gunned down in this elevator byJarod's father.
- Fenigor told you this.
- He's dying in the Centre infirmary.
He has no reason to lie.
- He extorted a lot of money from this place.
- This place? Or you? I didn't want him telling lies.
- About your mother.
- Are they lies? [Exhales Sharply.]
Hope I'm, uh, not interrupting.
- Keep hoping.
- Angel, please.
Your sister's obsessed with finding Jarod's father instead of the real target.
Funny you should mention Jarod, Dad.
- He put this Web site on the Net.
- [Mr.
Parker.]
Can we trace it? [Miss Parker.]
No.
We've tried similar leads before.
She's right.
It's unlikely, but I'm workin' on it.
All right.
Keep me informed.
- Keep us both informed.
- Oh, of course.
And while I'm tracking Jarod, you'll be, what, after his father? I find his father, I find him.
[Chirping.]
[Bird Screeches.]
[Man.]
You gonna have somethin'? Actually, I was supposed to meet someone here.
And I'm supposed to sell drinks.
[Jarod.]
All right.
I'll take anything cold.
Jarod? Mike Bodie? Would have been here sooner, but I had to stop at my place and grab something.
God, you remind me of him.
My father.
Major Charles.
That's why I left the message on the Web site.
You knew him.
A dream catcher.
Your father made it.
There's a part of him in that.
Now it's a part of you.
All I have is this.
A reflection.
I can top that.
- Is this my father? - And me, 20 years ago.
I thought you should have it.
[Groans.]
You've been shot.
- That's what happens when someone's trying to kill you.
- Who? I'm sorry, Jarod.
I didn't want it to come down like this.
I can help you.
I'm the one that owes you.
- Mike.
- I want to tell you everything about your father and his dream quest.
Mike! Mike! Damn.
[Panting.]
[Groans.]
[Man Narrating.]
There are Pretenders among us.
[Jarod.]
I was taken from my family.
Thirty-six hours and he's already demonstrating more talent than any of our others.
How many people died because of what I thought up? Since I broke out, I've spent every moment searching for my past.
[Miss Parker.]
He's a Pretender- A genius who can become anyone that he wants to be.
- The Centre wants him alive.
- Preferably.
[Miss Parker.]
He defends the weak and abused.
Life's a gift.
- You a doctor? - I am today.
- What happened to Mr.
Fenigor? - [Mr.
Lyle.]
He's assumed room temperature.
In a manner of speaking.
- He's dead? - That's what I'm told.
- What are you doing here? - I wanted to hear from Fenigor himself thatJarod's father killed our mother.
Daddy told you? Doesn't matter.
Too late now anyway.
We'll never know for sure.
We will when I find Jarod's father.
Finding him- It's not about catching Jarod, is it? What's it about? Revenge? - My mother deserves it.
- She was our mother.
What about our father? I mean, have you thought about what opening these old wounds might do to him? You know, the fact that you're my sister doesn't change one thing.
You are beautiful when you're angry.
You've never seen me angry.
Ow.
Damn bounty hunters- think they're playing cowboys and Indians.
- Bounty hunters? - Yeah.
What were they doing after Mike? Bail jumping's kind of a habit with Mike Bodie.
Thinks he's a modern-day Crazy Horse.
Just wish he'd stay on his own land instead of comin'onto mine.
- [Shotgun Blast.]
- [Mike.]
Hey.
Hey.
Don't shoot! - I'm not armed! Hey! Look.
No, no- - [Shotgun Blasts.]
Don't shoot! That's what happens when someone's trying to kill you.
Hope you're here to check the meter.
Not today.
Today I'm just hunting a bounty.
- Like you.
- Is that right? What's your name? Jarod Green.
- I.
D? - The diploma's out in theJeep.
Are you going to shoot me? Not if you stay out of my way.
Looks like he left in a mighty hurry.
Shotguns are a great motivator.
They hit him over here, and then he jumped out that window.
Seems you've done this before.
You got a name to go with that shotgun? Kim Peace.
Mike Bodie is some kind of activist.
Terrorist is more like it.
Blew up a mining rig.
That's why he's worth 20K.
My 20K.
Hmm.
Twenty grand.
- Enough to share.
- I don't share bounties.
How about coffee? - [Kim.]
Where'd you say you're from? - Delaware.
Mmm.
That's a whole lot of hunters for one man.
Twenty grand brings out the best and the brightest.
Kimberly.
Who's your new friend? More competition.
- Jarod Green.
- Dennis Beers.
Looks like we're after the same Injun.
May the best man win.
Bet ya a hundred bucks one of those poor excuses shot up Mike's place.
Maybe they're after a dead skip.
What makes you think they're tryin' to kill him? Well, for starters, the bloodstains and the shotgun blasts.
Scare tactics.
These guys are not in the killing business.
Worst case, Bodie'll get roughed up.
You didn't rough me up.
I'm an old-fashioned girl.
Now you- You're kind of a riddle.
No handcuffs.
No gun.
YourJeep's a rental.
And no wedding ring.
I got a hunch you don't have a place to call home.
Well, I could say the same thing about you.
Are you sure you won't consider a team effort? Thanks for the flapjacks, Delaware.
Broots.
How- How'd you know it was me? Too much Old Spice.
[Whispers.]
You won't believe what I snagged.
[Clears Throat.]
Well, don't let me stop you.
Oh- Oh, you know that, uh- the Web site you wanted me to trace? Well, uh, you know, it's untraceable.
Appears as ifJarod had programmed it - to jump to a different server every 18 hours.
- So you haven't found it? No.
Dead ends are Jarod's specialty.
Keep searching.
For a while I thought I was gonna swallow my tongue.
That's all I could dig up on Fenigor.
It's a death certificate.
They kept him alive for two extra days to harvest his organs.
His kidneys are in Kansas.
His liver's in New York.
His spleen's in Spokane.
- Get me a picture.
- Of his spleen? - His corpse.
- You don't believe the file.
The only thing I believe is if Lyle brings in Jarod instead of me Fenigor won't be the only supplier to the Organ of the Month Club.
Parker, are you sure this isn't about revenge againstJarod's father? Find me the old man's body before there's another one.
- Sydney.
- Ah.
What if Lyle finds Jarod before Miss Parker? - What would happen then? - To her? [Whispers.]
No.
To us.
[Jarod.]
I'm a bounty hunter.
Why do you need my name? You know, the state may say you've got jurisdiction, but this is my neighborhood and you don't operate on these lands without registering.
And I don't appreciate no bounty hunter stormin' through here like The Man With No Name.
So, Bodie bombed a mining rig? Well, A.
C.
M.
's have been makin' copper digs just outside the res.
Mike didn't want 'em near his property.
His house is not on the reservation.
Just outside.
His land was parceled to his ancestors a hundred years ago.
I have a picture of Mike as a little boy.
Do you recognize the man with him? You're best to talk to Emery.
He's the history buff.
Emery! Yeah.
You know this guy? Mm-mmm.
Sorry.
Thank you.
You're not a bounty hunter.
Mike's dream catcher-You would've had to kill him to take it off his neck.
So he must have given it to you.
You know Mike? He's part of my thesis on indigenous rights.
Are you a descendant? Not unless Tonto had a rabbi I don't know about.
Here.
Some of my research on Mike and A.
C.
M.
- Might help you track him down.
- You think the company would try to kill him? Well, it would shut up their loudest protestor.
Thank you very much.
Jarod, that picture- - Who is the older guy? - Pretty sure he's my father.
- Pretty sure? - When I was a boy, l- I was told that my parents were killed in a plane crash.
It was a lie.
Man.
Who'd make up a lie like that? The Centre has another project for you, Jarod.
This technique hasn't been used for decades.
How can you improve it? By factoring in tissue depth from living people I can re-create a face more accurately.
By size and weight, l- I would say he is a man.
[Young Sydney.]
Very good.
- Was he someone's father? - Jarod.
Yesterday was a year, Sydney.
- Since the crash.
- Focus on the work.
This technique is promising.
I wish I could invent a way to bring him back.
[Mike.]
I want to tell you everything about your father and his dream quest.
[Engine Starts.]
[Engine Starts.]
You're a bounty hunter? Not anymore.
- What happened at your house? - Guy came in blasting.
- Did you see him? - He must have been waiting for me.
As soon as he started shooting, I ran.
But not before I grabbed that picture of your father.
[Groans.]
That could be infected.
I'm staying in a motel up the highway.
Let's get you there, and I'll fix you up.
Come on.
That's not right.
I owe you.
- Why do you keep saying that? - Your father saved my life.
I need to tell you about him and his dream quest.
You want answers? Jarod, I got 'em.
Come on.
- Freeze! - Kim, no! Two words, Jarod! "Hand cuffs"! You are so focused on the money, you don't even care that the man is injured! Doesn't look that hurt to me.
- I think a bounty hunter is tryin' to kill him.
- Tell it to the judge.
If he lives that long.
Where'd you get that? Gift shop up the highway.
[Jarod On Phone.]
After three years of searching, I finally feel close.
What about Fenigor's last words? Your father may be a killer.
Is that something you can accept? Unless it's another Centre lie.
Has any of your eyesight returned since the bombing? Infirmary says, uh, there's no nerve damage, but I still can't see.
Maybe you don't want to.
I don't know who I am or where I came from or if my father murdered a woman in cold blood but I'll take what I can get.
Truth isn't easy but it's real.
- It opens your eyes.
- [Beep.]
[Dial Tone, Beeps.]
I ask for Fenigor's body, you bring his sheets? It was either that or a bedpan.
Perhaps Angelo's empathic abilities - can give us some direction.
- The blind leading the blind.
Revenge bad.
Revenge makes revenge makes revenge.
This isn't about me.
Mr.
F-Fenigor better now.
Is he alive? Where is he? What's going on, Broots? - What is Angelo up to? - [Broots.]
Well, he's, uh put the sheet over his head.
[Sydney.]
Fenigor is a ghost.
Ghosts aren't alive, Sydney.
At the Centre they are.
And where do they live these days? Renewal Wing.
"C, " "A''.
five, four, three.
"C, " "A''.
- five, four, three.
- "C," "A" five, four, three.
[Sydney.]
Thank you, Angelo.
It must be bounty hunter breakfast break.
A man's gotta eat, Vincent.
I never start a day without pigs in a blanket.
- Pigs in the who? - Blanket.
Have a nice day.
The bartender at Dunson's told me Mike was there yesterday.
Said a bounty hunter showed up and shot the place up.
Is that so? - Said Mike was shot too.
- Really? I wouldn't put it past you animals.
From what I hear, it's the mining company that wants Mike dead.
Well, you just tell your friends this ain't the Wild West.
That's why I got paperwork on you people.
These are all the registered bounty hunters? Yes.
Please don't tell Vincent about this.
He'd kill me.
It's between us.
Jarod, I was thinking about that picture of your dad.
I scoped out back issues of the tribal paper.
This is from the mid-'70s.
Mike was lost in the desert, so they mounted this huge rescue effort.
The find was credited to an ex-air force major who volunteered for the search.
- Is his name in here anywhere? - No, but he saved Mike's life.
Why are you doing this? You know, every man should know who his father is.
[Young Sydney.]
Your facial reconstruction techniques are quite impressive, Jarod.
- What's that? - My father.
I sculpted him too, Sydney.
- [Young Sydney.]
He doesn't have a face.
- I can't see my father, Sydney.
I don't know who he really is.
[Whispers.]
Oh, you're gonna get shot creepin' around like that! You think I want to be down here? Angelo started mumbling something after you left.
Something about CA543.
- Centre Archives? - Yes.
It's a reference number for an archive receptacle.
[Motor Whirring.]
Lost.
Nice pajamas.
If Angelo says there's something in the archives, go get it.
[Humming.]
- [Miss Parker.]
Broots.
- [Humming Continues.]
So nice to have visitors.
Mr.
Fenigor.
- Dad? - Dad? Is that you? Is that you? I can't see my father, Sydney.
I don't know who he really is.
[Screams.]
[Banging.]
[Groaning.]
You said motel by the highway.
- Hard man to find.
- Mike.
- [Groaning.]
- Mike.
[Miss Parker.]
Don't you remember me? - Can't say that I do.
- Mr.
Fenigor, my mother is Catherine Parker.
- Who? - You were helping her rescue children from the Centre.
Rescue? The Centre's mission statement clearly says that our fellow man is our highest priority.
Jarod's father killed my mother.
That's what you said.
I don't know anyJarod.
Sorry.
I hope you find what you're looking for.
- Somebody scrambled his brain.
- Like an egg.
Huh.
Why wouldn't they just kill him? - I mean, they did it to- - To my mother? Okay.
L- It's a really bad analogy, but think about it.
I mean, why wouldn't they just get rid of him? Maybe somebody wants me down here looking for Fenigor, running into dead ends.
- Mr.
Lyle.
- It would give him a jump start on catching Jarod.
Does he know about this archive receptacle? - No.
Angelo only told me and Sydney.
- Find it, and bring it to me.
Buckshot.
You're lucky.
I didn't bomb that mining rig.
Then why did you jump bail? Do you know- Do you know how many times A.
C.
M.
's had me arrested? I always skip a court appearance just to get theirJockeys in a bunch.
Gotta be vocal, defend my land.
I'm the last in my line, Jarod.
I die, the tribe gets it.
Cute.
Why don't you take me in? I'm a valuable warrior.
I'll take my past instead.
[Banging.]
I knew that dream catcher looked familiar.
I played a hunch, Delaware.
I figured if I followed you instead of Mike, he'd show up.
Good hunch.
- [Groans.]
- You can't just take him in.
Yes, I can.
[Grunts.]
- No, you can't.
- Ow! Two words: "hand cuffs.
" Every bounty hunter in the state will be after us now.
I'm better when I'm hunted.
Hey! That's my car.
[Miss Parker.]
Anything on theJarod Web site front? Just that you were right.
It was a dead end.
Oh, if anything comes up, you'll be the first to know.
- I'm sure I will.
- Any luck on the revenge front? You too will be the first to know.
Where's Helen Keller? Physician, heal thyself? Therapy, Miss Parker.
Face the truth about what you've done.
In my case, misguided vengeance.
Turn your eyes to something positive something worth seeing.
Does it work? You're blurry.
But you're there.
Do you think my revenge is misguided? If you have to ask you're answering your own question.
No offense, Syd, but you can't see it from where I stand.
But I don't have to.
I've known you since you were a little girl, Parker.
You will never let this go.
But I want to help.
Like him.
You're worth it.
Where's my mom and dad? [Mike.]
You're a good man, Jarod.
- Just like your father.
- What was he like? He would only say his name was Major Charles.
But I gave him a better one.
Soaring Eagle.
- Did he live around here? - No.
He trained at Clearview Air Base years before.
So he knew the terrain.
Just like he knew about losing a son.
I heard about the search for you when you were a boy.
I wanted to be a big warrior, go on a quest.
I wandered into the caves and broke my arm.
Your dad led the search for me.
After five days they stopped lookin', but your father- He wouldn't give up.
My father kept on searching.
Alone.
He said it was like finding his own son.
Like finding you.
As a reward, my father taught yours to make his own dream catcher sent him to the caves on his own quest.
Is the cave still out there? Just like he left it.
They say you can find things there.
Answers to questions that are in here.
- That's what he did.
- [Shotgun Blasts.]
Get down! - Are you hit? - Yeah, but I'm not bleeding.
- Rubber bullets.
- That cowboy's not so tough.
Or he wasn't hired to kill you.
I found it, Miss Parker, but I don't know what it means.
Why would they have an archive receptacle on your mom? L- I didn't- I mean, I couldn't.
I wouldn't open it.
It's, um- Well, it's not my place.
I'm leaving.
Here I go.
I'm leaving.
Here I go.
- Broots.
- Yeah.
Thanks.
Mama! Mama, please, no! Mama! [Lid Closes.]
[Jarod.]
If the bounty hunters don't want you dead, then somebody else does.
The question is why.
All of this land was sold to the mining company by the tribe? Except my land.
They don't own it.
- But if you die, the tribe gets your land.
- Doesn't make sense.
If the tribe sells my land, who benefits? The man who makes it happen.
- Vincent.
- As tribal liaison he arranges land buys for A.
C.
M.
Vincent's stock portfolio.
After every land deal, he gets more stock options.
Couldn't sell your land, and he can't cash in the options until he completes the pie.
Guess killing you is the only answer.
The bounty hunters take the blame.
How much? [Keyboard Clacking.]
[Jarod.]
$250,000.
Talk about making a killing.
Jarod.
That's a mighty big gun you've got.
Don't leave home without it.
I'll have to remember that.
[Mimics Gunshot.]
- [Mimics Gunshot.]
- [Jarod.]
Kim.
It's Delaware.
I've got something to show you.
[Rings.]
- Yeah.
- I've gotta talk to you, Vincent.
- What the hell is it? I'm eating.
- Sorry.
Listen.
I was working late, and Mike Bodie showed up.
He's furious.
He's looking at maps and computer files and stuff.
L- I'll be right over.
[Electronic Twittering.]
[Keyboard Clacking.]
- Damn it! - [Hammer Cocks.]
Aw.
Your money's all gone.
Better call your broker.
The Man With No Name.
Were you expecting someone else? Mike Bodie maybe? Well, I'm just guessing, of course.
Takin' a shot in the dark.
[Vincent Panting.]
[Grunting.]
How's it feel, Vincent? To be unarmed.
- What the hell are you doin'? - I'm goin' huntin'! What about you? You got the wrong bounty! Oh, you should know, 'cause you were a bounty hunter the night you tried to kill Mike Bodie! Mike jumped bail! On what charge? Blowing up an A.
C.
M.
Rig? It was empty, Vincent.
And I'll bet your stock options that you set the explosion yourself.
You had to have Mike's land.
And you knew he had a habit ofjumpin'bail.
So you tried to gun him down.
And you figured that the bounty hunters would take the blame.
You sold out your own people.
That's right, Jarod.
And I blew up the rig.
And I tried to kill Mike.
And now you're out of shells, cowboy.
[Click.]
And you're out ofluck.
Knew we'd make a great team.
Whose gun is this, Angelo? Circle.
Follow the circle.
Follow the circle.
But to where, Angelo? Mr.
Lyle's on his way with your father.
Sydney, you can see? Better, Miss Parker.
Thanks for the heads-up.
[Door Opens.]
Daddy.
Angel.
Now listen.
About the other day- I have decided to take your advice and put Mother's death behind me.
Let's getJarod, not his father.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
That's what I call a family conference.
- I'm glad for you.
- It's time to let the past be the past.
[Angelo's Voice.]
Circle.
Follow the circle.
[Mike.]
To perform the dream quest you've got to go to a sacred place where all the questions inside your heart can be answered.
This is where your father went.
Lead the way.
I was told something about my father.
Something evil.
What kind of man was he? He saved my life.
[Mike.]
Your father's.
No one has been in this cave since he left.
- What are these? - Visions from your father's quest.
The eagle.
It's always above us.
Always searching.
This eagle is searching for his son.
Our symbol for eternity.
He will never give up his search.
These are my father's dreams.
[Mike.]
Or nightmares.
Circle of fire.
- What do you think it means? - Ask him yourself.
You're on your own.
[Man Chanting In Native Language.]
[Continues.]
[Jarod, Echoing.]
Dad? - Dad? - Dad? Is that you? Is that you? I knew you'd never stop searching.
There's something I need to know.
Did you kill Catherine Parker? Follow the circle, Jarod.
Follow the circle.
[Jarod's Voice.]
Dad, did you kill Catherine Parker? [Major Charles.]
Follow the circle, Jarod.
Follow the circle.
[Mike.]
The elders think the patch was from your father's squadron here at Clearview.
Unfortunately, they closed the base down over 20 years ago.
- Dead end.
- The story of my life.
But you can't have a dead end without a road.
And thanks to you, I have a new one to follow.
- So, what are you gonna do? - I'm going to follow the circle.
[Native Language.]
[Native Language.]
Hey, when you find your Dad, tell him we're even.
- [Door Closes.]
- [Engine Starts.]
Circle.
Follow the circle.
Circle.
Follow the circle.
Circle.
The circle.

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