Bulletproof

Pretender Episode Review

In which people should not give themselves nicknames that result in tortured life metaphors.

What Happened

Jarod joins a SWAT team to figure out who offed a guy named Daniel Lang. It's your basic selection of traumatized surviving partners, testosterone-laden twits, weepy girlfriend and orphaned sons. The only clue is that Lang was talking about an arms-smuggling Russian in the weeks before his death.

Finding a note Jarod left behind, Sydney asks Broots to find a woman named "Michelle" for him. Overhearing, Miss Parker instructs Broots to do it, but fill her in first on whatever he learns. Broots doesn't find much of anything, beyond a woman who didn't exist before 1964. His best guess is that she worked for the Centre.

By searching Sydney's office, Parker and Broots find the note from Jarod: a birth certificate listing Michelle as the mother of a son, but claiming no father. Michelle confirms Sydney's suspicions that he is the father, saying that the Centre demanded that she drop out of Sydney's life when they found out she was pregnant. She later married and her husband raised Nicholas as his own; she asks him not to tell the young man the truth.

Finding evidence that Lang's fellow officers are taking bribes from the Russian, Jarod decides that they killed Lang when he threatened to turn them in. After they are arrested, Jarod arranges for the girlfriend to follow Lang's children to Seattle when their grandparents come to collect them.

What We Learned

• Looks like Monkey Boy had some time on his hands.
• People should not give themselves nicknames that result in tortured life metaphors.
• Giving Miss Parker the rest of what he knows doesn't make Broots anymore despicable than he is now.
• Jarod really overdoes the threatening vengeful growl sometimes.
• Everyone deserves a life.
• Even Sydney.

What Did I Think?

Snoozer with Jarod, but not much more with Sydney, though it is as funny as usual to see Miss Parker manipulating Broots.