1-22 Dragon House

1-22 Dragon House

Dragon House

I’m going to get my brother. I’m going back to the Centre.

Jarod

Dragon House

I’m going to get my brother. I’m going back to the Centre.

Jarod

Original air date: May 17, 1997

Written by: Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle

Directed by: Fred K. Keller

Kyle is rescued, but the van he was in explodes. Jarod sees his mother and sister for the first time, but must run away due to people from the Centre closing in on him. Mr Raines’ oxygen tank is shot and he is severely burned.

Jarod’s Discoveries: He has a sister

Jarod’s Occupations: FBI Agent

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod Ness

 

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

Jarod tries to save his brother, Kyle, and learns more about his long-lost family.

 

After telling Jarod that Kyle is his brother, Harriet explains that she used to be a nun and, while living at the convent, met a young initiate named Catherine.  Catherine later left the convent and married a man named Parker and then, a few years later, asked Harriet if she could shelter a young couple—Charles and Margaret—whose two young sons had been abducted.  They moved into an apartment at Harriet’s farm, and had another baby, Emily…but then fled after Kyle eventually ran away from the Centre and kidnapped Harriet, looking for his parents.  Meanwhile, at the Centre, Mr. Raines hooks Kyle up to a series of electrodes, questions him about Centre activities, and every time it seems Kyle remembers more than he should, Mr. Raines zaps him with electricity. Miss Parker watches with her father, but when she asks who Kyle is, Mr. Parker just says she should be looking for Jarod.  Later, Miss Parker asks Sydney and Broots to help her get in to see Kyle alone.  Sydney says this is impossible, but Broots offers to divert the security cameras.  A bit later, Broots does the technical routing, then he and Sydney distract a couple of guards, and Miss Parker sneaks into Kyle’s cell.  She asks Kyle if he killed her mother, and he says “no.”  Then she asks if it was Mr. Raines, but before Kyle can answer, Raines arrives with guards, who pull Kyle out of the cell…while Miss Parker hides under the bed.  Meanwhile, Harriet tells Jarod she can contact his family, but will have to be gone a few days to do it…and he says he is going to go back to the Centre to talk to Kyle.

That night, Jarod appears in Sydney’s office and asks why Sydney never told him Kyle is his brother.  Sydney swears he never knew…and then Mr. Raines enters.  Jarod ducks out again, popping up a few minutes later in his old cell, where Angelo crawls out of an air vent and greets Jarod warmly.  Meanwhile, in the lab, Raines orders a surgeon to prep Kyle for frontal lobe brain surgery.  But then, when the two men exit to begin their preparations, Jarod enters, begins unstrapping Kyle, and explains that he is helping because Kyle is his brother.  Just then, the doctor returns, Kyle attacks him and, as Jarod pulls him away, Angelo, who came in with Jarod, gets upset and pulls an alarm.  As Sydney, Broots and Miss Parker respond, Jarod and Kyle climb into an air duct. Eventually, sensors indicate someone in the ducts, but when Miss Parker rips one open, she only finds Angelo, while Jarod and Kyle emerge from a manhole, safe on the outside.

Later, Miss Parker tells her father that Raines is out of control.  Mr. Parker assures her Raines will be dealt with, and once again orders her to concentrate on Jarod…who we see is now on his way back to Harriet’s farm with Kyle. The next day, Sydney, Miss Parker and Broots give Angelo notebooks from both Jarod and Kyle, hoping he’ll be able to figure out where they went.  And finally, as Mr. Raines watches from above, Angelo becomes agitated, grabs a photo of Harriet’s farm and says he’s going “home.”  Meanwhile, Jarod and Kyle explore their parents’ apartment at the farm, and Jarod shows the photo of their mother to Kyle, and tells him about their sister.  About the same time, however, Mr. Raines calls the F.B.I., which is still looking for Kyle, and tells them where he is. A bit later, Harriet returns to the farm, and says she has good news for Jarod and Kyle.  But before she can say what it is, a convoy of F.B.I. vehicles roars in, and Jarod, Kyle and Harriet try to escape in their van.  The F.B.I. agents chase them, shooting, and blow out one of the van’s tires.  The van flips and rolls.  Harriet pulls Jarod clear, but Kyle’s leg is broken and he can’t get out.  Then the F.B.I. shoots again and the van blows up, with Kyle inside.  Finally, Harriet pulls Jarod away, gives him an address of a Boston coffee shop, and says he’ll be able to meet his family there at 3:00 the next day.

The next day, Mr. Parker tells Raines he knows where Jarod’s going.  Later, Jarod arrives at the coffee shop, while, nearby, Miss Parker hands out guns to Sydney and Broots.  Then, as they and a sweeper team spread out, Jarod sees a taxi drive up, and his mother gets out.  But just as they see each other, Jarod also sees Sydney and the sweepers, and yells at his mother to run.  She gets back in the cab and, as it drives off, Jarod fights off a team of sweepers, grabs a gun from one and runs into an alley, where Raines is waiting.  Jarod aims his gun at Raines, but then realizes he doesn’t want to become the man he hates.  Instead, he turns to run and Raines takes aim at him…but then a shot rings out and Raines’ oxygen tank explodes and sets him on fire.  And as the sweepers rush in to douse the flames, Jarod gets away again.  Later, Miss Parker meets with her father and asks if Raines killed her mother, but he says he cannot tell her just yet…and then leaves with some men who come to escort him to a meeting with Raines.  Later, as Sydney and Broots study an inconclusive ballistics report from Raines’ shooting, Jarod phones and asks where they buried Kyle.  Sydney says, however, that the van was so badly burned, no remains were found.  Then Sydney asks Jarod what he is going to do next, and Jarod, now watching a space shuttle launch, tells Sydney to catch him if he can.

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Dragon House pt II Transcript

 

     Harriet Tashman’s Farm
     
Jarod   I don’t remember my parents or anything about having a brother.
Harriet   Well, you were very young when you were taken. We often repress, forget.
Jarod   How did they come to be with you?
Harriet   Well, my own parents were killed three weeks before my 11th birthday. I grew up in a convent, content to give my life serving the church as a nun. I had said my vows and was cloistered for years. But it didn’t take.
Jarod   Was my family tied to the convent?
Harriet   No, no. There was another girl. Catherine Jamison. We were real rabble-rousers. Gave the Mother Superior hell. One night we snuck out and were crossing this frozen pond. I slipped in. I was drowning. Catherine dove in, dragged me out and then breathed life back into me. She never became a nun, but the spirit that glowed in her was something I’ve been unable to achieve despite years of prayer. Then after she left the convent, she married a man by the name of…
Jarod   Parker.
Harriet   Yes.
Jarod   Catherine Parker.
Harriet   Did you know her?
Jarod   Her daughter. What did she have to do with my parents?
Harriet   Well, in 1969, the year I inherited this farm, Mother Superior called and said Catherine needed help. Catherine showed up and asked me to shelter a man and a woman who had had their two young sons abducted.
Jarod   Is that when my parents came here?
Harriet   I knew them as Charles and Margaret. They were afraid. They’d been searching for years and they were on the run. It was safe here. They were wonderful people Jarod, you’d be very proud of them.
Jarod   Did they ever talk or or ask about me or my brother?
Harriet   They never talked. I never asked. It was too painful. Especially for your father. It was clear how deeply he missed his sons.
Jarod   Did they ever say who they thought might’ve taken us?
Harriet   I think your father was afraid it would affect your mother’s health.
Jarod   The baby.
Harriet   She gave birth to a little girl a month later.
Jarod   I have a sister.
Harriet   Her name is Emily.
Jarod   Emily.
Harriet   There are no pictures. I’m sorry. Years later, I started getting threatening phone calls and letters from Kyle. He must’ve figured out I had some tie to your parents. Of course, I had no idea at the time who he really was. He was desperate. He thought I could help him. It was after the kidnapping that your family vanished.
Jarod   You’ve been hiding here ever since.
Harriet   I knew Kyle was in prison, but I aslo knew the depth of his anger, well, his pain. I’d lost contact with Catherine Parker years earlier. I felt alone, and I was afraid. So I went underground. Your parents loved you, Jarod. They loved and they missed you and your brother.
     
     
    The Centre
     
Raines   Do you remember where you first lived when you came to the Centre?
Kyle   At first, three doors down from the corridor entrance. Later, sublevel
Raines   What was the Manchester Solution?
Kyle   The Manchester Solution.
I-I don’t remember any solution because the job was blown. I could’ve done it alone. I SIM’ed it correct. The others lost the will, but I didn’t.
I decide who lives or dies. I decide who lives or dies.
Mr Parker   You said after all those years in prison, he’d remember nothing.
Raines   He can’t remember everything.
Mr Parker   He remembers too much. Jarod alone is bad enough.
Miss Parker   I brought him in. Why is he here?
Mr Parker   I asked him to be.
Miss Parker   Who in the hell is Kyle anyway? Or should I say what?
Mr Parker   Kyle is someone of concern to me. You missed Jarod. It was your best chance ,and he’s still out there. I know you’re upset. I should’ve told you that I had brought Mr. Raines in on this. I apologise. But things were moving quickly. Now Mr. Raines and I will handle Kyle.
Miss Parker   But, Daddy…
Mr Parker   No, no, no. Trust me. Sydney, do you think Jarod might return to the Centre?
Sydney   There’s nothing here that Jarod wants. And Jarod always has an objective. Besides, even though we never figured out how he got out our latest security improvements are quite beyond anyone’s capabilities. Even Jarod’s.
Miss Parker   That’s the first time I have ever heard you doubt Jarod’s abilities.
Sydney   Let’s just hope they believed it as much as you did.
     
     
    Jarod’s Flashback
     
Young Jarod   Kyle! They’re coming! Kyle!
Raines   Get him out of here.
Young Kyle   No! Jarod, help! No, leave me alone. Jarod! Jarod! Jarod, help me!
     
     
    The Centre, Biotract 42
     
Sydney   You said it was a matter of great importance.
Miss Parker   I want you to help me get to Kyle.
Broots   Why?
Miss Parker   Because he knows something about my mother’s death. What do you want me to do? Beg?
Sydney   What makes you so certain that Kyle can help you?
Miss Parker   Because he was Mr. Raines’s pet project. I feel it. Sydney, I feel it. Kyle knows who killed my mother.
Sydney   Hmm. Look, they’re keeping him in a section I don’t have access to. Also, they’re monitoring him round the clock from the tech room. There’s just no way for anyone to get there undetected. Right?
Broots   Mmm, well, that’s not entirely true.
Miss Parker   What do you mean?
Broots   I mean, I got us into SL 27, didn’t I? I could probably bypass the sensors and at a designated time, loop the camera feed into the monitor system.
Miss Parker   Well, for how long?
Broots   Mmm, long enough.
     
     
    Kyle’s Cell & Tech Room
     
Sydney   I was looking for… here.
Broots   Oh… oh that’s hot! That… ohh… I’m sorry. It’s okay. Got it.
Kyle   You look just like her.
Miss Parker   That’s what they tell me. You’re the one who decides who lives or dies, right?
Kyle   You know my work.
Miss Parker   Did you kill my mother? Did you… kill my mother?
Kyle   No.
Miss Parker   Then who? Was it Mr. Raines?
Raines   What are you doing here?
Sydney   I was trying to find my way to the, uh, new accounting offices.
Raines   Why do I think you’re lying? Open the door. Get him out of here.
     
     
    Harriet Tashman’s Far,
     
Jarod   My parents must have loved this place.
Harriet   I may know someone who can help you find what you’re looking for.
Jarod   Who?
Harriet   Solemn vows die hard. I’ll have to go and see them. Alone.
Jarod   It’s too dangerous.
Harriet   Catherine didn’t think of herself when she pulled me out of that icy pond. I’ll be… I’ll be gone a few days.
Jarod   I won’t be here. I’ve spent every moment since I broke out searching, hunting for some clue that might lead me to my past. And right now, the biggest clue to it is back where I started.
Harriet   I don’t understand.
Jarod   I’m going to get my brother. I’m going back to the Centre.
     
     
    The Centre
     
Jarod   Hello, Sydney.
Sydney   My God. How’d you get in?
Jarod   The same way I got out. Why didn’t you tell me about my family? About my brother?
Sydney   Your brother?
Jarod   Kyle. At least that’s what I think his name is. Why didn’t you tell me?
Sydney   I didn’t know.
Jarod   It’s interesting, that’s what you always say.
Sydney   I swear it to you Jarod. I did not know. All I know about Kyle is … actually… what Jacob told me.
Raines   Am I interrupting something?
Sydney   Oh. Just going over some notes.
Raines   Of course. Always the conscientious one. You will notify me if Jarod attempts to make contact with you.
Sydney   What if he contacts you first? Jarod. Jarod.
     
     
    Jarod’s Flashback
     
Young Kyle   Jarod. Jarod, help me!
     
Jarod   Angelo. Angelo. Look at your hair. Cracker Jack. C.J. You’re C.J. You wrote those letters to Kyle in prison. You’ve been in contact with him just like you’ve been in contact with me.
     
     
Doctor   It’s been a long time since we’ve had to perform this kind of a radical procedure, Dr. Raines. And the Tower hasn’t made their approval clear yet.
Raines   I’ve made the diagnosis. A frontal lobe separation is the only way to bring him peace. Unless you’d like to offer a differing opinion.
Doctor   I’ll call for anesthesia. He’ll be ready in 10 minutes.
Kyle   Raines. Raines! Who the hell are you?
Jarod   I’m Jarod.
Kyle   Raines said you were dead.
Jarod   Not hardly.
Kyle   Why are you helping me?
Jarod   Because… I’m your brother.
Kyle   I don’t have any family.
Jarod   Yes. You do. I’m guessing… our father gave you this.
Kyle   My God. You kept it.
Jarod   Not me. He did. Come on. It’s time we all were free. No! No! No! Nobody gets hurt.
Kyle   Where are we going?
Jarod   Home. Angelo, come on. Get in.
Angelo   No. I decide who lives or dies.
Jarod   Angelo. Angelo, no!
     
Raines   How did this happen?
Broots   Alarm sensors indicate they’re in SL 19.
Miss Parker   I’m on it!
Raines   I need to speak to Mr. Parker.
     
Jarod   This way.
Kyle   Where does it lead?
Jarod   Out. Come on.
     
Miss Parker   We’re on 19. Broots, where are they?
Broots   I’m working on it. I’m working on it. Go down to 20. Miss Parker, I’m getting a signal in the motion detectors. They’re in the ventilation system. Right where you are.
Miss Parker   Rip that down. Damn it. It’s Cousin Itt.
Broots   It’s Angelo.
     
Jarod   Come on. Trust me.
     
Miss Parker   Tell me this wasn’t you, Daddy. I know better.
Mr Parker   I did not authorise this procedure. I would never do that.
Miss Parker   Raines was prepared to destroy a Centre investment with no directive from the Tower, to protect himself from what Kyle knows. We’ve both been feeling it for a long time. Raines has had his own agenda long enough.
Mr Parker   He’ll be dealt with. Just bring me back what belongs to the Centre.
     
     
    En Route to the Tashman Farm
     
Jarod   It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay. Here. It’s one of the small joys of freedom. There’s candy underneath the head. Uh… That’s okay. I have plenty more.
Kyle   We just gonna drive?
Jarod   I know a place where we can rest. Truth is, the running never stops.
Kyle   How long you been out?
Jarod   Almost a year now. There’s so much out here. You have so much catching up to do. You do remember.
Kyle   That Kyle was a million years ago, Jarod. By the time I broke from the Centre, my head was mush. All I thought about was finding my… finding our parents. And anybody got in my way, I just ran over ’em. Before long, I was running from the law. By the time I figured things out and got to Harriet… I just… I never wanted to hurt her. I just thought she knew where they were.
Jarod   Something good came out of it. At least we have a place to start.
     
     
    The Centre
     
Broots   Well, that’s the rest of it. He’s gone through everything we have. Jarod’s notebooks, F.B.I. files, everything we’ve got on Kyle. He’s almost done.
Sydney   Real glutton for punishment, hmm?
Miss Parker   Desperate times, desperate measures, Sydney. If Sponge Boy here really can become anyone, like all the quacks around here claim then I’m letting him become Kyle and Jarod at the same time. Maybe he’ll tell me where they went.
Broots   Maybe we should have tethered him.
Sydney   Aren’t we making one erroneous assumption, Dr. Parker?
Miss Parker   What’s he gonna blow? A transistor?
Sydney   You assume that he wants to help you.
Miss Parker   Why wouldn’t he?
Sydney   Just let this quack handle it, hmm? Jarod. Jarod. If you’re really in there, Jarod then you’ll know who I am and that I can help you. Also, that I am the only one who can protect you from Mr. Raines. Easy. Easy.
Angelo   I’m going home. I’m safe here.
Miss Parker   Kyle kidnapped a woman named Harriet Tashman. He was trying to get her to this place.
     
     
    Harriet Tashman’s Farm
     
Kyle   I can feel them here.
Jarod   I know.
Kyle   But they don’t have faces.
Jarod   ‘Cause we don’t remember. Or the Centre didn’t let us remember. Maybe this will help.
Kyle   She’s beautiful. They’re still out there, aren’t they?
Jarod   Yes. Them… and our sister. She was born after we were gone. Dad taught me. We’re going to find them. We wouldn’t have gotten this far unless we were meant to.
     
     
    Raines on phone to FBI Headquarters
     
Korkos   Korkos.
Raines   Do you want to know where John Doe is?
     
     
    Harriet Tashman’s Farm
     
Jarod   Harriet. We didn’t know it was you. It’s all right. We all want the same thing.
Harriet   I have some good news.
Kyle   Somebody’s coming up the road.
Jarod   Let’s get out of here.
     
Korkos   Get ’em.
     
Jarod   Hold on!
Harriet   Kyle.
Jarod   Kyle! Hold still. Let me look.
Kyle   No. Go. My leg is broken.
Jarod   No. I’m not going to leave you here.
Kyle   Jarod, go! Find our parents. Don’t tell them what I became.
Harriet   Come on, Jarod. Come on, Jarod. Come on.
Korkos   Freeze. FBI.
Jarod   No!
Harriet   Come on, Jarod. Jarod. Jarod. Jarod. Jarod, we have to split up.
Jarod   No. Come on. I can protect you.
Harriet   No. This is not about me now. Your parents. They’re in Boston. They’ll arrive by taxi at this coffee shop. Here’s the address and meet time.
Jarod   My parents, have you seen them, are… are they okay?
Harriet   You’ll be able to find out for yourself. Tomorrow at 3:00.
Jarod   Harriet, thank you.
     
     
    The Centre
     
Raines   It was a prudent move with Kyle. Keeps our hands clean.
Mr Parker   I think we should focus on bringing Jarod in. We have a possible location.
Raines   Where? When?
Mr Parker   Three o’clock, today. Take a Sweeper team with you. Bring him back.
     
     
    Boston, Massachusetts
     
Miss Parker   We’re flying blind.
Sydney   No need, Miss Parker.
Miss Parker   Well, don’t count on Mr. Raines feeling the same way.
Sydney   I don’t. Well, let me show you how to take offthe safety, huh?
Broots   Damn.
Sydney   I don’t want Jarod hurt.
Miss Parker   Do my best, Syd. It’s hot and good to go.
Broots   Damn.
Miss Parker   You take the east. Got that? You take the west. I’ll float.
     
Raines   Hello, Jarod.
Jarod   You stole me from my parents. You had the FBI kill my brother. And now you’re trying to kill my family. What have I ever done to you?
Raines   You exist.
Jarod   No. I’m not gonna let you do to me what you did to my brother. You leave me alone.
Miss Parker   I thought he gave up smoking.
     
     
    The Centre
     
Mr Parker   No. No, no, no. There was no plant. The information on Jarod’s rendezvous with his parents came from a phone tap we’ve had on St. Catherine’s for over 30 years. Yes, Mr. Lyle. Uh, Jarod got away, but… You want me to come in? What for? Let’s talk now. Whatever you say. I’ll be with you shortly. We will. You have my word. Thank… Ah. Glad you’re here.
Miss Parker   Really?
Mr Parker   Of course. We have work to do.
Miss Parker   We?
Mr Parker   Now that Raines is in doctors’ hands… or God’s.
Miss Parker   Skin grafts can be so demanding.
Mr Parker   Well, at least he’ll be out of your hair. Isn’t that what you wanted?
Miss Parker   Is that what you wanted?
Mr Parker   He overstepped. I dealt with him as promised.
Miss Parker   Then why was he out on that street yesterday? Why did he know right where Jarod would be?
Mr Parker   Difficult for a man like Raines to end up in hospital while sitting behind his desk, don’t you think?
Miss Parker   You promised me that we would talk. Did Raines kill Mother?
Mr Parker   Honey. There are no easy answers.
Miss Parker   Yes or no.
Mr Parker   One day you’ll understand why I…
Miss Parker   Did he kill her?
Mr Parker   There are still great repercussions from your mother’s death. When I can tell you more, I will. Trust me. Ah, you’re here to escort me? Of course you are.
     
Broots   A friend of mine in cleanup sent me this.
Miss Parker   Ballistics report?
Broots   Uh-huh. What the hell’s going on here?
Sydney   I don’t follow.
Broots   Well, the bullet that struck the oxygen tank… They can’t tell which gun it was fired from.
     
    Sydney on phone with Jarod
     
Sydney   Hello. This is Sydney. Hello. Hello. Who’s there?
Jarod   I may be tired, Sydney… but I’ll never give up.
Sydney   I don’t expect you to.
     
Jarod   I’ll find them again. No one is going to keep me from my family.
Sydney   I understand. Jarod, you were closer to your family than I ever was. I want you to believe that.
Jarod   If it’s my faith you want, tell me where they buried my brother.
Sydney   Buried him?
Jarod   Kyle. Yes.
Sydney   Jarod.
Jarod   Tell me, Sydney.
Sydney   The van’s gas tank was full. It burned for a very long time. No remains were found. Nothing. Nada.
Jarod   Hmmh. Which is, yet again,what you leave me with.
Sydney   Jarod. Hello. Are you still there?
Jarod   I’m here.
Sydney   With everything that’s happened they’re more determined than ever to find you. Do you know where you’ll go?
Jarod   I have a good idea. Catch me if you can.

 

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