Original air date: April 4, 1998

Written by: Denise Dobbs

Directed by: Joe Napolitano

Jarod impersonates and FBI agent to help a young boy who stopped talking after witnessing the murder of a DEA agent, and Mr Raines reveals the Centre has him under review.

Jarod’s Discoveries: Powdered Chocolate Milk

Jarod’s Occupations: DEA Child Psychologist

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod Leary

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

Jarod assists a young boy who stopped speaking after witnessing a murder.

As a DSA plays, Young Sidney discovers Young Jarod sitting on the floor, a sea of torn photographs strewn about.  Young Sidney addresses the camera, noting that his subject has never before grown so uncommunicative.  In the present day, Miss Parker, Sidney and Broots meet with Jimmy, a carnival veteran.  They observe a shattered mirror, a clue that they perceive to be a sign that Jarod is attempting to rebuild someone’s shattered life.  Their theory proves correct.  Jarod, impersonating an FBI agent/psychiatrist, springs into action when two Latin gunmen open fire inside a safe house.  He shields Karla Parks and her five-year-old son, Nicky, from harm.  The gunmen miss their target and race away in an automobile.  Jarod comforts Nicky, who sits and rocks in much the same way Jarod did in the DSA.

It turns out that Nicky had witnessed the murder of a DEA agent, and it is believed that the triggerman was a dealer named Vasquez.  The incident was so traumatizing that the boy stopped talking.  Jarod hopes to end the boy’s silence by using emotion and memory to access the truth.    His interference is resented by Agents Bingham and Stess, who prefer a more aggressive approach.

Karla tells Jarod that, on the day of the shooting, she had taken Nicky to a Laundromat.  When Nicky’s cat, Charlie, ran off into the alley, Nicky followed.  Gunfire erupted, and Karla ran into the alleyway.  It wasn’t until much later that the missing Nicky was discovered beneath the body of the DEA agent.  From that point forward, Nicky has remained silent.

Mr. Raines grows perplexed when he discovers Angelo was moved into a new cell.  He informs Miss Parker of this latest development, and explains that the Centre has him under review.  Later, Raines is attacked by an unknown assailant, who carves the numbers “155” into his arm.  That number corresponds to the room from which Raines operated his experiments years earlier.  Parker, Broots and Sidney begin tailing Willie the Sweeper.  He leads them to a warehouse where they discover “Einnad 155” etched again and again into the walls.  Noticing the words reflected in a mirror, the threesome realize “Einnad” is actually “Dannie” spelled backwards.  By researching files, they discover the name of the man who attacked Raines: Daniel Hilton Minor.  Minor had originally been diagnosed with mild depression.  But the disorder became amplified when Minor was given drugs… medicine that left him with multiple personalities.  The warehouse, the threesome realize, is Enid’s space.  Parker busts down a plaster wall and finds Dannie’s room.  Dannie comes at her with a straight razor, but Parker gains the upper hand.

Meanwhile, Jarod begins observing Nicky.  He notices the boy playing with a plastic figure, its head having been broken off.  Shortly thereafter, more gunfire erupts.  Jarod leaps onto Nicky, but Karla is injured and taken to the hospital.  Jarod and Agent Davis choose a new safe house.  Later, when Jarod discovers Stess using strong-arm tactics to make the boy talk, he pulls him aside and, away from Nicky, punches him in the face.  He warns him to stay away from the boy.  Upon reviewing Stess’s personnel file, Jarod learns the once-decorated agent’s brother overdosed on drugs while serving time in an El Paso prison.  Jarod confronts Stess with the information—having realized Stess holds Vasquez responsible for supplying heroin to his brother.  He convinces him that the dead agent was not “dirty,” as Bingham maintains.  Slowly, a bond of trust forms between the two men.

Jarod returns to the ally where the murder transpired.  There he discovers and retrieves a piece of (as yet unidentified) plastic.  Slowly, Jarod begins to suspect that Vasquez is not the man who killed the DEA agent in the alley.  By utilizing Nicky’s plastic figures, Jarod reaches out to the boy—and gets him to speak.  Nicky describes seeing two men in the ally… one a Latino, and the other being Agent Bingham.  Jarod pieces together the puzzle: Vasquez and Bingham had pulled off a drug exchange.  Moments later, undercover agent Cruz drove up.  Bingham pulled out a gun and shot Cruz, who fell atop Nicky.  Later, Bingham threatened Nicky by promising to do his mother harm if he told authorities what happened.  He illustrated his point by snapping of the head of one of the boy’s plastic figures.

Jarod and Stess tail Bingham from afar.  Bingham offers Vasquez heroin in exchange for eliminating the boy.  Later, Jarod puts his takedown plan in motion.  He allows Bingham to believe that he and Nicky perished in an explosion.  Later, he surprises Bingham in the alleyway where the drug exchange is about to occur.  As the dealers’ car approaches, Bingham realizes his briefcase is filled with chocolate milk—not heroin.  Terrified the dealers will kill him, Bingham confesses.  Jarod gives him another case, which Bingham believes is filled with heroin.  But he discovers it is empty.  The dealers, however, turn out to be Davis, Stess, and other DEA agents.  Bingham is taken into custody.