Original air date: May 9, 1998

Written by: Harry Dunn

Directed by: Michael Lange

When Jarod helps arrange a meeting between Miss Parker and a man who knew her mother, he discovers that this is the same man who stole him from his parent’s home.

Jarod’s Discoveries: Mr. Fenigor

Jarod’s Occupations: None

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

Jarod and Miss Parker are held hostage in a bank robbery—along with a man who holds a key to both their pasts.

Miss Parker receives an envelope containing an old letter from her late mother, and a message summoning her to a local bank.  At the bank, Jarod appears and hands Miss Parker three more letters from her mother.  Then, he points to a 50ish man, whom Miss Parker recognizes as Mr. Fenigor, the man who helped Catherine Parker rescue children from the Centre.  Before the two of them can approach Fenigor, however, two men, Clavell and Jude Dane, announce they are robbing the bank.

Assistant Manager Frank Isaac presses an alarm button.  A nervous young bank guard confronts the robbers, but Clavell shoots and kills him.  As a SWAT team mobilizes outside, and Clavell collects valuables from the hostages inside, Fenigor recognizes Miss Parker.  Jarod tells Miss Parker that he found the letters from her mother in a safe at her father’s house.  Meanwhile, at the Centre, Broots and Sydney view a news bulletin about the robbery on TV, and see Clavell holding Jarod at gunpoint.  Mr. Parker and Mr. Raines also see the broadcast and order Willie to round up his Sweeper team.

Back at the bank, Miss Parker reads the letters from Catherine, who talks about her plans to rescue Jarod from the Centre.  Jarod scans historical photos of the bank, noting the building’s raised foundation.  Clavell asks for the combination to the bank vault.  When Isaac says he doesn’t have it, Jarod volunteers to pick the lock.  As he works, he tells Clavell there may be a safe escape route under the building.  Later, as Clavell robs the vault, Jarod approaches Fenigor and begs to be told who his parents were.  But Clavell sees them talking and shoots Fenigor.

Using soap, towels, duct tape and a plastic bag, Jarod seals off Fenigor’s wounds so he can breathe.  As Isaac squabbles with his 15-year-old daughter, Kaley, Jarod suggests to Miss Parker that father/daughter relationships are difficult.  Then, gently, he breaks the news that it may have been Mr. Parker who killed Catherine.

As Clavell herds the hostages into the bank vault, a teller informs Jarod that Fenigor makes regular deposits of checks from the Centre.  Outside, Sydney and Broots arrive.  So do the Sweepers.  Broots sees a Sweeper kill a SWAT officer and don the man’s uniform.  Sydney reveals he, too, has a gun, and vows to stop the Sweeper before he can kill Jarod.

Back inside, Fenigor regains consciousness.  He admits to Jarod that he was the one who stole him from his parents.  He hands Jarod the key to a safe deposit box.  Miss Parker demands to know who killed her mother, but Fenigor’s lungs start to fill with fluid and he cannot talk.  Miss Parker begs Jude for a plastic bottle to use in draining Fenigor’s lungs.  When Jude brings it, she grabs him and takes his gun.  But then Clavell appears, holding Isaac at gunpoint.  Miss Parker backs down and hands over Jude’s gun.

Outside, as Sydney searches for the sniper, Willie grabs Sydney and tosses his gun into a dumpster.  Broots retrieves the gun as Willie delivers Sydney to Mr. Raines in a nearby limousine.  Back inside, Miss Parker helps Kaley negotiate a truce with her father.  Jarod praises Miss Parker’s efforts.  As Clavell and Jude cut through the basement floor to get to the subterranean passage, Broots searches for the sniper, and Jarod opens Fenigor’s safe deposit box.  Papers inside reveal the source of Fenigor’s income:  Mr. Parker.  He also finds an envelope with Jarod’s name on it that contains a key, a telex with a Michigan address and a business card for the “Chrysalis Family Group.”  Fenigor promises to tell Jarod what it all means if he will get him out of the bank.

Jarod hides an exploding dye pack in a chocolate Easter egg and offers it to Jude, who has been complaining of hunger.  As Jude takes the egg, the dye and tear gas explode in his face.  Jarod and Miss Parker disarm the robbers and the hostages flee.  As Fenigor is loaded into an ambulance, he tells Miss Parker that her father has been paying him to protect her.  Then Jarod comes out of the bank and the sniper takes aim.  Broots aims at the sniper, but the sniper sees him and shoots at him.  Miss Parker makes one last attempt to talk to Fenigor.  As he says something about “Prodigy—the Red Files,” the sniper shoots him in the shoulder.  In the confusion that follows, Sydney finds Miss Parker, but Jarod disappears.  That night, Mr. Parker visits his daughter.  When he asks about the robbery, she denies any knowledge of Fenigor.  Later, Jarod calls and assures Miss Parker that they will have some answers soon.