Original air date: May 22, 1999

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

Directed by: Fred K. Keller

Jarod and his father attempt a rescue mission after learning that the Centre not only conducted cloning experiments using Jarod’s DNA, but also created a young clone of Jarod.

Jarod’s Discoveries: His Father – Major Charles, his clone – Gemini

Jarod’s Occupations:

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

Major Charles and Jarod attempt to rescue Jarod’s clone from the Centre.

From their remote cabin, Jarod and his father tap into the Centre’s mainframe and discover that J2 is about to be transferred to the Triumvirate.  In Miss Parker’s office, she and Broots share their disgust over the cloning records from the Gemini Project.  It seems that 289 ova were fertilized before they achieved success with J2.  Donor wombs were found in homeless women, coma patients…women who would not be missed.  All the women disappeared without a trace.  Miss Parker understands what her mother must have felt when she discovered Donoterase.

J2 receives a late night visit from Miss Parker, who wants to know how he feels about his Centre mission.  Although he claims to be ready and willing to do the Centre’s work, his tears betray his real emotions.  She decides to help him escape.  But Raines and Sydney enter, preventing it.  Just then, Sydney receives a phone call from Jarod, asking him when J2 is going to be transferred.  Sydney tells him that another venture into the mainframe would be a waste of time because there is no refuge for him anymore.  Jarod and Major Charles realize that someone else was listening to Sydney’s conversation and he was trying to send them a message.

At dawn, J2 is driven to an airstrip, with Miss Parker and Broots following.  They are stopped by an overturned car blocking the road and a wrecker pulling out from behind it.  A flagman comes over to them and reveals himself to be Jarod.  He proceeds to fire a tear gas cannister into one car, incapacitating Lyle, Brigitte, Sydney and J2.  His father comes out of the wrecker and does the same thing to the other car.  Jarod grabs J2, while Broots and Miss Parker draw near.  Major Charles drives the wrecker straight at them, as Jarod and J2 make their getaway in a pickup truck.  Miss Parker captures Major Charles.

Big Mutumbo arrives at the Centre, angry over the loss of the boy.  He places Brigitte in charge of interrogating Major Charles and assigns Lyle to lead the effort to track down Jarod and J2.  Miss Parker feels left out and looks to her father for support, but none is forthcoming.  Later, Mr. Parker explains to his daughter that he did what he had to do in order to assure their survival.

Miss Parker comes into Sydney’s office with the e-mail he left for Jarod in a box called Refuge.  They have a nice connective moment, as they discover they are on the same side.  He encourages her to go find the truth from Major Charles.  She follows his advice and confronts Major Charles with his own gun, the one used to kill Miss Parker’s mother.  He tells her that Raines shot him, stole his gun and killed Catherine Parker.  She was trying to rescue children from the Triumvirate’s Gemini Project, including Miss Parker.  The Triumvirate threatened Mr. Parker with the death of his wife and daughter.  Miss Parker now plans to kill Raines.

Jarod takes J2 to the remote cabin.  The young pretender is afraid of Jarod, finally explaining that Raines told him that Jarod killed his parents.  Jarod tells him the truth about the cloning, convincing him with a DSA taken when he was J2’s age.

The next day, Jarod boldly walks into the Centre lobby and proposes a trade of Mr. Parker, whom he has just kidnaped, for his own father.  Miss Parker agrees to the exchange, with Sydney to carry it out.  Mutumbo is displeased that Miss Parker allowed Jarod to leave after delivering his offer, so he places Raines in charge.  Jarod calls Raines and announces that the exchange is to take place at Iversonville Airfield in North Carolina.  Raines tells Willie, a sharpshooter, that Mr. Parker is not to survive the exchange.  Brigitte overhears this and tells Miss Parker.  They reluctantly agree to team up.

Sydney drives Major Charles to the airfield, as Miss Parker, Brigitte and Broots follow with a radio transmitter.  Major Charles thanks Sydney for doing a good job of raising his son.  At the airfield, Mr. Parker, J2 and Jarod wait in a small plane.  Sydney and Major Charles arrive moments ahead of Miss Parker’s car.

Just as Miss Parker warns Jarod that her father is a target, a helicopter rises above the trees.  Willie takes aim from the helicopter, with Raines commanding him.  Miss Parker runs for the plane and gets right in the crosshairs of Willie’s rifle scope as he fires.  She falls into her father’s arms.  Jarod grabs her and runs for cover behind Sydney’s car as a bullet whizzes by.  He instructs his father to take J2 away in the plane and he will meet up with them later.  As Major Charles taxis down the runway, the helicopter tries to block its path, but Jarod shoots at it and forces the pilot to move out of the way.  After Jarod’s clip empties, Brigitte points a gun at him.  Jarod knocks the gun from her hand and attempts to escape on a motorcycle, but the helicopter reappears, Willie opens fire and Jarod loses control of the bike.  Raines and his team then surround him.