Original air date: January 15, 2000

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

Directed by: Craig W. Van Sickle

With Jarod’s help, Miss Parker finally discovers who murdered her lover, Thomas, and also learns the shocking truth behind Brigette’s marriage to her father.

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Official Synopsis

Miss Parker attempts to identify Thomas’ murderer on the anniversary of his death.

Miss Parker tosses and turns in her bed as she dreams about Thomas Gates.  Parker awakens suddenly.  The day marks the one-year anniversary of Thomas’ unsolved murder.  Later that day, at a cemetery, Jarod joins a despondent, disoriented Parker at Thomas’ grave.  Jarod commiserates with Parker, stating that it is time to find out who killed her lover.  A confused Parker turns…only to find that Jarod has disappeared.  She finds a card nearby that reads:  “Gates Construction—Where Everything Old Is New Again.”  The side of the card reads “Rumor 58259.”  The unsuspecting Parker has no idea that Jarod played cupid over a year ago in bringing her and Thomas together.

Back at the Centre, Sydney and Broots examine the card.  Broots believes that “Rumor” is the code name for a Centre operative.  He also believes that the communications department can decipher the significance of the numbers “58259.”  Meanwhile, the vicious murder of Triumvirate operative Mutumbo has been traced to Parker’s father.  Cox warns Miss Parker that anyone allied with her father could find themselves an “endangered species.”

Accompanied by his very pregnant wife, Brigitte, Mr. Parker convenes with his daughter.  He denies killing Mutumbo and elaborates on his “comeback plan. ” He then disappears into the night.  Subsequently, Broots reports that the numbers on the card are a code for an archive recording of a phone tap placed by an operative named Rumor.  Broots manages to unscramble one of the taped calls, which turns out to be a friendly conversation between Jarod and Thomas.  For the first time, Miss Parker realizes that Thomas and Jarod enjoyed a friendship.

Returning home from her emotionally exhausting day, Miss Parker hears her shower running.  Driven by the unrealistic hope that she would find Thomas, she grabs the shower curtain…only to find Brigitte taking a shower.  A short time later, Mr. Parker appears in the living room and asks to borrow his daughter’s car.  He believes that Mutumbo’s murder did not extinguish a directive to have him and Brigitte killed.

The next day, in her office at the Centre, Miss Parker receives a phone call from the elusive Jarod.  Jarod confirms the strong friendship he shared with Thomas.  He considers his pairing of Parker and Thomas, who was employed as a construction worker, as one of the most rewarding things he has ever done.  Jarod tells Miss Parker that Rumor murdered Thomas.  Now, it is up to Miss Parker to identify the mysterious operative.

As Broots uses the men’s urinal, Cox and his Sweepers invade his privacy and block his exit.  To squeeze the latest information out of Broots regarding Miss Parker’s father, Cox sizzles Broots’ hand under the hand dryer.  Broots divulges no information, and later tells Miss Parker that Rumor’s identity is contained in a “Z-3” hard-copy file.  The only problem lies in accessing this type of file.  The designation “Z-3” denotes contract killings for hire.   This signifies that Thomas was murdered by someone inside the Centre.  Broots gives Parker a ride home, and later, they discover a mysterious file on her coffee table.  It is the Z-3 Rumor file.  Parker reads the file and immediately drops it to the floor in stunned silence.

Miss Parker follows a tracking device hidden inside her car to locate the remote area where Brigitte and her father are supposedly hiding.  An agitated Parker then confronts her father.  Brigitte, it turns out, is Rumor 58259.  Miss Parker cannot determine whether her father is in collusion or is genuinely dumbfounded.  Apparently, Brigitte is hiding out elsewhere.

Back at her home, Miss Parker pours over the Rumor file searching for clues of Brigitte’s whereabouts.  Jarod visits Parker briefly, and denies it was he who left the Rumor file in her home.  Jarod hides when Broots makes an unannounced appearance, bring with him information about Brigitte’s location.

Miss Parker drives to a secluded cabin in the woods.  She kicks in the door and finds Brigitte in advanced labor.  Through her labor pains, Brigitte screams answers to Miss Parker’s insistent questions.  She admits to having killed Thomas on orders from inside the Centre, but those orders did not originate with the Triumvirate.  Apparently, those powers within the Centre believed that Miss Parker’s romance with Thomas made her lose her professional focus.  Brigitte also reveals that she has a rare disorder, placenta previa, that will cause her to bleed to death when the baby is born.  Shortly after the baby is delivered, Brigitte expires.  As if on cue, Mr. Parker and Cox arrive in a helicopter with a nurse.  But Miss Parker senses that something is amiss.  Her father’s demeanor is very crisp and businesslike.  Mr. Parker tells his daughter that Cox has been his inside man for months.  Shocked, Miss Parker realizes that Brigitte served only as a conduit to give her father a baby.  To clear Mr. Parker of any suspicion of killing Mutumbo, Cox places the gun that killed Mutumbo in Brigitte’s lifeless hand.  Disgusted by Cox and her father, Parker exits.

Miss Parker returns to the cemetery where Thomas is buried.  She answers a call from Jarod on her cell phone.  Jarod reminds of her of “unfinished business” that he spoke of days earlier.  He tells Parker that Thomas keeps haunting her because her mind and her heart are waging a war against each other.  It is time for Miss Parker to tell Thomas, even in death, how much she loved him.  A vision of a field and lone figure walking toward her appears.  It is Thomas.  He holds out his hand to Parker, and they embrace passionately.  Miss Parker finally states, “ I love you, Tommy.”