Original air date: May 13, 2000

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

Directed by: Fred K. Keller

Jarod’s father calls with news that he’s found Jarod’s sister, Emily, and Miss Parker and Jarod simultaneoulsy discover they have a sibling in common – a half brother named Ethan.

Jarod’s Discoveries: Vacations, Half brother Ethan

Jarod’s Occupations: FBI Agent

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod Curtis

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

Jarod and his father, Major Charles, investigate the attempted murder of Jarod’s journalist sister, Emily.

Jarod and Zoe lounge in an oversized Jacuzzi surrounded by stacks of travel brochures.  A beep from Jarod’s laptop interrupts their playful kisses.  It is a video phone call from Major Charles, Jarod’s father.  Charles reveals that he has found Emily, Jarod’s sister, and wants Jarod to meet her in Philadelphia.  An understanding Zoe hugs a speechless Jarod as the twosome postpone their vacation plans so he can immediately fly to Philadelphia.

It is early morning in Philadelphia as Jarod approaches Emily’s workplace, The Philadelphia Examiner.  But Jarod is too late:  Emily lies unconscious on the sidewalk, having been pushed out of a two-story window.  Jarod follows Emily to the hospital emergency room where Dr. Cummings tells him that Emily’s condition is serious, but not fatal.

Later that night, Jarod pokes around Emily’s apartment with the manager.  The manager tells him how excited Emily was about coming close to finding her long-lost brother.  Jarod finds a half-charred photo of what looks to be a young man of about 25.  Before leaving, the manager drops a bombshell.  He reveals that a man who was sniffing around the apartment a few days earlier looking for Emily fits the description of the attacker.  The manager adds that the man was missing a thumb.  To Jarod’s horror, he now knows it was Lyle.

Back at the Centre, Lyle seethes as he learns that Emily survived the murder attempt.  Meanwhile, Jarod argues with a doctor about transferring Emily out of the hospital.  The doctor refuses to release her unless sanctioned by next of kin.  Suddenly, Major Charles appears and tells the doctor that he is Emily’s father.  As Charles and Jarod wheel an unconscious Emily down the hall on the gurney, Lyle and the Sweepers screech up in their town car.  Charles, Jarod, and Emily drive away in an ambulance just barely missing detection.  Jarod takes them to a hiding place in a basement of a church run by Sister Mary.

Sydney, Broots, and Miss Parker enter the Sim Lab where they discuss events of the past weeks: The reappearance of Edna Raines, thought dead for thirty years, and the disappearance of Catherine Parker’s body from her grave.  The trio starts an investigation into Project Mirage.  Broots downloads Catherine’s autopsy files.  The DSA shows a young Mr. Raines garbed for the autopsy, but it never shows him actually performing it.

As Emily recovers, Charles and Jarod examine Emily’s reporter files.  Included in the files is a photo of a mystery man.  Then Jarod discovers “my brother” written in Emily’s handwriting under the photo.  Charles says that Emily might have thought this man was Jarod.  But to Jarod that does not solve the mystery of why the Centre wanted to kill Emily.  When Emily regains consciousness, she identifies the photo only as “Ethan” and mumbles the word “nugeneisis.”  Nugenesis is the fertility clinic that Charles and Jarod’s mother went to and is tied to the Centre.  Emily writes down the file number.

Jarod and Major Charles enter Ethan’s apartment with guns drawn.  An unmailed letter to Ethan’s parents leads them to Tom and Janice Marshall’s house.  Jarod creeps toward an open door and spots Ethan on the floor holding the lifeless body of his mother in his arms with his dead father beside him.  Suddenly, Ethan turns and jumps on Jarod, shouting that Jarod murdered his parents.  As police cars pull up to the house, Ethan rushes out the back.

Back in the church basement, Jarod confers with Major Charles about Ethan.  Having hacked into the NuGenesis mainframe, Major Charles explains to Jarod that the file number pertains to a shipment of frozen sperm samples sent to the Centre years ago, which were his.  For the past twenty-five years, comparative genetic tests have been conducted using Major Charles’ DNA.  The results have been sent to a private residence in Delaware.

Jarod and Major Charles search the Delaware house.  Jarod says he is experiencing déjà vu.  Inside one room they find birthing tables and genetic follow-up records on Major Charles’ semen.  As they review the records, Major Charles and Jarod experience a revelation simultaneously:  Jarod has a brother.

Meanwhile, Broots and Miss Parker review another DSA.  It reveals that Catherine’s death was staged.  Subsequently, a furious Miss Parker slams Sydney against a wall.  Sydney comes clean, but says he kept the secret on Catherine’s orders.  Catherine was a key player in a project called Mirage.  She had to do what she could to survive.

Cox, Lyle, and Mr. Parker know that Jarod is about to uncover their big secret, but they plan to use Zoe as bait.  However, Miss Parker has already discovered the centerpiece of the whole conspiracy through an old DSA.  Catherine was used in a DNA experiment.  She was impregnated with Major Charles’ sperm and, as a result, gave birth to a baby boy, Miss Parker’s and Jarod’s half brother, Ethan.

Mr. Raines sits with a distraught Ethan.  He tells him, “I am your father now.”  Raines picks up Ethan’s leather backpack containing a bomb.  To Be Continued…