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The Best Episodes of The Pretender Season 4

Every episode of The Pretender Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Pretender Season 4!

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

Genres:DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Pretender" season 4 is "The World's Changing", rated 8.4/10 from 138 user votes. It was directed by James Whitmore Jr. and written by Craig W. Van Sickle. "The World's Changing" aired on 9/25/1999 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Survival".

  • The World's Changing
    8.4/10 138 votes

    #1 - The World's Changing

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1999

    Once again a prisoner of the Centre, Jarod discovers a plot to murder a team of nuclear researchers, giving him even more motivation to escape. Meanwhile, Sydney and Broots try to find Miss Parker and Miss Parker tries to find her father -- and figure out who to trust.

    Director: James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle

  • Survival
    8.0/10 120 votes

    #2 - Survival

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1999

    Jarod joins the Army CID to investigate the suicide of a soldier in POW survival training. Meanwhile, he gives Mr. Lyle and Miss Parker a taste of that training by trapping them together in a shipping container.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Angel's Flight
    7.8/10 121 votes

    #3 - Angel's Flight

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/1999

    Jarod infiltrates a Goth con game to locate a missing girl. Meanwhile, a faceless wax head sent by Jarod leaves Miss Parker and company trying to fill in the pieces.

    Director: Chuck Bowman

    Writer: Tommy Thompson

  • Risque Business
    8.1/10 125 votes

    #4 - Risque Business

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1999

    Jarod pretends to be a sex therapist to investigate a brutal assault on a doctor. Meanwhile, Broots tries to summon up the courage to reveal his feelings to Miss Parker.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: Daniel Truly

  • Road Trip
    8.4/10 160 votes

    #5 - Road Trip

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1999

    Jarod finds himself on a road trip to help a mysterious young woman, whom he falls for. Meanwhile, he tells Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots to 'follow the yellow brick road'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Daniel Truly

  • Extreme
    8.0/10 119 votes

    #6 - Extreme

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1999

    Jarod Pretends to be an extreme sports enthusiast in order to learn what happened to a comatose young man. Meanwhile, Miss Parker, Sydney, and Broots follow Jarod's "game show" clues, and find themselves investigating Mr. Lyle.

    Director: Scott Lautanen

    Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle

  • Wild Child
    8.1/10 123 votes

    #7 - Wild Child

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1999

    Jarod Pretends to be a psychologist to help a young girl found living alone in the wilderness. Meanwhile. Miss Parker finds out a Centre contract has been taken out on her father's life, leading her to look more closely at Mr. Cox.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Joel Metzger

  • Rules of Engagement
    8.0/10 120 votes

    #8 - Rules of Engagement

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/8/2000

    Jarod tries to stop a hostage situation in a hospital. Miss Parker is confused by an encounter with her father.

    Director: Rodney Charters

    Writer: N/A

  • 'Til Death Do Us Part
    8.5/10 145 votes

    #9 - 'Til Death Do Us Part

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/2000

    On the anniversary of Thomas' death, Jarod challenges a haunted Miss Parker to resume her hunt for his killer. But the search leads back to her father and Brigitte, who is close to giving birth.

    Director: Craig W. Van Sickle

    Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle

  • Spin Doctor (I)
    8.2/10 154 votes

    #10 - Spin Doctor (I)

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/5/2000

    Jarod tries to track down the killer of a man who helped him escape from The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tries to help Sydney deal with his past. The crossover continues on Profiler S04E10 Clean Sweep (II).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Juan Carlos Coto

  • Cold Dick
    7.9/10 146 votes

    #11 - Cold Dick

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/12/2000

    LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - After being contacted by Argyle, Jarod becomes a Las Vegas private investigator to save a showgirl in trouble with with the mob. Meanwhile, Broots and Miss Parker try to outwit Jarod by posing as a newlywed couple and checking into the honeymoon suite. But come sunrise, they find they've gotten more involved with each other then they ever have chasing Jarod...

    Director: Steven Long Mitchell

    Writer: Juan Carlos Coto

  • Lifeline
    7.7/10 113 votes

    #12 - Lifeline

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/19/2000

    Jarod becomes a bodyguard to reunite an undercover ATF agent and her daughter. Meanwhile. Miss Parker sets out to prove Raines' religious 'conversion' is nothing of the kind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Juan Carlos Coto

  • Ghosts From The Past
    7.6/10 126 votes

    #13 - Ghosts From The Past

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/2000

    Jarod infiltrates a white supremacist group to stop the bombing of a Unity event. Meanwhile, Angelo fights his way through Jarod's past to find the old enemy currently threatening Jarod's life.

    Director: Michael T. Weiss

    Writer: N/A

  • The Agent Of Year Zero
    8.1/10 117 votes

    #14 - The Agent Of Year Zero

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2000

    Jarod tries to help a Cambodian woman avenge the death of her family at the hands of a war criminal -- who is also an ally of Mr. Lyle. Meanwhile, Miss Parker tracks that connection from the Centre.

    Director: Rodney Charters

    Writer: Tommy Thompson

  • Junk
    8.2/10 122 votes

    #15 - Junk

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/25/2000

    Jarod goes undercover as a junkie in a rehab clinic to help a woman regain custody of her son. Meanwhile, Miss Parker and company find Jarod's connection to the woman through her father and the Centre.

    Director: Michael Zinberg

    Writer: N/A

  • School Daze
    7.9/10 121 votes

    #16 - School Daze

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/22/2000

    Jarod poses as an elementary school teacher to protect a young witness in a murder trial. Meanwhile, Miss Parker encounters a ghost from the past.

    Director: Jon Gries

    Writer: Daniel Truly

  • Meltdown
    7.8/10 120 votes

    #17 - Meltdown

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2000

    Jarod infiltrates a gang of burglars to discover which of them killed a little girl. Meanwhile, an email that isn't there leads Miss Parker to someone who might have answers about her mother's death.

    Director: Krishna Rao

    Writer: N/A

  • Corn Man A Comin'
    7.8/10 120 votes

    #18 - Corn Man A Comin'

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2000

    Jarod follows the trail of a kidnapping, documented by a camcorder he finds in a pawn shop. Meanwhile, Miss Parker continues her search for Edna Raines, with Jarod's help.

    Director: Steven Long Mitchell

    Writer: N/A

  • The Inner Sense (1)
    8.7/10 145 votes

    #19 - The Inner Sense (1)

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2000

    Jarod finally locates his sister Emily, just in time to see her nearly assassinated by The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker's search of the secrets behind her mother's death lead her and Jarod to the same place -- and a mysterious young man named Ethan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle

  • The Inner Sense (2)
    8.2/10 169 votes

    #20 - The Inner Sense (2)

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2000

    Jarod finally locates his sister Emily, just in time to see her nearly assassinated by The Centre. Meanwhile, Miss Parker's search of the secrets behind her mother's death lead her and Jarod to the same place -- and a mysterious young man named Ethan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle