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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - Miss Parker and Sydney once again miss Jarod at the Y.M.C.A., who is now posing as a member of the Coast Guard trying to figure out the truth behind the death of a man who died at sea waiting for rescue. Jarod also befriends a hermit who lives out at sea and refuses to come back to land.
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Director:
Michael Zinberg
Writer:
Steven Long Mitchell, Craig Van Sickle
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Broadcast: 1996-09-28
Production No.: 03102
Episode Overall No.: 2
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Quotes:
Little Girl: Didn't you ever eat a cookie as a kid.
Jarod: They didn't have cookies where I grew up?
Little Girl: Where did you grow up? Mars?
Jarod: Sort of.
Parker: Well, Broots, what's happened?
Broots: I've backtracked the call from the other phone. All I know right now is that all the calls were international landlines. I didn't even know that was possible.
Jarod: I wanted to know if... Jarod was my real name.
Sydney: I think it is. At least that is what I was told.
Sydney: I understand you learning to swim but aren't you a little old to be playing with bathtub toys?
Jarod: It's certainly better than the kind of playtime you foisted upon me.
Jarod: I'm surprised you're not down making rounds down corridor fifteen.
Sydney: Even psychiatrists need a day off.
Sydney: But Jarod is a pretender. He can become anyone he wants to be. We will never catch him with one of Broots' phone taps.
Parker: That's what they said about the Uni bomber Syd. And how did they catch that whacked out prodigy. A letter to mommy. It's the smart ones who always do something stupid.
Sydney: Broots' technology is not going to help us track a chameleon. Jarod changes colour. He blends in. We'll get close when he lets us. Patience, Parker. We need patience.
Parker: Syd, patience may be a soothing catch oil for the potato heads in psychogenetic services but to my father and the boys in the Tower equate patience with failure.
Bilson: This isn't funny.
Jarod: Oh, you're right. It's terrifying. You're all alone. You can't see anything but water and you start thinking about what might be down there. What just bumped you below the surface? And after a while your nerves will settle down, but unfortunately, that's when your body starts to ache and the only way to stop the pain is to stop treading. But then you start to sink. And in that instant between life and death you think about all the people and all the things you left behind. So you start fighting your way back to the surface. You fight for your life.
Bilson: You get me out of here.
Jarod: Oh, don't worry. You'll be okay. Men have been known to tread water for days.
Jarod: They were doing the '70s which, as you know, I missed.
Broots: 24 hours.
Miss Parker: You have 12.
Broots: I can do it in 8.
Jarod(after a threat to have him court martialed): A court martial, it won't exactly affect me. You see, I'm not really a lieutenant. In fact, I'm not really in the Coast Guard!
Trivia:
Jarod's Discoveries: Oreo cookies & fake dog poop (novelty toys)
Jarod's Pretends: atomic engineer, Coast Guard lieutenant, racecar driver
The first conversation between Miss Parker and Broots takes place in sublevel five, supposedly five stories below ground, and yet there is a sunlit atrium with trees behind them, at the end of the hall.
Allusions:
Jarod's surnames: Spitz (referencing swimmer Mark Spitz. This could also be a reference to Henry Spitz, a Nuclear and Radiological Engineer, since Jarod saves a nuclear power plant at the beginning of the episode), Campbell.
Simulation: 4-13-1970
Jarod performs a simulation dated April 13, 1970. His solution is to use the gravitational force of the moon. This was also the solution to the infamous Apollo 13 mission, which would've been occurring at the same time. Thus hinting at the fact this sim could've been sold to NASA. |
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