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Recap / The Pretender S 1 E 14 Ranger Jarod

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Jarod impersonates a forest ranger to help in the search for a missing student. He shares a mutual attraction with Nia, his search partner, and learns a few things that weren't covered in his Centre education.


This episode contains examples of:

  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: Miss Parker's father appears on screen for the first time, but only as a menacing silhouette.
  • Line-of-Sight Alias: A sudden emergency prompts Jarod to volunteer his assistance without having time to prepare a cover identity in advance, and he has to make up the answers to various questions about his background as he's asked them.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Nia makes a joke about Jarod sensing a disturbance in the Force, he doesn't get the reference; he knows about the Reagan-era defense initiative nicknamed "Star Wars", but not the film franchise the nickname was inspired by.
  • Sexy Discretion Shot: When Jarod and Nia act on their feelings for each other, the camera pans away to the fireplace...
  • Sexy Shirt Switch: ...and in the following scene, Nia is wearing Jarod's shirt...
  • Shirtless Scene: ...and Jarod is wearing no shirt at all.
  • We Named the Monkey "Jack": Jarod encounters a man named Bob who's been separated from his partner, Little Bob; "Little Bob" turns out to be a truffle-hunting pig.

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