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Recap / The Pretender S 1 E 19 Jarods Honor

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Jarod impersonates a hitman to save the lives of his intended targets. Sydney attends a twins convention and meets some people who knew his twin brother, Jacob.


This episode contains examples of:

  • All in the Eyes: During the Twin Telepathy scene, Jacob appears in shadow except for a bar of light falling across his eyes.
  • CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: A pretty woeful example of TV CPR from Jarod (who, considering he's been a paramedic and several types of doctor by this point, has no excuse for not knowing better).
  • Dead Person Impersonation: Jarod enters the wrong hotel room and a man drops dead in front of him. He turns out to be a hitman, so Jarod pretends to be him in order to protect the targets and bring down the people after them.
  • Dies Wide Open: The dying hitman; Jarod does the respectful closing-the-dead-man's-eyes thing.
  • Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Twins Millie and Tillie Pilcher take turns speaking phrases within sentences, finish one another's thoughts, and speak the same words together throughout the episode.
  • Monochrome Apparition: In an Imagine Spot, Sydney converses with his twin brother Jacob, who has been in a coma for decades following a car accident. Jacob appears as he did before the accident, as seen in Monochrome Past flashbacks in earlier episodes — exactly as seen in the flashbacks, meaning he's monochrome in the midst of a scene that's otherwise in full color.
  • Multiple Identity IDs: One of the indications that tells Jarod (and the audience) that the hitman isn't just an innocent traveler is that he has multiple driver's licenses in his luggage, each from a different state and bearing a different name, but all with the same photo.
  • Shout-Out: The episode title is homage to Prizzi's Honor in which Jack Nicholson portrayed a hit man.
  • Single-Minded Twins: Sydney visits a hotel hosting a Twins Convention, which apparently consists entirely of identical twins walking around in pairs wearing matching outfits. The pair we see most of, Millie and Tillie, have Theme Twin Naming, move in unison and finish each other's sentences. Averted, though, with Sydney himself and his identical twin Jacob; personality conflicts are an endemic feature of any flashback in which they both appear.
  • Theme Twin Naming: Millie and Tillie Pilcher, senior adult twins who interact with Sydney at the convention.

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