Jarod poses as an arms dealer to infiltrate the compound of Desmond Blake, who kidnapped his children from their mother.
This episode contains examples of:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Miss Parker doesn't even try to hide her amusement over Jarod stealing Mr. Lyle's car, destroying it, and mailing him the license plate to confirm it.
- Batman Gambit: To get the kids out, Jarod needed time for Wendy to get into the country and to learn the layout of the compound. He spins a line about the missiles' guidance systems needing to be properly programmed, giving him a reason to stay on the property. He is able to do this without looking suspicious because he banked on Desmond trying to cheat him on payment when it was time to pay for the delivered goods.
- Camera Spoofing: Jarod uses the hack-the-wiring method to circumvent the security cameras in Blake's compound.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: After the incident at the stables, Desmond gets to the point where he's contemplating killing Jarod for any possible betrayal. Jarod reminds him that he's the only one who knows where the launcher's chips are.
- Cigar Chomper: Jarod takes up chomping enormous cigars as part of his arms dealer persona.
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting: Near the end of the episode, Jarod uses the cigar he affected as part of his persona to light the fuse on a diversionary explosion, then throws it away and is cigarless thereafter.
- Commonality Connection: Jarod was drawn to Wendy's plight because she was separated from her family. He can also relate to children who were told their mother was dead.
- Cruel Mercy: Jarod messes with Desmond by making like he's going to shoot him with a missile point-blank. That was never his intention, but he notes that dying would be less painful than what he's about to do: reunite the children with their mother and leave him to be arrested by the Venezuelan authorities.
- Diving Save: Jarod saves a boy from being run over by diving into the street and snatching him away.
- Five Stages of Grief: In a flashback, Sydney talks to Jarod about how denial is a common response to loss and how acceptance must come in order to move on with life.
- Flashback: There are a couple of scenes of Jarod as a child while he was processing being told that his parents had died in a plane crash.
- The Gadfly: Jarod stole Mr. Lyle's car to use as a test for a missile launcher. He then mails the charred license plate back to Lyle.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Jarod used Centre funds to buy missile launchers from Raul Zenega. Tracking down Raul, Miss Parker asks the questions, while Mr. Lyle puts the squeeze on him. Raul tells them that Jarod sold the goods to Desmond.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Jarod adopts the persona of an arms dealer, and takes up chomping enormous cigars.
- Kick the Dog: Blake is gradually revealed as a nasty piece of work, but for the impatient there's his second scene, in which he's practicing his baseball and cripples an underling whose pitch accidentally hits him.
- Little "No": Jarod when he realizes that Wendy left the safe house to see the children.
- Meaningful Echo: The episode opens with a flashback in which young Jarod worries about what he'll say to his parents when they're reunited, and Sydney gives him some reassuring advice. The episode plot involves Jarod rescuing some children who were stolen from their mother, and when the mother is worried about what she'll say when they're reunited, Jarod gives her the same reassuring advice Sydney gave him.
- Noodle Incident: It turns out that Mr. Lyle had previously encountered Raul, the guy that Jarod got the missiles from. Just the sight of Lyle is enough for Raul to crack and promise to tell him whatever he wants to know, as he doesn't want a repeat of their last encounter.Miss Parker: You obviously made quite an impression last time you met.
Mr. Lyle: But to my credit, very little scarring. - Not Quite Dead: Desmond had told the children that Wendy was killed in a car crash. He sold the lie by maintaining a closed casket during the supposed funeral.
- Properly Paranoid: After spotting Wendy at the stables, Desmond questions why Jarod was also there and suspects he isn't to be trusted.
- Scotty Time: Jarod plays for time by claiming it will take him two weeks to finish setting up the weapons he's supplying to Blake; Blake, who's already suspicious and doesn't want him hanging around, gives him 72 hours.
- Undisclosed Funds: At the end of the episode, Jarod gives a check to the woman he's been helping; we're not shown how much it's for, only her impressed reaction.
- Unwitting Pawn: Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle track Jarod down to Desmond's mansion and simply wait for him to leave the premises. Seeing this, Jarod claims they were asking about the children, putting the idea in Desmond's head that they're working for Wendy. Desmond has his mooks attack and disable Miss Parker's car, allowing Jarod to drive off and finish his mission.
