A man's face appears in front of the camera that is obviously recording the boy's actions.  The man says that in less than 36 hours, this pretender has already shown more promise than all of the others.  He walks out of the room behind the mirror and into the room with young Jarod.  The man bends down, smiles at the young boy and says, "Hi Jarod.  I'm Sydney. I'll be taking care of you for a while."  Jarod's question relating to the whereabouts of his parents goes unanswered.

The year is 1996.  Miss Parker arrives on a ship in Anchorage Alaska, via helicopter.  Sydney is with her.  She's a chain smoker and has a cigarette dangling from her mouth.  Gesturing toward her cigarette, the man who is escorting Miss Parker and Sydney to the bridge tells Miss Parker that the materials aboard are highly explosive.  As she tosses the cigarette to the ground and crushes it with a stiletto heeled boot, Miss Parker replies ... "So am I."

The man explains that "Captain" Jarod turned them in for illegally dumping chemicals, but even so, he misses him and the constant questions that Jarod asked about people.  Miss Parker and Sydney look around the bridge for anything that Jarod might have left behind and Miss Parker hits pay dirt when she finds a red notebook in which Jarod saved articles relating to how the villagers in the surrounding area were getting ill from contaminated fish.  Miss Parker thinks that Jarod must have left in a hurry to leave something like that behind, but Sydney is certain that it was intentional ... "a bread crumb" that was purposely left for them.  Sydney doesn't know where Jarod has gone, but finds a book on "Modern Surgical Techniques" ... so he knows what Jarod plans to be next.

Jarod is walking through a hallway in a hospital.  It's crowded with patients.  A nurse is telling a woman being pushed in a wheelchair by her son and who is speaking Greek that she needs to speak English.  The woman's son says that she doesn't speak English.  Jarod stops for a moment and tells the nurse, "She says she doesn't want to be cut open.  She doesn't trust doctors.  I don't blame her."  The woman in the wheelchair gives Jarod a small smile and a long look, as her son continues wheeling her down the hallway.

Suddenly the hallway is cleared by people rushing a gurney on which young girl lies, an oxygen mask over her face.  The nurse that was speaking to the old woman a moment ago yells for someone to page Dr. Trader and follows the gurney into a room.  The girl is transferred from the gurney to a bed, and still Dr. Trader hasn't answered his page.  The situation is becoming desperate.  In the background, Jarod is taking off his jacket, slipping on sterile gloves and ordering medication ... the nurse tells an aide to get security to remove Jarod, just as the young girl goes into respiratory arrest.  Jarod tells the nurse that the girl is not breathing and asks her if she wants to "do the trach" ... the nurse doesn't know who Jarod is and doesn't want him anywhere near the girl, but she is clearly dying and there is still no sign of Dr. Trader.  Jarod makes the cut, telling security that he is a doctor.  Dr. Hendricks arrives and asks what is going on, just as Jarod finishes and the young girl is able to breathe again through the tube that Jarod inserted.

Jarod is walking with Dr. Hendricks toward his office when Dr. Trader rushes up - apologizing for being late.  Dr. Hendricks says that he has never seen a tracheotomy performed in that manner and asks Jarod if it's a new technique being taught.  Jarod replies that he read it in a book and everyone chuckles at the supposed joke.  Inside Dr. Hendricks office, Dr. Trader says that he doesn't know what happened to his beeper, but displays a brand new one and says that since it will even take messages, he won't  miss another page.  Both Dr. Hendricks and Dr. Trader are impressed with Jarod's credentials from Johns Hopkins Hospital and want to know why he's interested in working at such a small hospital.  Jarod tells them that theirs was the only hospital that was offering stock options and "rumor has it" that they might be purchased by an HMO, implying that he took the position solely for the monetary gain it would bring him.  His attitude is not discouraged by Drs. Hendricks and Trader ... the only question that Dr. Hendricks has for Jarod is whether or not he plays racquetball.  Jarod says that he's heard of the game and Dr. Hendricks gives Jarod a hearty handshake, saying they must have a game soon.

Back at The Centre, Miss Parker is making certain that Sydney knows how "thrilled" she is to have been recalled from "Corporate" and put back "into the field" in order to catch Jarod.  She thinks that it won't be long before she's back where she belongs and tells Sydney that she's managed to attach Jarod's bank account in Anchorage.  If Jarod uses his account from anywhere, she tells Sydney, they'll "have him."  Sydney implores Miss Parker not to under-estimate Jarod, but she doesn't fully understand the  implications of what Sydney is trying to tell her.  Together they begin to look through Jarod's room. Miss Parker is convinced that Jarod must have left another "bread crumb" there for them.  Her eyes fall upon an origami figure that is on a small stand on Jarod's desk.  Sydney thinks it's an angel, but Miss Parker tells him that it is, in fact, Onisius, the Greek God of Retribution.  She is certain that the origami figure is the "bread crumb" left by Jarod -- that Jarod sees himself as the one who can help "the little guy" get even.

In a cab on its way to St. Andrew's Middle School in Queens, Jarod is looking at another red notebook and this one has newspaper articles about 12 year old Kevin Bailey, who is going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.  Kevin lost both his parents, and the use of his legs, in a terrible accident.

Upon arriving at St. Andrew's, Jarod purchases a soft serve ice cream from a street vendor.  As he examines the swirls of vanilla ice cream in the cake cone, the vendor tells him that it "tastes better if you eat it before it melts."  Upon hearing those words, Jarod enjoys his very first taste of ice cream!

As Jarod eats his ice cream, he sees Kevin get out of school and pause, in his wheelchair, to watch the other children playing ball on the playground.  Clearly disturbed by the boys plight, Jarod watches as Kevin's grandfather wheels him over to the battered van that will take him home to spend another lonely afternoon by himself.

On his way back to the hospital, Jarod stops for a moment to see what a bedraggled man is watching on the television set above a news kiosk.  The man tells Jarod it is "Wheel of Fortune" and Jarod is delighted by the game.  Only 8 letters of a 27 letter "Title" are exposed, but Jarod solves it ... The Courtship of Miles Standish ... and leaves in response to another bedraggled man whistling at him down the street.  The second man tells Jarod that they have a little "situation". The bank account in Alaska that Jarod asked him to access at a local ATM has been frozen and no money was available.  Jarod looks at the receipt the man offers up and smiles widely.  The man tells Jarod that he finds no reason to be so delighted ... he's out a "Benjie" for his efforts.  Jarod asks him if he did what he was asked to do.  The man assures Jarod that he gave an Oscar winning performance.  Pleased, Jarod reaches into his pocket and gives the man a hundred dollar bill.  The man is astounded that Jarod would give him a "c-note" for finding out that he's broke, and Jarod tells him that they did, after all, have an agreement.  The man reminds Jarod that he knows where to find him if he needs him again and goes on his way.  In the background, the man by the television set is looking at the Wheel of Fortune puzzle - nearly solved now - and realizes with astonishment that Jarod had the correct answer!

Back in his office at the hospital, Nicole asks Jarod to go talk to the "Greek lady" - it seems that she is giving everyone a bad time and no one can understand what she's saying!  Jarod says he'll do, but asks Nicole to take a vial of his own blood to the lab or a complete diagnostic.  He asks her to put a "rush" on it.

Jarod enters the "Greek ladies" room, speaking Greek to her.  The woman sits up in bed and asks Jarod - in English - "You a doctor?"  And Jarod replies ... "I am today."  With a wry smile, Jarod comments that she speaks English and the feisty grey haired lady comes right back with "when I feel like it."  Jarod examines her and she tells him that the reason that it hurts is that she hasn't "gone" for weeks.  Jarod tells her that she needs to relax.  The Greek woman tells him it is impossible to relax, especially with surgery looming.  Jarod tells her that if she doesn't want the surgery, he'll cancel it and they'll try something else.  The woman looks sternly at Jarod and says, "You no doctor."  Jarod begins to look a little concerned ... but then the woman finishes the sentence, saying, "You a human being!"

At The Centre, Miss Parker enters the tech-room on sub-level five saying, "Sandy, make my day."  Sandy tells Miss Parker that they've detected a hit on Jarod's Anchorage account.  They wait a moment for the satellite uplink to come through, and then watch the supposed point of access bounce all around the world ... from Santa Fe New Mexico to Rome, Italy.  Just as Miss Parker's smug disposition about having snagged "the genius" begins to crack a little the bedraggled man to whom Jarod gave the $100 bill appears on the big screen on the tech-room floor.  He holds up a sign that says "Hi Guys" - smiles - mouths "Hi Guys" and then gives the screen a kiss.  Nonplussed, Miss Parker replies, "Hello, Jarod."

At Queen of Angel's, Jarod is telling Gwen that he has canceled Mrs. Nikkos' surgery.  Gwen says it's fine with her, as long as she doesn't get blamed for anything.  Over Gwen's objections, Jarod orders a regime of herb tea for Mrs. Nikkos, then asks her for the key to radiology.  Before walking away, Jarod sees Gwen greet her husband and son, who have brought her lunch in a brown paper bag.  The pleasant family scene brings a smile to his face.

Jarod uses the key to get into the radiology room, knowing that the technician and Nicole use it as a place to "be alone" during the lunch hour each day.  He puts Kevin's x-rays up on the board and tells the technician that he could use a hand with them, if the technician has one free.  Hastily, the technician dresses and looks at the x-rays.  He tells Jarod that he doesn't understand ... Kevin Bailey is Dr. Trader's patient.  He wants to know why Jarod is looking at those x-rays.  As Nicole is still putting her clothes on, Jarod asks the technician why he's in there half naked.  Then he smiles and tells him that he can be forgetful, if the technician can.  Seeing his point, the technician looks at the x-rays and tells Jarod that the 8th vertebrae crushed the spinal cord and that Kevin never had a chance.  Jarod says that he understands that.  What he doesn't understand his why both the pre-op and the post-op x-rays are identical ... they should be different.  The technician says they should not be identical - someone has used the old processor in the basement of the hospital to make a copy of the post-op x-ray and then labeled it as the pre-op x-ray.  The tech knows this because the basement processor leaves a mark on the x-rays in the corner - a slight fogging caused by the fact that the tech spilled a soft drink on the machine during his first year at the hospital.

Looking at one of the DSA simulations from his days at The Centre, Jarod is reminded that Oswald couldn't have gotten enough shots off, given the time frame and the rifle he used.  It dawns on him that Dr. Trader couldn't have pulled off the cover-up with regard to Kevin Bailey alone either ... switching the records, the x-rays ... he had to have had help.

Jarod plays a game of racquetball with Dr. Hendricks and loses.  After the game, he watches Dr. Hendricks go to his gym back and take several long drinks of water from a bottle he keeps there.  Upstairs, Dr. Trader is drinking, too - but it isn't water.  Jarod sees Dr. Hendricks taking medication and notes that it's for his heart.  Dr. Trader says that Dr. Hendricks has had two heart attacks already -- one more and it's time for a bypass.  Dr. Hendricks says that's one of the reasons that he plays racquetball ... to try to avoid another heart attack.

After school, Jarod tries to give Kevin a soft serve ice cream cone, but since he doesn't know Jarod, Kevin refuses.  Jarod catches his attention for a moment by asking him about his hands cramping from pushing his own wheelchair ... but Kevin moves on as Jarod promises him that things will get better.

At The Centre, a secretary tells Sydney that there is a "Shreve Harmon" calling on line 7.  Sydney remarks to no one in particular that Shreve and Harmon built the Empire State Building.  He tells the secretary to put the call through and trace it.

Sydney tells Jarod that he's very clever and asks him if he's well.  Jarod says that he's broke -- his bank account in Anchorage was frozen.  Sydney replied that they must have just missed Jarod in Cincinnati ... the flowers were still fresh.  Jarod says that since his parents had been dead for 30 years, it was time he said "goodbye."  Sydney asks Jarod why he left The Centre and Jarod tells Sydney that it was because of the lies ... Sydney's lies.  Sydney asks Jarod, "What lies?"  Jarod tells him that he found out the real application of his simulations ... South Pacific simulation #118, the results were used to blow a ship out of the water while 133 people were on board ... the Outbreak simulation was used in the field and 46 people died of the Ebola virus ... Sydney tells Jarod that the contracts came from the military and that he had no way of finding out about their ultimate application.  But Jarod sees it differently ... he is haunted by it all and asks Sydney, "How many people died because of what I thought up?"  Sydney tells Jarod that he needs to come "home" - back to The Centre.  Miss Parker enters and picks up a second phone to listen in on the conversation.  Sydney says that Jarod's room at The Centre feels empty.  As Jarod eats a PEZ from a dispenser, he tells Sydney that he can't say that he misses his room, and, by the way, ice cream ... is good.  Sydney tells him that the situation is getting serious ... Miss Parker has been brought in.  Jarod tells Sydney that he'd better watch his back, too then.  Frustrated, Sydney asks Jarod what he's doing.  Jarod replies, "Using the skills you taught me" and hangs up the phone.

Short scene of Jarod manufacturing a stock market ID tag ... then back to The Centre Tech Room, where Centre technicians are finding themselves locked out of their system.  Prior to escaping, Jarod worked on a "Stock Market Simulation" that was designed to see if the market could be manipulated.  The client gave The Centre $5 million to test the results and Jarod was aware of the day that the test was to be held.  From the floor of the stock exchange, Jarod did indeed manipulate the market and "relieved" The Centre of its client's 5 million dollars in doing so.  At the end of the day, Jarod leaves Wall Street, tossing his red coat in a trash can as he does so.

On the roof of the hospital, Jarod is drawing something on the bottom of Mrs. Nikkos' foot.  She's laughing, since it tickles, and remarks that Jarod has "some kind of medicine" that he practices.  Jarod tells Nicole to massage the marks he has just made on Mrs. Nikkos' foot.  Mrs. Nikkos pulls Jarod to her and asks for the truth. She wants to know who the man who takes her outside of the hospital, into the sun, orders her feet massaged and gives her "stinky" tea really is.  Jarod has no answer for her.  "So much sadness," she says, gently cupping Jarod's face in her hands, "and so much joy."

Miss Parker and Sydney take The Centre's jet and fly to New York to try to find at which hospital Jarod is practicing.  As they check in at their hotel, Miss Parker finds that their rooms have been pre-paid and that the person who pre-paid them left a half gallon of Rocky Road ice cream in a champagne bucket.  The note with the ice cream said, "Welcome to the Empire State."  Sydney is amused that Jarod has simulated his way one step ahead of Miss Parker again - but Miss Parker fails to see the humor.

At the Silver Rail, Jarod approaches Dr. Trader, who has just finished a martini.  Discreetly pushing the martini glass to the side, Dr. Trader tells the barkeep that he'll have another "ginger ale."  Jarod pretends not to notice and launches into a story about a possible botched surgery.  Meanwhile, Jarod's friend from the ATM joke is making a phone call to Dr. Trader's service.  While Jarod listens to Dr. Trader tell him how to avoid a malpractice suit, Dr. Trader's pager goes off.  The message on it reads "Where's Bailey's pre-op film?"  Dr. Trader tells Jarod that he has to get back to the hospital and leaves the bar.  Jarod waits a moment, then follows him.

As Jarod watches, Dr. Trader approaches Gwen outside the hospital. They have an animated conversation during which Dr. Trader shows her the beeper and then they part.

Jarod begins searching the National Police Information Network, using Gwen Porter's name as the search criteria.  He gets an immediate hit on file 78421, which shows her arrest record.  There's a knock on his door and Nicole brings in the lab report on the blood work-up that Jarod requested previously.  As he reads the report, Jarod's face is hardened by a knowing look and later, he watches another DSA, this one of his first day at The Centre, where he is asking Sydney where his Mom and Dad are.

At the hotel where Miss Parker and Sydney are staying, people are being evacuated and firemen are everywhere.  The fireman stationed in Miss Parker's hallway directs her and everyone else out of the building, down the stairs.  But before Sydney can follow her, the fireman stops him and reveals himself to be Jarod.  First he gives Sydney an envelope with instructions on how The Centre can retrieve their 5 million dollars.  Then he asks Sydney who he is ... was he adopted by The Centre, bought, stolen ...?  Sydney tells Jarod that they have been over this a thousand times -- his parents died in a plane crash ... but Jarod stops him before he can go any further saying that in spite of what Sydney has been telling him, he knows it cannot be true.  The lab tests showed a genetic anomaly in Jarod's blood that should have been in the blood of his parents, too ... but it wasn't.  There is no way that the people that Jarod was lead to believe were his parents for the past 30 years, could possibly be his parents.  He pleads with Sydney to tell him the truth, but Sydney tells Jarod that he honestly didn't know about the lie and so he has no answers for him.

On the fire escape, Miss Parker takes a drag of her cigarette and suddenly realizes that there was no smoke in the hotel ... none at all.  Understanding what is going on, she heads back up the fire escape, back toward her room.  The sweepers follow her.

Jarod is pleading with Sydney to prove to him that he didn't know about The Centre's lies for all these years.  He asks Sydney to give him tomorrow's code for The Centre's mainframe computer.  Jarod believes that the truth about who he really is has to be in there somewhere.  Sydney is reluctant to give Jarod the code, but Miss Parker and the sweepers appear at the end of the hallway and Miss Parker screams to the sweepers to "shoot him!"  Sydney's mind is made up by Miss Parker's rash action ... he gives Jarod the code, tell him to "GO!" then turns to face Miss Parker and the sweepers, yelling, "No! No guns!" and putting himself between them and Jarod, allowing Jarod to escape.

Miss Parker is livid with Sydney, but there is nothing she can do now - Jarod has slipped from her grasp again.

Jarod confronts Gwen as she is getting off the subway and going to the hospital.  He shows her the duplicated x-rays of Kevin Bailey and asks her who else besides Dr. Trader knew about her prison record and used it to convince her to cover-up the mal-practice.  Gwen hasn't told her husband that she was in prison for being a drug addict before they met and is terrified that he will leave her and take her little boy with him.  Jarod convinces her that her husband will understand and that the only right thing to do is to tell the truth ... about everything.

Gwen tells Jarod that the night Kevin Bailey was brought in, she had to page Dr. Trader at the Silver Rail.  Everyone knew that Dr. Trader drank too much, but no one wanted to admit it.  Gwen showed Dr. Trader the pre-op x-ray and pleaded with him to stabilize Kevin before moving him, but Dr. Trader wouldn't listen to her ... insisted that he was the doctor and knew what he was doing.  In moving Kevin without stabilizing him, Dr. Trader severed his spinal cord.  Dr. Hendricks was the one who engineered the cover-up, more to protect the hospital than Dr. Trader, but the result was the same.  Dr. Trader told Gwen to burn the pre-op x-rays, but she took them to Dr. Hendricks instead.  Dr. Hendricks made Gwen promise not to tell anyone that he had those x-rays, threatening to expose her past if she did.  Jarod thanked Gwen for telling him the truth and she told Jarod that Dr. Hendricks would never give him the film.  She said that Dr. Hendricks would rather die than risk the hospital sale.

Jarod calls Dr. Trader and asks him to meet him at the Silver Rail at noon, saying that he needs to talk to him.  After Dr. Trader agrees, Jarod calls Dr. Hendricks and sets up an appointment to play racquetball with him at noon.  And as he makes the appointment, Jarod is using a pestle to grind some medications into powder.  He then mixes the powder into the water in a bottle that looks just like the one that Dr. Hendricks uses in his gym bag.

While Dr. Trader sits at the Silver Rail, waiting for Jarod and drinking, Jarod plays racquetball with Dr. Hendricks.  After the game, Jarod switches water bottles, substituting the one into which he has put the powder for the one that Dr. Hendricks brought with him.  Dr. Hendricks takes his usual long swigs and Jarod watches as he does it.  Within a few minutes, Dr. Hendricks begins experiencing symptoms that make it appear that he's having a heart attack.

As they arrive at the hospital in the ambulance, Jarod orders OR room #3 made ready and tells the attendants that Dr. Hendricks is having a heart attack.

At the hotel, Miss Parker confronts Sydney over having given Jarod The Centre's mainframe code.  Sydney makes no apologies ... he says it was the least he could do since both he and Jarod were lied to about Jarod's parents.  Miss Parker tells Sydney to stop pouting ... it was "need to know" and Sydney didn't.  Besides, she tells Sydney, he's done them a favor, because she had Jarod's computer file tagged and they were able to trace it when he logged on that morning ... to Queen of Angels Hospital.  Remembering the gun play of the night before, Sydney reminds Miss Parker that The Centre wants Jarod alive, to which she replies, "Preferably" before walking away.

At the hospital, Dr. Hendricks is being prepped for surgery.  Jarod tells him that they were unable to bring in a cardiologist fast enough, so he has paged Dr. Trader.  Dr. Hendricks tries to object, but is in too much distress to do a good job of it.  Jarod reassures him by saying that Dr. Trader will take care of him ...after all, he was able to take care of Kevin Bailey.  Dr. Hendricks begs Jarod to do the surgery, and Jarod says that he will ... but only if Dr. Hendricks tells him where Kevin Bailey's pre-op x-rays are hidden.  Dr. Hendricks has no choice ... he tells Jarod what he wants to know.

Before Jarod leaves to retrieve the x-rays, he tells Dr. Hendricks that he wishes that he could perform the surgery for him, but it wouldn't be ethical - since Jarod isn't really a doctor and since Dr. Hendricks isn't really having a heart attack.

Jarod turns Dr. Hendricks over to Dr. Trader and leaves the room, just as Miss Parker, Sydney and the sweepers are pulling up to the hospital.  As he walks down the hallway toward Dr. Hendricks office, Jarod calls Nicole over and asks her to page security to stop Dr. Trader from operating on Dr. Hendricks, since Dr. Trader is drunk.  Appalled at the implications, Nicole rushes off to do as she was asked.

Jarod retrieves the x-rays from Dr. Hendricks' office and leaves the red notebook he used for the pretend on Dr. Hendricks' desk.  As he's leaving, Sydney sees him down the hallway and calls out to him, alerting Miss Parker and the sweepers to Jarod's presence and forcing him to run.

Running up the stairs, Jarod sees a sweeper on the upper floor and ducks into Mrs. Nikkos' room.  She is looking out her window and is clearly pleased with herself ... she says to Jarod ... "Guess what I did today?" and Jarod, understanding that the tea, relaxation and massage have done their job, naturally and without the need for surgery, replies, "OH!  That's great!"

Moments later, Miss Parker hears a woman scream from down the hallway and runs toward the sound.  Entering the room, she finds Mrs. Nikkos in bed, apparently hysterical because a man has climbed out of her window and onto the roof.  After Miss Parker, Sydney and the sweepers have climbed out the window and to the roof, Jarod comes out from under Mrs. Nikkos bed.  They speak a few affectionate words in Greek ... Jarod blows the grateful woman a kiss and is gone out the door.

Miss Parker, Sydney and the sweepers look down from the roof to see Jarod jogging over to a waiting cab and leaving.  Miss Parker has missed capturing him again!

Jarod leaves the cab and drops the x-rays into a nearby mailbox.  As he walks down the streets of New York, Jarod finds himself in front of the Empire State Building.  He looks up at it, smiles, and blends into the crowds on the street.

At Kevin Bailey's home, his grandfather shows him the set of x-rays that he has received in the mail.  And at an airport somewhere, as Jarod reads about the Bailey settlement fetching millions for the boy, the PA system announces that a flight to San Diego is ready to depart.  A stewardess comes up to Jarod and tells him that he'd better board or he'll miss the flight.  Jarod stands and says with a smile, "Don't worry, they aren't going anywhere without me" and puts on the "captain's" hat that goes with his uniform.  As Jarod walks down the access tube to the plane with his one piece of luggage, the screen fades to black.