Mr. Parker is trying to load a tape into his mini-recorder, but is having difficulty with it, because his left hand is bandaged.  As Miss Parker takes the recorder from him and loads the tape, she tells her father that it's good to see him out of the infirmary.  He looks at her and says that she looks tired.  He tells him that she's been having trouble sleeping, since the explosion.

Mr. Parker gets a call letting him know that the Disposal Team found a part of a body on SL-27.  Miss Parker wants to know if it's Sydney and Mr. Parker tells her that it's too soon to tell ... they need more pieces.  Miss Parker tells her father that Sydney planted the bomb, but he acted out of a mis-directed sense of guilt and compassion.  Through gritted teeth, Mr. Parker tells Miss Parker that "mis-directed guilt and compassion" killed her mother - he doesn't intend to allow it to kill her, too.

Mr. Parker tells his daughter that the Triumvirate is changing strategies on the Jarod project, adding a "new player" who will be arriving tomorrow.  Miss Parker wants to know if that's necessary.  Mr. Parker replies "desperate times" as he inserts a DSA (Centre Records Satellite SB413)  that shows Jarod completely vandalizing the Centre Records Lab.  Mr. Parker says that Jarod's body survived the blast, but he's not as certain about his mind.

At the Pleasant Wood Psychiatric Institute, Jarod is in a straight jacket, singing the "Cree Craw" song in a voice that is raw from screaming, and is fighting every step of the way, to keep the orderlies from putting him into his room.  They put him in a chair, then leave the room and lock the door behind him.  "Who the Hell is that guy?" asks one of them.  "I don't think he knows," replies the other.  Jarod runs to the door and presses his face against the window.  He screams, "WHERE'S MY MOM AND DAD???"

Miss Parker is getting off the elevator at The Centre when Broots hurries up to her and asks her if she heard about the body.  His left arm is in a sling.  Miss Parker stops for a moment and asks him if it was Sydney.  Broots tells her that it was a sweeper, Gar. Miss Parker says, "There's one less vacancy in Hell."  As they are talking, they see someone pushing Mr. Raines down a hallway in a wheelchair.  Broots says that Raines has been spending most of his time at the "Renewal Wing."  Miss Parker remarks that the Renewal Wing is for head cases and invalids.  Broots raises and eyebrow and says that Mr. Raines "is sort of both."  Miss Parker doesn't disagree.  Broots wonders if he's up to something.  Miss Parker says that Raines is always up to something.  She says that since Sydney blew up Raines' old playground, she's going to go see if he's got a new one.  Broots thinks she's gone crazy.

At Pleasant Wood, Jarod has been brought in for his evaluation.  The orderly says that Jarod is a "John Doe" - no ID - that was sent from "County."  He was picked up at the Dairy Queen, insisting that he was a rodeo clown.  Dr. Carla Goetz says that's hardly a reason for a straight jacket, but the orderly says that all he knows is that it took six Troopers to subdue him.  Dr. Blythe tells Dr. Goetz that Jarod definitely looks troubled, so he wants Jarod to have a comprehensive evaluation.  Jarod ignores Mr. Goetz' opening comments ... just sits there singing the first few lines of the "Cree Craw" song, over and over.  When she says that she and Dr. Blythe are there to help him, Jarod stops singing, looks at them and asks where his mom and dad are.  Dr. Blythe tells Jarod that they need to start with his name.  He tells them that his name is "Jarod."  When asked what his last name is, he says that he doesn't know.  With a sly look, he says that his last name changes every week.

Miss Parker enters the Renewal Wing at The Centre, still carrying the DSA case. Hearing voices approaching, she ducks into one of the rooms that has no lights on.  Out the small window, she sees Mr. Raines telling a man to go with him and then moving off down the hallway.  Miss Parker is startled by hearing a voice from behind her asking, "Who's there?" and is both shocked and happy to find that it's Sydney who is sitting in the dark!  She starts to say that she thought he was ... but it is Sydney who finishes her sentence.  "Dead?" He says, "Give them time."  She asks him what they've been doing to him and he tells her that he believes the term is "re-education."  He goes on to say that he would plant the bomb again, to save the child.

Miss Parker tells Sydney that she can't help him and Sydney tells her that he doesn't want her help, he only wants to know if Jarod made it safely out.  Miss Parker tells him that Jarod made it safely out "in body" - then opens the case and plays the DSA that her father showed her.  Sydney says that it has been his worst fear all along ... that Jarod would crack under the pressure of living in the outside world and that the truth about his past would come crashing down upon him.  Miss Parker tells Sydney that she has to bring Jarod in and she needs to know what she's up against.  Sydney says that the anguish in Jarod's cry comes from deep within.  Miss Parker realizes that Sydney hasn't looked at the DSA.  In fact, he hasn't looked at anything at all ... only continued to face forward, staring straight ahead.  She leans over to get a closer look at him in the gloomy room.  She moves her and in front of Sydney's face and gets no response from him.  "Oh, Sydney," she says with deep emotion in her voice.  "You can't see."  "Call it poetic justice," replies Sydney.  He rises from the bench upon which he has been sitting and takes a few steps out into the room.  He tells her to bring him anything that Jarod left behind before vandalizing the Centre Records room.  Holding his arms out to either side of himself, Sydney tells Miss Parker that they are never going to let him out of there and there is little time.  He says that this may be his last chance to help Jarod.

Dr. Goetz is trying to get Jarod to tell her who he really is.  Jarod tells her that if he told her, she wouldn't believe him.  She tells him to tell her anyway, so Jarod tells her the truth.  When he tells her about The Centre, he says, "Think Hell ... with nicer furniture."  She wants to know exactly where The Centre is and Jarod tells her that it's "everywhere."  He spies an art pad and some pencils on her desk and asks her if he can draw a picture.  He smiles and says that he likes to draw.  Dr. Goetz tells him, "Maybe later."  She wants to know more about The Centre.  Jarod replies, "No windows, no doors, no light ... no hope."  He tells there that the people who decided what he ate, when he slept and who he saw took all of that away.  Dr. Goetz wants to know how they did all of that and Jarod tells them that they had "eyes" in every ceiling, on every wall, and they never blinked.  The eyes were always on him, every minute, every hour, every day of his life.  Dr. Goetz wants to know why The Centre did this to him.  He tells her that they did it to control him because he's a pretender (she looks up from her notes when he uses the word).  He says that he can become anyone that he wants to be.  Except (dejected now) ... he doesn't know who he is.  Looking at Dr. Goetz, Jarod remarks that she doesn't believe him.  He says that he's been a "shrink" before ... then says that it's really very overrated. She tells him that only he knows the truth.  He quotes, "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."  Then tells her that he's been a lawyer before, too.

At The Centre Records office in York, Pennsylvania, Miss Parker is interviewing the man who runs the facility.  He says that he would never have pegged Jarod as a fake ... he worked as a janitor there.  He tells her that none of the physical files are missing.  She asks him if any data has compromised, just as Broots calls from another room, telling her that he's "found it."  Broots is on his laptop and tells her that Jarod tapped into the "Two Ban Six" file.  It relates to both Major Charles and Catherine Parker.  Broots tells her that Jarod was looking for a connection between his father and Miss Parker's mother.  The manager brings over a box that contains the items from Jarod's locker.  As always, there are a lot of books in there.  Broots pulls one out ... Inside The Freudian Mind, by J. Williams.  Miss Parker picks up another, Shedding Light on the Schizophrenic Mind, and then another, The Dementia Within.  Broots asks Miss Parker if she thinks that whatever Jarod found out about his father and her mother caused his outburst.  Miss Parker doesn't answer ... she's found a book of Jarod's drawings.  They are all in sequence, it's the kind of book that you can flip through to make a pseudo-moving picture.  It depicts someone shooting Catherine Parker in the elevator at The Centre.

Jarod is still telling Dr. Goetz about The Centre.  He tells her that Miss Parker's mother was killed by The Centre and that her father, "Mr. Duplicity himself," runs the place.  Dr. Blythe enters the room just as Jarod begins describing Mr. Raines, who Jarod says is The Centre's version of Dr. Menegle.  Jarod calls Mr. Lyle "the thumbless man" who killed his brother.  Jarod says that Mr. Lyle killed him once, too.  When he gets to Sydney, he describes him as the "Pavlov to my dog."  He says Sydney is both is protector and patriarch and that Sydney "created" Jarod.  He tells Dr. Goetz that he is extremely valuable to The Centre and while he searches for who he is, The Centre searches for him.

Jarod is put back in his room, number 17.  Dr. Blythe tells Dr. Goetz that he wants to keep Jarod in maximum security.  Dr. Goetz argues, but De. Blythe prevails.  He tells her that between Jarod's paranoid delusions and multiple personalities, he doubts that he'll ever leave Pleasant Wood.

Sydney is telling Broots and Miss Parker that the medications that were found in Jarod's locker are neuro-inhibitors, anti-depressants and anti-psychotics.  Sydney is bemoaning the fact that they didn't get to Jarod sooner.  Miss Parker says that everything points to the fact that Jarod has gone crazy.  Broots pulls out the last book in the box and says, "Not this one."  The title of the book is Houdini, The Man And His Escapes.

In his room at Pleasant Wood, Jarod's straight jacket falls onto the floor.  Jarod is climbing the walls -- literally ... to reach the ventilation shaft at the top of the room.  Jarod uses the ducts to reach the room of another patient.  It's a woman and she is sleeping.  She is startled when she wakes up to see him standing there, but he tells her that it's okay.  He says, "My name is Jarod.  And I'm sorry it took me so long to get here."

In her office at The Centre, Miss Parker is thinking about what Jarod told her ... that she has a brother and it's either Angelo or Mr. Lyle.  While Miss Parker is with Angelo, Broots comes racing in to tell her that Mr. Lyle has arrived at The Centre.  Moments later Lyle appears and tells Miss Parker that he's there to help her catch Jarod.  As an astonished Miss Parker looks on, Lyle smiles and says that it's good to be home again.

In Dr. Goetz' office, Jarod is looking out the window, watching the woman whose room he was in the other night sitting on a bench in the sun.  Someone hands her some medication and she takes it.  Jarod remarks to the orderly that Mary looks sad.  The orderly, whose name is Jimbo, says that she should be.  She checked in to help get over nervous exhaustion, but she tried to break out, failed, and has gotten steadily worse ever since.  The orderly has removed Jarod's straight jacket.  He goes on to say that Mary should have listened to her doctors.  He pokes Jarod in the shoulder and says that's what he should do, too. 

The minute the orderly leaves the room, Jarod starts going through the desk and the file cabinets, looking for a particular file.  He finds it and goes through the papers.  He sees an article in the Townsend Independent newspaper paper.  There's a picture of Mary in there.  The headline reads, "Sanitarium Staff Stop Suicide Attempt".  Another article says that Erica Michaels is still missing.  Quickly, before Dr. Goetz arrives for her appointment with Jarod, he photocopies one of the articles.

When Dr. Goetz arrives, Jarod is sitting quietly in the chair in front of her desk, waiting for her.  He thanks her for having him released from his "shackles."  She gives him a sketch pad for his drawings and tells him that while he's told her about everyone else at The Centre, he hasn't said a lot about himself.  Hugging the sketch pad, Jarod tells her that he doesn't know who he is.

Later, in Mary's room again, he shows her the newspaper article that he photocopied.  He asks Mary if she knows who the woman in the picture is.  She points at it with a shaky finger and says, "Erica."  Mary tells Jarod a disjointed story about the night she and Erica ran away ... running through the woods, Erica being wet and the water being so cold.  Mary says she couldn't find Erica.  Reduced to sobbing, Jarod holds her.  He tells her that he wants her to stop taking her medication, that it's been making her mind sick, when it's not.  He tells her that someone is trying to make her forget, when it's very, very important for her to remember.

In Miss Parker's office, she is asking Mr. Lyle just how he got reinstated at The Centre.  He tells her that the Triumvirate, as well as her own father, sees him as a man who is willing to sacrifice his own flesh for what he believes.  Miss Parker brings up the fact that he's a kidnapping, embezzling, murderer.  Lyle says that it's all perspective.  He unwraps his hand, exposing the stump where his thumb used to be.  He says that some people see a missing thumb.  Others see four perfectly good fingers.  He asks her what she would be willing to sacrifice.  Handing him a picture of her mother, Miss Parker says that her mother sacrificed her life, and she'd be willing to give just as much.  The corner of the frame cuts Lyle's thumb and it begins to bleed.  Miss Parker hands him a Kleenex, which he uses and then hands back to her.  She takes it gingerly, holding it between her thumb and forefinger, with a look of disgust on her face.  Lyle  smiles, turns and walks out the door.  The minute he's gone, Miss Parker puts the Kleenex in a Centre evidence bag and seals it.

At Pleasant Wood, it's night and Jarod is running through the woods, recreating Mary and Erica's escape.  He asks himself why Mary would jump in the water.  Out loud, he says that Mary didn't jump in the water to try to kill herself.  She jumped because Erica was already in the water.  Jarod dives in and using a flashlight, starts searching the bottom of the lake.  He finds a car with the license plate ZYP 959.  Inside the car is a skeleton, and there's a bracelet on the wrist.

In the Renewal Wing, Sydney's dinner tray is sitting in front of him, untouched.  Mr. Raines is wheeled in and tells Sydney that if he were him, he'd eat, since he questions how many more opportunities he'll have to do so.  Sydney backhands the tray and it flies across the room.  Mr. Raines leaves and Sydney takes a bite out of an apple he salvaged from the tray.  Someone approaches and Sydney yells, "What more, Raines?"  There is no answer.  "Who's there?" Sydney asks.  "A friend," replies Mr. Lyle.  Sydney's eyebrows go up in recognition of the voice, but he continues eating his apple.

Elsewhere, Angelo says "OW!" as Miss Parker takes a sample of his blood.  "Truth," says Angelo.  Miss Parker tells him, yes, she is searching for the truth.  Broots walks in just in time to see Miss Parker drawing blood from her own arm.  He flinches away, saying that he's not very good at blood.  Miss Parker ignores Broots' squeamishness and asks him what he found out.  He tells her that it was her father who brought Lyle back.  Mr. Parker pulled strings from Europe to Asia, in order to get Lyle reinstated.  Miss Parker gives Broots the two vials, one with her blood and the other with Angelo's.  She also gives him the bag with the Kleenex that has Lyle's blood on it.  She tells Broots that she wants all of the samples DNA fingerprinted.  She says that it's time to shake up the family tree and see who falls out.

When the orderly brings Jarod to Dr. Goetz' office, he tells him to stay put and stay out of trouble.  Jarod hugs the orderly and lets him feel him take his keys.  The orderly demands them back and Jarod hands them over.  After the orderly leaves, Jarod holds up the cell phone that the orderly didn't feel him take from him.

Using the cell phone, Jarod uses Dr. Goetz' laptop computer to connect to the Internet, hack into the Maryland DMV and run the plates that were on the car in the lake.  He finds that the vehicle, a Mercedes, belongs to Dr. Randall Blythe who lives at 739 S. Villa Terrace, Towson, MD 21202.  His driver's license number is R6551V67.  Whatever really happened to Erica, Jarod realizes that it was Dr. Blythe who was behind it.  Dr. Goetz enters the room and finds Jarod sitting in the chair in front of her desk, drawing in the sketchbook that she gave him.

Walking through the grounds together, Dr. Goetz tells Jarod that she knows he's hiding something.  He's a textbook case ... he did just the right things to get himself admitted.  He didn't do too much or too little and he didn't hurt himself or anyone else doing it.  The question is, she says, why he wants to be there.  He tells her that she's the shrink.  She says that it's not uncommon for people out of prison to do things that will get them put back in the same kind of environment and The Centre sounds like an institutionalized environment.  Jarod looks at Mary, sitting by herself in the sun, and tells Dr. Goetz that he's there to heal.

At The Centre, Miss Parker receives a phone call from Jarod, asking her if Sydney had gotten his eyes back yet.  "How do you know about that?" she hisses.  Jarod tells her to calm down ... stress, left unchecked, creates madness.  Jarod is calling from the orderly's cell phone.  Jarod tells her that he doesn't know who he is, and she has the same reason for sleepless nights, now.  He asks her how it feels.

Miss Parker is astounded to find Sydney all cleaned up, wearing dark glasses, and working with Lyle.  Mr. Lyle tells her that he report about Sydney planing the bomb had reached the wrong conclusion ... Mr. Lyle's report corrected that by naming Gar as the person who did it.  He tells Miss Parker that the only thing that's important is that the powers that be believed Lyle's report.  Miss Parker feels as though Sydney sold his soul to the devil for his freedom.  He tells her that she doesn't understand, but she's not listening and has already made up her mind regarding Sydney's motives.  Lyle asks her if she's a part of this pursuit or not and Miss Parker has no choice but to go along, or get left off the team.  She tells Lyle that Jarod contacted her earlier and he sounded, different, disturbed.  Sydney says that maybe Jarod is just pretending to have lost his faculties, so as to no stand out from others, who have lost theirs.

At Pleasant Wood, Jarod is in Mary's room again.  She spills a handful of capsules onto the table and tells Jarod that she stopped taking them, like he said.  Jarod tells Mary that he found the car, in the water.  He found Erica.  He asks Mary to tell him what really happened on the night they tried to escape.

Mary tells Jarod that she and Erica were friends and that one day Erica told her that she was going to have a baby ... that Dr. Blythe gave her the baby.  It happened during her therapy sessions.  Dr. Blythe wanted the baby to "go away," but Erica was scared and confused, so Mary decided to help her escape.  Erica saw Dr. Blythe pull up beside the road as she was running away through the woods and he called out to her, saying that he wanted to talk about keeping the baby.  Mary warned her not to go, but Erica did go to him.  As soon as she was at his car, Dr. Blythe hit Erica with his flashlight and knocked her unconscious.  He put Erica into his car and then pushed it into the water.  Mary waited until Dr. Blythe was walking away and then drove into the water to try to save Erica.  But Dr. Blythe wasn't far enough away and he heard the splash when Mary dove in.  He would have drowned Mary, too, but the orderly arrived, so Dr. Blythe had no choice but to make it look as though Mary had attempted suicide.  After that, Dr. Blythe gave Mary the medication to make her think that she was crazy so that she couldn't tell what happened.  But, Jarod tells her, it's time that someone told the truth, for Erica's sake and for her own.

Jarod calls Dr. Blythe in the middle of the night and pretends to be someone from the Maryland police.  He tells Dr. Blythe that a couple of fisherman at Wilson lake found it submerged there.  Jarod tells Dr. Blythe that it's still too dark to see if there's anything in it, but that the funny thing is that the car looks like it's been down there for a couple of years - but Dr. Blythe never missed a registration payment and never reported it missing.

At The Centre, Broots has checked all the psychiatric facilities for "John Doe" admissions within the last 10 days and located Jarod at Pleasant Wood.  Lyle wants to know why Jarod would leave them a trail that leads right to him.  Sydney says that it's Jarod's way of telling them that he's still in control.  Lyle and Miss Parker head for Pleasant Wood.

At Wilson lake, a tow truck has pulled Dr. Blythe's car out of the lake.  Blythe gives a quick look around and doesn't see anyone nearby, so he quickly approaches his car.  Looking inside, he doesn't see Erica.  Behind him, Jarod tells Dr. Blythe it's because Erica isn't in there.  Dr. Blythe asks Jarod what he's doing out of the asylum.  Jarod tells him that he's repaying a debt to two women ... one whose life Dr. Blythe stole and the other whose mind he nearly destroyed.

Jarod puts Dr. Blythe into his car and shuts the door.  The door will not open from the inside, nor will the windows roll down.  Jarod begins to lower the car off of the tow truck and into the water.

At Rupert County Psychiatric Hospital, in Rupert, Virginia, someone is calling Jarod "Dr. Ratchet" and telling Jarod that Dr. Blythe is lucky that he came along when he did, or Dr. Blythe would have drowned himself, sure enough.  Blythe is soaking wet, in a straight jacket, in a wheelchair.  Jarod tells them that Dr. Blythe is suffering from classic paranoid schizophrenia with delusional behavior and total and self-destructive tendencies.  "Dr. Ratchet" recommends that he be kept in restraints and in total isolation.  Jarod tells Dr. Blythe that he'll be back to do an evaluation in 72 hours.

Dr. Goetz is taking Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle to Jarod's room.  When she opens the door, they find it empty.  She tells Jimbo to notify the gate that they have a possible escapee.  Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle leave the room.  Under Jarod's pillow, Dr. Goetz finds a note with her name on it, attached to the sketch pad she gave Jarod.  The pictures on the sketch pad are of The Centre, Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle.

Outside, all dressed to go home, Mary is reading the newspaper.  The lead story is about Dr. Blythe being charged with the murder of a patient. 

At The Centre, Broots brings Miss Parker the genetic blood test results.  He says they are conclusive and tosses the folder down on her desk.  A picture of Mr. Lyle slides out.  Neither Broots nor Miss Parker know what to say to each other.

Miss Parker takes the folder to her father's office to give him the news.  Mr. Parker reads the file, but says nothing.  It takes a moment or two, but Miss Parker finally realizes that her father knew about Lyle already and that's why he had him brought back to The Centre.  Behind her, Mr. Lyle opens the door to his father's office, then pauses when he sees Miss Parker.

Jarod is walking down a lane, talking to Sydney on a cell phone.  He asks Sydney how is his sight.  Sydney tells him that his sight is gone, but in some ways, his vision is clearer than ever.  Jarod says it's a crazy world.  Sydney replies, "But you're not.  You're just lost, Jarod."  Jarod adds, "For now."  Then tells Sydney that somewhere out there he'll find his way and he'll find out who he is.  After Jarod hangs up, Sydney says, "Maybe I will, too."  Jarod hitches a ride in a light blue truck, as the screen fades to black.

Guest Stars: Catherine Dent, Brad Henke and Dendrie Taylor

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