Major Charles and Margaret went to the NuGenesis Family Group, in 1959, because they wanted children. It was a success and Jarod was born. They also had another son after Jarod named Kyle. A while after Jarod and Kyle, Charles and Margaret had a little girl which they named Emily (1969).

Before Emily, their two sons were stolen from their home. They worked with Harriet Tashman and Catherine Parker to try and save their sons. Margaret and Emily lost contact with Major Charles in 1970.

In May 99, Jarod found Major Charles at a Centre facility called Pakor. Together they discovered Donoterase and Jarod’s clone, who they then freed from the Centre. Major Charles remained with the young clone.

A year later, in May of 2000, Major Charles resurfaced when Emily was pushed out of a window. Jarod and Charles brought Emily to a safe hiding place where she could rest and get well. After the explosion in the subway, Charles has been untraceable.

Major Charles and Margaret went to the NuGenesis Family Group, in 1959, because they wanted children. It was a success and Jarod was born. They also had another son after Jarod named Kyle. A while after Jarod and Kyle Charles and Margaret had a little girl which they named Emily (1969).

Before Emily was conceived their two sons were stolen from their home. They worked with Harriet Tashman and Catherine Parker to try and save their sons. Margaret and Emily lost contact with Major Charles in 1970.

In May 97, Margaret saw her son, Jarod, from a distances and was over joyed. However, he tells her to run and she know that the Centre is near. Emily and she flee.

In 2001, Margaret picked up on a trail, which lead her to an island near Ireland. However, she soon discovered she was being tracked by the Centre and fled the island before Jarod could reunite with her. Margaret did see Miss Parker.

Michelle Lucca had worked for The Centre as a clinical psychologist, and had been assigned to help Sydney with The Pretender Project until 1974 when she suddenly vanished without a trace.

In March 1998, Sydney goes looking for Michelle and discovers a birth certificate for a boy named Nicholas. Michelle is listed on the birth certificate as the mother but there is no father listed.

Sydney goes to Michelle’s house and confronts her about Nicholas. She explains that when she discovered that she was pregnant with Sydney’s child, she rushed back from her doctor’s office to The Centre to tell him, but had been intercepted by a man she had never seen before. This man somehow knew about her pregnancy already, and told her she had to leave The Centre. The Centre would see to her re-location, would let her keep her son, and even set up a trust fund for him IF she agreed never to see Sydney again. Sydney, the man told her, had to be kept focused on The Pretender Project, and a son would only distract him from his work. Michelle, at first, was reluctant to leave and the man then threatened that if she didn’t go, he would see to it that Sydney had a “terrible accident.” So she left.

Michelle then explains that she is now married to a man named George who she loves and who is raising Nicholas as his own. Sydney agrees not to push the issue.

In November of 1998, George Stamatis is hospitalized and is dying. Sydney goes to the hospital to see Michelle and George. Nicholas ends up finding out that Sydney is his biological father.

In January of 1999, Michelle and Sydney are brought together again when Nicholas is abducted all with a group of teachers in the Appalachian Hills. Jarod appears to help facilitate the return of the teachers and save Nicholas.

Mike Bodie, a Native American man who linked up with Jarod through an internet website, and supplied Jarod with information about Jarod’s father, Major Charles. Unlike the image of the murderous man painted by Mr. Fenigor, Mike told Jarod that his father was a hero who had once saved his life. Mike gave Jarod a “dream catcher” that had been hand-crafted by Major Charles, and showed him the cave in which Charles went on a “dream quest” for find his missing son. Major Charles was also known to Mike as “Soaring Eagle” (because he was an air force pilot, and because the “eagle” dominated Charles’ dream quest).

Mr. Hollis is the landlord at a trailer pak near the Skyvionics Testing Ground in Arizona, he was once involved with The Manhatten Project and the bombing of Hiroshima. A borderline paranoid, Mr. Hollis envisions all sorts of “conspiracies” around him. He believes, for example, that the spraying of malathion in California was not intended to kill or render sterile the pesky “med-flies” that were contaminating crops in the state. Instead, he believes that the government used the med-fly story as a cover-up to hide its illicit halcyon gas experiments on the general population. Mr. Hollis also believes that the government can watch civilians through their television sets with “reverse imaging devices”, and can subject civilians to hypnotic suggestions through “subliminal messages” sent through the TV. Although many consider Mr. Hollis a somewhat harmless “kook”, Jarod believed much of what Mr. Hollis told him… and gave Mr. Hollis a map showing the precise location of The Centre. Jarod told Mr. Hollis that The Centre, too, was a secret government-funded installation where illicit experimentation was taking place. “People should be made aware, if you know what I mean…” Jarod said. “I’ll spread the word,” Mr. Hollis promised, and Jarod told him, “I’m counting on it.”

In March of 1998, Nicholas sees his mother with a man but doesn’t recognize the man although he thinks he sees him later at the campus he teaches at.

In November of 1998, Nicholas’s father, George Stamatis, is hospitalized and is dying. A man came to the hospital and Nicholas overheard that the man was his biological father. Nicholas refused to see his father, George, before he died, but Sydney convinced him that he should. Nicholas went to his “father’s” side before he died.

In January of 1999, Nicholas is kidnapped along with a group of teachers from Appalachian Hills. He ends up meeting a man named Lyle who tells him he can trust him. Nicholas ends up being saved by Jarod who Sydney leaves alone with Lyle. Nicholas accepts Sydney as his father and takes the pocket watch that was given to Sydney by Michelle.

Nia is an Argentinean woman who had been kidnapped along with the rest of her family when she was a small child, and subjected to torture and rape by military guerrilla forces, before being dumped back into the care of people she didn’t know. Her parents “disappeared” and she hasn’t seen them since. She ran away from Argentina when she was a teenager and moved to the U.S. She now runs a hikers’ outfitting store in the Toluca National Forest, in Oregon.

Jarod met her when they were teamed up to search for a missing ornithology student named Victor in the mountains of the Toluca National Forest. During their time together Nia was able to see some of Jarod’s DSAs (of him as a child in The Centre) and he explained some of his past to her. When caught overnight in a forest cabin as a cold front blew in, Nia and Jarod made love.

The dynamics of that encounter were interesting from a psychological standpoint. As Jarod was unfamiliar with sex, it was Nia who initiated all contact between them. Jarod at first tried to avoid her kisses by explaining to her,”I’ve never….” Nia gave him a reassuring smile, and continued with her foreplay, eventually getting Jarod to relax enough to lay back on the floor… with Nia on top of him.

After the love-making, Jarod withdrew to another part of the cabin, distancing himself from Nia as he watched her sleep. When she awakened and went to him, he remained in a passive position, sitting on the floor at her feet, and made no attempt to initiate any contact himself. He simply looked up at her, dolefully, and accepted whatever attention and affection she was willing to offer him. She sat beside him, took his head onto her lap, and cradled him like a child. Eventually, he returned to the “bed” with her and slept there the rest of the night.

Jarod’s reaction to this interlude seems to indicate that although he wasn’t “afraid” of the sexual contact Nia offered, there was a part of him that was very uncomfortable with the whole situation, and needed a lot of guidance and reassuring throughout the night. It was another moment, too, when Jarod — once again — was reminded of just how much life experience he had been deprived of by The Centre. Although sexually fulfilled, he made it clear that he was not an altogether happy man at the moment.

The next morning, when the “threat” of immediate sexual contact was no longer present (as there were other people in the room), Jarod seemed much more at ease with Nia, smiling and joking with her even as they lay side-by-side on the floor.

After rescuing Victor and seeing to it that his attacker was incarcerated, Jarod left Nia in Oregon, explaining to her that there were people searching for him who might hurt her if they found out she’d been associated with him in any way. Although their parting was painful for both of them, Nia understood Jarod’s need to go and didn’t pressure him to stay. It was interesting, however, to see the moment when Jarod, realizing that Sydney and Miss Parker had found out where Nia lived, returned briefly to Nia’s cabin to make sure she was all right when Miss Parker and Sydney confronted her. He kept himself out of sight, but was at the ready to defend Nia if she needed him. Once sure that Nia was safe for the time-being, Jarod reluctantly turned his back on the cabin and left through the forest.

Nia later discovered that Jarod had left her the gift of a music box that played the tune “Three Blind Mice” ala The Three Stooges.

In the 1960’s, Sonny was a private investigator in Louisiana who specialized in finding missing children. After Jarod was kidnapped, Margaret and Charles commissioned Mr. Herbert to find him. Sonny was not successful in his search for Jarod.

After Jarod escaped from The Centre, Sonny Herbert suffered one of the “convenient accidents” that seemed to plague anyone even remotely involved with Jarod and his family. Sonny was severely burned when he supposedly fell asleep smoking a cigarette. This “accident” was refuted by Sonny’s long-time (retired) secretary, who informed the authorities that Sonny was an insomniac and couldn’t never have fallen into a deep enough sleep to have resulted in his tragic burning. The authorities, however, dismissed the secretary’s worries stating that there was no record of insomnia in Sonny’s health files.

Immediately following the “accident”, Sonny’s Louisiana office was invaded by a group of men whom the property manager described as “vending machines with heads”; he especially noted a weird-looking bald man who carted around an oxygen tank behind him. The manager said then men had told him they looking for Sonny because he owed them money. They were in such a hurry to look through Sonny’s office, however, that they neglected to check through the records in the basement.

In 1996, Jarod — following a photographic clue faxed to him from The Centre by Angelo — found Sonny’s office, but discovered that the records in the basement didn’t include information on Jarod himself. Jarod later located the ex-secretary, and she told him Sonny was still in hospital recovering from his “accident.” Jarod went to visit Sonny in the hospital, but found that the man — severely burned and living in an oxygen tent — was unable to communicate. The medication he was on for the pain he suffered because of his burns made him drift in and out of consciousness; and when he was conscious, he wasn’t lucid. It’s unknown at this time if Mr. Herbert has fully recovered from his injury, or if Jarod has ever made a return trip to visit him.

There is not much to know about Thomas except before he met Miss Parker he was a carpenter who’s work was being sabotaged and in the progress a little boy lost his legs. Jarod helped Thomas find out the truth and stop the perpetrators.

In January of 1999, Thomas Michael Gates (Tommy) moved to Blue Cove and met Miss Parker at a gas station. Thomas was immediately drawn to Miss Parker. Despite Miss Parker’s cold remarks, Thomas persisted and she met him in the woods to look at the stars. They got to know each other and fell in love. Thomas got a job in Seattle and wanted Miss Parker to come to Seattle with him, she decided to and then in May of 99, she woke up to find Thomas murdered. She discovered with Jarod’s help that the Centre was behind his murder.

In January of 2000, Miss Parker, with the help of Jarod, started to uncover the truth about Thomas’ death. While, Brigitte was dying she confessed that she was the trigger man, but the orders had come from above.

Zoe grew up in a regular family. She had an identical twin sister who she was very close to. When they were teenagers, her sister, Katie, climbed to the top of a cliff and then fell to her death. Zoe blamed herself for her sisters death and became distant from the rest of her family. She eventually ran away from home.

Zoe became involved with a cop named Vince, who treated her badly. When she worked up the courage to leave him he reported that she had robbed him. In November of 1999, Zoe ran into a cafe to try and escape her ex-boyfriend and was greeted by Jarod. Jarod decided that she needed his help and soon discovered that Vince wasn’t the only thing that Zoe was fighting. Jarod discovered that Zoe had been diagnosed with cancer and she wasn’t fighting it because she didn’t feel that she deserved to live because of her sister’s death. Jarod helped her to realize that she had to live and that she needed to be with her family. Zoe went to live with her grandmother. Jarod and Zoe fell in love while they were together.

In May of 2000, Jarod and Zoe went on vacation together. Major Charles contacted Jarod while he was with Zoe. Zoe told Jarod that she was in remission. Zoe said it was fine that Jarod go find his sister, because she knew it was important to him. Zoe returned to her grandmothers, where she was abducted from by Mr. Cox and Mr. Lyle. Major Charles saved her. We assume that she is back with her grandmother.