Broots’ background is basically what you see. All we know is that when he was little he was infected with the measles and had to be hospitalized.

Broots has an older brother, an ex-wife, and a daughter – named Debbie.

Broots took off time at the Centre for his personal use. It was then discovered that Broots was in a custody battle with his ex-wife over Debbie Broots. Broots’ ex-wife wanted money for Debbie, but Broots was not willing to pay her off every time she thought she wanted to be a mother. Jarod helped Broots by turning over information to the courts that the ex-Mrs. Broots was an unfit mother and Debbie went to live with her father who loves her very much.

Broots has been known, on more then one occasion, to put himself in danger to help Miss Parker. Broots has even helped Jarod when the need arose.

In 99, Broots was running from the Centre and a man named Damon, because he was a witness to a crime at a Centre Data Annex. Jarod helped keep Broots alive and straighten everything out so Broots and his daughter would be safe.

Broots is currently working for the Centre on the Jarod retrieval project. He lives in the suburbs with his daughter Debbie.

Broots is currently helping Miss Parker coop with her family history and her real father, Mr. Raines.

Sydney’s twin brother. He was once a “Special Expediter” at The Centre and was responsible, in part, for processing the children for The Centre’s Pretender project: PRODIGY. He was the one who signed-off on the paperwork that transferred Jarod to the custody of The Centre, but it was Mr. Fenigor who actually had Jarod abducted.

When Jacob attempted complain about his duties and to leave The Centre, he was threatened by Mr. Raines… and a few days later severely injured in an automobile accident (on August 2, 1967) that left him comatose. Sydney had been keeping Jacob at the Mount Pleasant Home and was seeing to his on-going treatment, but had to move Jacob to another location when Mr. Raines found out that Jacob was still alive and sent Miss Parker to the Mount Pleasant Home with Sweepers to kill him.

In December of 1996, Jarod experimented with the Halstrom Technique: a therapy meant to revive coma patients. The therapy worked on Jacob for a short period of time, and during his lucid moments, Jacob told Sydney about the mysterious “SL-27”, and absolved Sydney of the guilt he felt over the accident that had left Jacob in his 30+ year coma. (Sydney had been driving the car in which Jacob was injured.) Before losing consciousness again, Jacob scribbled a note to Sydney: “Not Your Fault”.

In January of 1998, Jacob was again revived briefly by a viral brain infection that re-awakened the damaged part of his brain and allowed him the opportunity to again speak with Sydney. Unfortunately, the virus that re-awakened him also killed him in less than a day, so Sydney was unable to get much information out of him except a cryptic hand-written note that read: “GENE”.

In January of 1996, on DSAs from the time of Catherine Parker’s death, Miss Parker, Broots and Sydney discover the existence of Mr. Fenigor. Catherine had been working with Mr. Fenigor to rescue children from The Centre. Just before he was supposed to help Catherine rescue Angelo and Jarod, Catherine was murdered. Both Jarod and Miss Parker were attempting to find out more about Mr. Fenigor, but for a long while neither one of them had been able to find out exactly who he is. Miss Parker said she wasn’t certain if he was her mother’s friend or betrayer. And Jarod has said that finding Fenigor was paramount: “He holds the secrets to both our pasts.”

In May of 1998, Jarod lured Miss Parker to the Dover Town Bank, and there introduced her to Mr. Fenigor: a fragile-looking, wizened old man who had been banking at the facility (the same one in which Catherine Parker had a safe deposit box) for over two decades. Every Friday, Mr. Fenigor came into the bank to draw money out of his trust fund account: and account that was supplied with $10,000 every month (for 28 years) from, Jarod had discovered, Mr. Parker’s personal account. Mr. Parker was paying Mr. Fenigor “hush money”.

When Jarod and Miss Parker confronted Mr. Fenigor and both pleaded and demanded that he tell them what he knew about Jarod’s past and Catherine Parker’s death, Mr. Fenigor at first claimed he didn’t know what they were talking about, then tearfully (and very frightened) told them he simply couldn’t tell them anything. When the Dover Town Bank was taken over by bank robbers, Mr. Fenigor was shot, and Jarod and Miss Parker worked together to save his life. In response to their effort, Mr. Fenigor gave Jarod the key to his safe deposit box, and promised both Jarod and Miss Parker that if they could get him out of the bank alive, he’d tell them both everything he knew.

In his safe deposit box was a printout of the money-exchange transactions (regarding the “hush money”) that proved that Mr. Fenigor’s trust fund money was coming from The Centre, and more specifically, from Mr. Parker himself. The box also included some cash, a pocket watch, and a manila envelope with the word JAROD scribbled across the front of it. Jarod asked what the envelope contained, and Mr. Fenigor told him that it was information concerning PRODIGY. “This is where you came from,” he said.

The envelope Jarod had found contained information about a fertility clinic in Georgia called NuGenesis… a facility which worked hand-in-hand with The Centre on PRODIGY: an experiment to try to hyper-stimulate areas of the brains of specific children in the hopes of creating Pretenders out of them. Jarod was a natural Pretender, and was being used as a sort of human “blueprint” for the others.

When the bank robbery concluded, Jarod and Miss Parker saw to it that Mr. Fenigor, who needed medical attention, was aided by paramedics. Outside of the bank, on a gurney, on his way to an awaiting ambulance, Mr. Fenigor told Miss Parker that the information she was looking for was in the PRODIGY “Red Files”, but he was unable to tell her anything else. A sniper in the building across the street from the bank — who was a Centre operative — shot Mr. Fenigor. The bullet was diverted, however, thanks to a valiant effort by Broots, and although Mr. Fenigor was wounded by the Centre bullet, he didn’t die. He was later transported to the infirmary at The Centre and kept there under heavy sedation.

A barely conscious Fenigor told Miss Parker and Jarod that Catherine Parker had been murdered by “the man in the dark suit” whom Fenigor said was Jarod’s father.

In October of 1998, Fenigor reappeared in the Renewal Wing of The Centre… brainwashed into believing The Centre was an altruistic organization whose primary goal was to help people. He had no memory of his interaction with Catherine Parker, Miss Parker or Jarod.

He married Catherine Jamison who became pregnant with twins. At birth, the male twin was pronounced dead. Mr. Parker apparently was in some plot to impregnate Catherine with Major Charles’ sperm and succeeded. It appears that he then had Catherine murdered. He raised Miss Parker with nanny’s and foreign schools, only to have her return to work for the Centre. In October of 98, it was officially announced that Mr. Lyle was Miss Parker’s twin that supposedly dies at birth. However, when told Mr. Parker appeared to already know. He has since been behind a plot to impregnate Brigitte and have her eliminated; however, Brigitte had a rare condition that meant she would bleed to death after giving birth. Mr. Parker had been running from the Centre before then, but after Brigitte died he took his place again running the Centre.

After Miss Parker discovered the evil truth of her family and that Mr. Parker wasn’t her father, he jumped from an airplane for what purpose it is not clear. His whereabouts are unknown at this time.

Sydney was in World War II and was in a concentration camp with his twin brother, Jacob. Little else is known about this time.

Both, Jacob and Sydney, were recruited into the Centre. Jacob was one of the people who was stealing children and he had a hand in Jarod’s abduction. Sydney and Jacob were in a car arguing over Jarod, when Sydney, who was driving, ran off the road. Jacob was seriously injured and was not able to function later on in life, which is believe to also be brought on by something else.

Sydney, helped take care of Jarod while he stayed at the Centre, and seems to want him out in the world, despite the fact he chases him. Sydney became the person who took care of Jarod’s clone when he found out about the boy. In February of 2000, it was discovered that Sydney had hired a young intern in the early days of the Pretender Project (involving Jarod) and one night they were in a car accident and the Centre told him she had died. Sydney found out she hadn’t died and was angry.

Sydney also has a son with a woman named Michelle who worked for the Centre. The Centre told her they would kill Sydney unless she left him and the Centre. She did and was not able to tell Sydney she was pregnant. Sydney’s son’s name is Nicholas and they are now on good terms.

In December of 2001, Sydney and Broots discovered that Mr. Parker’s brother is Mr. Raines. They also discovered that Raines is Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle’s biological father.