REPORT: TO SERVE AND PROTECT
FILE #: 106

IN HIS LAIR IN MIAMI, FLORIDA , an adult Jarod is watching a DSA simulation of himself from 09-07-74. He can see his child-self looking at an enlarged photograph of a POW in Southeast Asia, and he describes the man in the photograph to Sydney as someone who is “afraid… sad.” The man in the photograph, Jarod says, feels alone and forgotten; he wants to cry, but the can’t… because he’s given up all hope of being found and being reunited with his loved ones. Jarod then looks directly at Sydney and tells him, ” I won’t give up, Sydney. I’ll never give up.”

IN CEDAR POINT, NORTH CAROLINA , we see Miss Parker and Sydney arrive at a shooting range/ gun club. They’re talking to the owner who says Jarod had come to the range one day not able to tell the difference between a “pickle barrel and a gun barrel” , and in less than 24 hours had taught himself to be an expert marksman. Jarod also spent time, the proprietor tells them, studying the slugs that had been expelled from the other shooters’ guns. “He was real big on studying things… That ol’ boy was multi-faceted.” Sydney notices that on all of the paper targets Jarod shot at, the bullet holes spelled out the numbers “10:19”. He asks what it signifies, but the proprietor doesn’t know. The proprietor then tells Miss Parker that Jarod was staying at the hotel on the edge of town. As she and Sydney are walking out to go to the hotel, the proprietor stops them, and asks them to give Jarod his toy back if they see him. “His toy?” Miss Parker asks. The proprietor hands her a radio-controlled motorcycle with a rider on top of it.

IN MIAMI , we see a motorcycle patrolman pull over a young couple in a Jeep. The driver of the jeep looks up sheepishly at the officer and asks, “Was I going too fast when I passed that truck?” The officer pulls down his sunglasses and we can see that it’s Jarod. He answers the driver with, “No. — When you passed me .”

Later, at the Metro-Dade Police Department in Miami, Jarod, posing as Police Officer Jarod Starr , arrives for the beginning of his shift, and the desk sergeant (a woman) tells him he’s late — again. She’s also angry because his transfer papers from Chicago haven’t arrived yet. Jarod smooth talks her into letting him ride on patrol anyway. While he’s at the desk, he meets two other officers: Carl Bishop and Frank Meyers who work patrol as a team. When one of their suspects tries to dash out of the station, Jarod trips the suspect so Bishop and Meyers can nab him again. Before Bishop and Meyers can leave, they’re confronted by an Internal Affairs (I.A.) detective named Karen Swindell. She wants to talk to them again about a case in which they were involved. Meyers tries to complain and wheedle out of it, but Bishop tells him that Swindell is just doing her job.

Out on the beat, Jarod chases after a speeding three-wheel motorcycle when it runs through a red light and nearly causes an accident. When he pulls the rider over, he realizes that it’s a 73-year-old woman named Millie. When Jarod asks her if she noticed the color of the light at the last intersection she drove through, Millie looks back at the intersection, then looks at Jarod and says, “What light?”

BACK IN CEDAR POINT , Miss Parker is leaving the parking lot of the Hound Dog Haven hotel to meet with Sydney who’s waiting on the street by their limo. Miss Parker asks where their driver is, and Sydney tells her the driver had to “use the facilities” . Irritated, Miss Parker groans, “That guy has the bladder of a squirrel.” She tells Sydney that Jarod had left the hotel three days ago, and left behind nothing but a book: “Criminology and Law Enforcement Procedures” . Sydney leafs through the book while waiting for the driver to return. Miss Parker readies to get herself back into the limo when a sheriff’s car drives up and parks behind the limo. The sheriff and another officer exit their patrol car and approach Miss Parker. The sheriff politely but firmly demands that Miss Parker remover her jacket. She, at first, refuses but the sheriff insists. While she’s removing her jacket, the limo driver runs back to the car, and Miss Parker snaps at him, “You are fired !” The sheriff asks Miss Parker to turn around, and when she does, he finds a pistol tucked in the back of her skirt. He removes the gun, and puts her into handcuffs, saying she’s being arrested for a violation 369.7 of the penal code. When Miss Parker asks what that is, Sydney says it means she’s being arrested for unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon. He then shows Miss Parker Jarod’s book… with the Code 369.7 Section highlighted in yellow .

IN MIAMI : Jarod is next seen, out of uniform, visiting a doughnut shop across the street from the Kembrook Watch Repair store. He’s having a discussion with his waitress: he wants to know why, if there’s a hole-shaped space in the middle of a doughnut, the piece of dough punched out of the doughnut to make the hole is called a “hole”. The waitress tells him she doesn’t know, and then jokingly asks him not to tell her boss because she doesn’t want him to think she doesn’t know the doughnut business. Jarod agrees, and asks for another doughnut. The waitress grins at him and tells him she’ll provide him one “on the house” . Not understanding the reference Jarod politely says, “If you don’t mind, I’d rather eat it here .”

Jarod takes his doughnuts out onto the sidewalk in front of the shop where tables are set up for customers. He looks across the street and sees Harold Kembrook opening up his store for the day. Jarod tells the waitress that Harold looks very sad. The waitress explains to him that Harold had just recently lost his son, Marvin. Harold had had to give Marvin up for adoption when Marvin was a baby, but after Harold’s wife died, Harold went searching for Marvin and had found him again only six months ago — thanks to the help of a local woman named Susan Granger. Tragically, Marvin had gotten a job as a security officer at the nearby Hoswell Jewelers, but was killed by police officers who said they’d found him trying to rob the place. The waitress doesn’t know it, but this is the case that brought Jarod to Miami.

IN A JAIL CELL IN CEDAR POINT , Miss Parker throws her hands up in the air and proclaims, “It’s official: I’m in Hell!” She can’t get out of jail immediately because the Judge that needs to oversee her release is out of town attending a bass tournament and won’t be back for several days. To make matters worse, the entire legal staff of The Centre is also unavailable to her because they’re all in the south of France on their annual sabbatical. Miss Parker tells Sydney she knows Jarod has done this to her. “He’s up to something… and he needs me out of the way for 72 hours.” She then demands that Sydney find her an attorney — any attorney.

BACK IN MIAMI , before he goes on duty, now dressed in his uniform, Jarod finds the office where Susan Granger works and introduces himself to her by saying (frankly and sadly): “I don’t know who I am.” He tells Susan he’s searching for his parents and that he only has 72 hours to do it. He has a photograph of his mother, and he wants Susan to do an internet sweep with the photo in the hopes that someone will be able to put a name to his mother’s face. Susan agrees to help… and then tells Jarod that there’s a group therapy session meeting at her office that evening with other parents and children who have been separated or displaced. Jarod is welcome to join them if he wants to, she says.

IN CEDAR POINT : Sydney returns to present to Miss Parker the only lawyer in Cedar Point: an elderly obese gentleman who introduces himself as Henry J. Monroe, Junior, Esquire. Miss Parker looks at him, then looks to Sydney and says, “You have got to be kidding.”

IN MIAMI: Back at the police station, Jarod comes across the motorcycle-granny Millie, again. This time she’s arguing with the desk sergeant. Millie was in an accident during which she side-swiped an ambulance and forced it off the road. The police department is now threatening to suspend her driver’s license. Millie pleads with Jarod to intervene on her behalf: her motorcycle is her independence, she tells him, and if that’s taken away from her, “you might as well bury me, ’cause I’ll be dead .” Jarod sees to it that she’s allowed to keep her license for a while longer.

Later, Jarod is seen at the Hoswell Jewelers where he’s purchasing a ring: one with a brilliant princess-cut diamond on it valued at $5,000 retail. Jarod figures in his head that that would be $5,328 with tax, says, “That’s perfect,” and hands the clerk a credit card to pay for the ring. The clerk warns him that the purchase will “max out” his credit card. He smiles and tells her, “That’s the point.” As he’s leaving the store, he pulls the ring out of its presentation box, then drops the ring into a cup being held out by a pan-handling homeless man. The man fishes the ring out of his cup, looks at it… bites it… laughs happily and runs off.

AT THE POLICE STATION , Jarod brings to Detective Karen Swindell the gift of a Bavarian Cream doughnut with a single candle in it. He tells her to forgive him for not singing the “birthday song” to her, but, he says, he never really learned it. Swindell asks him what he’s doing there — besides bribing her with doughnuts — and he tells her that he’s been thinking about transferring to I.A. and would like her help in breaking down an actual case file. Swindell agrees to help him and asks him if he has a particular case in mind. He tells her he’s studying the Kembrook killing.

Swindell verbally takes Jarod through the evidence at the crime scene and discusses the officers’ stories about the killing, which don’t seem to make much sense. The officers — Bishop and Meyers — had told I.A. that they went to the jewelry store in response to a silent alarm, and found Marvin Kembrook and an unknown accomplice robbing the place. When the accomplice saw the police officers coming, he shot Kembrook and ran off. It made little sense, but what was even more puzzling was the fact that there was no evidence to prove that an “accomplice” was ever there: no fingerprints, to hair, no footprints… Jarod asks Swindell if she believed the accomplice was fictitious, why did she accept the police officers’ version of what happened. She tells him it’s because there was no evidence to prove they were lying either. The only hard piece of evidence that linked the Kembrook to his assailant was the bullet that had been taken from his skull. Swindell tells Jarod: “Find the gun that fired that bullet and you’ll find the killer.”

Jarod is later found in the locker room at the police station, readying to go on his shift. Officer Bishop is also there and laughs when he realizes that Jarod is late — again. Jarod tells Bishop he’s hiding from the desk sergeant, because he doesn’t want her to know how late he is. He also tells Bishop that his transfer paperwork was sent to his house by mistake, and asks Bishop if he will deliver the papers to the sergeant. Bishop agrees, and after Jarod leaves, Bishop opens up the packet of transfer papers and reads what’s inside. Fascinated by what’s in there, he calls his partner, Meyers, over to read it, too.

THAT EVENING , Jarod attends one of the group therapy sessions for displaced parents and children. He doesn’t actively participate, but he does listen to other group members, including Harold Kembrook, who tell their stories: the heartbreak of losing touch with family members, the frustration, the worry… and the gratification that comes from even the smallest bit of information found on a loved one. As Harold Kembrook tells the group about his search for his son Marvin, Jarod — in his mind — hears Harold’s voice transformed into the voice of his own mother, and he sees Harold’s form becomes her form. Jarod’s mother looks at Jarod and tells him, ” Never give up. Never stop looking for the people you love because it’s worth it… Never give up — ever.” Nearly in tears, Jarod blinks away the image of his mother and sees Harold sitting in front of him again.

LATER, IN HIS LAIR , Jarod gets a call from Susan Granger. She tells him she has a lead on his mother from a source in Delaware who insists on remaining anonymous. The source recognized the photograph of Jarod’s mother when it went over the internet, and can supply Jarod with a name and background information. But the source refuses to send any information over the telephone lines, FAX, or computer, and insists that it must be sent by special courier. Susan says the lead sounds “strange” and asks Jarod if he wants the source to send the information. Knowing it’s coming from Delaware — where The Centre is — Jarod is momentarily reluctant, but then tells Susan to go ahead and get the information from the anonymous source. She tells him she’ll call him as soon as the special courier arrives.

The next day, Jarod meets officers Bishop and Meyers for lunch and offers to pay for it himself with his credit card. As they dine, Bishop tells Jarod that he has six kids from four different wives, but still manages to make enough money to support himself and everyone else. He then tells Jarod that he and Meyers read Jarod transfer papers. They know, they tell him, that he was investigated for taking payoff money from the local drug dealers in Illinois. Jarod feigns anger over their “discovery”, telling them they had no right to read his file, and then says that nothing was ever proven in Chicago. Bishop says that it just proves that Jarod was good at covering his tracks. He tells Jarod that he and Meyers do special “jobs” after hours that get them lots of money for little risk, and asks Jarod if he wants to join them. They break into jewelry stores, after disarming the alarm systems, and steal only the stuff that’s valuable and easy fence. Jarod pretends to be disinterested… until the waiter comes to him and tells him his credit card is no good (because it’s been maxed out). Believing Jarod is broke, Bishop and Meyers pay for the meal… and invite him again to tag along on their next job.

They all meet later at a local park, where one of Bishop’s six kids is finishing up a baseball game he’s playing in. Bishop asks Jarod if he’s ready to join them on their next heist, and Jarod says he has some questions first. He asks Bishop what will happened if the security guard in the jewelry store they’ve broken into comes before they expect him to. Meyers tells him they’ll just act as though they had come to the store in response to a silent alarm. “We’re in blue… We’re the good guys. Nobody’s going to suspect us.” What if the guard does suspect them, Jarod asks. Then, Bishop tells him, they’ll shoot the guard and say they caught him robbing the place. Jarod asks if that’s what happened in the Kembrook case… and Bishop starts to get twitchy. He tries to leave, but Jarod convinces him to stay saying he just wants to know what they did to protect themselves from I.A.after the Kembrook shooting, so he can do the same if he has to. Bishop tells Jarod that rather than using their police-issue weapons to do any shooting, he uses an unregistered throw-away gun in an ankle holster. That way, the bullets can’t be traced back to him. The gun’s then put into the trunk of his car and hidden until I.A. stops its investigations. Satisfied, Jarod agrees to go on a “job” with Bishop and Meyers the following evening.

LATER , when Jarod is on patrol again, he comes across a mild fender-bender in a parking lot regarding motorcycle-Millie and a teenager in a van. Millie banged into the side of the van and did some minor damage to it, but is arguing with the teenager over who is at fault for the accident. “You don’t have to yell at me; I’m not deaf,” Millie tells the young man, to which the young man replies angrily, “No, lady. You’re blind !” Jarod intervenes and separates the two when Millie starts trying to punch the teenager. He walks the teenager to the back of the van to assess the damage, and tells the kid that a little sandpaper and touch up paint will fix it right up. The teenager insists he wants to press charges against Millie, until Jarod points out that the license plate on the van is an expired one — which can cost the kid $100 in fines if Jarod gives him a ticket for it — “And,” Jarod tells him, “I could, of course, search your van.” The teenager agrees to forego pressing charges and leaves. Jarod goes to Millie and, taking her gently by the head, points her in the direction of a nearby optometrist’s office.

AT THE CENTRE : Broots is approached by a female worker who tells him security has been breached. There’s a lead on Jarod, she says, and a suggestion that someone leaked information directly to him from The Centre. Broots asks if Miss Parker has been notified about this, and the female operative winces and says, “I thought you’d like to do that.” As the woman leaves him, Broots collapses into a chair and holds his head grumbling, “I’d rather stick my head into a bear trap.”

IN CEDAR POINT , Attorney Monroe has managed to get all the paperwork together to get Miss Parker out of jail. She threatens to sue everyone in town, and is leaving when the sheriff calls her back into his office with the information that a man named Broots is on the phone. “Take a message,” Miss Parker snaps at him as she disappears down the hall. The sheriff calls to her, “He says he’s located the target.” A few seconds later, Miss Parker is back in the sheriff’s office ready to take the phone from him.

IN MIAMI , Jarod sets up the initial part of his plan to catch Bishop and Meyers in their next robbery attempt. He puts together all the information he’s been able to gather about the Kembrook case and seals it in an envelope addressed to Detective Swindell…. He then breaks into Bishop’s locker at the station and tampers with his gun…

MEANWHILE , we next see Miss Parker in a limousine with Sam the Sweeper sitting next to her, loading a gun, and Sydney sitting across from her with his back to the driver. Miss Parker is smiling over the fact that she was able to get out of jail before Jarod hoped she would, and will soon be near enough to him to affect a capture.

IN MIAMI , the next morning, sitting outside the doughnut shop, Jarod again imagines that he sees his mother. She’s sitting outside the shop, too, and he approaches her and touches her shoulder. She looks up at him, but doesn’t recognize him. Blinking himself back to reality, Jarod is alerted by the sound of his cell phone ringing. He answers it. It’s Susan Granger on the line again. She tells him she has the courier’s package, but won’t open it until he arrives.Jarod goes immediately to Susan’s office and takes the thin package from her. Happy and a little scared he tells her, “I’m so nervous.” She comforts him with, “It’s not every day you learn who you really are.” Just as Jarod is starting to the package, there’s a loud disturbance in the front of Susan’s office. Susan goes to see what’s happening.

Miss Parker, Sam the Sweeper and Sydney have all arrived, and Miss Parker is threatening everyone in the office with a gun, demanding that they tell her where Jarod is. Susan refuses to say anything, but Miss Parker manages to see Jarod escaping out the back. “He’s heading for the roof!” she tells the sweeper, and she, Sam, and Sydney all run out of the office after Jarod.

OUTSIDE THE OFFICE Jarod is almost to the top of the fire escape when Miss Parker sees him and shouts, “Jarod! Stop! I swear I’ll shoot you in the back!” Jarod stops for an instant to look down on her, and Miss Parker fires at him. The bullet misses him but hits the railing close enough to his hand so that it startles him into releasing the courier’s package. The package floats down to where Sydney and Miss Parker are standing. We can see in Jarod’s face the moment when he considers running back down to fight for the package, and the moment — and frustration — when he decides to escape instead. He flees up onto the roof. Sam chases him, but doesn’t catch him. In front of Susan’s office Miss Parker rips open the courier’s package and burns its contents by setting it aflame with her cigarette lighter. “So close and yet so far,” she quips as the paper burns and shrivels.

THAT EVENING , despite his near-capture earlier in the day, a uniformed Jarod meets with officers Bishop and Meyers to rob a nearby jewelry store. Meyers goes into the office to disable the store’s security system while Bishop proceeds into the showroom to break into jewelry cases. Jarod stops him by pointing a flashlight and gun at Bishop. He recounts for Bishop the events that took place the night Marvin Kembrook died: Marvin had just been reunited with his long-lost father, and was relishing his new job as a security guard and his new-found life. Then he discovered one night that the jewelry store had been broken into, and he went inside to see what was happening. Marvin was scared at first… but then was relieved to find two policemen in the store. That relief was short-lived, however, when one of the officers — who was robbing the place — shot him and then blamed him for the robbery, ending his life and destroying his reputation in the process.

Jarod levels his gun at Bishop and says, “You’re under arrest for the murder of Melvin Kembrook.” Bishop draws his own police-issue weapon and tries to shoot Jarod but finds that the trigger mechanism is jammed. He then pretends to surrender to Jarod and bends over to put the useless gun on the floor. While he’s bent over, he accesses his ankle-holster, pulls a gun from there, and shoots Jarod directly in the chest. Jarod is knocked over by the force of the blast and falls on his back into one of the glass jewelry cases, which shatters and collapses underneath him. Bishop, believing Jarod is dead says , “Sorry, Jarod, but I don’t do jail. Too many mouths to feed.”

Officer Meyers runs into the showroom from the office to see what all the commotion is about, and sees Jarod lying on the floor. He asks Bishop what’s going on and Bishop explains that Jarod double-crossed them, so he shot him. He then tells Meyers to call for back-up. “What am I supposed to tell them?” Meyers asks. Bishop answers, “Tell them the truth. Tell them one of the city’s finest was gunned down trying to stop a robbery.”

A few minutes later, there are police cars all around the store, and Detective Swindell is on hand to take statements from Meyers and Bishop. Bishop tells her that he and Meyers arrived at the scene, and found Officer Starr dead on the floor of the jewelry store, apparently shot by a robbery suspect who got away. Swindell goes into the store, and asks Meyers and Bishop to show her exactly what they did when they arrived at the scene and found Starr dead. As they enter the showroom, Bishop and Meyers are stunned to find that Jarod is gone, and in his place is a bullet-proof vest and the envelope addressed to Detective Swindell. “Care to revise your statement, Officer Bishop?” Swindell asks him, but Bishops refuses to recant his story and insists he saw Jarod dead. Detective Swindell opens the envelope, and reads some of its contents. She hands the bullet-proof vest over to another officer telling him to take it to ballistics and get the slug out of the vest’s chest. She then tells Bishop to open the trunk of his squad car.

Outside on the street, Swindell rummages through Bishop’s trunk. While she’s doing this, Bishop notices a three-wheeled motorcycle driving by. Sitting on the motorcycle behind Millie is Jarod. Jarod forms his hand and fingers into the shape of a mock-gun, aims it at Bishop, and pretends to shoot him. Millie (now sporting brand new glasses that make her “street legal” again) speeds off with Jarod clinging to the back of her bike.

Detective Swindell finds the unregistered throw-away gun in Bishop’s trunk and places him and Meyers under arrest.

The next morning, we see Harold Kembrook sitting outside his watch repair shop with a slight smile on his face. He’s reading a newspaper account that clears his son Marvin’s name and restores his reputation. It states that Bishop and Meyers were responsible for the jewelry store robbery during which Marvin was killed, and clarifies that it was Bishop who had murdered Marvin.

LATER, AT THE CENTRE , Sydney asks Miss Parker why, if she had Jarod in her sights, didn’t she shoot to kill him. She answers, “I just missed, Sydney. No more. No less.” Their conversation is interrupted by a telephone call from Jarod. He tells Sydney that he will never give up searching for his family, and Sydney tells him in return that Miss Parker will never give up searching for him. Jarod is willing to accept that, and is just about to hang up the phone when Sydney asks him about “the numbers”. “10:19… What does it mean?” Jarod tells him, “It’s who I am, Sydney. It’s what you made me.” And Jarod disconnects the call.

Sydney picks up the book on “Criminology and Law Enforcement Procedures” and looks through it. He finds highlighted in yellow the code: 10:19…. Missing Person.

Sydney asks Miss Parker where she thinks Jarod will go next. Miss Parker takes the book from Sydney and holds it against her palm. She tells Sydney that her instincts tell her Jarod will go South. The episode ends with a clip of Jarod, very much North, dressed as one of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and riding a horse.