Season 2
Episode 19
"Red Rock Jarod"
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Director: Fred K Keller
Somewhere in the Arizona Desert
(It is night.  An unseen figure lights a kerosene lamp before picking up a shovel and starting to dig into the soft earth.  The person picks up an instamatic camera and takes a photograph of a large metal cylinder that has a glass window in top.  The person returns to digging.  Fuel is poured into a small engine.  There is rope, rubber tubing and a roll of silver duct tape lying on the ground.  The person takes more pictures, throwing them on the ground to allow them to finish the developing process there.  The image emerges to reveal a young woman, bound, her mouth sealed with electrical tape.  Her eyes say the words that her mouth is not able to.)

Miss Parker's Residence
(Miss Parker tosses restlessly in her sleep, a remembered incident disturbing her.  She stands on a pier on a foggy evening, Lyle opposite her.)
Lyle: How strong are you?
Parker: Test me.
(In her dream, Lyle turns his back to her and tosses his cigarette into the river.  Parker is momentarily distracted by this action, giving Lyle enough time to reach under his coat and draw his weapon.  He spins back to Parker.  She blinks in surprise and fires instinctively.  The force of the bullet pushes Lyle into the river, the splash loud.  The sound of Miss Parker's alarm brings her back to the present.  She reaches over and turns it off before rolling over and up with a groan.)

Jarod's Lair
(Jarod takes a seat at a desk and picks up a pair of scissors.  He starts to cut around an article from a newspaper that is spread out before him when interrupted by his computer.)
Computer: You have mail.
(He turns his attention to the computer and enters his password.  There is a message there with the title "Refuge".  He looks at it carefully before opening the message.  It reads: "Have urgent information concerning your past, present and future.  Please meet me in DRY RIVER, ARIZONA. Sydney."  He reads it carefully before checking up the location of Red River on a map on the screen.)

Dry River Arizona
(A sign marks the boundary of the small, sleepy town.  It describes the town as "friendly".  Jarod pulls up on the main street and gets out of the car.  He looks around.  He spots an old lady crossing the street and two men sitting on a verandah playing checkers.  There is no other sign of life.  He walks over to the fence that surrounds the boarding house where the two men are sitting.  He calls out to them.)
Jarod: Morning.  I'm new in town and I was supposed to meet a friend and I was wondering if you gentlemen might have seen him?  (He opens the gate and steps through.  Behind him a car pulls up on the street and a door opened and closed.)  Look, I don't mean to interrupt your game but it would be nice if you at least looked at me.  (The men continue to ignore him.  He seems bemused by this not so friendly welcome.)
Miller: They can't hear you.
(Jarod turns back to the gate where a female deputy stands.  She walks through the gate.)
Jarod: Excuse me?
Miller: Those are the Mitchell brothers.  They're deaf as posts.  (She walks to the bottom of the verandah and kicks the boards there.  The vibrations get the men's attentions.  They sign her a welcome.  She turns back to Jarod to translate.)  They said-
Jarod: They said it looks like it's going to be another hot day.
Miller: You speak sign language?  (Jarod signs a greeting to them to which one of the brothers responds in a friendly manner.)  Deputy Miller.  (They shake hands.)
Jarod: Jarod . . .  (He looks across the street and spots a barbershop, complete with red and white pole out the front.)  Barber.
Miller: We don't get many visitors to Dry River Mr. Barber.  (They start to walk along the pavement.)  What brings you to town?
Jarod: Well actually I'm here to meet a friend.   Maybe you've seen him; he's fifty something and distinguished looking.
Miller: Distinguished?  (She stops walking and Jarod has to follow suit.)  I'd remember him wouldn't I?  (Her hand goes to her weapon in its holster on her hip.  She releases the catch that holds it in place.  Jarod is aware of her very deliberate movement.)
Jarod: I think I've probably taken up enough of your time Deputy.  Have a nice day.
Miller: I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to stick around a little while longer.
Jarod: Excuse me?
Miller: You're gonna have to come with me Sir.
Jarod: And why would I want to do that?
Miller: (She takes out her revolver, cocks it and aims it in a two-handed grip at Jarod.)  Because if you don't I'm going to have to kill you.

A Dead End Alley
(Sam, the sweeper, pokes around at the end of the alley, where a Dead End sign and a chainlink fence mark the end of the street.  Sydney opens the lid of a dumpster and peers at the contents in side.  Miss Parker and Broots stand in the middle of the area that is surrounded by graffiti-marred walls and litter of every description.  Miss Parker, as usual is impeccably groomed in a long line grey pants suits.  Broots, however, is a little less conventional in sporting a pink nylon jacket over his usual casual attire.)
Parker: So much for anonymous tips about Jarod.
Broots: The guy said we'd find what we wanted right here.
Parker: If we were looking for urban blight and the overwhelming stench of urine he was right on the money. 
(Sydney having finished his examination of the dumpster joins them.)
Sydney: You think we're being led astray?
Parker: Thank you Sherlock.  (Her attention turns to Broots.)  Pink?
Broots: Oh.  Well I let Debbie do the laundry and she kind of got the colours mixed with the whites.  I don't want to hurt her feelings.
Parker: Don't let her cut the grass.  I want a team to sweep the area.  (She removes Broots' dark glasses, blows on the lenses and puts them on.)  I want everything within a fifty-foot radius brought back to the Centre.
Sam: Miss Parker!  There's something here you should see.
(From above them, someone takes a photograph of them as Broots, Sydney and Miss Parker walk to the end of the alley.  Sam indicates a spot on the back of the Dead End sign.  Wedged between the pole and the sign is a buff coloured envelope addressed to Miss Parker.  She pulls it out and returns to the middle of the alley.  She opens the envelope and pulls out an identification card.  Sydney looks over her shoulder.  The card shows a picture of her mother.  Along with the usual details there is an expiration date which has been crossed out and replaced with a hand-written date.)
Sydney: Parker, you alright?  Your mother's identification card, and the expiration date has been changed.
Parker: It seems Jarod has cultivated a darker sense of humour since we last spoke.  (She walks away.)
Broots: Did I miss something?
Sydney: The new expiration date.  That's the same day her mother was killed.