The worst episodes of The Pretender
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it. Fewer than 10 rated episodes — treat this ranking as provisional.
- 01
Jarod poses as a professor to solve a murder.
- 02
While posing as a police detective, Jarod investigates the abduction of a teenage chess expert, and Sam of "Profiler" is called in to assist on the case.
- 03
To help the widow and daughter of a drowned fisherman, Jarod joins the Coast Guard.
- 04
Jarod poses as a sixth-grade teacher to help a young murder witness; in another plotline, Miss Parker is reunited with a woman from her past.
- 05
The fourth-season finale has Jarod being contacted by his father, who tells him where to locate his sister.
- 06
Jarod poses as a doctor to help a boy whose spinal cord was severed.
- 07
Jarod becomes a bodyguard for a gunworks owner and his fiancée, who's hiding a couple of secrets.
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