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Synopsis

In 1963, Jarod, a young boy of approximately four years, are kidnapped and held captive by a private organization called “the Center” (located at Blue Cove in the Delaware). It is completely isolated from the outside world and is used for secret experiments. The near total of its life is then filmed on DSA and it is Sydney, a psychologist of the Center, which deals mainly with him.

But one day, 33 years after, in 1996, it succeeds in fleeing of the “Center”. It takes along with him all the DSA containing the vidéos “Center” in which it appears. He discovers that some of the experiments to which one subjected it (“simulations”) were not useful in fact not to determine causes of accident or another thing but were intended to kill out of people (they made use of him to manufacture weapons…).

As from this moment Miss Parker, the girl of the chief of the “Center”, Mr. Parker, will leave to its research alone with Sydney (initially) to bring back alive Jarod (preferably) to the Center while this one will have to move city downtown to escape to them. On its passage, it will use its many talents to help people and to seek information on its true identity and its family.

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Accroche of the first season and the beginning of the second season:

There exist gifted beings of an intelligence supra normal, geniuses which have inter alia faculty to assume any identity. In 1963, the researchers of a firm selected “the Center” put in insulation one of these beings, a young boy named Jarod and exploited his genius for secret research. But one day the “Chameleon” escaped to them…

( There are Pretenders among custom, geniuses with the ability to become anyone they want to Be. In 1963, corporation known ace the Center isolated has Young Pretender named Jarod and exploited his genius for to their research. Then one day, to their Pretender ran away… )

Distribution

Michael T. Weiss (VF: Married Nicolas) : Jarod
Andrea Parker (VF: Francoise Rigal) : Miss Parker
Patrick Bauchau (VF: Bernard Alane) : Sydney
Jon Gries (VF: Georges Caudron) : Broots
Richard Marcus (VF: Gerard Freed of salt) : Groove
Paul Dillon (VF: Xavier Fagnon) : Angelo
Harve Presnell (VF: Marc de Georgi) : Mr. Parker
Jamie Denton (VF: François Leccia) : Lyle
Pamela Gidley (VF: Deborah Perret) : Brigitte
George Lazenby: Major Charles
Ryan Merriman (VF: Odile Schmitt) : Jarod child
Ashley Peldon (VF: Chantal Mace) : Miss Parker child
Ale Walker: Sam Toilets (1998: 1 episode)
Jamie Luner: Rachel Burke (1999: 1 episode)

Characters

Jarod : main character of the series, it was removed with his parents in his childhood by a secret organization called the “Center”. He is endowed with an intelligence supranormale (it is a " Caméléon" , it can become which it wants) but in its enfermement does not know the simple things of the life (like the ice creams). He will escape from the “Center” in 1996, after 33 years of enfermement.

Miss Parker : girl of Mr. PARKER, chief of the “Center”. Its first name remains unknown. She is charged by the “Center” with finding Jarod, with the assistance of Broots and Sydney. She is the only friend of childhood of Jarod and he is his only friend. She persists in seeking Jarod so that his/her father lets it resign and thus find his freedom. She is, like Jarod, in the search of her mother, supposed dead but in strange circumstances.

Sydney : psychologist, it is him which dealt with Jarod in its childhood. He is the only contact, with Miss Parker and Angelo, that Jarod kept in the “Center”. He represents for Jarod a kind of paternal presence. And, as opposed to what much of anybody believe, his family name is unknown, it is not " Green" …

Broots : data processing specialist, it works with Miss Parker in the search of Jarod. He has nothing to do with the bad intentions of the “Center” and one wonders how it was able to work there. Timorous, extremely impressed by Parker Miss who maltreats it, it appears to be the only normal person of the “Center”.

Groove : the man with the bottle. It is the number two of the “Center”, and cruelest of all, hated by the team of Parker Miss. One will discover in the last telefilm, " the Cave of Diable" , that he is the biological father of Parker Miss.

Angelo : it is a man who became " fou" because of the “Center”, its capacities to be communicated with the outside world were inhibited, but which keeps a very close link with Miss Parker and Jarod. It is able to interpret drawings and to envisage the future to some extent, and feels misfortunes to come. It is a empathe.

Mr. Parker : father of Miss Parker, it is the chief of the “Center”.

Lyle : twin brother (hidden) Miss Parker, it was made cut the inch by Yakusas following a business with them, it also works him in the “Center”. It is a cannibal, he eats in particular the Asian young people.

Brigitte : woman of Mr. Parker to whom, it will give a child but who will kill it just afterwards. Hated Miss Parker, it is nevertheless it which will proceed to its childbirth. That will bring them closer.

Major Charles : father of Jarod, former member of the military unit of the " Ring of Feu" (Donoterase I & II). It is that which manages to find the sister of Jarod, Emily (Inner Sense). It was separated from his wife and her daughter a long time ago now and is, like Jarod, with their research.

Ethan : half-brother of Jarod and Miss Parker. Exceptionally gifted young man, it has the gift of " caméléon" of Jarod, and Judicious Inner of the Parker women. It was born from an artificial insemination: the sperm of Major Charles having been established as a Catherine Parker so that it puts at the world a " super caméléon" , a being equipped with the intellectual abilities of Jarod as its 6th direction (capacity to hear voices which guides it in its life). Raised by Raines, which killed C. Parker right after the birth of the child, it was handled as well as Jarod, at the point almost to become a killer. Groove had ordered the orchestration of an bomb attack to him (using a subway train), but this plan is thwarted by the intervention of Jarod. The series finishes on the scene of the explosion, which occurs a few seconds after the jump of Jarod, Ethan and Miss Parker out of the coach. In the first telefilm, one learns that he survived, but disappears finally. Nobody knows where it is currently.

Episodes

First season (1996 - 1997)

1 (1- 1) : The cat and the mouse ( The Pile )
2 (1- 2) : Each table has its history ( Every picture such has story )
3 (1- 3) : Fighter pilot ( Flyer )
4 (1- 4) : The plays are made ( Curious Jarod )
5 (1- 5) : The clock out of paperboard ( The paper clock )
6 (1- 6) : To serve and protect ( To serf and protect )
7 (1- 7) : A virus among us ( has virus among custom )
8 (1- 8) : First Christmas de Jarod ( Not even has foam )
9 (1- 9) : Freefall ( Mirage )
10 (1-10) : Question of courage ( The better share off valor )
11 (1-11) : Equip with mine clearance ( Potato head blues )
12 (1-12) : Play of track ( Prison story )
13 (1-13) : The army of the cowards ( Bazooka Jarod )
14 (1-14) : The discovery ( To arrange Jarod )
15 (1-15) : Audience rating ( Jeraldo! )
16 (1-16) : The twin brother ( Under the reds )
17 (1-17) : The key ( Keys )
18 (1-18) : The great dive ( Unhappy landings )
19 (1-19) : With the research of last ( Jarod' S honor ) the
20 (1-20) : SL-27 ( Baby coils )
21 (1-21) : Meeting of family ( The Dragon House '')
22 (1-22) : Meeting of family ( The Dragon House '')

Second season (1997 - 1998)

23 (2- 1) : News gives ( Back from the dead again )
24 (2- 2) : The father and the son ( Scott free )
25 (2- 3) : On the tightrope ( Over the edge )
26 (2- 4) : The revealing element ( Exposed )
27 (2- 5) : The hidden beauty ( Nip and tuck )
28 (2- 6) : The exchange ( Past sim )
29 (2- 7) : Double hit ( Collateral ramming )
30 (2- 8) : The weight of last ( Hazards ) the
31 (2- 9) : Special effects ( F.X. )
32 (2-10) : Race against death ( Indy show )
33 (2-11) : Gigolo ( Gigolo Jarod )
34 (2-12) : Gift surprised ( Toy suprise )
35 (2-13) : Work of artist ( has stand up Guy )
36 (2-14) : Lapse of memory ( Amnesia )
37 (2-15) : The proof by ball ( Bulletproof )
38 (2-16) : The mirror recomposed ( Silence )
39 (2-17) : The crash landing ( Crash landing )
40 (2-18) : Kidnapping ( Stolen )
41 (2-19) : A godsend ( Red rock'n'roll Jarod )
42 (2-20) : Lies ( Bank )
43 (2-21) : Genetic inheritance ( Bloodlines '')
44 (2-22) : Genetic inheritance ( Bloodlines '')

Third season (1998 - 1999)

45 (3- 1) : Mental disorders ( Crazy )
46 (3- 2) : The circle ( Hope and prey )
47 (3- 3) : Tears of a father ( Once in has blue moon )
48 (3- 4) : A trustworthy person ( Someone to trust )
49 (3- 5) : Treason ( Betrayal )
50 (3- 6) : The promise ( Word )
51 (3- 7) : Save my children! ( Homefront )
52 (3- 8) : Revenge ( Flesh and blood )
53 (3- 9) : Perfect murder ( Murder 101 )
54 (3-10) : Mr. Lee ( Headhunter )
55 (3-11) : The assassin ( Assassin )
56 (3-12) : The key of last ( Unsinkable ) the
57 (3-13) : Businesses of family ( Pool )
58 (3-14) : Per hour of our death ( At the hour off our death )
59 (3-15) : Countdown ( Countdown )
60 (3-16) : Powers with the capacity ( PTB )
61 (3-17) : Bonds of the heart ( Ties that bind )
62 (3-18) : Missing parts ( Wake up )
63 (3-19) : Failure… ( End range )
64 (3-20) : Project Alpha ( Qallupiluit )
65 (3-21) : Donotérase ( Donoterase '')
66 (3-22) : Donotérase ( Donoterase '')

Fourth season (1999 - 2000)

Derivative products

Telefilms

The stop of the diffusion of the series on NBC and the repurchase of the rights by the chain TNT gave place to two telefilms intended to enclose the four seasons of the Caméléon and carried out in 2001 by Frederick King Keller:

Appearances in the series To profile

Season 3, episode 19: … And chechmate ( Large Master ). This episode makes direct continuation with Échec… (3-19). The team of the VCTF continues the investigation started in the Chameleon when the two principal suspects are found died in their cells. Bailey Mallone does not rely any on Jarod, and carries large suspicions about it.
Season 4, episode 11: Dissimulations ( Random Act ). This episode is the direct continuation of Simulations (4-10). Whereas the investigation seemed solved, an unexpected bounce leads Jarod to one surprising discovered. Bailey Malone realizes that it is indeed same Jarod met the previous year, but under a new identity.
Season 4, episode 18: The disastrous Piano ( Pianissimo ). The old Marks agent tries by all the means of destroying the life of Rachel Burke. In order to put a term at these intrigues, Jarod turns over to see Rachel. In parallel, it helps it to solve a business into short. This adventure does not make following any episode of the series. One can however locate it some share after Décomposition (4-17)

Comments

The popular success of this series, both in the United States and in France rests mainly and above all on the double intrigue of the series:

Each episode tells a finished history
Each episode (or almost) is accompanied by a search for indices revealing the mystery around the origins of Jarod, the true activities of the Center.
In each episode, Jarod discovers an object or a Gadget and does not separate any during all the episode (candy distributers Pez, Mr. Patate,…)
During season 3, a crossover in two parts was set up with the series headlight Profiler diffused consequently chain at the United States (in France also). The intrigue starting in one to conclude itself in the other. The extraordinary meeting of Jarod and Samatha Waters led the producers of the two series to renew the experiment during season 4. However, and with the difference of Samatha, a idyle in love will be created around Rachel and Jarod. Jarod will return ultimate once besides to lend strong hand to Rachel during one of the ultimate episodes of Profiler . No bond attaches this history to the series the Chameleon. It is thus about an adventure with share of Jarod, which is not reproduced on the DVD of the series.

Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W Van Sickle were strongly inspired by famous Ferdinand Waldo Demara.

The decorations external of the Center are the purification plant of water R.C. Harris, with Toronto, the Canada. Its frontage is built in Art déco

See too

External bonds

the Chameleon on W9.fr
the Chameleon
Jarodsfriends
Onyssius
the Refuge
the Trilogy: The Chameleon
The Pretender Project

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