S#4: Wild Child (407)

12/11/99

At The Centre, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots are looking at some pictures that someone took of them. Jarod calls Miss Parker. He was the one who sent them those pictures, that are only evidencing Miss Parker. Jarod says that he wants to help her, as well as her father. Miss Parker received an e-mail from her father saying that she mustn't trust no one and that he has an hit on him by someone at The Centre. This is worrying her very much. Miss Parker's conclusion is that someone must have been following her in hopes that she would lead him to her father.

In the mountains, a man goes to put his trash outside, when he finds the previous trash revolved. When he points his flashlight to the trash, he finds something strange.

Jarod is learning how to fish with a hook seller, when the towns starts getting agitated. Jarod goes to see what's happening and finds a wild child being taken by the police. When the child is taken, he remembers what he felt when he was dragged to The Centre.

The girl is taken to an institute and given to the best specialists. She tried to ran through a glass door and is now unconscious. While they cut her hair, Jarod tells them that she doesn't like to be touched and that they shouldn't be treating her the way they are.

At The Centre, Miss Parker sees Lyle talking to Mr. Cox. Broots says that the pictures were sent to Mutumbo and that Mr. Cox, with the code name "Owl", has taken them. Then, he says that there is nothing about him (not even an office) and that one of his "friends" (why is it that every person that Broots knows at The Centre and some disorder?) said that he has been receiving surgery instruments.

The girl is put in a sterilized room and, despite the fact that she should be sedated, the doctors won't allow that. They are only interested in studying her behavior and they have only 36 hours to do so. When they leave, Jarod speaks to another doctors, Ann, that is also disturbed by the way they are treating the child. During a press conference, one of the reporters approaches Jarod and asks him if she can take photos, but Dr. Bennet shows up and tells her that Jarod is not allowed to do so. Meanwhile, the girls disappears and Bennet is intending to use a tranquilizer, similar to one used in animals. Jarod is against it. Ann arrives and joins Jarod in the search for the child. Outside, Jarod finds her in a tree and, then gives the girl her doll. When he slips form the tree, she laughs. She is taken to the same room, but now it is filled with plants, which makes her more calm. Bennet and Wolverton arrive and are against what is going on, but Jarod ignores them and says that she should have a name. They cut Jarod off, but he doesn't matter and informs that she would be called Violet. Meanwhile, she started to make some sounds that are similar to "Dada and Momma", but one of the doctors ignores that. Shortly after, Violet starts having convulsions.

She is taken to the hospital and is sleeping on the floor. Violet only got a cold, but because she didn't have any defenses against the virus, it worsened. Jarod realizes that it was the doll that transported the virus and that someone planted them there, with the purpose of not allowing him to know more about the girl's origin. Jarod is taking her out of there and asks for Ann's help. She's not giving it to him. When Jarod is with Violet in his jeep, Ann shows up and decides to help him. She had a son and he died. Now, she has some difficulties in getting attached again.

Miss Parker and Broots follow Mr. Cox. He gets off his car and takes pictures to a dead animal in the middle of the road. Then, he picks it up and puts it in his truck.

Jarod stops the jeep, when he thinks he reached the place where Violet lived. She starts to run and Jarod and Ann follow her to a river. Where she was living, they find several things she made and a picture of her parents holding her. Violet starts to run again, but stops in front of two skulls, to which she is addressing as "Dada and Momma". They are near a plain wreckage, and because of that, they realized that Violet was the only survivor of the accident. Back to her cavern, Jarod discovers a camera and things about Violet, what makes him think that someone has been watching her for over 10 years.

In Miss Parker's office, Broots comes in wearing a suit. He says that he was at a funeral with Cox. He goes on, saying that he spent that night there and that he saw him bring some bags through the back door. Those bags were brought to SL-6 (where the infirmary was, and where she had her tonsils).

In the Institute, Jarod finds several tapes about Violet.

Miss Parker and Broots are in SL-6, where they are going to leave the pictures they took to Cox. Broots drops what he was using to open the door, and is Mr. Cox who opens it to him. He informs them that the man with him at the mortuary is his father, that joins him in his hobby - taxidermy. Then, he shows them an animal, in which he's working on. Before they leave the room, Mr. Cox tells them that he wasn't the one to take the pictures.

Jarod is watching the tapes he found, and in one of them, he is able to see the person who was taping them: it was Dr. Wolverton.

Back at The Centre, Broots found out an expense report that says that Lyle bought a camera similar to the one used to photograph Miss Parker. Then, he informs her that it was Lyle who brought up Cox and that he also was the one who created his position there. Miss Parker confronts Lyle about this. He explains her that he also got an e-mail from his father, and that he took those pictures as an alibi for her, just in case she needed one. Then, he says that something big is going to happen and that Mutumbo is arriving to attend a meeting with Mr. Cox. In the end of the conversation, Lyle asks his sister what are they supposed to do and she answers him that they should wait and pray.

Jarod asks Ann to give Violet's doll to Dr. Wolverton and also to send him to an address. When he arrives, he finds Violet there, but before he gets to her, Jarod gives him one of his tranquilizers. When the doctor awakens, he sees himself trapped in a cave only wearing his underwear. Jarod confronts him with what he done and tells him that the book he wrote was based on Violet's observation, not on an investigation. After he confesses his crimes, he is arrested.

Ann decides to take Violet with her, because she has a dream, in which her son told her that it was ok. When Jarod turns to leave, he hugs Violet and gives her a new doll. She says his name.

 

 

 


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