Scene Fifteen
Jarod pulls up to the church and shifts into park, unlocking his doors. He sits there, nervous and excited at the same time. As he sits there staring at the church his passenger door opens and Ethan quickly sits down next to him.
"Ethan!" He says, startled.
"Lock the doors and back up." Jarod is still in somewhat shock and now confused but does what he is told.
"Where are we going? I thought she was here at the church?"
"This is the meeting place to make sure no one is following you. Her place is this way." He points Jarod in the right direction.
"Oh, okay." They soon pull up to a small cottage, surrounded by trees. He stops the car. They get out and Jarod grabs his silver briefcase and bags. They walk towards the door. Jarod looks back at Ethan who smiles to reassure him. Jarod slowly opens the door. As the light shines into the room is shows a simple little room with an elderly woman, just like in her picture except with gray/white hair and a few wrinkles causes by stress, sitting on the couch. When Jarod sees her he drops all his things on the floor. She stands and rushes towards him.
"Jarod!" She exclaims and grabs to hug him tightly.
"Mom!" They stand there for a long time in each other's embrace. They slowly pull away and she puts her hand on the side on his face and smiles.
"My boy is finally home." Tears began to fall from both of their eyes. "Come, come." She motions to the couch and they sit down. Ethan, smiling, picks up Jarod's bags and puts them in the corner. He begins to go through them and pulls out Jarod's computer. Jarod, barely able to pull away from his mom's loving eyes, glances at Ethan.
"What are---?"
"I got this feeling that someone is going to try to contact you," He says with a smile.
"Oh." At the sight of Ethan's smile Jarod laughs. His brother's "inner sense" hard at work. Ethan walks into that kitchen and sets up the computer. Jarod looks back at his mother who is smiling still but a little confused. "I'll explain later." He looks at her, still can't believe that he finally found her. "I've been searching for so long."
"So have I." She takes his hands in her lap to hold them.
"Kyle---"
"I know. He died in the van explosion."
"Actually no."
"What? I don't understand."
"After I ran from the van he crawled out and shot the van to explode. He then found help and soon found me."
"That's great! Then where is he?"
"Unfortunately, someone from the Centre found us and he tried to shoot me but Kyle dove in front of me. He saved my life but gave up his." Jarod's voice momentaraly turns cold, Lyle's face in his head.
"Oh." She is going to cry when Jarod puts his hand on her chin and turns her head to look directly into her eyes.
"He died a hero. He saved four lives the night he died. He helped me save a woman from suffocating in the desert who was pregnant, he saved me, and then he saved a young boy's life after he died." She gets a confused look on how he could save someone after he is died. Jarod smiles. "I donated his heart to a young boy that I had met earlier. He was very sick and had the same rare blood type we do." She smiles at Jarod.
"That's wonderful, Jarod. I'm glad he could make a difference." They both smile and are silent for a bit. He decides to break the silence to ask a question that was burning inside of him.
"I need to ask you something."
"I know."
"Are you a ---?"
"Parker? Yes, Jarod. But you have to know that I never did anything at the Centre." She squeezes his hand in her lap, pleading for him to believe her. He squeezes back.
"Okay. I believe you. Besides I never thought you did."
"You see, none of the Parker women actually worked there. For the most part we were kept in the dark. When I was little I was sent to school."
"That's how you met Catherine."
"Yes! Oh, she was the nicest person I ever met." He nods in agreement. "Then my brother met her. He became obsessive over her and makes her marry him." She is silent for a bit. "I'll never forgive myself for that. This was the time I met you father and when we married we tried to separate from the Centre. We only kept contact with Catherine. She was the first woman to really do work at the Centre. It was through her that we learned about some of the things the Centre really did. She knew exactly who you were when you arrived at the Centre and that the Centre had stolen you from us. She made it her life's work to rescue you, her daughter, and the others from that evil place."
"I know. She died trying." They are quiet for a while, thinking about Catherine when they hear Jarod's computer phone ring. Jarod goes to the computer while Ethan and his mother stand out of view of the video camera. He answers it and three familiar faces appear.
"Dad! Emily! JJ!"
"Jarod!" exclaims Major Charles. "It is so good to see you!"
"You too, all of you." He looks at each of them.
"We have some good news," says Emily, "we've found mom."
"Well...I sort of beat you to the punch, then."
"What do you mean?" asks Charles. Jarod waves his hand and she walks over. "Honey?"
"Sweetie! Yes, it's me. Oh, it's so great to see all over you, it's been too long." She sits next to Jarod.
"Well, then I just we'll just come to you guys," says Charles.
"No!" exclaims Jarod. "It's too dangerous. It's better that we come to you. Tell us where you are." Ethan now walks in to the background behind Jarod and Margaret
"L.A." he says.
"What?" Says Jarod glancing back at Ethan.
"L.A. They're in L.A."
"That's right," says Emily. She looks closely at him. "Ethan? It that you?" He walks to the screen, stunned that she knows who he was.
"Yes. How did you---?"
"Sorry," breaks in Jarod. "We'll get to that soon. We need to know where in L.A."
"The YMCA on the East Side. Room 200, 2nd floor," says JJ.
"Okay. We're on our way." He clicks off the camera and stands up. He looks at his mother, very serious. "Pack you things quickly. We need to leave as soon as possible." She stands and smiles.
"You sound just like your father." She smiles again and walks to her room to pack. Jarod laughs softly at that remark and packs up his computer. He then turns to Ethan.
"You ready?"
"Yep."
"Good. Rachel told you about you mother, now you get to meet our father."
"Rachel? Who's Rachel?" Jarod laughs and puts his arm around Ethan.
"Sorry.... Miss Parker. I forgot I have to call her that still, well, at least for a little while."
"Oh. So that's her name?"
"Yep." Margaret soon enters with her luggage.
"Ready, my son." Jarod smiles at her.
"Well, then let's go." Jarod takes some of her bags and takes his things. Ethan gets his bags and they walk to the car. They put most the luggage in the trunk, leaving out the DSA case and his computer; they get in the car. Jarod in the driver's seat, his mother at his side, and his half-brother in the back with the two pieces on luggage. They drive off.
