It was originally released on American cable channel TNT on January 22, 2001, written by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle, directed by Frederick King Keller and starring Michael T. Weiss.

Jarod is now posing as an agent of the National Security Agency; he is part of a task force assembled to find the "Chameleon", a killer who displays all the adaptive traits of a Pretender.

Her brother, Mr. Lyle (James Denton), attempts to finish Raines off, but Miss Parker manages to spirit him away and hide him in her house.

In October 2000, it was announced TNT, which had acquired syndication rights to The Pretender from NBC, would be reviving the series for a pair of TV movies to resolve plot threads that were left unresolved by its cancellation.

[1] [2] TNT stated that they had no interest in continuing production of new episodes of the series, but were open to producing further films for The Pretender provided the ratings for the first two TV movies were successful.

[1] The movie earned a 4.4 Nielsen rating, and 5.538 million viewers making it one of the top ten primetime shows on cable for January 2001.