 The eponymous character, Jack Ryder, graduates from university with a degree in sociology and becomes a temporary employee at an agency which specializes in filling difficult and unusual positions. Each episode ends with Jack adding a chapter to a book which he is writing about his experiences on his laptop. When not working, Jack often hangs with his eccentric friends, Leo, an agoraphobic computer hacker who, like one of the characters in McKellar's earlier comedy series, Twitch City, is unable to leave his apartment but nonetheless leads a complex and bizarre life, and Bobby, an Asian kid who works in the family store by day, and is a club disc-jockey and masked hero by night. Jack also spends some time at the beginning and end of each episode at the agency where he attempts to develop a rapport with Betty, the female assignment "associate" (Betty is not in Season Four however) while under electronic surveillance from the gruff, imperious, and decidedly unpleasant, manager/owner who is often involved in some way in the bizarre conspiracies, sordid sexual escapades, and crimes which lurk behind the workaday appearances of Jack's assignments. |
