He seems to have caught on and the feeling is mutual now.
The Blakes express disdain for not only Fred, but also Mayor Jones, which was brought up in The Dragons Heart.The Rogers are having a still-life night again, just like in Episode 3.Just as Fred is about to fall and cries out for help, the Freak goes back and grabs him before he falls, saving his life. Conscience Makes You Go Back: While on a crumbling cliff, Fred nearly catches the Freak, but the Freak kicks him away and leaves him to die.Come with Me If You Want to Live: Ed Machine says "Get in this car if you want to live." to Shaggy and Scooby running from the Freak.Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Not only did he arrange things with Pericles to betray the original Mystery Inc., Fred Jones Senior screwed Pericles over and packed him off to the animal asylum.It sounds like Mayor Jones hastily came up with a lie about Fred's mother and Fred's birthday by just grabbing an article out of a magazine. Chekhov's Gun: The article about a baseball game on the back of the "photo" of Fred's "mother" is what allowed Fred to determine whether or not she really is his mother - it has a date, which matches the birthday his father told him.Calling the Old Man Out: Fred does this to his "father" at the end of the episode for his crimes and all the innocent people he hurt along the way, including Fred himself.Mayor Jones being an alumni of Darrow University is brought up again, and it turns out he attended because he wanted to use his history major to find the treasure of Crystal Cove.The episode presumably directly happens after "Pawn of Shadows", as the gang immediately acts on their declaration to finish what their predecessors started.In the promo for this episode, this trope was represented with a brief clip of the framed photo of Fred's supposed mother falling to the ground and shattering.Broken Pedestal: Mayor Jones becomes this to Fred (and the Sheriff).Break the Cutie: Where to start? Fred (or whatever his name is) found out that Brad and Judy are his real parents, he broke his engagement with Daphne, Shaggy is about to be packed off to military school and everybody blames Velma for what went wrong.Fred still goes after his father in order to discover the truth, resulting in a heartbreaking discovery about Freds parentage and ruining the image of his supposed father in his eyes. Mayor Jones, realizing what hes just done to Fred, backspaces for the sake of his sons well-being. Fred pursues his father, only to be pushed away. Fred talking to his dad at the fireplace and Fred chasing the Freak.The online game suggests that the Freak has super-speed rather than teleportation, which would explain how he managed to get from one area to another in a short amount of time in some scenes.