This is a list of episodes for the television series The Sentinel.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Switchman" | Danny Bilson | Paul DeMeo & Danny Bilson | March 20, 1996 | |
| A reconnaissance team in the jungles of Peru comes across Army Special Forces Captain Jim Ellison, the sole survivor of a horrific plane crash. Five years later, Jim is a detective in Cascade, Washington, who has discovered that the heightened senses he gained surviving in the jungle are both a help and a hindrance in tracking down a terrorist bomber called the Switchman. With the assistance of a grad student named Blair Sandburg, he attempts to harness his powers before more innocent people die at the hands of a killer. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Siege" | Danny Bilson | David L. Newman | March 27, 1996 | |
| On the day that Blair is supposed to receive his police observer credentials, a notorious criminal named Garrett Kincad and his gang of felons take over the station and hold everyone inside captive, including Blair. In order to rescue his partner-to-be, Jim must decide whether to confess his new Sentinel senses to supervising Captain Simon Banks or attempt to take on the thugs alone. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Killers" | Bruce Bilson | Gail Morgan Hickman | April 3, 1996 | |
| Jim learns that seeing is not always believing when he witnesses the death of undercover officer Danny Choi with his Sentinel vision. When he loses temporary control of some senses and seems disoriented, he has a hard time convincing everyone around him that he is the only one capable of apprehending Danny's killer. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Debt" | Gus Trikonis | Steven Baum | April 10, 1996 | |
| Blair's new neighbors certainly leave a lot to be desired when he and Jim learn that they're running a drug lab next door. When he and Jim investigate, they find themselves in the midst of a brutal gang war and Blair must temporarily take shelter in Jim's place. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Cypher" | Mike Vejar | Laurence Frank | April 24, 1996 | |
| Appearances can be deceiving when Jim and Blair discover that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are actually the work of a serial killer who assumes this victims' identities. With the help of forensics specialist Carolyn Plummer, they're in a race against time to unmask the true identity of the psychopath. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Night Train" | Bruce Bilson | Harold Apter | May 1, 1996 | |
| A train ride to escort a key witness to an important homicide trial becomes a trip of terror when a dose of cold medicine makes Jim's senses go haywire. As the miles tick by to their final destination, Jim and Blair must work as one in order to prevent their charge from taking flight. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Rogue" | Mike Vejar | Howard Chaykin | May 8, 1996 | |
| Jim discovers that higher education has its price when he must save Blair's anthropology students from a deadly gas leak. Later, they discover that the leak was just a ruse so the culprit could steal a canister of the Ebola virus from a nearby hazardous materials lab as part of a terrifying scheme for ultimate power. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Love and Guns" | Tim Van Patten | Bruce Kalish | May 15, 1996 | |
| Love puts Blair into dangerous uncharted territory when he falls for Maya, the daughter of a shady gunrunner. But Blair's new relationship is quickly put to the test when he is kidnapped, and it's up to Jim to rescue his partner from a gang of ruthless criminals. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Attraction" | Scott Paulin | Story by : Harold Apter & Juan Carlos Coto Teleplay by : Harold Apter | May 22, 1996 | |
| Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but something at the scene of a recent jewel heist is also making Jim's heart skip a beat. He finds himself inexplicably drawn to one of the suspects and struggles to control his aroused senses before the culprit strikes again. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Vow of Silence" | Jeffrey Reiner | Bruce Kalish | July 17, 1996 | |
| Jim and Blair retreat to a remote monastery for a little rest and relaxation. However, their vacation comes to an abrupt end when one of the monks turns up dead and they are trapped at the site with a vindictive killer. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 11 | 1 | "Flight" | Danny Bilson | Gail Morgan Hickman | September 4, 1996 | |
| Captain Banks and his son crash land in the peruvian jungle. They have a run in with a band of drug runners. Blair follows Jim who sets out to rescue them. | ||||||
| 12 | 2 | "Out of the Past" | Bruce Bilson | Story by : Brad Markowitz Teleplay by : David Newman & Gail Morgan Hickman | September 11, 1996 | |
| Escaped convict Jay Weston (guest star Mark Pellegrino) is after pop singer Angie Ferris. Jim and Blair step in to protect her. | ||||||
| 13 | 3 | "Deep Water" | Bruce Bilson | Harold Apter | September 18, 1996 | |
| Jim and his old partner Jack Pendergrast are implicated in a murder after unexpected evidence surfaces. With his partner missing Jim must prove he is not a murderer and solve a cold case of a missing heir. | ||||||
| 14 | 4 | "Reunion" | Greg Beeman | Story by : Stephen A. Miller Teleplay by : Harold Apter & Steven Baum | September 25, 1996 | |
| Jim and Blair join Captain Banks at his twenty year high school reunion, where the Captain's old sweetheart is murdered. | ||||||
| 15 | 5 | "Payback" | William Gereghty | Peter Lance | October 2, 1996 | |
| Ellison witnesses growing feuds between the bikers and the Yakuza. | ||||||
| 16 | 6 | "True Crime" | Tony Westman | Daniel Levine | October 9, 1996 | |
| Ellison is featured in the T.V. show, "True Crime". But things get complicated when he suspects the crew of helping out bank robbers he is after. | ||||||
| 17 | 7 | "Ice Man" | Tim Van Patten | Paul B. Margolis | October 30, 1996 | |
| An escort, Amber Larkin, is attacked after witnessing a murder. Jim and Blair are called in to investigate and protect her from a hit man. | ||||||
| 18 | 8 | "The Rig" | Danny Bilson | Story by : Harv Zimmel Teleplay by : Harv Zimmel & Gail Morgan Hickman | November 6, 1996 | |
| Employees on the North Star Five oil rig start dying. Jim and Bliar suspect Tucker Brown, an ex-convict. Blair must also help Jim get over his fear of deep water in order to finish the case. | ||||||
| 19 | 9 | "Spare Parts" | Paul Abascal | Harold Apter | November 13, 1996 | |
| Jim and Blair investiagte a car-jacking ring. But things do not go as planned when a trap set up by Jim endangers Blair and his mother Naomi who is visiting her son. | ||||||
| 20 | 10 | "Second Chance" | Bruce Bilson | John Vorhaus | November 20, 1996 | |
| The daughter of a Chilean drug lord and Blair's ex-girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies Under Jim's watch. Jim and Blair team up with her uncle to rescue her. | ||||||
| 21 | 11 | "Black or White" | William Gereghty | Peter Lance | November 27, 1996 | |
| Ellison and Major Crimes work with a replacement bomb expert investigating a series of bombings targeting black churches. Sandburg tries to help Joel Taggart, Cascade's bomb expert, who has developed a phobia about explosives. | ||||||
| 22 | 12 | "Blind Man's Bluff" | Tony Westman | Daniel Levine | January 8, 1997 | |
| While investigating a designer drug, Ellison gets some in his eyes and is blinded. | ||||||
| 23 | 13 | "Hear No Evil" | John J. Connor | Harold Apter | January 15, 1997 | |
| Ellison experiences a dramatic increase in his hearing after having wax blockage removed from his ears. As a result he hears the murder of an undercover vice cop, but has difficulty in convincing the internal affairs officer. | ||||||
| 24 | 14 | "Light My Fire" | Scott Brazil | David Thoreau | February 5, 1997 | |
| A female arson investigator is teamed with Ellison and Sandburg to investigate a series of arson fires targeted at warehouses. | ||||||
| 25 | 15 | "Secret" | Bruce Bilson | Story by : Gail Morgan Hickman Teleplay by : Harold Apter & David Balkan | February 12, 1997 | |
| Ellison is kidnapped by Norman Oliver, a former army intelligence officer. Sandburg and Simon Banks work together to try and locate and rescue their friend. | ||||||
| 26 | 16 | "Dead Drop" | Danny Bilson | Peter Lance | February 19, 1997 | |
| Blair is among a diverse group of hostages being held in a high rise elevator by a man calling himself Galileo. Galileo demands a ransom and threatens to drop the elevator cage unless it is delivered. | ||||||
| 27 | 17 | "Red Dust" | William Gereghty | Story by : Ann Powell & Peter Lance Teleplay by : David H. Balkan | February 26, 1997 | |
| Stolen uranium is being moved through Cascade by an international criminal organization using the local Russian emigrate community. | ||||||
| 28 | 18 | "Smart Alec" | Tony Westman | John Vorhaus | March 12, 1997 | |
| Ellison investigates the death of a Rainier University campus maintenance worker. Sandburg mentors a young genius with attitude issues. | ||||||
| 29 | 19 | "Private Eyes" | Bruce Bilson | Harold Apter | March 26, 1997 | |
| Naomi's psychic friend, Charlie Spring, is hired by a distraught mother to find her kidnapped child. Ellison does not believe that Spring has psychic abilities and does not want Charlie involved with this case. | ||||||
| 30 | 20 | "Vanishing Act" | William Gereghty | Story by : Daniel Levine Teleplay by : David H. Balkan & David L. Newman | April 9, 1997 | |
| Ellison clashes with a manipulative FBI agent when he learns that a mob informant that is supposed to be dead is really still alive. | ||||||
| 31 | 21 | "Pennies from Heaven" | John J. Connor | David L. Newman | April 30, 1997 | |
| Ellison suspects a setup when an armored car spills it's payload onto the streets of a poor neighborhood and millions vanish. | ||||||
| 32 | 22 | "Survival" | James Marshall | Howard Chaykin | May 7, 1997 | |
| A cop killer takes Capt. Banks hostage during his extradition. | ||||||
| 33 | 23 | "His Brother's Keeper" | Bruce Bilson | Harold Apter | May 14, 1997 | |
| Sandburg helps Ellison investigate murders at the local horse racing track. Ellison's brother Stephen is one of the suspects. | ||||||
| 34 | 24 | "Sleeping Beauty" | Gail Morgan Hickman | Gail Morgan Hickman | May 21, 1997 | |
| Ellison and Sandburg work with a twenty year old woman who recently awoke from a ten year coma. They try to solve the murder of her parents and to help her adjust to losing ten years out of her life. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 35 | 1 | "Warriors" | Danny Bilson | David L. Newman | September 10, 1997 | |
| Incacaha and other members of the Chopec tribe Jim lived with in Peru come to Cascade to confront officers of the oil company that is destroying their jungle. | ||||||
| 36 | 2 | "Three Point Shot" | Danny Bilson | Darrell Fetty | September 17, 1997 | |
| Sandburg meets his hero Orville Wallace, legendary Cascade Jags basketball player, when Wallace is suspected in the killing of his confrontational fellow player, Dwight Rossman. | ||||||
| 37 | 3 | "The Girl Next Door" | William Gereghty | Harold Apter | September 24, 1997 | |
| The girl next door is beautiful, charming--and involved in an illegal drug trafficking ring. | ||||||
| 38 | 4 | "Poachers" | Tony Westman | Tony Westman | October 1, 1997 | |
| Jim and Blair stumble into a ring poaching endangered animals. | ||||||
| 39 | 5 | "The Inside Man" | Bruce Bilson | Harv Zimmel | October 15, 1997 | |
| Ellison goes undercover as a bodyguard for a mob boss. He tries to help the mobster's daughter-in-law and her young son escape from the man's influence. | ||||||
| 40 | 6 | "Vendetta" | Tim Van Patten | David Thoreau | October 29, 1997 | |
| Ellison nearly crashes into the car of a computer hacker. The enraged man stalks Ellison, complicating the safe cracking case Jim is working. | ||||||
| 41 | 7 | "Fool Me Twice" | John J. Connor | John Vorhaus | November 5, 1997 | |
| During an Amnesty International peace conference Blair helps Jim protect one of the delegates, Genevieve Benet. | ||||||
| 42 | 8 | "Storm Warning" | Oley Sassone | Peter Lance | November 12, 1997 | |
| Jim and Blair visit Storm Island to celebrate Jim's Coast Guard Cousin Rucker's birthday. With a storm rolling in, they rescue Monique, runaway mistress of a drug lord. They find she is not what she seems when the cartel comes after her. | ||||||
| 43 | 9 | "Red Ice" | William Gereghty | Richard Maxwell | November 19, 1997 | |
| When a celebrated Russian poet and activist is publicly assassinated on the steps of Cascade Museum, Jim and Blair have to work with the Moscow police - but Jim and the assassin have met before. | ||||||
| 44 | 10 | "Dead Certain" | Bruce Bilson | Gail Morgan Hickman | November 26, 1997 | |
| When a body drops from the sky over Cascade, the trail leads Jim and Blair to Pine Crest, a tiny place where nothing ever happens. As if. Throw in new, pushy, over-eager forensic chief Cassie Welles and life gets very complicated very fast. | ||||||
| 45 | 11 | "Breaking Ground" | William Gereghty | Story by : Steven Kriozere and Harold Apter & Laurence Frank Teleplay by : Harold Apter | December 17, 1997 | |
| A murder at a harbourside excavation site opens up an ancient plot involving Freemasons, Illuminati, corrupt builders and a hidden mysterious room full of treasure. Or does it? | ||||||
| 46 | 12 | "Prisoner X" | Richard Compton | Story by : Rick Husky Teleplay by : Rick Husky & Laurence Frank | January 14, 1998 | |
| When prisoners at Starkville jail are found savagely beaten - and in at least one case, dead - Jim goes undercover as an inmate to investigate. This would be easier if one of the prisoners had not recognised him. | ||||||
| 47 | 13 | "The Trance" | James Marshall | Ann Powell | January 21, 1998 | |
| When a young, ambitious Cuban lawyer-to-be is shot, suspicion turns on the police. When one of the arresting cops is shot, it's believed to be payback. But the situation is more complex, as Jim and Blair soon find out. | ||||||
| 48 | 14 | "Mirror Image" | Rich Tabach | Story by : Rich Tabach Teleplay by : David H. Balkan | February 11, 1998 | |
| Someone is beating then killing criminals who got off on technicalities. The MO is identical to that of the killer who shot Cassie in her previous post. But he is in a maximum security prison. It can not be him - can it? | ||||||
| 49 | 15 | "Finkelman's Folly" | Michael Lacoe | Harold Apter | February 18, 1998 | |
| While Simon is recovering in hospital from being shot, he overhears a murder being planned - placing his life in immediate jeopardy. Meanwhile his substitute is trying to take down a major crime lord - by herself. | ||||||
| 50 | 16 | "Sweet Science" | William Gereghty | Lawrence Frank | February 25, 1998 | |
| The death of a dear friend of Blair's uncovers some unpleasant sporting politics and a web of corruption involving murder and counterfeit money. | ||||||
| 51 | 17 | "Remembrance" | Dick Van Patten | Joseph Johnson & Tom Fudge | March 11, 1998 | |
| Childhood rivalry, two very different sorts of fatherly abuse, and the discovery of his friend's body in the woods when he was ten, combine in the present day to place Jim and his father in deadly peril. | ||||||
| 52 | 18 | "Love Kills" | William Gereghty | Story by : J. Rae Fox Teleplay by : Lydia Look | March 18, 1998 | |
| Jim's senses go into overdrive when he bumps into the long-lost love of his life while investigating the killing of an apparent Buddhist monk. But Lila is in Cascade on a mission. | ||||||
| 53 | 19 | "Crossroads" | John J. Connor | Rick Husky | April 22, 1998 | |
| Jim leaves for a solitary trip. Suspecting he is hiding the location of the perfect fishing spot, Blair and Simon track him, only to find themselves all caught up in an army and CDC lockdown of a town wracked by a sudden, mysterious disease. | ||||||
| 54 | 20 | "Foreign Exchange" | Bruce Bilson | Story by : Harold Apter & Laurence Frank Teleplay by : Gail Morgan Hickman & David H. Balkan | April 29, 1998 | |
| Feisty, insubordinate Australian cop Megan Connor temporarily joins Cascade PD as an observer. However, she is not here by chance - she has her own agenda, and if achieving it means ignoring Simon and Jim's orders, so be it. | ||||||
| 55 | 21 | "Neighborhood Watch" | Scott Williams | Harold Apter | May 6, 1998 | |
| The murder of a friend of Jim's spurs an investigation into crooked FBI agents, Federal Witness Protection clients, and gung-ho Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes. Much amusement, shenanigans and violence ensues. | ||||||
| 56 | 22 | "Night Shift" | James Marshall | Richard Maxwell | May 13, 1998 | |
| With half of Cascade's utilities companies on strike, police HQ is in chaos - made worse by a murder witnessed by a man who believes he is an angel. There's an animal loose in the air ducts. And Jim breaking Blair's trust is the final straw. | ||||||
| 57 | 23 | "Sentinel Too: Part 1" | Richard Compton | Gail Morgan Hickman | May 20, 1998 | |
| Blair encounters a woman who is having problems with her senses. He finds out she has Sentinel abilities, and helps her cope with her abilities just as he helped Jim. Unknown to Blair, she is a criminal, and her team is on a crime spree in Cascade, Jim is on the case. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 58 | 1 | "Sentinel Too (Part 2)" | Tony Westman | David H. Balkan, Gail Morgan Hickman | February 1, 1999 | |
| Alexis attempted to kill Sandburg before escaping. Ellison arrives and tries to revive his friend. Then they head to Peru in pursuit of Alexis. | ||||||
| 59 | 2 | "Murder 101" | Don Kurt | Ron Taylor | February 8, 1999 | |
| When a top cyber security expert for hire is murdered and all his files stolen, Jim discovers that he'd been working for two rival high tech corporations. But what does that have to do with the troublesome student in Blair's class? | ||||||
| 60 | 3 | "Four Point Shot" | Danny Bilson | Harold Apter | February 15, 1999 | |
| Kincaide has escaped - again. This time his target is the Cascade sports arena: his plan, to force the Jaguars' sponsor into handing over $150 million. But Blair, and Simon and his son Daryl, being in the audience complicates matters. | ||||||
| 61 | 4 | "Dead End on Blank Street" | Don Kurt | David H. Balkan | February 22, 1999 | |
| Cocaine from a drug bust has gone missing - and Jim is the suspect. A complex tale of betrayal and broken dreams unfolds. | ||||||
| 62 | 5 | "The Waiting Room" | Michael Lacoe | Harold Apter | March 1, 1999 | |
| A present day murder leads to a revelation that may be able to finally clear up a 45 year old murder, and vindicate the victim and the boy (now a troubled, haunted man) who saw it happen. And Jim discovers a new ability. | ||||||
| 63 | 6 | "The Real Deal" | James Marshall | Harold Apter | May 10, 1999 | |
| Vince Deal, washed-up actor and occasional (usually mistaken) informant for Cascade PD, is sure he has a genuine case this time. Jim goes undercover to investigate - but finds Vince in his way at every turn. | ||||||
| 64 | 7 | "Most Wanted" | Scott Williams | Robert Bielak | May 17, 1999 | |
| Professional thief Harry wants to see his daughter and grandson one last time, but his position on the FBI's Most Wanted list makes that difficult - especially when another thief is using his MO and has killed two cops during a job. | ||||||
| 65 | 8 | "The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg" | Danny Bilson | Bill Froehlich | May 24, 1999 | |
| Blair's mother tries to help him out by giving his dissertation to a friend whose a publisher, so he can proof read it. He wants to publish it, soon everyone knows Jim's secret. The courts want to review all his cases, Jim is now plagued by people who want to meet the Sentinel, which causes problems as he tries to track down an assassin. Blair must decide whether which is more important his friendship with Jim, or his paper. | ||||||