Episode 1
Flight
Sep 4, 1996
During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lumbering operation run by a man named Reischer.
Episode 2
Out of the Past
Sep 11, 1996
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Episode 3
Deep Water
Sep 18, 1996
At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.
Episode 4
Reunion
Sep 25, 1996
When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer's hometown.
Episode 5
Payback
Oct 2, 1996
Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.
Episode 6
True Crime
Oct 9, 1996
Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a piece on him for her show "True Crime."
Episode 7
Ice Man
Oct 30, 1996
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
Episode 8
The Rig
Nov 6, 1996
When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them walking a decidedly watery beat.
Episode 9
Spare Parts
Nov 13, 1996
Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.
Episode 10
Second Chance
Nov 20, 1996
When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her safely home.
Episode 11
Black or White
Nov 27, 1996
When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in their city.
Episode 12
Blind Man's Bluff
Jan 8, 1997
Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.
Episode 13
Hear No Evil
Jan 15, 1997
Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his men retrieve the body from the harbor, then learns the case has been placed under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs investigator Sheila Irwin.
Episode 14
Light My Fire
Feb 5, 1997
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Episode 15
Secret
Feb 12, 1997
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Episode 16
Dead Drop
Feb 19, 1997
Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummeting to its doom unless a hefty ransom is paid.
Episode 17
Red Dust
Feb 26, 1997
A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the theft of a mysterious black suitcase from the woman's boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellison's "Sentinel" intuition leads him to discover a gold neckchain worn by Sergei is, in fact, radioactive.
Episode 18
Smart Alec
Mar 12, 1997
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
Episode 19
Private Eyes
Mar 26, 1997
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
Episode 20
Vanishing Act
Apr 9, 1997
Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over escaping in his car.
Episode 21
Pennies from Heaven
Apr 30, 1997
An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investigate, but Marcus Watson, the sole witness, has vanished and no one in the ghetto is giving back the money they found.
Episode 22
Survival
May 7, 1997
Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars from the Federal Reserve that has never been found, is transported in an armored police vehicle through a stretch of forested wilderness by a team of cops assisted by Banks, Ellison and Sandburg.
Episode 23
His Brother's Keeper
May 14, 1997
A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the opening of the racetrack with friends, and Ellison attends a police benefit at the track's turf club. During the benefit event, one of Banks' friends is pushed from the roof, and falls to his death in what looks to the partygoers to be a suicide.
Episode 24
Sleeping Beauty
May 21, 1997
Eight years ago: A 12-year-old girl named Stacey is woken in the middle of the night by her parents, who take her and flee their home. The family's car is run off the road, killing the parents and placing Stacey in a coma.
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