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First Wave

Season 1 · 22 episodes · Sep 9, 1998

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    Episode 1

    Subject 117

    Sep 9, 1998

    After having disturbing visions and finding a man who was in one of his visions dead of suicide, Cade Foster's life is suddenly turned upside down; his house bugged, credit cards not working, job gone, and his wife terrified even to go home, things go from bad to worse.

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    Episode 2

    Crazy Eddie

    Sep 16, 1998

    On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.

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    Episode 3

    Mata Hari

    Sep 23, 1998

    With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.

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    Episode 4

    Hypnotic

    Sep 30, 1998

    A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.

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    Episode 5

    Elixir

    Oct 7, 1998

    A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.

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    Episode 6

    Speaking in Tongues

    Oct 14, 1998

    Cade poses as a drifter to investigate a religious cult and finds that the messianic leader is delivering a message to beware of an impending invasion.

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    Episode 7

    Lungfish

    Oct 21, 1998

    A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.

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    Episode 8

    Book of Shadows

    Oct 28, 1998

    Cade and Eddie travel to Salem, Oregon, where a high school student accused of killing three high-ranking members of the community claims that she is a witch and the victims were not human but demons.

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    Episode 9

    Joshua

    Nov 4, 1998

    Cade is on the run in the Montana wilderness as the police and U.S. Marshalls surround him. Posing as a Marshall, Joshua joins the hunt.

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    Episode 10

    Marker 262

    Nov 11, 1998

    Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.

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    Episode 11

    Motel California

    Nov 18, 1998

    Investigating a small California inn, Cade becomes one of the subjects of an alien experiment that makes the guests' dreams come alive so that they can no longer tell what is real and what is merely a beguiling illusion.

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    Episode 12

    Breeding Ground

    Nov 25, 1998

    Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.

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    Episode 13

    Blue Agave

    Dec 2, 1998

    Contacting his late wife's best friend for help, Cade discovers that she and other members of an exclusive club are the subjects of an alien experiment that uses a parasitic blue worm to read people's memories.

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    Episode 14

    Cul-De-Sac

    Dec 9, 1998

    Following up on a report by a teenage boy about a sexy alien woman who is impervious to bullets, Cade discovers that she is manipulating the men in the community to do her bidding by means of a pheromone ingredient in her perfume.

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    Episode 15

    The Box

    Dec 16, 1998

    Going back home to visit his wife's grave, Cade is captured by police officers and interrogated, but he manages to turn the tables on them and find out important information about the alien agenda.

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    Episode 16

    Undesirables

    Dec 23, 1998

    Joshua's latest assignment is to track down and assassinate the Gua agent assigned to keep tabs on a physics professor who may be on the verge of discovering wormhole technology. The agent has fallen in love with the professor and must be killed before she reveals secrets of Gua technology to him.

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    Episode 17

    Second Wave

    Dec 30, 1998

    A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.

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    Episode 18

    Blind Witness

    Jan 6, 1999

    Cade fakes a diabetic seizure to get admitted to a hospital to look for an ally promised in one of the prophecies. In an unused wing of the hospital, he finds a blind woman who is undergoing an experimental treatment to regain her sight.

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    Episode 19

    Deluge

    Jan 13, 1999

    Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.

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    Episode 20

    Melody

    Jan 20, 1999

    After a rock concert erupts into violence, Cade and Eddie find a Nostradamus quatrain that seems to suggest that music might be making young people aggressive.

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    Episode 21

    The Aftertime

    Jun 19, 1999

    A teenager accidentally intercepts a Gua transmission on his ham radio and records it on a disc. Cade races against the Gua to retrieve it.

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    Episode 22

    The Decision

    Jun 30, 1999

    Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.