The essential episodes of Alphas
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Alphas — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Dr. Lee Rosen and his team of Alphas, extraordinary individuals who can stretch the capabilities of the human mind, investigate an implausible murder at the behest of the Department of Defense.
- 02
Moving in on a Red Flag stranglehold, Dr. Rosen and his team encounter a group of Alphas with unfathomable abilities. After they escape capture, Gary connects with their prisoner, Anna.
- 03
Bill and Gary's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Gary pursue an outside case, putting their Alpha powers to the ultimate test.
- 04
Agent Sullivan charges Dr. Rosen and the Alphas team with tracking down and protecting Skylar, an Alpha and technology whiz with a penchant for amazing inventions which, in the wrong hands, could prove highly dangerous.
- 05
The team finds themselves under siege by an undetectable Alpha.
- 06
When a member of the team is suspected of being an agent for Red Flag, Dr. Rosen and the Alphas are abducted and held against their will in the Binghamton facility until the traitor is revealed.
- 07
Dr. Rosen and his team must decide who to trust when Red Flag, led by Stanton Parish, escalates the war on the Department of Defense.
- 08
Nine months after Rosen revealed the existence of Alphas to the world his team has been blown apart. But, when two of their own are taken hostage our team must come back together to save their lives.
- 09
The Team investigates an Alpha-related crime spree leading to one of their own, who is in the midst of a dangerous emotional breakdown. Our Team races to stop them before they hurt themselves or someone else.
- 10
A powerful Alpha seems to have lost his mind and is attacking people at a hospital forcing, but as the team tracks him down they each begin to lose touch with reality.
- 11
Rosen enlists Alpha tech-whiz Skylar Adams to help to discover the purpose of an Alpha enhancing technology, but Rosen's zeal puts both Skylar and her daughter in grave danger.
- 12
Our team comes face to face with further evidence of Parish's evil agenda when a young Alpha reveals a deadly mind control ability which leads to a showdown between Rosen and Parish.
- 13
Now that Rosen has discovered the identity of the mole, he must face down the nearly impossible choice of what to do next. Meanwhile, the team takes on their individual family issues: Hicks' son Tyler comes for a surprise visit and John gets to meet Rachel's parents. And Kat gets her first case, tracking a mysterious new street drug that makes users temporarily invincible.
- 14
When Hicks turns defector and beginning working for Parish, Rosen and the team can only wonder: has Hicks truly turned, or is he playing a deeper game involving Dani? The truth comes out when the team uncovers Parish's plot to cause a massive, deadly blackout, and victory will come at a cost that none of them are prepared to pay.
- 15
Separated from the team and haunted by vivid hallucinations of his daughter, Dani, an injured and increasingly desperate Doctor Rosen seeks a final confrontation with Alpha leader Stanton Parish. Meanwhile the team battles both the clock and their own mutual distrust to thwart Parish's deadly plans.
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