The best episodes of First Wave
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
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.
- 02
Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.Fifth Omega Quatrain: "As the Second Wave is nigh / Four must be chained strong as one / Hammer can smite victory / If honor is granted to Xevallah".
- 03
A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.
- 04
Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.
- 05
When a teen girl is tormented by her peers, she accidentally sets another student on fire using only her mind.
- 06
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.
- 07
Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.
- 08
When Cade is hired to steal an item, it becomes a life and death fight for survival.Quatrain 29, century 4: "The weapon will fall upon cities unless thieves deliver humanity from woe / The enemy of triumph is intellect / For faculties failure requires sense anew".
- 09
When a losing small town high school football team is suddenly vying for the state championship, Cade poses as a college football recruiter to investigate.Quatrain 19, Century 11: Where the good river runs north, young fortunes are reversed in mock battle / Enslavement takes myriad forms / The key to them all is control".
- 10
Wounded while fleeing the police, Cade hijacks a car and forces the driver to take him home with her.Quatrain 29, Century 7: "Three rivers amidst iron wrought / Barren ground shall be sowed once more / The hunter and the hunted are one / When shadows descend on the twice blessed man".
- 11
In a college town, teens have been dying of aneurisms during attempts at having sex.Quatrain 66, Century 7: "Where the waters are contained, nature's course is obstructed / And youth imprisoned by devil's lightning / Whose use shall tame the rivals' ardor".
- 12
Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.
- 13
Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.Quatrain 26, Century 9: "As the Apocalypse draws near the adherents are summoned / Down to the catacombs they flee, pursued by an enemy none can see".
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