First Wave — Season 1
All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 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
On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.
- 03
With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.
- 04
A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.
- 05
A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.
- 06
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.
- 07
A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.
- 11
After learning that a traveling salesman has been institutionalized because he is in a constant hallucinatory state, Cade checks into a small California inn the salesman had recently stayed at.
- 12
When a teen girl is tormented by her peers, she accidentally sets another student on fire using only her mind.
- 13
Cade travels to New York City where Hannah's best friend offers to help him meet with a top-notch criminal lawyer to clear his name.
- 14
While spying through his telescope, a teenager sees his sexy neighbor get shot and then get up unharmed.
- 15
Cade returns to Chicago to visit Hannah's grave and is captured by the police.
- 16
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.
- 17
A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.
- 18
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.
- 19
Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.
- 20
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.
- 21
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.
- 22
Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.
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