First Wave — Season 2
All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Cade travels to an island to search for a man who has contacted them, saying that he has escaped an alien experiment. Too late, Eddie realizes it is a trap.Quatrain 99, Century 1: "Heed the call to the island of commerce / Cut be watchful of footsteps that lead unto battle / Look to the light to guide thee / The hacking blade has a double edge".
- 02
An astronomer friend of Eddie's has proof of a meteor coming through a wormhole, but is murdered by a Gua agent before he can send it to Eddie. He sent a copy to a U.S. Senator who denies receiving the package.Quatrain 42, Century 5: "When the sun bursts forth at night / The life of a starwatcher is lost / But the truth revealed in the heavens / Is carried to a high magistrate".
- 03
Cade travels to a small town in Wyoming that is being terrorized by a motorcycle gang called The Apostles.Quatrain 54, Century 7: "Iron horses blaze a vengeful trail / The first of many to follow / Their method must be chartered / Or liberty will fall".
- 04
Cade is led to a group of empaths with the ability to influence the thoughts of others. While investigating, he begins to realize the group is under the covert control of a murderous alien.Quatrain 23, Century 3: "The two-sighted will meet death in sleep / Purged from the nightmare of a hidden enemy / Barricades protect spurious sleep / And the spectre is lanced with a common blade".
- 05
After nearly dying in a hit and run accident, a woman begins spouting quatrains every time she sees a bright light.Quatrain 4, Century 9: "She will rise from the dead with words of fortune on her lips / For one in need of purpose / A dispatch to the twice blessed man".
- 06
Cade infiltrates a Red Flag competition at West Point military academy, where choice candidates are groomed for government leadership.Quatrain 18, Century 10: "The town will not ring its cracked bell for the hero has gone astray / The crimson banner lures the one and the many / With each victory so will victory undo".
- 07
Cade suspects an alien influence while investigating a casino on a Native American reservation.Quatrain 43, century 9: "In the woods of Winchala a cimmis lights the flame of affliction / Elders set the course / To choose wrongly will mean woe".
- 08
Treachery is afoot amongst the acolytes on Earth and Joshua is enlisted to ferret out the traitors.
- 09
Working in a subway tunnel, a jackhammer operator discovers the body of a travel writer encased in a concrete wall, She is alive and hasn't aged, even though the wall was constructed fifty years before.Quatrain 19 Century 4: "A maiden cut aloft from humanity / Locked in a coffin of stone / Her resurrection a clue for the man twice blessed / Till the fate of her soul has been sealed".
- 10
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".
- 11
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".
- 12
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".
- 13
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".
- 14
Eddie must take on the aliens at his high school reunion when he discovers his friends are being kidnapped and interrogated by the Gua.
- 15
The death of a murderer and a Nostradamus quatrain lead Cade and Eddie to an amusement park in search of another pocket dimension.Quatrain 32, century 1: "Through a threshold of light the savage land spits youth most murderous / Amid machines that amuse / Comes a reckoning for the man twice blessed".
- 16
Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.Quatrain 21, Century 8: "On the fields of revolution / Where England's traitor king runneth / Passion's dew is stolen from opulence / The undercroft keeps the salve of enemy wounds".
- 17
Cade finds himself in a secret government facility where he is told his mission to fight the Gua is being observed. Suspecting a hoax, he attempts to reveal the Gua in the facility.
- 18
An alien experiment involving bare knuckle fighters draws Cade Foster and an old prison friend to enter a boxing competition.Quatrain 63, Century 9: "In a city risen from blue grey ash, gladiators vie for blood stained glory / The fabric of man undergoes lethal alchemy / A patron of his own destruction".
- 19
Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.
- 20
Foster poses as a gunman to probe the Gua infiltration of organized crime.Quatrain 46, Century 9: "In the City of Fountains, blood spills between families of disrepute / Seek an alliance with the steed / As the enemy makes ready for battle".
- 21
Cade Foster wakes up in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation.
- 22
Foster and Eddie take over a TV station at gunpoint to get the message out to the world about the alien invasion.
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