The Sentinel (1996–1999)

1. S01E01The SwitchmanMarch 20, 1996 7.0The sole survivor of an Army plane crash in the Peruvian hinterlands, Jim Ellison subsisted for nearly two years on his raw animal instincts
2. S01E02SiegeMarch 27, 1996—The town of Cascade is brought to its knees when Garrett Kincaid, a notorious criminal that Jim Ellison had arrested years before, seizes co
3. S01E03The KillersApril 3, 1996—After witnessing the death of undercover officer Danny Choi at the hands of a sniper named Tommy Juno, Jim uses his enhanced vision to ident
4. S01E04The DebtApril 10, 1996—When Blair unknowingly moves into an apartment next to the drug lab of a local gang (dubbed the 357), Jim suddenly finds himself embroiled i
5. S01E05CypherApril 24, 1996—Blair and Jim, along with forensics specialist Carolyn Plummer, suspect that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are actually the work o
6. S01E06Night TrainMay 1, 1996—Jim and Blair are assigned to escort Derek Wilson, a key witness in a local homicide case, on his train ride from Oregon to the courthouse i
7. S01E07RogueMay 8, 1996—While guest-lecturing in Blair's anthropology class, Jim saves the entire building from a deadly gas leak only to discover that the leak was
8. S01E08Love and GunsMay 15, 1996—After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.
9. S01E09AttractionMay 22, 1996—Jim's sentinel abilities detect something strange at the crime scenes of all the recent jewelry robberies but he's unable to figure out exac
10. S01E10Vow of SilenceJuly 17, 1996—Blair forces Jim to take a vacation at a remote monastery. Initially reluctant, Ellison begins to enjoy the solitude until one of the monks

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01FlightSeptember 4, 1996—During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lu
2. S02E02Out of the PastSeptember 11, 1996—Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
3. S02E03Deep WaterSeptember 18, 1996—At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/mu
4. S02E04ReunionSeptember 25, 1996—When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer
5. S02E05PaybackOctober 2, 1996—Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representativ
6. S02E06True CrimeOctober 9, 1996—Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a p
7. S02E07Ice ManOctober 30, 1996—Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
8. S02E08The RigNovember 6, 1996—When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them wa
9. S02E09Spare PartsNovember 13, 1996—Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.
10. S02E10Second ChanceNovember 20, 1996—When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune,
11. S02E11Black or WhiteNovember 27, 1996—When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of th
12. S02E12Blind Man's BluffJanuary 8, 1997—Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellis
13. S02E13Hear No EvilJanuary 15, 1997—Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his m
14. S02E14Light My FireFebruary 5, 1997—An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
15. S02E15SecretFebruary 12, 1997—Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
16. S02E16Dead DropFebruary 19, 1997—Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummetin
17. S02E17Red DustFebruary 26, 1997—A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the th
18. S02E18Smart AlecMarch 12, 1997—Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
19. S02E19Private EyesMarch 26, 1997—During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
20. S02E20Vanishing ActApril 9, 1997—Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over esc
21. S02E21Pennies from HeavenApril 30, 1997—An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investi
22. S02E22SurvivalMay 7, 1997—Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars from the Federal Reserve that has never been found, is transported in an ar
23. S02E23His Brother's KeeperMay 14, 1997—A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the openi
24. S02E24Sleeping BeautyMay 21, 1997—Eight years ago: A 12-year-old girl named Stacey is woken in the middle of the night by her parents, who take her and flee their home. The f

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01WarriorsSeptember 10, 1997—In the Peruvian jungle, a Chopec Sentinel named Incacha is enraged by the pollution of his land by a contaminated oil well and the murder of
2. S03E02Three Point ShotSeptember 17, 1997—When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must calculate the difference between a good shot and a deadly one
3. S03E03The Girl Next DoorSeptember 24, 1997—Blair falls for Jim's new neighbor; a beautiful woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isn't as innocent as she ap
4. S03E04PoachersOctober 1, 1997—While Captain Banks, Blair, and Jim are fishing together they stumble across a poaching ring that's hooked up with a powerful Chinese gangst
5. S03E05The Inside ManOctober 15, 1997—Using his sentinel powers, Jim saves Edward, the grandson of Mafia don Dominick Lazar, from drowning. When Don Dominick himself thanks Jim f
6. S03E06VendettaOctober 29, 1997—After a minor car accident and heated argument with the driver, Dan Freeman, Jim Ellison finds that this unbalanced man has targeted him for
7. S03E07Fool Me TwiceNovember 5, 1997—During a local Amnesty International conference, Ellison and Sandburg are assigned to watch over Genevieve Benet, the outspoken St. Germaini
8. S03E08Storm WarningNovember 12, 1997—Visiting his cousin Rucker on a remote island, Jim learns that people on deserted islands don't always pursue the "natural life." While resc
9. S03E09Red IceNovember 19, 1997—Poet Dimitri Gordienski is killed by a sniper at Cascade's Russian Arts Festival. Captain Banks wants the case resolved quickly before the f
10. S03E10Dead CertainNovember 26, 1997—When a dead body falls out of the sky with every bone broken, every organ shattered, and no identification, Ellison and Sandburg know that t
11. S03E11Breaking GroundDecember 17, 1997—When archaeology student Martin Gillman is buried alive by a cave-in at an excavation site, Ellison and Sandburg suspect foul play. As they
12. S03E12Prisoner XJanuary 14, 1998—Jim Ellison agrees to go undercover as an inmate in Starkville Prison to investigate a series of suspicious prisoner suicides. He must depen
13. S03E13The TranceJanuary 21, 1998—When a local Santeria ceremony goes wrong, one man is dead and the only witness is a woman who was deep in a religious trance while she unkn
14. S03E14Mirror ImageFebruary 11, 1998—Jim Ellison can't explain how Warren Chapel, a permanent patient at a maximum-security mental institution, has detailed firsthand knowledge
15. S03E15Finkelman's FollyFebruary 18, 1998—When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman steps in as his replacement and steps on s
16. S03E16Sweet ScienceFebruary 25, 1998—It's guys' night out for Ellison and Sandburg as they watch Sandburg's old buddy, boxer "Sweet" Roy Williams fight a few rounds. Things turn
17. S03E17RemembranceMarch 11, 1998—Professor Robert McCain, the Rainier University expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates b
18. S03E18Love KillsMarch 18, 1998—Some visiting Buddhist monks start dying in Cascade's Chinatown district and Lila, Jim's old love from his days in Bali, seems to be involve
19. S03E19CrossroadsApril 22, 1998—Ellison, Blair, and Captain Banks are trapped in Clayton Falls when some overzealous military officers quarantine the small town. Apparently
20. S03E20Foreign ExchangeApril 29, 1998—When the federal mint is targeted for a major heist, Ellison and Sandburg are joined by Megan Conner, a visiting police officer from Austral
21. S03E21Neighborhood WatchMay 6, 1998—Jim's friend Roger Corman, a U.S. Marshall, is killed in a car bombing before he can reveal the name of a corrupt marshall that he's uncover
22. S03E22Night ShiftMay 13, 1998—When a car comes barreling into the Cascade Police Station in the middle of the night, the Sentinel team finds themselves abruptly thrown in
23. S03E23Sentinel Too (1)May 20, 1998—With Ellison having strange visions of jaguars and a series of superhumanly performed thefts occurring around the city, Blair and Jim suspec

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01Sentinel Too (2)February 1, 1999—Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town.
2. S04E02Murder 101February 8, 1999—It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blair's anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities
3. S04E03Four Point ShotFebruary 15, 1999—Ellison knows that the city is in for trouble when Garrett Kincaid, the leader of the Sunrise Patriots militia group, escapes from prison. W
4. S04E04Dead End on Blank StreetFebruary 22, 1999—When Internal Affairs accuses him of stealing money captured in local drug busts, Ellison finds that during this case he's forced to answer
5. S04E05The Waiting RoomMarch 1, 1999—A present day murder leads to a revelation that may be able to finally clear up a 45 year old murder, and vindicate the victim and the boy (
6. S04E06The Real DealMay 10, 1999—When retired television actor Vince Deal suspects that one of his friends has been murdered he enlists the help of Jim Ellison.
7. S04E07Most WantedMay 17, 1999—Professional thief Harry wants to see his daughter and grandson one last time, but his position on the FBI's Most Wanted list makes that dif
8. S04E08The Sentinel by Blair SandburgMay 24, 1999—When Blair's mother Naomi secretly submits her son's Sentinel thesis paper to a publisher, Jim discovers that being famous can be detrimenta

Season 4 ranked & reviewed