The Sentinel - Episode Guide

Episode List

Season 1

The Switchman

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1996

Captain James Ellison, US Army Rangers, is rescued after spending eighteen months on a mission in Peru. Five years later, he is a detective for the Cascade, Washington police when he starts to have problems with his senses: seeing and hearing things others cannot. When he loses a suspect as a result, he wants answers and finds them in an Anthropology grad student named Blair Sandburg.

Siege

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1996

Garrett Kincaid, leader of the Sunrise Patriots, invades the Cascade PD building in a bid to free two of his men convicted of a series of bombings.

Killers

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1996

Ellison is determined to hunt down the man who killed his friend, Danny. It doesn't matter that the suspect, Tommy Juno, has an air tight alibi or that Ellison's senses are fading in and out.

The Debt

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1996

The destruction of a drug lab is the first step in an all out gang war unless Ellison can figure out who is really behind it.

Cypher

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1996

Ellison investigates a serial killer who drowns his victims and then impersonates them.

Night Train

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: May 1, 1996

Ellison and Sandburg must bring a reluctant witness to Cascade. The witness refuses to fly and Ellison's senses are acting up do to a dose of cold medicine.

Rogue

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: May 8, 1996

A rogue CIA agent steals a canister of Ebola in order to coerce Ellison into helping steal a top secret plane.

Love and Guns

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: May 15, 1996

After a foiled bank robbery, Ellison tracks down the source of the high-powered weaponry the bank robbers were using. The case is complicated by a by-the-book AFT agent and Sandburg becoming romantically entangled with the daughter of Ellison's chief suspect.

Attraction

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: May 22, 1996

Ellison is distracted from an investigation into a series of jewelry robberies by a woman with whom he has a primal attraction.

Vow of Silence

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1996

Sandburg takes Ellison to a monastery as a vacation and a chance to recharge his Sentinel abilities. The vacation is cut short, however, when someone starts killing the monks.

Season 2

Flight

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1996

Simon takes Daryl along on a trip to Peru in order to bond with his son. When their helicopter is reported shot down, Ellison and Sandburg fly to Peru to find them. However, Ellison's senses are offline and a spirit guide tells him he must make a choice about his future and his heightened senses.