The Sentinel Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Sentinel: Season 4 (1999)

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg

  After seeing Sandburg's thesis, the media exposes Ellison's powers, greatly jeopardizing the safety of a union leader facing death threats.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Most Wanted

  Ellison is assigned to protect a mother and son from her own father, one of the FBI's most wanted men. Richard Burgi stars

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Real Deal

  An actor (Robert Vaughn) who once played a TV detective helps reluctant Ellison catch a killer.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Waiting Room

  Sandburg and Ellison look for a connection between an abandoned corpse and the restless ghost of a woman murdered 45 years earlier.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Dead End on Blank Street

  Ellison falls for a femme fatale and may wind up in jail when she tries framing him for murder.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Four Point Shot

  A fanatical militia takes over at a nationally televised basketball game, and Sandburg and Banks end up in a hostage situation.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Murder 101

  The mysterious activities of two anthropology students are investigated. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 4 Episode 1: Sentinel Too : Part Two

  Part two of two. Jim finds himself in a stalemate situation with the opposing Sentinel. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

The Sentinel: Season 3 (1997 - 1998)

• Season 3 Episode 23: Sentinel Too : Part One

  Part one of two. Jim suspects another Sentinel may be operating in Cascade City. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 22: Night Shift

  A murder investigation is launched after a car crashes into the Cascade police station. Drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 21: Neighbourhood Watch

  A friend of Jim is killed in a car-bombing : leading him to suspect the victim was working on something which led to his death. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 20: Foreign Exchange

  Ellison reluctantly works with Australian police detective to thwart a robber's plan to hit a federal mint.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Crossroads

  A money heist, phony military officers and a train bound for nowhere thwart Ellison's peaceful fishing getaway in a remote town.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Love Kills

  Jim learns his former partner may be involved in a series of murders in Chinatown. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 17: Remembrance

  Ellison learns his special abilities began in youth when a childhood pal becomes a murder suspect.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Sweet Science

  When a boxer dies suddenly in the ring, all the evidence points to his younger brother as a potential suspect

• Season 3 Episode 15: Finkelman's Folly

  Ellison and Sandburg help the substitute chief bust a drug lord; recuperating Capt. Banks overhears doctors plotting a murder.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Mirror Image

  Ellison investigates how a mental institution patient could have first-hand knowledge of murders occurring around the city

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Trance

  The sole witness to a murder is a woman in a deep trance. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 12: Prisoner X

  Ellison becomes an inmate in hope of avenging the death of his friend, a model prisoner who was killed trying to escape.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Breaking Ground

  Greed leads to murder at an archaeological dig where a treasure map is supposed to lead to precious antiquities.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Dead Certain

  An unusual murder case leads to a corrupt plastic surgeon who gives wanted criminals new identities.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Red Ice

  Jim investigates when a famous poet is assassinated. American Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 8: Storm Warning

  Jim rescues a woman who turns out to be a drug dealer's ex-girlfriend. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 7: Fool Me Twice

  A murder investigation puts Ellison and Sandburg in the middle of a plot to assassinate a peace activist from a tyrannical nation.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Vendetta

  A man suffering from road rage torments Ellison, exposing him during an undercover operation.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Inside Man

  Working as a bodyguard for a crime family, Ellison tries to help a woman and her young son escape from the life of the mob.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Poachers

  Ellison busts poachers who turn out to be wardens investigating the sale of endangered species.

• Season 3 Episode 3: The Girl Next Door

  Police drama about a cop who uses his special powers to help solve crimes in Cascade, Washington. Richard Burgi stars

• Season 3 Episode 2: Three Point Shot

  Ellison investigates the murder of a man closely associated with a basketball team. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 3 Episode 1: Warriors

  Ellison sets out to track down a murderer from the tribe who helped him develop his special powers. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

The Sentinel: Season 2 (1996 - 1997)

• Season 2 Episode 24: Sleeping Beauty

  Ellison opens a murder investigation when a woman awakes from a coma and sheds new light on a deadly accident.

• Season 2 Episode 23: His Brother's Keeper

  A construction worker is murdered at a racetrack and his body hidden in a pillar. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 22: Survival

  A dangerous convict escapes during a transfer to another prison. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 21: Pennies from Heaven

  A ghetto neighbourhood community are surprised when an armoured car explodes - scattering $100 bills everywhere. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 20: Disappearing Act

  Ellison and Sandburg spot a Mob accountant previously thought to be dead. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 19: Private Eyes

  Ellison and Sandburg seek help from a psychic in their search for a kidnap victim. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 18: Smart Alec

  The team investigate the murder of a maintenance worker on a college campus. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi and Henri Brown

• Season 2 Episode 17: Red Dust

  Ellison and Sandburg pursue Russian mobsters who are blackmailing a desperate immigrant family into smuggling plutonium into the area.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Dead Drop

  Sandburg gets caught in a dangerous situation when an extortionist puts his evil plan into action. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 15: Secret

  A former military intelligence officer who runs a drug-smuggling operation kidnaps Ellison; guest Steven Ford.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Light My Fire

  Ellison is forced to enter a burning building to rescue an unconscious guard after an arsonist sets the place on fire. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 13: Hear No Evil

  Ellison sees an undercover detective thrown to his death from a helicopter. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 12: Blind Man's Bluff

  When Ellison investigates the influx of a designer drug his contact with the substance leaves him temporarily blind.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Black or White

  Ellison and Sandburg confront racism in the form of the White Aryan Resistance. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi and Henri Brown

• Season 2 Episode 10: Second Chance

  A girl is held hostage in a blackmail scheme - can Ellison and Sandburg get to her before it's too late? Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 9: Spare Parts

  Sandburg's mother (Leigh Taylor-Young) gets caught up in a trap Ellison has set to catch violent car-jackers.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Rig

  Jim and Blair investigate a series of mysterious deaths aboard an oil rig. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 7: Ice Man

  Ellison develops feelings for a young graduate student who works as a prostitute running an international extortion scheme.

• Season 2 Episode 6: True Crime

  A pushy camera crew hinders Ellison's pursuit of bank robbers when they film a day in the life of the detective.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Payback

  Ellison witnesses the outbreak of a vicious gang war. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 4: Reunion

  Captain Banks is suspected of murdering his high-school sweetheart. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

• Season 2 Episode 3: Deep Water

  Ellison becomes a suspect in a murder-for-hire case involving a kidnapping and his former partner who disappeared along with the ransom money.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Out of the Past

  Jim and Blair are assigned to protect a pop singer from an escaped convict. Police drama, guest starring Valerie Pettiford and Mitchell Kosterman

• Season 2 Episode 1: Flight

  Captain Banks disappears while attending an anti-drug conference in Peru, prompting Ellison and Sandburg to set out to find him. Police drama, starring Richard Burgi

The Sentinel: Season 1 (1996)

• Season 1 Episode 10: Vow of Silence

  Jim is forced to take a vacation at a remote monastery, but his holiday takes an unpleasant turn when one of the monks is found dead. Richard Burgi stars

• Season 1 Episode 9: Attraction

  Ellison's strange attraction to a beautiful woman during a jewel-heist case leads Sandburg (Garett Maggart) to identify the diamond thief.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Love and Guns

  Sandburg (Garett Maggart) jeopardizes Ellison's investigation of an international weapons cartel when he falls in love with the daughter of the cartel leader.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Rogue

  An urban terrorist threatens to release a canister of Ebola virus unless Ellison (Richard Burgi) helps him steal an Air Force reconnaissance plane.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Night Train

  Flu-stricken Ellison (Richard Burgi) suffers adverse effects from medicine while escorting a police informant via train to the witness protection program.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Cypher

  Jim and Blair try to prove a spate of murders are actually the work of a serial killer. Richard Burgi stars

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Debt

  Jim inadvertently gets involved in a gang war when Blair moves into an apartment next to an illegal drug lab. Guest starring Sherman Augustus

• Season 1 Episode 3: Killers

  Jim witnesses the shooting of an undercover cop and tries to use his super-powers to help catch the killer. Richard Burgi stars

• Season 1 Episode 2: Siege

  Sandburg (Garett Maggart) becomes a hostage when a paramilitary group takes over the central police department.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Switchman

  The sole survivor of a plane crash develops extraordinary senses of perception, allowing him to survive in the jungle for years. On his return home, he becomes a policeman and uses his abilities in the fight against crime - starting with the case of a notorious terrorist bomber. First episode of the sci-fi drama. Molly Parker guest stars