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The Best Episodes of First Wave

Every episode of First Wave ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of First Wave!

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Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    First Wave Season 2 Episode 14 - All About Eddie
    8.6/10(43 votes)

    S2:E14

    Eddie must take on the aliens at his high school reunion when he discovers his friends are being kidnapped and interrogated by the Gua.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Bert Salke

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  2. First Wave Season 3 Episode 14 - Legacy
    8.5/10(47 votes)

    S3:E14

    Jordan is ambushed by the Gua at the Radcliffe Foundation annual ball, where she learns the shocking truth about her late father's demise.

    Director:Rob LaBelle
    Writer:Paul Eckstein

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  3. First Wave Season 3 Episode 22 - Twice Bless'd
    8.5/10(33 votes)

    S3:E22

    Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Fergus Cook

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  4. First Wave Season 1 Episode 17 - Second Wave
    8.3/10(63 votes)

    S1:E17

    A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writers:David Wilcox, Chris Brancato

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  5. First Wave Season 1 Episode 9 - Joshua
    8.2/10(54 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  6. First Wave Season 3 Episode 21 - Terminal City
    8.2/10(28 votes)

    S3:E21

    Foster travels to the future to locate the Hammer, a Gua weapon that has the power to determine the fate of humankind. But he discovers that the Resistance has crumbled and his counterpart has lost hope.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Michael Thoma

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  7. First Wave Season 1 Episode 6 - Speaking in Tongues
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Graeme Lynch
    Writer:Jeff F. King

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  8. First Wave Season 1 Episode 8 - Book of Shadows
    8.1/10(64 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Dan E. Fesman

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  9. First Wave Season 2 Episode 22 - The Believers
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    S2:E22

    Foster and Eddie take over a TV station at gunpoint to get the message out to the world about the alien invasion.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Bert Salke

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  10. First Wave Season 3 Episode 1 - Mabus
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    S3:E1

    Jordan Radcliffe joins Cade and Eddie to fight the aliens. The Gua make a clone of Cade.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  11. First Wave Season 3 Episode 20 - Beneath The Black Sky
    8.1/10(27 votes)

    S3:E20

    Foster encounters Xevallah, the mysterious stranger who rescued him from the Gua when he was a child. Xevellah teaches Foster the essential wisdom of forgiveness and prepares him for the final battle with the Gua.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. First Wave Season 1 Episode 1 - Subject 117
    8.0/10(101 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Brenton Spencer
    Writer:Chris Brancato

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  13. First Wave Season 1 Episode 15 - The Box
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    S1:E15

    Going back home to visit his wife's grave, Cade is captured by police officers and interrogated, but he manages to turn the tables on them and find out important information about the alien agenda.

    Director:George Mendeluk
    Writer:Chris Brancato

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  14. First Wave Season 1 Episode 18 - Blind Witness
    7.9/10(49 votes)

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  15. First Wave Season 2 Episode 17 - Rubicon
    7.9/10(36 votes)

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:David Wilcox

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  16. First Wave Season 3 Episode 6 - Still At Large
    7.9/10(36 votes)

    S3:E6

    Foster and Jordan go undercover in a Chicago police station in order to find documents that allegedly prove Cade Foster's innocence in his wife's murder.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Gary Sherman

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  17. First Wave Season 3 Episode 10 - The Plan
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    S3:E10

    When Mabus dissolves the Gua Assembly, his military leaders are concerned that he is launching the second wave too early. They hatch a plan to assassinate him, with the help of Cade Foster.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Chris Brancato

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  18. First Wave Season 3 Episode 13 - Shadowland
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    S3:E13

    After Foster experiences a series of nightmares, he visits a hypnotherapist friendly to the Raven Nation and is led back into a childhood he has forgotten, including a suppressed encounter with the Gua.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writers:Michael J. Cinquemani, David Tynan

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  19. First Wave Season 1 Episode 3 - Mata Hari
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    S1:E3

    With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.

    Director:Brenton Spencer
    Writer:Scott Smith Miller

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  20. First Wave Season 1 Episode 4 - Hypnotic
    7.8/10(62 votes)

    S1:E4

    A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.

    Director:René Bonnière
    Writer:Paul Brown

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  21. First Wave Season 1 Episode 5 - Elixir
    7.8/10(59 votes)

    S1:E5

    A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.

    Director:Brenton Spencer
    Writer:Chris Brancato

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  22. First Wave Season 3 Episode 2 - Raven Nation
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    S3:E2

    Raven Nation is a resistance group that fashions themselves after the ethos of Cade Foster and his significance as a key in defeating the Gua. Jordan Radcliffe becomes Cade's most trusted ally within the group.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writers:Michael J. Cinquemani, Chris Brancato

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  23. First Wave Season 3 Episode 5 - The Flight of Francis Jeffries
    7.8/10(42 votes)

    S3:E5

    Foster investigates an alien experiment that will allow the Gua to transfer their consciousness without having to use husks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:David Wilcox, Michael Glassberg

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  24. First Wave Season 1 Episode 14 - Cul-De-Sac
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    S1:E14

    Following up on a report by a teenage boy about a sexy alien woman who is impervious to bullets, Cade discovers that she is manipulating the men in the community to do her bidding by means of a pheromone ingredient in her perfume.

    Director:Tibor Takács
    Writer:Bruce Zimmerman

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  25. First Wave Season 1 Episode 21 - The Aftertime
    7.7/10(46 votes)

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Mark Sobel
    Writer:Theresa Rebeck

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Best Episodes Summary

"All About Eddie" is the best rated episode of "First Wave". It scored 8.6/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by Mike Rohl and written by Chris Brancato, Bert Salke, it aired on 12/22/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Legacy".