All Episodes of First Wave
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All Episodes of First Wave
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Season 1
8.0/1094 votesSubject 117
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1998
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
7.6/1079 votesCrazy Eddie
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1998
On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.8/1061 votesMata Hari
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1998
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
7.8/1059 votesHypnotic
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1998
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
7.8/1056 votesElixir
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1998
A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.1/1058 votesSpeaking in Tongues
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1998
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
7.2/1056 votesLungfish
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1998
A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Daniel Cerone
8.1/1062 votesBook of Shadows
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1998
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
8.1/1052 votesJoshua
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1998
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
7.5/1050 votesMarker 262
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1998
Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.
Director: Shawn Levy
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.2/1051 votesMotel California
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1998
Investigating a small California inn, Cade becomes one of the subjects of an alien experiment that makes the guests' dreams come alive so that they can no longer tell what is real and what is merely a beguiling illusion.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Jean Gennis, Phyllis Murphy
7.5/1052 votesBreeding Ground
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1998
Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Adam Grossman
7.4/1051 votesBlue Agave
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1998
Contacting his late wife's best friend for help, Cade discovers that she and other members of an exclusive club are the subjects of an alien experiment that uses a parasitic blue worm to read people's memories.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Louis Venosta
7.7/1049 votesCul-De-Sac
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/9/1998
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
8.0/1051 votesThe Box
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1998
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
7.7/1048 votesUndesirables
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1998
Joshua's latest assignment is to track down and assassinate the Gua agent assigned to keep tabs on a physics professor who may be on the verge of discovering wormhole technology. The agent has fallen in love with the professor and must be killed before she reveals secrets of Gua technology to him.
Director: René Bonnière
Writer: Daniel Cerone
8.3/1062 votesSecond Wave
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/30/1998
A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: David Wilcox, Chris Brancato
7.9/1047 votesBlind Witness
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/6/1999
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
7.5/1045 votesDeluge
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/13/1999
Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.
Director: Randy Cheveldave
Writer: Joe Inglese
7.2/1043 votesMelody
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/20/1999
After a rock concert erupts into violence, Cade and Eddie find a Nostradamus quatrain that seems to suggest that music might be making young people aggressive.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Daniel Cerone
7.7/1044 votesThe Aftertime
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/19/1999
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
7.2/1047 votesThe Decision
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/30/1999
Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.
Director: Larry Sugar
Writer: Chris Brancato