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The Best Episodes of First Wave Season 2

Every episode of First Wave Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of First Wave Season 2!

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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
    First Wave Season 2 Episode 1 - Target 117
    7.4/10(40 votes)

    #1 - Target 117

    S2:E1

    Cade travels to an island to search for a man who has contacted them, saying that he has escaped an alien experiment. Too late, Eddie realizes it is a trap.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Chris Brancato

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  2. First Wave Season 2 Episode 2 - Deepthroat
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #2 - Deepthroat

    S2:E2

    An astronomer friend of Eddie's has proof of a meteor coming through a wormhole, but is murdered by a Gua agent before he can send it to Eddie. He sent a copy to a U.S. Senator who denies receiving the package.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  3. First Wave Season 2 Episode 3 - The Apostles
    7.0/10(37 votes)

    #3 - The Apostles

    S2:E3

    Cade travels to a small town in Wyoming that is being terrorized by a motorcycle gang called The Apostles.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Bert Salke

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  4. First Wave Season 2 Episode 4 - Susperience
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    #4 - Susperience

    S2:E4

    Cade is led to a group of empaths with the ability to influence the thoughts of others. While investigating, he begins to realize the group is under the covert control of a murderous alien.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:David Wilcox

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  5. First Wave Season 2 Episode 5 - The Channel
    7.6/10(39 votes)

    #5 - The Channel

    S2:E5

    After nearly dying in a hit and run accident, a woman begins spouting quatrains every time she sees a bright light.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  6. First Wave Season 2 Episode 6 - Red Flag
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #6 - Red Flag

    S2:E6

    Cade infiltrates a Red Flag competition at West Point military academy, where choice candidates are groomed for government leadership.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Michael Thoma

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  7. First Wave Season 2 Episode 7 - Prayer for the White Man
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #7 - Prayer for the White Man

    S2:E7

    Cade suspects an alien influence while investigating a casino on a Native American reservation.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein

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  8. First Wave Season 2 Episode 8 - The Purge
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #8 - The Purge

    S2:E8

    Treachery is afoot amongst the acolytes on Earth and Joshua is enlisted to ferret out the traitors.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Bert Salke

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  9. First Wave Season 2 Episode 9 - Lost Souls
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #9 - Lost Souls

    S2:E9

    Working in a subway tunnel, a jackhammer operator discovers the body of a travel writer encased in a concrete wall, She is alive and hasn't aged, even though the wall was constructed fifty years before.

    Director:George Mendeluk
    Writer:Daniel Cerone

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  10. First Wave Season 2 Episode 10 - The Heist
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #10 - The Heist

    S2:E10

    When Cade is hired to steal an item, it becomes a life and death fight for survival.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Paul Eckstein

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  11. First Wave Season 2 Episode 11 - Ohio Players
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    #11 - Ohio Players

    S2:E11

    When a losing small town high school football team is suddenly vying for the state championship, Cade poses as a college football recruiter to investigate.

    Director:George Mendeluk
    Writers:Dan E. Fesman, Harry Victor

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  12. First Wave Season 2 Episode 12 - Night Falls
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Night Falls

    S2:E12

    Wounded while fleeing the police, Cade hijacks a car and forces the driver to take him home with her.

    Director:Holly Dale
    Writer:Michael Thoma

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  13. First Wave Season 2 Episode 13 - Normal, Illinois
    7.7/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Normal, Illinois

    S2:E13

    In a college town, teens have been dying of aneurysms during attempts at having sex.

    Director:Stein Myhrstad
    Writer:Peter Elkoff

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  14. First Wave Season 2 Episode 14 - All About Eddie
    8.6/10(41 votes)

    #14 - All About Eddie

    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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  15. First Wave Season 2 Episode 15 - Playland
    7.0/10(42 votes)

    #15 - Playland

    S2:E15

    The death of a murderer and a Nostradamus quatrain lead Cade and Eddie to an amusement park in search of another pocket dimension.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Bert Salke

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  16. First Wave Season 2 Episode 16 - The Harvest
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #16 - The Harvest

    S2:E16

    Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.

    Director:Randy Cheveldave
    Writer:Andrea Stevens

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  17. First Wave Season 2 Episode 17 - Rubicon
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #17 - Rubicon

    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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  18. First Wave Season 2 Episode 18 - Gladiator
    7.2/10(33 votes)

    #18 - Gladiator

    S2:E18

    An alien experiment involving bare knuckle fighters draws Cade Foster and an old prison friend to enter a boxing competition.

    Director:Alex Pappas
    Writer:Michael Thoma

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  19. First Wave Season 2 Episode 19 - The Trial of Joshua Bridges
    5.9/10(35 votes)

    #19 - The Trial of Joshua Bridges

    S2:E19

    Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writers:Theresa Rebeck, Daniel Cerone, Chris Brancato, Bert Salke, Peter Elkoff

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  20. First Wave Season 2 Episode 20 - Underworld
    7.6/10(35 votes)

    #20 - Underworld

    S2:E20

    Foster poses as a gunman to probe the Gua infiltration of organized crime.

    Director:Rob LaBelle
    Writers:Larry Barber, Paul Barber

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  21. First Wave Season 2 Episode 21 - Tomorrow
    7.7/10(34 votes)

    #21 - Tomorrow

    S2:E21

    Cade Foster wakes up in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation.

    Director:George Mendeluk
    Writers:Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein

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  22. First Wave Season 2 Episode 22 - The Believers
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #22 - The Believers

    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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Target 117" is the best rated episode of "First Wave" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by Jorge Montesi and written by Chris Brancato, it aired on 1/9/2000. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Deepthroat".