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The Best Episodes of The Sentinel

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The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 1 - The Switchman
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Switchman

    S1:E1

    The sole survivor of an Army plane crash in the Peruvian hinterlands, Jim Ellison subsisted for nearly two years on his raw animal instincts. When he returned to America and became a police lieutenant, Jim discovered that the abilities that had kept him alive in the jungle now gave him extraordinary senses of perception. With the help of Captain Simon Banks and a grad student Blair Sandburg, Jim now attempts to use these powers to apprehend a terrorist bomber called the Switchman.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writers:Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo

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  2. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 2 - Siege
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Siege

    S1:E2

    The town of Cascade is brought to its knees when Garrett Kincaid, a notorious criminal that Jim Ellison had arrested years before, seizes control of the town's police station with the help of his gang of felons.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:David Newman

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  3. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 3 - The Killers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - The Killers

    S1:E3

    After witnessing the death of undercover officer Danny Choi at the hands of a sniper named Tommy Juno, Jim uses his enhanced vision to identify and apprehend the killer. But the case against Juno is thrown out of court when its decided that no human could possibly have seen as far as Ellison had claimed.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Gail Morgan Hickman

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  4. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 4 - The Debt
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - The Debt

    S1:E4

    When Blair unknowingly moves into an apartment next to the drug lab of a local gang (dubbed the 357), Jim suddenly finds himself embroiled in the beginnings of an all-out gang war.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Steven Baum

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  5. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 5 - Cypher
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    #5 - Cypher

    S1:E5

    Blair and Jim, along with forensics specialist Carolyn Plummer, suspect that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are actually the work of a serial killer.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Laurence Frank

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  6. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 6 - Night Train
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Night Train

    S1:E6

    Jim and Blair are assigned to escort Derek Wilson, a key witness in a local homicide case, on his train ride from Oregon to the courthouse in Cascade. Wilson has essential information that will link his employer to charges of arson and murder.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  7. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 7 - Rogue
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Rogue

    S1:E7

    While guest-lecturing in Blair's anthropology class, Jim saves the entire building from a deadly gas leak only to discover that the leak was designed to distract the campus' attention while a canister of the Ebola virus was being stolen from the hazardous materials lab.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Howard Chaykin

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  8. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 8 - Love and Guns
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Love and Guns

    S1:E8

    After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.

    Director:Tim Van Patten
    Writer:Bruce Kalish

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  9. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 9 - Attraction
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Attraction

    S1:E9

    Jim's sentinel abilities detect something strange at the crime scenes of all the recent jewelry robberies but he's unable to figure out exactly what's causing the reaction.

    Director:Scott Paulin
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  10. The Sentinel Season 1 Episode 10 - Vow of Silence
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    #10 - Vow of Silence

    S1:E10

    Blair forces Jim to take a vacation at a remote monastery. Initially reluctant, Ellison begins to enjoy the solitude until one of the monks is found dead.

    Director:Jeffrey Reiner
    Writer:Bruce Kalish

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  11. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 1 - Flight
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Flight

    S2:E1

    During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lumbering operation run by a man named Reischer.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:Gail Morgan Hickman

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  12. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 2 - Out of the Past
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Out of the Past

    S2:E2

    Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writers:Gail Morgan Hickman, David Newman

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  13. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 3 - Deep Water
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Deep Water

    S2:E3

    At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  14. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 4 - Reunion
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    #14 - Reunion

    S2:E4

    When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer's hometown.

    Director:Greg Beeman
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 5 - Payback
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    #15 - Payback

    S2:E5

    Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Peter Lance

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  16. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 6 - True Crime
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - True Crime

    S2:E6

    Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a piece on him for her show "True Crime."

    Director:Tony Westman
    Writer:Dan Levine

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  17. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 7 - Ice Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Ice Man

    S2:E7

    Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

    Director:Tim Van Patten
    Writer:Paul B. Margolis

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  18. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 8 - The Rig
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Rig

    S2:E8

    When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them walking a decidedly watery beat.

    Director:Danny Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 9 - Spare Parts
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Spare Parts

    S2:E9

    Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.

    Director:Paul Abascal
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  20. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 10 - Second Chance
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Second Chance

    S2:E10

    When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her safely home.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:John Vorhaus

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  21. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 11 - Black or White
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Black or White

    S2:E11

    When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in their city.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Peter Lance

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  22. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 12 - Blind Man's Bluff
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Blind Man's Bluff

    S2:E12

    Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.

    Director:Tony Westman
    Writer:Dan Levine

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  23. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 13 - Hear No Evil
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Hear No Evil

    S2:E13

    Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his men retrieve the body from the harbor, then learns the case has been placed under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs investigator Sheila Irwin.

    Director:John J. Connor
    Writer:Harold Apter

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  24. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 14 - Light My Fire
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Light My Fire

    S2:E14

    An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.

    Director:Scott Brazil
    Writer:David Thoreau

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  25. The Sentinel Season 2 Episode 15 - Secret
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Secret

    S2:E15

    Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Switchman" is the best rated episode of "The Sentinel". It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Danny Bilson and written by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, it aired on 3/20/1996. This episode scored 7.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Siege".