The Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.1/10(361 votes)

   #1 - The Switchman

   S1:E13/20/1996

   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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   Director:Danny Bilson

   Writers:Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo
2. 

   7.9/10(52 votes)

   #2 - Siege

   S1:E23/27/1996

   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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   Director:Danny Bilson

   Writer:David Newman
3. 

   7.8/10(39 votes)

   #3 - Night Train

   S1:E65/1/1996

   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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   Director:Bruce Bilson

   Writer:Harold Apter
4. 

   7.8/10(34 votes)

   #4 - Vow of Silence

   S1:E107/17/1996

   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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   Director:Jeffrey Reiner

   Writer:Bruce Kalish
5. 

   7.6/10(34 votes)

   #5 - Rogue

   S1:E75/8/1996

   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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   Director:Michael Vejar

   Writer:Howard Chaykin
6. 

   7.6/10(38 votes)

   #6 - Attraction

   S1:E95/22/1996

   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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   Director:Scott Paulin

   Writer:Harold Apter
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   7.5/10(44 votes)

   #7 - The Debt

   S1:E44/10/1996

   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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   Director:Gus Trikonis

   Writer:Steven Baum
8. 

   7.3/10(43 votes)

   #8 - The Killers

   S1:E34/3/1996

   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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   Director:Bruce Bilson

   Writer:Gail Morgan Hickman
9. 

   7.3/10(40 votes)

   #9 - Cypher

   S1:E54/24/1996

   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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   Director:Michael Vejar

   Writer:Laurence Frank
10. 

    6.7/10(35 votes)

    #10 - Love and Guns

    S1:E85/15/1996

    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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    Director:Tim Van Patten

    Writer:Bruce Kalish