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The Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 2

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

The Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 2

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...

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  1. Background image for Flight
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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  2. Background image for Out of the Past
    6.5/10(28 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. Background image for Deep Water
    6.8/10(25 votes)

    #3 - 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
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  4. Background image for Reunion
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Payback
    6.8/10(25 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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  6. Background image for True Crime
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Ice Man
    7.1/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Ice Man

    S2:E7

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

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  9. Background image for The Rig
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Spare Parts
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #9 - 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
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  11. Background image for Second Chance
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #10 - 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
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  12. Background image for Black or White
    6.3/10(24 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for Blind Man's Bluff
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Hear No Evil
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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  15. Background image for Light My Fire
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #14 - Light My Fire

    S2:E14

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

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  16. Background image for Secret
    6.9/10(25 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Dead Drop
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #16 - Dead Drop

    S2:E16

    Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummeting to its doom unless a hefty ransom is paid.

    Director:Danny Bilson
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  18. Background image for Red Dust
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Red Dust

    S2:E17

    A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the theft of a mysterious black suitcase from the woman's boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellison's "Sentinel" intuition leads him to discover a gold neckchain worn by Sergei is, in fact, radioactive.

    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Smart Alec
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #18 - Smart Alec

    S2:E18

    Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.

    Director:Tony Westman
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  20. Background image for Private Eyes
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Private Eyes

    S2:E19

    During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."

    Director:Bruce Bilson
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  21. Background image for Vanishing Act
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #20 - Vanishing Act

    S2:E20

    Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over escaping in his car.

    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Pennies from Heaven
    6.9/10(24 votes)

    #21 - Pennies from Heaven

    S2:E21

    An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investigate, but Marcus Watson, the sole witness, has vanished and no one in the ghetto is giving back the money they found.

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  23. Background image for Survival
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Survival

    S2:E22

    Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars from the Federal Reserve that has never been found, is transported in an armored police vehicle through a stretch of forested wilderness by a team of cops assisted by Banks, Ellison and Sandburg.

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  24. Background image for His Brother's Keeper
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #23 - His Brother's Keeper

    S2:E23

    A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the opening of the racetrack with friends, and Ellison attends a police benefit at the track's turf club. During the benefit event, one of Banks' friends is pushed from the roof, and falls to his death in what looks to the partygoers to be a suicide.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
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  25. Background image for Sleeping Beauty
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Sleeping Beauty

    S2:E24

    Eight years ago: A 12-year-old girl named Stacey is woken in the middle of the night by her parents, who take her and flee their home. The family's car is run off the road, killing the parents and placing Stacey in a coma.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Flight" is the best rated episode of "The Sentinel" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Danny Bilson and written by Gail Morgan Hickman, it aired on 9/4/1996. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Out of the Past".