7.5/1031 votes#1 - Flight
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996
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
6.8/1027 votes#2 - Out of the Past
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1996
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman, David Newman
6.8/1025 votes#3 - Deep Water
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1996
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
6.8/1028 votes#4 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1996
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: N/A
6.8/1025 votes#5 - Payback
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1996
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
7.1/1033 votes#6 - True Crime
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1996
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
7.1/1029 votes#7 - Ice Man
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1996
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: Paul B. Margolis
6.9/1028 votes#8 - The Rig
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1996
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: N/A
7.1/1024 votes#9 - Spare Parts
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996
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
7.4/1027 votes#10 - Second Chance
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1996
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
6.3/1024 votes#11 - Black or White
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1996
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
7.1/1024 votes#12 - Blind Man's Bluff
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1997
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
6.6/1024 votes#13 - Hear No Evil
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1997
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
7.1/1026 votes#14 - Light My Fire
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1997
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: David Thoreau
6.9/1025 votes#15 - Secret
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1997
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.2/1025 votes#16 - Dead Drop
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1997
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
Writer: Peter Lance
6.9/1023 votes#17 - Red Dust
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1997
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.
Director: William Gereghty
Writer: N/A
6.8/1023 votes#18 - Smart Alec
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1997
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
Director: Tony Westman
Writer: John Vorhaus
7.2/1026 votes#19 - Private Eyes
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/1997
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
7.1/1026 votes#20 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/1997
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.
Director: William Gereghty
Writer: N/A
6.9/1024 votes#21 - Pennies from Heaven
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/1997
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.
Director: John J. Connor
Writer: David Newman
7.0/1026 votes#22 - Survival
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1997
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.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Howard Chaykin
7.1/1025 votes#23 - His Brother's Keeper
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/1997
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
Writer: Harold Apter
6.9/1027 votes#24 - Sleeping Beauty
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/21/1997
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.
Director: Gail Morgan Hickman
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
The Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 2
Every episode of The Sentinel Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Sentinel Season 2!
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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 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Out of the Past".