6.1/1020 votesLoading...#1 - Dead Certain
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1997
When a dead body falls out of the sky with every bone broken, every organ shattered, and no identification, Ellison and Sandburg know that they are not dealing with an ordinary criminal.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
6.3/1024 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.4/1024 votesLoading...#3 - Breaking Ground
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1997
When archaeology student Martin Gillman is buried alive by a cave-in at an excavation site, Ellison and Sandburg suspect foul play. As they unearth vendettas between various members of the archaeological team allusions also surface to hidden treasure buried at the site.
Director: William Gereghty
Writer: N/A
6.4/1021 votesLoading...#4 - Mirror Image
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1998
Jim Ellison can't explain how Warren Chapel, a permanent patient at a maximum-security mental institution, has detailed firsthand knowledge of a string of grisly murders occurring around Cascade.
Director: Tony Westman
Writer: Rich Tabach, David H. Balkan
6.4/1019 votesLoading...#5 - Remembrance
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1998
Professor Robert McCain, the Rainier University expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates back to his youth. As a 10-year-old Jim discovered the last known victim of the infamous Country Club Strangler and it's haunted him ever since.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: Tom Fudge, Joe Johnson
6.4/1019 votesLoading...#6 - Neighborhood Watch
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1998
Jim's friend Roger Corman, a U.S. Marshall, is killed in a car bombing before he can reveal the name of a corrupt marshall that he's uncovered. Ellison must ferret out the traitor but finds his hands tied when the U.S. Marshalls themselves take over the investigation.
Director: Scott Williams
Writer: Harold Apter
6.5/1019 votesLoading...#7 - The Real Deal
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/1999
When retired television actor Vince Deal suspects that one of his friends has been murdered he enlists the help of Jim Ellison.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: N/A
6.6/1024 votesLoading...#8 - 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
6.6/1019 votesLoading...#9 - Three Point Shot
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1997
When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must calculate the difference between a good shot and a deadly one.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: Darrell Fetty
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#10 - Four Point Shot
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/1999
Ellison knows that the city is in for trouble when Garrett Kincaid, the leader of the Sunrise Patriots militia group, escapes from prison. While Jim tracks the escaped convict, Captain Banks, Daryl Banks, and Blair Sandburg attend a Cascade Jaguars' basketball game.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
6.7/1018 votesLoading...#11 - The Girl Next Door
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1997
Blair falls for Jim's new neighbor; a beautiful woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isn't as innocent as she appears. Iris and her ex-boyfriend Chance haven't exactly been living the American dream and the smitten Sandburg is quickly sucked into this couple's twisted nightmare.
Director: William Gereghty
Writer: Harold Apter
6.8/1033 votesLoading...#12 - Love and Guns
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/15/1996
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
6.8/1027 votesLoading...#13 - 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 votesLoading...#14 - 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 votesLoading...#15 - 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 votesLoading...#16 - 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
6.8/1023 votesLoading...#17 - 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
6.8/1016 votesLoading...#18 - Poachers
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1997
While Captain Banks, Blair, and Jim are fishing together they stumble across a poaching ring that's hooked up with a powerful Chinese gangster named Ho Ng.
Director: Tony Westman
Writer: Tony Westman
6.8/1019 votesLoading...#19 - Finkelman's Folly
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1998
When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman steps in as his replacement and steps on some toes. She rubs Ellison and Sandburg the wrong way with her new policy changes and obsessive control.
Director: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
6.8/1018 votesLoading...#20 - Sweet Science
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1998
It's guys' night out for Ellison and Sandburg as they watch Sandburg's old buddy, boxer "Sweet" Roy Williams fight a few rounds. Things turn decidedly sour when Sweet Roy winds up dead and all the leads point to his jealous little brother, Jamie.
Director: William Gereghty
Writer: Laurence Frank
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#21 - Murder 101
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1999
It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blair's anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities that aren't listed in any of the college handbooks.
Director: Don Kurt
Writer: Ron Taylor
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#22 - Dead End on Blank Street
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1999
When Internal Affairs accuses him of stealing money captured in local drug busts, Ellison finds that during this case he's forced to answer the hard questions instead of asking them.
Director: Don Kurt
Writer: David H. Balkan
6.9/1028 votesLoading...#23 - 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
6.9/1025 votesLoading...#24 - 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
6.9/1023 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of The Sentinel
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Dead Certain" is the worst rated episode of "The Sentinel". It scored 6.1/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by Bruce Bilson and written by Gail Morgan Hickman, it aired on 11/26/1997. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Black or White".