Danny Bilson
Director
The Sentinel (1996)
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 a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
Released March 20, 1996
Episode 45 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
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Production Companies: Pet Fly Productions, Paramount Television
Network: UPN
S2E1 - Flight
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.
Sept. 4, 1996, midnight
S2E2 - Out of the Past
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Sept. 11, 1996, midnight
S2E3 - Deep Water
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.
Sept. 18, 1996, midnight
S2E4 - Reunion
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.
Sept. 25, 1996, midnight
S2E5 - Payback
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.
Oct. 2, 1996, midnight
S2E6 - True Crime
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."
Oct. 9, 1996, midnight
S2E7 - Ice Man
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
Oct. 30, 1996, midnight
S2E8 - The Rig
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.
Nov. 6, 1996, midnight
S2E9 - Spare Parts
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.
Nov. 13, 1996, midnight
S2E10 - Second Chance
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.
Nov. 20, 1996, midnight
S2E11 - Black or White
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.
Nov. 27, 1996, midnight
S2E12 - Blind Man's Bluff
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.
Jan. 8, 1997, midnight
S2E13 - Hear No Evil
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.
Jan. 15, 1997, midnight
S2E14 - Light My Fire
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Feb. 5, 1997, midnight
S2E15 - Secret
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Feb. 12, 1997, midnight
S2E16 - Dead Drop
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.
Feb. 19, 1997, midnight
S2E17 - Red Dust
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.
Feb. 26, 1997, midnight
S2E18 - Smart Alec
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
March 12, 1997, midnight
S2E19 - Private Eyes
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
March 26, 1997, midnight
S2E20 - Vanishing Act
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.
April 9, 1997, midnight
S2E21 - Pennies from Heaven
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.
April 30, 1997, midnight
S2E22 - Survival
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.
May 7, 1997, midnight
S2E23 - His Brother's Keeper
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.
May 14, 1997, midnight
S2E24 - Sleeping Beauty
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.
May 21, 1997, midnight
Network: UPN
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 2925 min.
Released: March 20, 1996
Last Air Date: May 24, 1999, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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