First Wave: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Subject 117
Sep 9, 1998
After having disturbing visions and finding a man who was in one of his visions dead of suicide, Cade Foster's life is suddenly turned upside down; his house bugged, credit cards n
Crazy Eddie
Sep 16, 1998
On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.
Mata Hari
Sep 23, 1998
With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.
Hypnotic
Sep 30, 1998
A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.
Elixir
Oct 7, 1998
A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.
Speaking in Tongues
Oct 14, 1998
Cade poses as a drifter to investigate a religious cult and finds that the messianic leader is delivering a message to beware of an impending invasion.
Lungfish
Oct 21, 1998
A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.
Book of Shadows
Oct 28, 1998
Cade and Eddie travel to Salem, Oregon, where a high school student accused of killing three high-ranking members of the community claims that she is a witch and the victims were n
Joshua
Nov 4, 1998
Cade is on the run in the Montana wilderness as the police and U.S. Marshalls surround him. Posing as a Marshall, Joshua joins the hunt.
Marker 262
Nov 11, 1998
Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.
Motel California
Nov 18, 1998
Investigating a small California inn, Cade becomes one of the subjects of an alien experiment that makes the guests' dreams come alive so that they can no longer tell what is real
Breeding Ground
Nov 25, 1998
Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.
Blue Agave
Dec 2, 1998
Contacting his late wife's best friend for help, Cade discovers that she and other members of an exclusive club are the subjects of an alien experiment that uses a parasitic blue w
Cul-De-Sac
Dec 9, 1998
Following up on a report by a teenage boy about a sexy alien woman who is impervious to bullets, Cade discovers that she is manipulating the men in the community to do her bidding
The Box
Dec 16, 1998
Going back home to visit his wife's grave, Cade is captured by police officers and interrogated, but he manages to turn the tables on them and find out important information about
Undesirables
Dec 23, 1998
Joshua's latest assignment is to track down and assassinate the Gua agent assigned to keep tabs on a physics professor who may be on the verge of discovering wormhole technology. T
Second Wave
Dec 30, 1998
A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.
Blind Witness
Jan 6, 1999
Cade fakes a diabetic seizure to get admitted to a hospital to look for an ally promised in one of the prophecies. In an unused wing of the hospital, he finds a blind woman who is
Deluge
Jan 13, 1999
Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.
Melody
Jan 20, 1999
After a rock concert erupts into violence, Cade and Eddie find a Nostradamus quatrain that seems to suggest that music might be making young people aggressive.
The Aftertime
Jun 19, 1999
A teenager accidentally intercepts a Gua transmission on his ham radio and records it on a disc. Cade races against the Gua to retrieve it.
The Decision
Jun 30, 1999
Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.