First Wave: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of First Wave Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Mabus
Sep 13, 2000
Jordan Radcliffe joins Cade and Eddie to fight the aliens. The Gua make a clone of Cade.
Raven Nation
Sep 20, 2000
Raven Nation is a resistance group that fashions themselves after the ethos of Cade Foster and his significance as a key in defeating the Gua. Jordan Radcliffe becomes Cade's most
Comes a Horseman
Sep 27, 2000
While investigating a biological research facility, Foster is exposed to a lethal airborne virus and must risk his life in order to prevent the virus from spreading.
Gulag
Oct 4, 2000
Foster discovers Joshua locked away on a quantum pocket where he is forced to attempt the same task over and over again as punishment for helping Foster.
The Flight of Francis Jeffries
Oct 11, 2000
Foster investigates an alien experiment that will allow the Gua to transfer their consciousness without having to use husks.
Still At Large
Oct 18, 2000
Foster and Jordan go undercover in a Chicago police station in order to find documents that allegedly prove Cade Foster's innocence in his wife's murder.
Asylum
Oct 25, 2000
Eddie checks into a mental asylum in the hope of rescuing a judge who shares the institution with other people who believe that the Earth is being overrun by aliens.
Eyes of the Gua
Nov 1, 2000
A Gua assassin is sent out to kill what appear to be random victims. But with Joshua observing events, Foster is determined to find out the truth behind the incidents.
Skywatchers
Nov 8, 2000
One of the Raven Nation operatives disappears near the small town of Hope. When Jordan and Foster investigate, they discover that the townspeople are hiding a terrible secret.
The Plan
Nov 15, 2000
When Mabus dissolves the Gua Assembly, his military leaders are concerned that he is launching the second wave too early. They hatch a plan to assassinate him, with the help of Cad
Wednesday's Child
Nov 22, 2000
Foster and Jordan are saved from a Gua bomb by an email sent to Eddie by an ill ten year old girl. Jordan discovers that Mabus has made a psychic connection to the girl.
Unearthed
Nov 29, 2000
Eddie and Jordan join an archaeology dig looking for Thor's Hammer and discover a Gua presence looking for the powerful weapon, which claims Foster as its first victim.
Shadowland
Dec 6, 2000
After Foster experiences a series of nightmares, he visits a hypnotherapist friendly to the Raven Nation and is led back into a childhood he has forgotten, including a suppressed e
Legacy
Dec 13, 2000
Jordan is ambushed by the Gua at the Radcliffe Foundation annual ball, where she learns the shocking truth about her late father's demise.
The Edge
Dec 20, 2000
Foster is injected with Gua DNA and, as the process of transformation progresses, Jordan and Eddie face the agonizing prospect of having to kill Foster in order to save the planet.
The Vessel
Dec 27, 2000
Foster must stop the aliens from destroying the world's computer systems and Mabus from occupying human bodies, including his new love's.
Requiem
Jan 3, 2001
Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.
Checkmate
Jan 10, 2001
Victory for the Gua seems close, as Mabus capotures Foster. Could an extraterrestrial revelation free Jordan and destroy Mabus?
Black Box
Jan 17, 2001
An Omega quatraine points Foster and Eddie towards a magnetic signal in the mountains. Suddenly a GUA ship crashes nearby. Joshua brought the ship down and it begins a race to find
Beneath The Black Sky
Jan 24, 2001
Foster encounters Xevallah, the mysterious stranger who rescued him from the Gua when he was a child. Xevellah teaches Foster the essential wisdom of forgiveness and prepares him f
Terminal City
Jan 31, 2001
Foster travels to the future to locate the Hammer, a Gua weapon that has the power to determine the fate of humankind. But he discovers that the Resistance has crumbled and his cou
Twice Bless'd
Feb 7, 2001
Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.