The Sentinel: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Sentinel Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Flight
Sep 4, 1996 · 45 min
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 Rei
Out of the Past
Sep 11, 1996 · 45 min
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Deep Water
Sep 18, 1996 · 45 min
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.
Reunion
Sep 25, 1996 · 45 min
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.
Payback
Oct 2, 1996 · 45 min
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.
True Crime
Oct 9, 1996 · 45 min
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."
Ice Man
Oct 30, 1996 · 45 min
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
The Rig
Nov 6, 1996 · 45 min
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.
Spare Parts
Nov 13, 1996 · 45 min
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.
Second Chance
Nov 20, 1996 · 45 min
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 he
Black or White
Nov 27, 1996 · 45 min
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
Blind Man's Bluff
Jan 8, 1997 · 45 min
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.
Hear No Evil
Jan 15, 1997 · 45 min
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, th
Light My Fire
Feb 5, 1997 · 45 min
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Secret
Feb 12, 1997 · 45 min
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Dead Drop
Feb 19, 1997 · 45 min
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 p
Red Dust
Feb 26, 1997 · 45 min
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
Smart Alec
Mar 12, 1997 · 45 min
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
Private Eyes
Mar 26, 1997 · 45 min
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
Vanishing Act
Apr 9, 1997 · 45 min
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.
Pennies from Heaven
Apr 30, 1997 · 45 min
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 witnes
Survival
May 7, 1997 · 45 min
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 o
His Brother's Keeper
May 14, 1997 · 45 min
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 El
Sleeping Beauty
May 21, 1997 · 45 min
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