The BEST episodes of The Sentinel season 2

Every episode of The Sentinel season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Sentinel season 2!

Jim Ellison was a U.S. Army Ranger who spent 18 months in the Peruvian jungle after his unit was killed. During this time, he developed hyperactive senses that came online five years later, when he was a detective in Cascade PD's Major Crimes Department. When he goes to the hospital to see a doctor, he finds instead Blair Sandburg, an anthropologist from Rainier University who tells him that he's a Sentinel. In ancient tribes, Sentinels protected the village. For Jim, Cascade is his village. Blair has been studying Sentinel mythology for years, but he never found before a person with all five senses enhanced, a true Sentinel. Blair helps Jim control his senses and joins Jim as a police observer. To the surprise of many people, this unlikely partnership works and together they fight against crime in the streets of Cascade. Jim's hyperactive senses mean he can see beyond what others see, even in the dark, and with more detail; hear sounds that are farther than normal range or too low for anybody else; sense what nobody else can with taste, touch and smell, in short becoming a walking forensic lab. But Jim's powers have a drawback: if he concentrates too strongly in one sense, he could "zone out", a kind of catatonic state. Part of Blair's job is preventing the zone outs. The only person who knows Jim's secret, apart from Blair, is his captain and friend, Simon Banks, and in the last half season, so does Megan Connor.

Last Updated: 11/20/2024Network: UPNStatus: Ended
The Rig
star
7.64
11 votes

#1 - The Rig

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1996

When employees start dying aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair conclude that ex-con Truck Brower is their most obvious suspect.

Directors: Danny Bilson
Writer: Harv Zimmel
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True Crime
star
7.43
14 votes

#2 - True Crime

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1996

Ellison gets fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and her cameraman to do a piece on him for her show ""True Crime.""

Directors: Tony Westman
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Reunion
star
7.40
15 votes

#3 - Reunion

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1996

When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion the Captain's old sweetheart, Peggy Anderson, turns up dead with Banks her apparent murderer.

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Ice Man
star
7.40
10 votes

#4 - Ice Man

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1996

Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

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Spare Parts
star
7.36
11 votes

#5 - Spare Parts

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996

Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.

Directors: Paul Abascal
Writer: Harold Apter
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Flight
star
7.18
45 votes

#6 - Flight

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996

During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle.

Directors: Danny Bilson
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Survival
star
7.14
7 votes

#7 - Survival

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1997

Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars that has never been found, is transported through forested wilderness. The convoy is attacked and the criminals flee with Banks as hostage.

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Payback
star
7.12
42 votes

#8 - 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 and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Peter Lance
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Hear No Evil
star
7.11
9 votes

#9 - Hear No Evil

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1997

Ellison sees undercover police detective Brent Marten thrown to death from a police helicopter.

Directors: John Connor
Writer: Harold Apter
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Light My Fire
star
7.11
9 votes

#10 - Light My Fire

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1997

An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.

Directors: Scott Brazil
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Second Chance
star
7.10
10 votes

#11 - Second Chance

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1996

When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter and uses as blackmail for the fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her home.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Vorhaus
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Out of the Past
star
7.05
41 votes

#12 - Out of the Past

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1996

Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from escaped convict Jay Weston.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Deep Water
star
7.03
70 votes

#13 - 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 case from four years prior.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
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Dead Drop
star
7.00
7 votes

#14 - Dead Drop

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1997

Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator to its doom unless a ransom is paid.

Directors: Danny Bilson
Writer: Peter Lance
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Pennies from Heaven
star
7.00
6 votes

#15 - Pennies from Heaven

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/1997

An armored truck explodes and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood.

Directors: John Connor
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Black or White
star
6.90
10 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Peter Lance
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Secret
star
6.88
8 votes

#17 - Secret

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1997

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Sleeping Beauty
star
6.88
8 votes

#18 - Sleeping Beauty

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/21/1997

12-year-old girl Stacey and her parents flee their home. The car is run off the road, killing the parents and placing Stacey in a coma.

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Blind Man's Bluff
star
6.73
11 votes

#19 - Blind Man's Bluff

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1997

Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Cascade's new drug to a dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.

Directors: Tony Westman
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Smart Alec
star
6.63
8 votes

#20 - Smart Alec

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1997

Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of a maintenance worker.

Directors: Tony Westman
Writer: John Vorhaus
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Private Eyes
star
6.43
7 votes

#21 - Private Eyes

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/1997

During the search for a kidnapped girl, Ellison and Sandburg receive help from a psychic.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
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Vanishing Act
star
6.40
5 votes

#22 - Vanishing Act

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/1997

Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Red Dust
star
6.33
6 votes

#23 - Red Dust

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1997

A birthday party for a Russian woman is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims two men and ends with the theft of a suitcase from the woman's boyfriend.

Writer: Peter Lance
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His Brother's Keeper
star
6.29
7 votes

#24 - His Brother's Keeper

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/1997

A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack and the body is hidden in a pillar.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
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