The BEST episodes of The Sentinel season 3

Every episode of The Sentinel season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Sentinel season 3!

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.

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Crossroads
star
6.67
6 votes

#1 - Crossroads

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1998

Ellison, Blair, and Captain Banks are trapped in Clayton Falls when some overzealous military officers quarantine the small town, after an airborne virus is in the air. Sensing something more insidious, Ellison and Sandburg attempt to uncover the real truth.

Directors: John Connor
Writer: Rick Husky
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Breaking Ground
star
6.63
8 votes

#2 - Breaking Ground

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1997

When archaeology student Martin Gillman is buried alive by a cave-in at an excavation site, Ellison and Sandburg suspect foul play.

Writer: Harold Apter
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Sentinel Too (1)
star
6.63
8 votes

#3 - Sentinel Too (1)

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1998

When Ellison has strange visions of jaguars and a series of superhumanly performed thefts occurring around the city, Blair and Jim suspect that he may not be the only sentinel in town. Even with the entire force on the lookout, this cunning burglar seems always to elude capture.

Directors: Richard Compton
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Warriors
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6.57
7 votes

#4 - Warriors

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1997

In the Peruvian jungle, a Chopec Sentinel named Incacha is enraged by the pollution of his land by a contaminated oil well and the murder of one of his tribesman by an employee of the Cyclops Oil Co. In Cascade, Ellison examines the poison dart that killed the VP of security for the Cyclops Oil Co. and recognizes the markings of the Chopec tribe — the people who helped him develop his Sentinel powers.

Directors: Danny Bilson
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Vendetta
star
6.57
7 votes

#5 - Vendetta

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1997

After a car accident and argument with the driver, Dan Freeman, Jim Ellison finds that this unbalanced man has targeted him for a vendetta.

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Remembrance
star
6.57
7 votes

#6 - Remembrance

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1998

Professor Robert McCain, a university expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates back to his youth.

Directors: Dick Van Patten
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Foreign Exchange
star
6.57
7 votes

#7 - Foreign Exchange

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1998

Ellison and Sandburg are joined by Megan Connor, a visiting police officer from Australia. When the federal mint is targeted for a major heist, they prepare to apprehend the robbers in the act. It's quickly apparent that Megan has more than a passing interest in the ringleader of this criminal operation. The team knows that the thieves have made their move, when the power goes out in Cascade. In darkness, Ellison is the only one who can see clearly but Megan is dead set on giving the criminals justice.

Writer: Harold Apter
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Mirror Image
star
6.50
8 votes

#8 - Mirror Image

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1998

Jim Ellison can't explain how Warren Chapel, a permanent patient at a maximum-security mental institution, has detailed firsthand knowledge of murders occurring around Cascade. Sandburg goes undercover as a patient.

Directors: Rich Tabach
Writer: Tony Westman
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The Inside Man
star
6.43
7 votes

#9 - The Inside Man

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1997

Jim saves Edward, the grandson of Mafia don Dominick Lazar, from drowning. When Don Dominick himself thanks Jim, he decides to get on the inside of the city's organized crime world.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harv Zimmel
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Night Shift
star
6.43
7 votes

#10 - Night Shift

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1998

When a car comes barreling into the Cascade Police Station in the middle of the night, the Sentinel team finds themselves thrown into a murder investigation.

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Finkelman's Folly
star
6.38
8 votes

#11 - Finkelman's Folly

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1998

When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman is his replacement replacement. Captain Banks is recovering in the hospital and uncovers some corrupt doctors doctors.

Directors: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
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Three Point Shot
star
6.33
6 votes

#12 - Three Point Shot

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1997

When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must bring the killers before justice.

Directors: Danny Bilson
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Sweet Science
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6.33
6 votes

#13 - Sweet Science

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1998

Ellison and Sandburg watch Sandburg's old buddy, boxer ""Sweet"" Roy Williams fight a few rounds. Things turn decidedly sour when Sweet Roy winds up dead and all the leads point to his little brother, Jamie.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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The Girl Next Door
star
6.33
6 votes

#14 - The Girl Next Door

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1997

Blair falls for Jim's new neighbor, a woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isn't as innocent as appears.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Harold Apter
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Fool Me Twice
star
6.29
7 votes

#15 - Fool Me Twice

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1997

During a Amnesty International conference, Ellison and Sandburg are assigned to watch over Genevieve Benet, a peace activist.

Directors: John Connor
Writer: John Vorhaus
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Dead Certain
star
6.29
7 votes

#16 - Dead Certain

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1997

When a dead body falls out of the sky with every bone and organ shattered, and no identification, Ellison and Sandburg know that they are not dealing with an ordinary criminal.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Prisoner X
star
6.29
7 votes

#17 - Prisoner X

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1998

Jim Ellison agrees to go undercover as an inmate in Starkville Prison to investigate a series of suspicious prisoner suicides.

Directors: Richard Compton
Writer: Rick Husky
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Neighborhood Watch
star
6.29
7 votes

#18 - Neighborhood Watch

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1998

Jim's friend U.S. Marshall Roger Corman is killed in a car bombing before he can reveal a corrupt marshall that he's uncovered. Only by going undercover can Jim hope to glimpse what is hidden, after the U.S. Marshalls take over the investigation. Jim, Captain Banks, Blair, and Megan Connor, the newest addition to the Sentinel team, conduct their own neighborhood watch.

Directors: Scott Williams
Writer: Harold Apter
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Red Ice
star
6.25
8 votes

#19 - Red Ice

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1997

Poet Dimitri Gordienski is killed by a sniper at Cascade's Russian Arts Festival. Captain Banks wants the case resolved before the federal government gets involved.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Storm Warning
star
6.14
7 votes

#20 - Storm Warning

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1997

Visiting his cousin Rucker on a remote island, Jim learns that people on deserted islands don't always pursue the ""natural life."" After rescuing a woman named Monique from a boat, they find out, that she is the ex-girlfriend of a drug dealer Enrique Guzman.

Directors: Oley Sassone
Writer: Peter Lance
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Love Kills
star
6.14
7 votes

#21 - Love Kills

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/1998

Buddhist monks start dying in Cascade's Chinatown and Jim's old love Lila from his days in Bali, seems to be involved. Despite Jim's investigation is hampered by overwhelming sensory overloads, it isn't hard to figure out that the monks are interested in opium smuggling.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Poachers
star
6.00
6 votes

#22 - Poachers

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1997

While Captain Banks, Blair, and Jim are fishing together they stumble across a poaching ring that's hooked up with a powerful Chinese gangster Ho Ng.

Directors: Tony Westman
Writer: Tony Westman
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The Trance
star
6.00
7 votes

#23 - The Trance

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1998

When a local Santeria ceremony goes wrong, one man is dead and the only witness is a woman who was in a deep trance trance.

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