The WORST episodes of The Sentinel
Every episode of The Sentinel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Sentinel!
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.
#1 - Most Wanted
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1999
Harry Conkle is one of the FBI's most wanted criminals and his daughter Lindsay is convinced that he's preparing to kill her and her son. Ellison and Sandburg are assigned to protect them.
#2 - The Waiting Room
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1999
When Blair and Ellison investigate a recent murder that occurred in a haunted house, it's obvious that Jim's Sentinel powers aren't the only paranormal phenomena operating in Cascade.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Sentinel Too (2)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1999
Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#17 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/1997
Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.