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.

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Most Wanted
star
5.60
5 votes

#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.

Directors: Scott Williams
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The Waiting Room
star
6.00
5 votes

#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.

Directors: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
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The Trance
star
6.00
6 votes

#3 - 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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Poachers
star
6.00
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Tony Westman
Writer: Tony Westman
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Sentinel Too (2)
star
6.14
7 votes

#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.

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Love Kills
star
6.17
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Prisoner X
star
6.17
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Richard Compton
Writer: Rick Husky
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Storm Warning
star
6.17
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Oley Sassone
Writer: Peter Lance
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Red Ice
star
6.29
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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His Brother's Keeper
star
6.29
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
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Smart Alec
star
6.29
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Tony Westman
Writer: John Vorhaus
The Girl Next Door
star
6.33
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Harold Apter
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Red Dust
star
6.33
6 votes

#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.

Writer: Peter Lance
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Three Point Shot
star
6.33
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Danny Bilson
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Fool Me Twice
star
6.33
6 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
6.33
6 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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Neighborhood Watch
star
6.33
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Scott Williams
Writer: Harold Apter
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Night Shift
star
6.33
6 votes

#18 - 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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Sweet Science
star
6.40
5 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Pennies from Heaven
star
6.40
5 votes

#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.

Directors: John Connor
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Vanishing Act
star
6.40
5 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Finkelman's Folly
star
6.43
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Michael Lacoe
Writer: Harold Apter
The Inside Man
star
6.43
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harv Zimmel
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Sleeping Beauty
star
6.43
7 votes

#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.

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Private Eyes
star
6.43
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Harold Apter
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